St Clair

Sweet that’s the mintest! Sometimes I think it’s insane. Like for example just the other day, one name just popped up in my mind; a name that special and intriguing. I kept repeating it , thinking “who is this character and how does he fit into the story?” I answered this question - and it turned out that the name belonged to an enlightened guru / master , a character who would kind of represent Leo Gura to the main character - he’s a yellow/turquoise visionary leader who first teaches life purpose and then moves onto deeper Truth. Anyway I went to google that name to make sure it hadn’t already been taken - it hadn’t , but what showed up shocked me. It was a collection of the most amazing Buddha artwork I had ever seen. Just a random name that arose in my head lead me to some incredible art - is this some kind of intuition at work? That art is here if you wanna check it out: https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.pinterest.com/amp/pin/467741111281439140/

Yeah , some pretty random ones! The most random was this - on the day when my thoughts / mind reached breaking point , and I felt a sort of emptiness inside that screamed ‘doom’, I just randomly happened to meet the voice actor who played Boo in Monsters inc. If you’re familiar with Monsters inc , you would know that Boo represents the power of love / positive energy. I took it as a pleasant sign that everything was gonna be sweet as , and I chilled out.

It's no joke actually. I had an episode about 2 years ago which was seriously fucked up. I managed to convince myself of many false things, entirely deluded, thinking I was some kind of chosen one. I thought I had attained some divine status, because I was seemingly conducting 'miracles', and designing an idea that could "completely change the world!" But it was all just mind games. When I spoke with some people who I worked with at the time, they said "Yeah you were in a very dark time. Dark energy." In fact it was so bad I convinced myself I was going to die at one stage, because of some radical quest... It's a massive can of worms I'm yet to delve into, but thus far the best explanation I have found is 'Messiah complex'. Anybody else experienced something similar?

Yeah man glad to help you out! Oh boyo, I would love to share what I've worked on lately~~ This one is my latest. And hey, it wouldn't exist if I was still a victim of perfectionism!

Go walk the Camino Santiago de compastela . Or design your own pilgrimage and do that. People underestimate a pilgrimage , or an epic journey. I did a pilgrimage this year and arrived such a profound thing. ( My pilgrimage wasn’t traditional. Actually my punk band ‘Sheep’ were touring down New Zealand to the city I was moving to live, playing shows in each of the main cities. I viewed it as an epic pilgrimage and as a result, the journey actually became defined precisely as that.) I have discovered that one epic motherfuckin journey is a brilliant way to find the answer you seek. Just a thought ☺️ Good luck!

The disciple does not seek the master. The master seeks the disciple.

Thanks for posting. I find it remarkable just how easily this addiction slips by me, and how unconscious is has become. This is a good reminder to put my phone away.

Yes and no. Actually, I would say it's more like a process you go through, investigating both of these things together. They are both part of the equation you are trying to solve. The more you look into your passions and your authentic nature, the more you will uncover the impact that you could have with these things. And the more you start to connect with the impact you wish to have, the more sense you will make out of your various interests, talents and passions. At least, this was the case for me when I was discovering my life purpose.

I started meditating when I moved to work on a tropical resort island, because Leo kept telling me not to just watch his videos but to actually do the practices. Pretty crazy shit actually, because it made me see that I was living on the 'pinnacle' of the stage Orange lifestyle. I was serving families there who had saved up for 4 years in their shitty jobs just to spend one week on this resort island! When the customer at the table told me this I was like "Bro that's fucked up man" and my manager had to have a word with me lol. Actually one time I had just come down from a mushroom trip in the wild bush part of the island, and then I walked into the main resort area and my mind was literally fucking blown. There were guys with giant scissors trimming the fucking palm trees! I was looking around for the glass casing around the island - thinking it was one of those little models they build to have mini trains circle around. Herds of people were just chilling there sipping their pina coladas in "paradise", telling each other how good their lives were. Lol! I was laughing and crying at the same time. This place was a hive on unconsciousness. Quite a unique place to start my self actualization / spiritual journey actually! Meditation was my key to transcend this nonsense that I was seeing around me.

You will always be finding better ideas. And also you will likely always be finding holes / mistakes in the ideas that your pursue. Perfectionism is one hell of a threshold guardian! In my own experience with tackling perfectionism, I had to relinquish my attachment to my own ideas. For example when I was starting to record music that I had composed, this is what my mind would be saying: "Na I shouldn't record this song now, because it is such a precious song that I have created! I will wait another year or so until I am much better at playing my instrument and the song will be a much better work of art!" This kind of thinking seemed well intentioned but actually it's bogus and was just holding me back. If I kept thinking like this, I would end up on my deathbed saying "OH! I will save these art pieces for my next life time when I do more practice and I am better!!!" I realised that these thoughts were being caused by my attachment to my ideas. When I dropped the attachment, I was recording and uploading my music like I wipe my ass after taking a shit. Just getting the fuckin job done aye, and not being attached to the outcome. There will always be more ideas.

My understanding is that it is both. You find the most meaningful impact you can have - for your own life/legacy and for the world at large - and do what you love to actualise it.

