Design Yourself Every Single Day: Risk the Intense Grandness of Living Awake

How awake are you? If you are reading this, you woke up today. You had a moment earlier when you moved from sleeping to perceiving the world around you through your senses again for the first time.

Yes, for the first time, again, and again, and again. The fact that the date is, or is still close to, January 1st is irrelevant, a human construct to keep us marching forward in a nice, neat, organized [read: brainwashed] fashion that keeps you from designing your life and harnessing your awesomeness.

We civilized humans have the silly notion that each morning we awaken to the same reality. I mean, you can if you want to, but you can also wake up to a whole new reality every single day. You are that powerful. You are so powerful you can wake into a new reality every single day. You can even wake into a new reality in every single moment. No need to wait until morning. That’s some advanced mindfulness right there. But tomorrow morning will work too. Remember you are the one with the power. Time is indifferent to your quest.

What’s the first thing you do when you wake up? Whatever that is, don’t do that. Seriously. It is called radical discontinuity. It is that simple. You are going to start every single day with a new experience, a new experience that you choose. You…