Freitag, 9. März 2012

The speed of success: Discovering your inner clock of growth

I remember myself being very unsatisfied with my level of success for a long time. Although I had great interactions with girls and got tons of numbers, I felt very unhappy with my level of success after about one year of game. The reason for this was simple: I constantly compared myself with the best ones. I set myself a much to high standard and it was impossible to live up to it at the time. Because my criteria for success was being perfect, I couldn’t appreciate the real level of success that I had reached. I was beating myself up for not being able to attract every woman in this world. This feeling of pain was actually bigger than my joy of getting better and better in meeting women.

This also occurred in other areas. When I started doing daygame I had an overwhelming fear to approach girls using a direct opener. But then, after some weeks I had figured out how to act despite of my emotions and I did a ton of daygame approaches every week. But now there was a new problem: I couldn’t convert my daygame closes into dates. I had figured out how to very successfully open beautiful girls on the street, how to have a 2-5 minute conversation with them, get them attracted instantly and then get their contact details. But a lot of them were flakes. So what did I do? Guess what… I was constantly beating myself up for not being able to instantly have a sexual relationship with those girls. Having unrealistic high standards and not accepting and appreciating my small successes – which were actually huge break throughs - made me unsatisfied.

So I had to learn how to be grateful for my journey and appreciate my level of success. A good way of doing this is by writing a self development diary and by holding record of all your successes. As soon as I did this, I really started to see my successes and appreciated them. By holding record of my successes I could see that things where moving in the right direction and that I was making progresses every week. So I really want to encourage you to do the same and hold record of your personal development process. This way you are able to observe and intensify the experience of your transformation and really appreciate the changes you are going through every day and every week.

Something else that frustrated me for a long time was the pace of my transformation. I was so hungry for success that I wanted it instantly. I wanted to became good with women and a better person as fast as possible. Unfortunately this was a huge source of stress for me, because I was ignoring my own inner rhythm of transformation. I wanted results too fast and thus didn’t pay any attention to my personal learning curve and pace. So what I found out is that every person has his own rhythm of transformation. It usually oscillates between these three phases :

Phase 1: Pain and dissatisfaction: During this phase you feel unsatisfied with the current level of your success. You’re hungry for more development and transformation and link pain to not taking enough action towards your goals. You say: « Enough of this, it’s time to grow... »

Phase 2: Willpower and action: In this phase you use your willpower to make the changes that you want in your life. This involves: Setting your new goals, making decisions, working on an action plan and finally taking action. You step out of your comfort zone and commit yourself to reach the goals and standards you have set for yourself.

Phase 3: Incorporation of the learned: In this phase you feel satisfied because you took specific actions towards your goals and reached a level of new success. You have successfully stepped out of your comfort zone and thus grown your personality. Even if you didn’t reach your goals 100% you still took action and made noticeable progress. Even if you only reached 20% of your goals, you have successfully grown. Just set smaller and more achievable goals the next time. However, by taking action you have learned tons of new stuff and made lots of new reference experiences. Your unconscious mind automatically implements the new learned stuff.

Optional Phase 4: Observing Ego Session: In this optional phase you consciously direct your awareness to the changes and the transformation you have experienced during the last three phases. You look at what you have learned and appreciate the new level of success you have reached. Examples for this phase are: Writing a success / self development diary. Holding record of your successes. Talking with close friends about your experiences etc. It’s importent to add this optional phase to the three natural phases of transformation in order to appreciate your changes and feel gratitude for where you are on your journey of personal transformation.

The pace of your growth simply depends on the speed of oscillation between these phases. The quicker you run through the cycle of these phases, the faster you will get success. The faster you progress from « pain and unsatisfaction » to « willpower and action » and start over again, the faster you grow. But what determines how fast and in what intervalls you run through this cycle of transformation? It really just comes down to how much you want success. If you really want it bad, you will link more « pain and dissatisfaction » to where you are and thus you will be automatically pulled towards taking more action. However, it’s important to find your own rhythm. If you run through the cycle too fast, you may feel overwhelmed and burn out. If you run through the cycle too slow, you may feel depressive. Just find your own, personal rhythm and then stick with it. Just observe in which intervalls you link massive amounts of pain and dissatisfaction to where you are in your journey. And you will quickly discover your inner clock of personal growth…

Now that you know this: Stop beating yourself up for not getting success fast enough. Trust in the pace of your growth and acknowledge that your transformation will take some time. As long as you’re not stagnating and instead are oscillating between the above phases at your own inner speed, you will finally reach your goals. If your inner clock is a little bit slower, don’t worry. It will just take you a little bit longer because your unconscious mind needs more time to adjust to the process of development and implementation of the new changes. If your inner clock is tickin’ fast, cool! That just means you’re a very fast learner and are extremely hungry for success. But don’t forget: A big part of your reward is the journey of transformation in itself. Finally reaching your goals and living a cool lifestyle will one day just be a desired side product.

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