Hey Marcell! I just read this post and it resonated quite strongly with me, because my situation is a little bit similar. I discovered my life purpose a year ago now - and playing an instrument / composing music was central to this purpose. I had just finished a hospitality management course and landed literally the dream job for any hospitality graduate. But my heart was deep in music and writing. So I quit that job and went to pursue music and writing this year, with the improper expectations that I could continue to make my living just from busking in the street, and building some online revenue. Financially, it has been a miserable failure, and my savings have been whittled down to the end. But, I don't mind, because I have had the freedom to practice practice practice!! And that was the original plan - to go absolute balls to the wall mastery mode on particularly my instrument. But actually, over the course of the half year that it's been, my energy steered much more in the direction of life mastery and consciousness work, as a direct result of this freedom. I mean, I'm not a professional musician yet - I'm still just a wee noob street busker! But in fact busking is a beautiful thing, and is already actualising my life purpose - because I'm there sharing my music to the street, and seeing my innate ability to bring smiles to people's faces unfold right before my very eyes. Regardless of my level of mastery on my instrument, I'm still able to do this. In music, the way I see it is that actually you are the instrument. Become a masterful human being first - an enlightened one - an instrument of the divine. And then every note you play will be imbued with so much heart it could melt a cheesecake. And it wouldn't even matter if you practiced for 20 minutes. So in response to all of your three questions: Take your current life purpose, and transcend it. Go back to the drawing board and review things you might not have considered regarding the true impact you want to have with your life. Likely you will have other dormant passions and interests - find a way to synthesise them all into a holistic life purpose that encompasses your entire being. And lastly, put more focus on consciousness work and life mastery in general. This is the real work, not the mastery or your instrument. I would say practice your instrument for 4 hours, and spend the other 4 hours doing a disciplined spiritual practice and other powerful habits like journalling, contemplation, reading, and studying. Find the underbelly of why you want to practice your instrument for 8 hours a day, and go there. I hope I could bring some light to your situation. All the best!

In highschool I was entrenched in video games. After high school when I was looking into myself for the answers , it turned out that the video games I always played held many secrets to my true character. Particularly in MMORPG’s , I found so many nuggets of wisdom in looking into my avatar , and what I loved to do within the game world. So many people play video games, and resonate with all things video games. I would say that if you are using a gaming YouTube channel to comment on the authentic lessons of video games ( themes such as mastery , life purpose, character building , the heroes journey , etc ) , then you will be doing a very good thing. And if it’s entertaining , then you will be doing a great thing because you might end up enlightening many people on such ideas through a lense which they are comfortable with. It’s almost like giving audiences a delicious fortune cookie that has a golden message inside. Some might discard the message, some might be directed to truth. But in all cases , they will love that delicious tasty crunch that you delivered to them. Just my 2 cents. Wishing you all the best on your journey!

Hey Max! Good to see you are on the precipice of your life purpose - definitely just start doing it, and calibrate later. In writing, particularly in a blog, I see it to be a brilliant way to blaze a righteous path. If you diligently focus on consciousness work, and write about all your experiences, it will be gold because it is telling a story of how one human being found God. This is an immensely powerful thing! And as you get more conscious, you will surely develop a deep understanding of what words are really pointing to, and you will be able to communicate with much truth, wisdom, and clarity. Becoming a word wizard is most definitely a wise way to go bro !

Yeah I think it would definitely give you more clarity regarding your life purpose, as it did for me. In my case, I believed I knew my life purpose to be based purely on composing music. But a lot of stuff from my past was coming up, things like writing, martial arts, adventure. What Leo's course did for me was realise there is such a bigger picture for my life, and that composing music was but one ingredient in the bigger recipe. It had me assess all of the ingredients in the pantry - my various passions, favourite childhood activities, deep inner values, etc - and put them all together to formulate the golden recipe so to speak, and now I can bake the cake of my heart that was always intended . I think in general it's the best to be 100% open-minded that your life purpose can evolve to a higher level. And so if you think that breaking your current life purpose to a higher more conscious level is worth $200, then absolutely go for it.

What I've discovered in my own journey so far is that as I continue to evolve and increase my level, all these facets of my life seem to fold into one. Enlightenment, self actualisation, my passions, my life purpose, all this stuff just blends into one epic tale - a myth. I am a deeply passionate piano player and writer. My journey to enlightenment surely would not dim these things, but in fact it empowers them! My work then becomes imbued with the wisdom and love of my heart. So in response to your question I would say 'enlightenment' as you mention is just one of the themes in this story. Discover what your heart wants to do. If it's dancing, do that. If it's violin, definitely do that. Embracing our hearts wisdom, cultivating our life purpose and talents, I see all this to be apart of becoming consciously evolving human beings. Because then we will have so much to offer our friends, our family, and our community when we reach higher levels - and this will always trump 'success'. Peace and love from a fellow musician! ( Definitely do music! )

This year I vowed to pursue my life purpose 100%. So I went about doing hours of practice and a whole lot of preparation for establishing my foundation - my youtube, blog, my 'business' so to speak. But, I struggled to keep afloat financially so I applied for a job that perfectly suited me. I was adamant I would get the job, but when I didn't get it, it was like a punch in the face. Life was like "Bro, you went into this year to pursue life purpose! You can't have this job! Show me what work you have done," and I had nothing to show! So then from that day there was a switch from preparation mode to proactive mode. No more planning, I just went out and took the action I needed to take. Visualising is part of the preparation mode, and so if you are going to use it, then don't be lofty - use it so inspire action, to motivate yourself to get up and actually do the work necessary to build your foundation, your self image and your business.

