Becoming the Person You Were Meant to Be

Just finished reading a really good article from StevePavlina.com

Read it its very good, this is the way I try to see things:
Click here to read full article

Here's some excerpts from the article:

Are you normal?

I’m certainly not normal. I was born blond-haired, blue-eyed, and colorblind. So not only do I look different — I also see differently than “normal” people. To make matters worse, I’m left-handed… just a cesspool of recessive genes. Over time my lack of normalcy only grew worse when I started noticing other differences and making choices of my own.

Eventually I realized that “normal” was only a concept in my own mind. In fact, my “normal” wasn’t the same as someone else’s normal. Even my “normal” was unique. And in fact it was just a way of limiting myself, a concept rooted in fear to begin with.

Yet what do most people do with this uniqueness? They try to forget it. They cling to the pack, thinking that need to be like everyone else. They strive for normalcy, to be similar to everyone else.

Throw out dumb labels

“Normal” isn’t a label worthy of your pursuit. It’s worthless. Perhaps you’re worried that if you’re too different, you’ll be ostracized. That’s true. You will be ostracized by other fear-driven normality seekers, but their acceptance is basically worthless anyway. On the bright side, when they kick you out, the ever-growing high awareness community will welcome you with open arms. Plus it’s a lot of fun to go back and tease the normality seekers afterwards.

The irony is that by pursuing your own uniqueness, you’re likely to feel a lot more normal. You’ll be able to connect with people from your own inner strength instead of your fear. You will own yourself, knowing who you are and who you’re meant to be. The judgements of others, whether positive or negative, won’t knock you off course.

A strong connection to other people lies within you already. Your connection to your higher self is your connection to others, one that is always on and simply needs to be noticed. This connection is very different than third-dimensional connections based on ego and attachment. At this level you connect with others through their higher selves too. And this often has the effect of waking them up. Plus it’s a lot of fun to connect with people this way. It’s how people should connect. You simply bypass people’s fears and labels and talk to them as free spirits.

High awareness people do this very naturally. Labels and titles are irrelevant. Two high awareness people can meet for the first time, and inside of a few minutes, they’re discussing things like mission, purpose, and the meaning of life. It makes no difference if one person is wearing a suit and the other is wearing ripped jeans and a t-shirt. They’ll barely even notice. Communication is high on content because such people speak as if talking directly to each other’s souls.

On the other hand, when two low awareness people meet, communication is shallow and timid. Each person feels out the other instead of communicating their true selves. They aren’t even in touch with their true selves because they identify with their egos. Egoic communication is competitive and fearful. People play silly games with each other in a vain attempt to protect themselves from potential rejection.

I get alot from Steve Pavlina's articles, often he talks, discusses, breaks down, analyses principles and things which I have thought about before and agree with but never really gone into detail analysing the logical reasons behind the principle etc.
I subscribe to his blog via an rss feed, here is the feed address if you want to subscribe.. i get so much from it all the time, yep do it:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/feed/

Posted by Nathan Kowald @ 10:47 AM