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One of the biggest difficulties in raising your vibration, raising your consciousness, is your vocabulary. Connecting it to your life.
Unless you know what being, how, who words really really really mean, your vibration cannot rise. Your vocabulary makes you not just live in the world, but be OF THE WORLD… i.e. have the consciousness, awareness, attitude and vibration of the world… which is, at this point, has hit an all time low.
So I continue writing about your one thing…
…the one thing that can 10x your results and make everything else easier or not necessary.
This, really getting the meaning and significance of your one-thing word is the stumbling block. The barrier, the big boulder that prevents people to actually gain that 10x result. They only have a cursory idea of how to be, for example disciplined, or purposeful, or deliberate, or humble.
And if you don’t know, then your one thing can’t do its job 10x-ing your life.
Your one thing that makes your life seamless, it is what guides what is yours to do, who is yours to be in life. Everywhere in your life.
So this has given me the idea to write about well-known, observable people. People who demonstrate, clearly, that they have a one thing and maybe even what it is.
Here is the first article in a series (hopefully) on that.
Keanu Reeves… his one thing is humility.
Observe Keanu Reeves, and learn to be like him…
Can you? The answer is: probably not… but… by learning and internalizing what he is doing. how he is being as humility. you’ll know more of humility and you’ll know more ways to be than you are being now.
Don’t be mistaken: humanity as a species is arrogant. Haughty. Self-centered. Self-aggrandizing. Totally ego driven. And miserable. The opposite of what Keanu Reeves is, and the opposite of what would make your life a life worth living.
Yeah, you heard that right. Without humility your life doesn’t feel worth living.
Now, if you have been smart and own my Big Bundle energy… when you study Keanu Reeves… or read this article while you have the energy bundle on your ears, your consciousness will hear it. And it will hear it as instruction or request. you requesting to be like him… and consciousness will assist you. But it is still 90% up to you.
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When you study humility, it is impossible to ignore Keanu Reeves.
My sales numbers have taken a turn for the worse and the idea that the Matrix Star could do anything about that seemed ludicrous.
I read somewhere, maybe I said it somewhere, but I remembered a saying that humility is the cure to career failure. Hm. And Keanu Reeves has been famous for his humility.
So maybe he is the person to model if my goal is to produce results that are beyond my own skills and experience. The attitudes of Keanu that have made him extraordinary and can help you do the same are:
Kindness
Humility
Gratitude
Solitude
Positive loneliness
Keanu has become the modern-day symbol for these traits. And for how to live your life even when you are successful or have made more money than you could ever spend.
One thing that can strike you when you read about him from people who who had met him in real-life. It is how normal, people say, he was. People who met him said he was just like anyone else. And also that he has a calm energy about him.
Could it be that normality is the answer and not success?
By coming across as normal, relatable, and most of all humble, Keanu has created his own category.
His way of life is the opposite of what we’re told how a successful person’s life is.
As Keanu has become more and more humble throughout his career, his success, fame and the opportunities he has been given have increased.
This is the Keanu Reeves way of life that you can implement in your own life:
Be humble beyond belief
I watched Keanu’s speeches for this article. One thing stood out: he spends a disproportionate amount of time acknowledging the team around him.
The set builder receives just as much appreciation as the director or his agent.
In stories I read about Keanu, he demonstrated humility. There was a time he was standing outside his own party and the security guard wouldn’t let him in. Rather than use his fame to get in, he stood outside in the rain patiently waiting in line with everyone else.
You just don’t see humble acts like this enough with super successful people and it explains a lot about Keanu and his way of life.
I have been thinking about Keanu and the way he acts.
It can stop you from making reactive, dumb mistakes when you feel rejection, you feel not being heard or when you make a false step.
When you channel his humility, wear it like your own, it’s impossible to be an asshole. Not being an asshole to distract you, to use up your energies is useful when you want to produce results. Especially when those results look hard, or impossible. Or something you don’t want to do. The kinds of results I give you the tools to achieve.
To no one’s surprise, no one enjoys working or helping an asshole. But everyone wants to work with a person whose attention is not on themselves, on how they look, on how they are received. With someone who doesn’t think they should be the best.
Someone who supports other people’s work while doing their own simultaneously.
Perfect demonstration of ‘desire to receive for the sake of sharing‘… instead of ‘desire to receive for the self alone‘ when anyone else is just an afterthought.
Being supported, paid attention to is so rare in the real world, even in families, that when someone does pay attention, people promptly fall in love with them.
Time in solace and reflection
I have been getting emails asking me what it means to digest, to ponder about, to integrate what you have seen, learned.
Watching Keanu is an answer to that… that is how it looks. On pictures you see him sitting in alone and supposedly reflecting.
Reflecting, according to the dictionary is to think deeply or carefully about.
Most people never reflect… They keep their minds busy, needing newer and newer input…
With regards to Keanu, he had enough bad stuff happen to him, to process. And he most likely has consciously created meaning to his life… and that may be the secret of the Keanu phenomenon. Finding the time to consciously create meaning.
I spend hours a day with this kind of activity… and that is the secret of my peace of mind, of my patience and even enjoyment of life in spite of all its shortcomings and bumps in the road.
I’m not sure the study of humility would ever have crossed my mind if it wasn’t for quiet reflection. Life is too noisy to discover ideas like humility that can change your life. Humility seems ridiculous when you have bills to pay, goals to set and people to meet. The Keanu way of life forces you to insert quiet time into your calendar. Writes someone on Medium.
‘We’re all in this life together’
Humility simply means: it is not all about you or about your life. Humility means that you see yourself as part, you see yourself as equal, you see yourself NOT needing anything to make you special.
You are not the center of the universe, and you don’t want to either.
You are not comparing yourself with others. Not judging, which is a covert comparing. You are you, and they are them. Equal. Even if you have more, know more, can do more.
So what?
Without looking at life, yourself and others this way, you always have an agenda, always have something to prove, and you are never free to be yourself, and especially the best you can be.
Your results will never be all they can be… because a large chunk of you is not present to what you are doing. It is used up to compete.
One of the Starting Point Measurements I measure is to what degree you are possessed by your self-concern. The higher this number is the less humility you can have, the less you are going to be able to grow, accomplish, and have success.
Some students of mine have a habit to ask themselves in sticky situations: ‘What would Sophie do?’
But maybe it is an equally valid, and maybe a better question could be to ask. What would Keanu Reeves do in this situation?
And then use his way of life as a strategy.
PS: one more thing.
I have done this vocabulary building work when I came to the United States. I came and started to participate in Landmark Education that uses these words all the time… and I had no real idea what they meant.
Took these words, one by one, 10, not more. I spent attempting to be that. Practicing to be that… that what the word really meant as a one-thing.
Inspiring. Generous. Authentic. Compassionate. Loving. Caring. Service. Humility (of course), growing, courageous/bold, and expanding.
In my humble opinion it doesn’t matter what word you choose to be your one-thing, as long as you are willing to be that. As long as you are willing to make that your one-thing.
You also need to set the context inside which you do that. My context was, clearly, allowing the spirit to fly. It will never stop being inspiring to me.