As a practitioner of Falun gong and a firm follower of Actualised.org, I had to share this little snippet of Master Li Hongzhi. It's hard to find a good summary online, because the really profound, deep and metaphysical side of this cultivation system explained in Li's book Zhuan Falun just wouldn't be casually shared among every day people. Many people think Qigong is just for healing and fitness - but I would say this is a green understanding. Qigong and Falun Dafa is cultivation towards higher levels, which I would consider Turquoise.

You've got all the resources at your finger tips, and so now it's up to you to create the plan and the strategy to find the best way forward. From my own experience, I would say a journal is a brilliant place to start. Just start writing everything, and you will be writing your way into a self actualised life by strategising, reflecting, contemplating your past, and visualising your ideal future. And whatever stage you are at on your journey, there will likely be an actualised.org video that will be your perfect guide. But it's up to you to do the heavy lifting.

Started composing meditation music. Here's my first Also writing in a blog about my own heroes journey. Similar to how Leo is documenting his own journey to enlightenment. Find that here if you are interested : https://joshuastclair.blogspot.com Much love from New Zealand!

I went to a bush doof the other weekend - life changing experience. Just constant doof doof doof, like a heart beat, so powerful! I realised it's all infinite, it wants to be expressed, and we are the instruments. I thought I understood music, but nooo wayyy! Such a deep realm, so much to explore there. Particular, I was mesmerised to see everybody moving their body in different ways to the music - like it's the grand puppet master, animating these peoples bodies effortlessly. Thought it was pretty rad.

I found my life purpose, and even learnt so much about myself, by looking deep into my childhood. I randomly started writing a book when I was 12 - not so random after all. So I jot down writing. I played the piano and drums as a kid, and won competitions and even composed my own music. Jot down music. I trained under a Kung fu master, and even competed in China - jot down Kung fu. I did boy scouts - jot down boy scouts. I synthesised all of this down, and concluded that music is my ultimate expression and will be my primary focus, writing will be my secondary focus, and meanwhile I can continue to do Kung fu training and spend a lot of time in nature (scouts) as a means of life mastery and gathering inspiration for my work in music and writing. So for me, it wasn't a case of discovering 'my one passion' or 'my calling'. I just looked at all the things I was naturally doing during my childhood years, and created a holistic understanding of how they all fit together, and harmonise to, well, ultimately create the story that I'm living currently and will be living until my last day. As for going to study these things, I knew it wasn't necessary. I just followed my heart, fully embodied the concept of Mastery and went at it.

I feel this. Actualized.org was the very thing I was searching for, in places like RSD. But of course it didn't come from my searching - it just arrived at the right time and place. I was just browsing Youtube during a boring college lecture, and stumbled upon Leo's Enlightenment experience video. I watched the entire thing, and was transfixed. I felt more conscious and aware watching that one video than I had felt all year. It was evident I had stumbled upon a gold mine, because a similar thing happened when I opened the first pages of The Power of Now - I actually had an awakening experience. And in fact it was more than a gold mine - it was Pandoras fuckin box!!! Leo's content is indeed very special, but it must resonate with the individual. I have shared Actualized.org with many friends. And I will tell you right now that not one of those friends carried on watching the videos, despite the tremendous power they can have. Many people are just not ready - and you will know this when they don't even look further than the length of the video. It's a shame really, but also not, because everybody is on their own journey and the right content will resonate with them at the right time I guess.

As a musician, I find deep deep fulfilment from deliberate practice. It has become effortless in the sense that I don't need to force myself to do it - I will always find myself practicing. Of course undertaking more advanced practice can be challenging and frustrating, and no doubt requires mountainous effort. But practice is an art unto itself, and must be respected. My deep passion for my instrument and mastery are what cultivates this. Cultivating the habit of practice should come before the practice itself. Do it mindfully, creatively, strategically, and it might not be as difficult as the article proposes. It can become a meditation, and not a mechanical routine that bores you. Certainly, I have found this to be the case in my own experience.

I would say that it is indeed important to discover what your passion is (or even better, what your life purpose is, and how your various passions assist that cause). I see passion to be the language of the heart, and if you are undertaking work from a very passionate stance, you are not only fulfilling your hearts desire of ultimate self-expression, but people will be really connecting with your work, and be truly healed/inspired/motivated/whatever effect you want to have. Such is the difference between a musician like Mozart, and, say, a typical mumble rapper of today's day and age. However, as Newport points out, don't blindly think that because you have your passion, you will sky-rocket your way to the stars. It has to be cultivated through determination and discipline, through deliberate practice and strategy. You might say an ultimate expression of your passion must be earned. On the flip-side, this isn't so difficult, because if you are really honest about it, deliberate practice should become effortless.