The first phase is plugging the leaks
The first phase of growth is to plug the leaks of energy, life force, glycogen, time, working memory… eliminate the mistakes, sloppiness, etc.
I am currently working on changing my sleep schedule, to get up around five… So that I can get more done before I have to talk to anyone, or have anyone around with strong emotions, hijacking my attention.
It’s been really difficult, and I will, most likely, have to suffer through days when I am tired, before I can be well and flow with the new schedule.
The reason for this change is a change in what is needed from me… it’s a circumstance.
If I look carefully, almost every big learning, every breakthrough came as a result of some change in circumstances that “forced” me to change my habits, change what I do.
The number one thing about change is discomfort. Maybe even pain. There is no way around it.
Most people come to me saying: they want to raise their vibration… If they knew life, even just a little bit, they would know that what they are asking for is help in changing…
But 99 out of a 100 people come to me with a TLB score of 1.
TLB measures your pain threshold. Your discomfort threshold. Your willingness to be out of your depth. To be uncomfortable and stay in the game.
And then, true to form, you don’t change. You quit. Some before they begin. Some a week, a month into it. But by the three months mark, only one out of 100 remains still in the game. ((
Some don’t change by moving sideways… they seemingly stay in the game, but they move sideways where they don’t change. This article won’t apply to the sideways movers: they have no gains, nothing to consolidate.))
One of the things that make it impossible for you to change is your unrealistic timeframe.
In your imagination, in the mind, change is instant. You can jump from being a pauper to driving a rolls Royce… just imagine that. You can jump from being fat to being skinny. You can jump from being an undisciplined insomniac to someone who has a life that includes beautiful sleep and beautiful days.
But reality and imagination don’t work the same way.
I discovered for myself something that later on I re-learned in the 67 steps: you need to consolidate your gains.
Consolidate means: lock them in.
- 1. make (something) physically stronger or more solid. When we talk about habits, or learning, what you consolidate, what you make physically stronger is the neurons that fire together… the “chunk”.
- 2. combine (a number of things) into a single more effective or coherent whole. One could also say: integrate it into your life. Make it one of the plates you can spin, that will not make other plates fall, instead the other plates help it say up and spin…
There are many ways to look at integration… but as long as the new thing, the new habit, new knowledge isn’t integrated, you can wave it good bye… because it won’t stay. it can’t.
And there are many people who never get to have anything to integrate: they never invest enough energy, time, to create chunks of new knowledge, a group of neurons that can fire together, automatically.
