Two Letters That Are Changing The World [Part I]
Being human is a power and responsibility.
We create, we destroy, we love, we hate. We live and die, but in between have beautiful moments of heartbreak and wonder. This life is one fleeting honour to be a part of.
The foundation of this blog and this business is personal empowerment. It’s not fluffy because the world isn’t; it demands a rawness and fortitude from those of us who stand in it. All we can do is live our best lives while we are here.
In that light, I teach the primal return of personal power.
An integral part of being human is learning how to keep that power instead of giving in to the temptation of handing it over to a world that is more than willing to take it. That world will happily tell you you’re not good enough, not powerful enough, not worth enough, and it will keep repeating this message until you succumb to whichever belief speaks to your weaknesses. That is, unless you fight it with a rock solid mindset.
It’s the most incredible feeling when you can stand in the middle of life’s mess and be your own calm, when you can choose to go against the grain in order to stay true to your integrity.
The key to holding your power lies in your ability to feel everything that’s uncomfortable and stay true to yourself anyway.
As if that weren’t enough, the world will also tell you to seek numbness through any means necessary. Drugs, screen time, processed foods all grow to become vices designed to take a person away from the ability to feel. The less you feel, the less practice you have sitting with discomfort. Loss, mistakes, setbacks are all inevitable and carry with them emotions that are very difficult to stay in the presence of. Underneath those emotions, however, lie the most important life lessons. In order to collect those, you need to process your emotional experience.
This entire journey does one thing: Anchors you to your reality.
We don’t fully embrace life by taking ourselves out of it, but rather by saying ‘Yeah, this is really shitty, but I’m going to feel it and work through it and use it to make me better’.
The advent of the internet, and subsequently social media, has made it extremely easy to both escape the world, and find ease in difficult processes. Neither of these are inherently negative. The problem lies in the chronic overuse of these tools.
As humans, we need to go through difficult times. This is how we find growth and expansion. Just as life was never meant to be pure positivity, none of us were ever meant to live in total comfort. Comfort is stagnancy, and stagnancy is the death of potential.
The digital world has expanded far past what I’m sure most people my age would have imagined at the time of its inception. It has given us plenty, but taken some too. Everything in life is a balance. The most recent addition to the stage, so to speak, is a cause for concern from the perspective of human resilience.
It has given back time, the greatest asset of all. It has made finding efficiency effortless. It thinks so we don’t have to and sees everything we don’t. It has come gift wrapped and hand delivered to make life so much easier. But at what cost?
AI is changing the world fast and we are not talking about the impact it will have on the human experience. Two letters that represent a shiny new toy, the effect of which is already sweeping and widely well received, but already we’re catching glimpses of its dark side and it’s only in its infancy.
Moving forward, we will have to navigate a world balancing our human experience with that of an intangible, busy and increasingly intelligent digital environment.
I will share my candid thoughts on this with you in the next post.
[To be continued in Part Two]
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