The 7 Levels of Awareness: Individual Expression

Level of Awareness: Individual Expression

This is where our desire begins to be expressed through our own uniqueness as a human being. This is really where we become aware that there never has been and there never will be another expression just like you. And when you become aware of your potential then amazing things begin to happen. The moment that you become aware that you can do, be and have more, all of a sudden we begin to gain confidence. We begin to develop faith. Now, faith leads to expectation. And expectation then motivates us to move. That’s really the way this begins to happen. We begin to recognize our own potential.

Now there are people who really believe that there is potential in a job. They believe there’s potential in a business. They believe there’s potential in getting an advanced degree in education. However, there’s absolutely no potential in any of those things. There really isn’t. However, what these things do for us is provide opportunities. The potential is, was and always will be in you. You have infinite potential. And it is our purpose to be a perfect vehicle through which this potential is expressed in a fuller and more meaningful way. Our purpose is to never have lack or limitation in our lives.

We don’t have to go along in our day to look at people that are not living up to their potential. For example, you can go to any fast food restaurant and maybe there’s 15 or 16 people back there and you’ll notice 1 or 2 that seem to be sharper and move faster than the others. They seem to be two steps ahead of everyone else. And you say to yourself ‘that person has so much potential. Don’t they see that they can be doing and having more.’ And the answer is No! That’s why their doing what their doing because they lack the awareness that they can be and have more.

But the moment that we move into this individual expression and we begin to step out of aspiration and we begin to stop saying ‘ I’m gonna get around to doing it’ and actually start doing it, everything in our lives begin to change. And that’s because we made a decision backed by action.

One of the greatest books on personal growth was written by Napolean Hill titled ‘Think and Grow Rich’. And after studying 500 of the richest, most powerful people in the world, Hill broke down the lessons he learned from the Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Charles Schwab, Thomas Edison and many others. He broke down what he learned in 13 principles and one of them is Decision. And he came to the conclusion that people who were successful were very quick decision makers. They made decisions that were in harmony with their purpose, about what it is they wanted in their lives. And they would seldom and if ever change their decisions. In other words, they would immediately begin to act based on those decisions.

And he also said when you study lives of those people who do not reach high levels of success you’ll find that their ambivalent or very slow to make decisions. Their language would be ‘should I or shouldn’t I’ or ‘is this the right thing or is this the wrong thing’. Then they’ll run around and ask other people what they think, because that is very important to us. We’re always concerned with what other people think of us. You know what other people think of us is really none of our business. What’s important is what we think of ourselves. It’s what we’re going to express. And he said when you look at these people their very slow to make decisions and once they make the decisions their quick to change them. And because their quick to change them it creates confusion and chaos. It fails to allow them to act on the idea. That’s the big difference between aspiring to do something and actually doing something. It has nothing to do with the intention. It has everything to do with the decision backed by action.

Now as we step out on this individual expression, in order to continue to move in that direction will require discipline. So, discipline is our next level of awarenes.