If you don't put yourself through a few brutal regimens of change at least once every couple years, you stagnate. Plain and simple.
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When any master of any discipline takes a new pupil, they purposefully enforce more strictness and more workload than on existing pupils.
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There is a good reason for it: shocking the system. Without the apprenticeship stages of discomfort, displeasure, frustration and pain ...
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... The pupil cannot be molded into the material that will eventually make for a master. This is understood by the master, not by the pupil.
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Coming back to self-regulating: If you can do such a thing to your own self, and sustain it for as long a period of time as necessary ...
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... To transcend your present consciousness on all levels and acquire what is necessary to truly transform yourself, you are a rare person.
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For most, your job is to set in motion external systems that keep you accountable, disciplined, and on the path. A mentor is a great idea.
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You are the best at seeing your own limitations, and the best at staying well within them. They define you more than anything else.
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To purposefully push beyond your definitions is to lose yourself. When you shock the system, you don't know who you are, in very real terms.
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An external element is a safety net and a mirror: You look to it when you can't find reason and purpose anymore by looking within you.
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Especially when the going gets tough, you don't know left from right and you are most easily swayed, tempted to the familiar & comforting.
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To go back to the familiar & comforting is to lose all progress. The mentor or external circumstance is set up to avoid that scenario.
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For the 99% : Set in motion an external change that will leave no wiggle room and will force you to adapt. Do this every few years.
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For the 1% who consistently self-regulate through multiple shifts in identity, those who practically EXIST through the unknown: Godspeed!
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