I’m Just Not Ready. I Need to Be Confident. I Need to Be Inspired. Another way to tell that resistance has infected us is when we hear ourselves say things like, I’m just not ready to do this thing. I’m not inspired. I have to be more confident, passionate, or experienced.

we want to stay laser-focused on what expands or minimizes our strength. With our primitive wiring and so much tempting drama competing for our attention, it’s our responsibility to keep our awareness of freedom, aliveness, love, and peace out in front.

I’m not convinced that our version of “success” is really that much more evolved. What I mean is, for most of us, “success” is still largely governed by the same old strategy — to get enough comfort and security and status so that we can avoid the stuff that feels like a threat to our modern-day survival.

But it is far more likely that we don’t want to go through the challenging part of the process where we look like a noob again.

We worry that if we expose what we want — even just to ourselves — that it’ll somehow snowball out of control. We make our desires mean something, and it doesn’t take long for our brains to freak out and create a worst-case scenario. I want to spend more time outside of my business. Oh shit! Does that mean I’ll lose control if I’m not there sixty

Giving up our power is still playing into that fear-based, zero-sum game. I believe the world’s a much better place when we — you, me, all of us on the planet — learn how to co-create and own our power with maturity.

Beyond just the romantic association, love and connection point to that powerful, amazing experience of belonging.

“Okay. So it sounds like you guys may ultimately be on the same page. And now it’s a matter of talking about how you both can co-create that freedom and aliveness together. Do you think she would flip out if you wanted to talk about that with her? Do you think she would be freaked out if you were to say, ‘Honey, I want to make sure that our

He says that even though we’ve made so many social and technological advancements as a species, genetically our brains haven’t really evolved much in the last 100,000 to 40,000 years. Our “hardware” — the systems and functions of the brain — hasn’t been upgraded since we were fighting off big-ass critters that went bump in the night. Which means