04/10/2017
Ok, let me ask you a question.
Are you brave enough to create your own path? The world has changed. It might seem crazy right now but that's because we are in a time of transformation. Everyone around the world is questioning everything. But where most worry and fill their heads with doubts I see opportunity. WE CAN CREATE a world that all of us can fully enjoy but are you brave and strong enough to create it!? I'm going to be real with you guys, I have what you want! What society said to get and it's not enough to fill me completely. I'm blessed with a beautiful wife I've been with since I was 19, I'm 29 now. I have 2 handsome wild sons. A job that I can do for 15 more years and get a pension. A degree that shows I've learned something but none fully fills me enough. Something was missing! I wasn't going after what I truly wanted to do. I didn't know how to turn off the noise until my younger brother died 9 years ago. Having to do CPR on him and taste his blood because he was overdosing on ecstasy! I had to watch his body start shutting down! It broke me! I didn't know what to do, who to be. And then a year later I was having my first son and ten days after that I was deploying to Afghanistan for a year. I was on autopilot doing what society and church said. Your a "man" provide for your family and lead the way. (Robot voice) but I didn't have anyone showing me what that meant. How that actually looked like in real life, not some stupid theory or 12 step program. So I started to explore everything with my mind, reading books, listening to podcast, talking to others of all ages and seeking everywhere. I had to figure this out! My life and my family's life depended on it! I felt this deep pulling inside of me that longs to be expressed. I've felt it my whole life but I had forgotten it and covered it up. I believe we all have a natural pulling to what we want to accomplish and I believe we're meant to accomplish. Pushing the human race in evolution but how are you going to create a world you want if you don't know who you are? I'm going to speak on who are you, why the hell do you do anything and remind you that I'm with you! This is me and my dream, Welcome to Portillos World!
It's your most important task, to understand who you are?
What makes you happy, sad, mad, nerves and every other emotion.
What do you enjoy doing?
Most importantly what fills you with energy or life?
Do you know? If not, it's time to try everything and explore but I have a feeling that all of you already have a clue but can't get passed the noise of your parents, friends, teachers and society telling you who or what to be? Be brave and be you. Learn to trust and respect yourself above all. I believe your emotions are your guides to your souls deepest desires but you must first align your mind and body to be able to hear your heart!
So how does your body feel and react to those emotions?
When I was younger I played lots of sports and my head would always got itchy when it started and I would need to get a play or something to snap me out of it and be in the game. Now I can tell when that I didn't get enough sleep by feeling how sucked in my eye sawkets are. You need to develop a great relationship with your body and see how it reacts in different situations.
I want you to understand that there only 3 things in your complete control.
1)What you eat!
Learn what makes your body feel great! There are so many damn diet plans out there and it can get confusing. I say eat what makes your body feel good, play with it, it's a life journey because it's consistently changing. My focus is on lots of veggies, little meat, little complex carbs, little sugar and lots of water. And don't get it twisted that's the plan but I have moments of eating a lot of meat like that 2X2 from In n Out or big ass cup of yogurt. "Everything in moderation, including moderation" Oscar Wilde said. If 90% of the time your on or close to your ideal diet your good to go. But develop a relationship to your body. It's sucks to go through consistent pain, you'll get tired and it'll leak into all areas of your life. Food is medicine for your body, learn about it!
2) What activities you do and or where do you chose to focus your energy!
It's important to understand that you are influenced by your surroundings no matter what! You can't control all the stimulations your mind gets so do your best to put yourself in the best possible situations. You are the 5 people you hang around the most with! Take a step back and objectively look at everyone in your crew and see what they're doing and where they are going. And if it's not in your direction it's time to change friends. Also, I believe working out is essential for your health in every aspect of life; physically makes you feel good after the push, it clears your mind of the stupid crap and gives you a clear perceptive; helps express your emotions and releases your built up angry and frustration, life doesn't always go your way and it's ok to be angry or frustrated about the situation but you need a constructive way to express that, not taking it out on your loved ones or others. And spiritual, if you push yourself to the limit consistently your feel alive. I try to push myself to the edge every time I work out, doesn't always happen but when I do I am siting down for 5 minutes after a workout consistently telling myself I'm alive and I'm ok, gotta focus on my breathing and then bam my body snaps back into focus and I feel like I can take on the world. I believe physical fitness is not something we just do for fun, it's vital like eating. It's training, controlled chaos that will help you deal with real life chaos and still be able to think clearly and effectively.
3) How much you sleep?
This is so important! We all know we feel terrible when we don't get enough sleep so why don't we care more about it.
In my mind nothing is over my health and overall wellbeing. I understand we have goals and want to achieve them but our currents societies work until you die is not for me. You working on 3, 4, or 5 hours a sleep is not the same you working on 7 or 8 hours of sleep. Work smarter not harder. Science is displaying how important sleep is, your body has a nerves system that goes from your neck down and cleans out all the waste from your cells and organs but your mind doesn't. So what happens is that when you're a sleep your brain cells shrink by 3 times and a fluid of some sort comes in around your neurons and takes out the waste but this only happens in our sleep. There's truth to a clearer mind after sleep, literally stuff comes out. I don't know about you guys but I'm trying to enjoy the benefits of my hard work later in life. My lady and I have a vision of living to 110 without mechanical help. That's only going to come to pass from taking care of me now.
Which brings me to my next point, why the hell do you do anything?
Realize that life is struggle life is pain. But we don't have to look at pain with a negative connotation. Growth comes from two places; inspiration or desperation.
And growth is not always easy but it's a part of evolution. And now we're in a time in history where information is everywhere but we chose to be ignorant. We chose to look at our very small differences and blow them up with our over thinking. We all want the same things! Safety-physical, peace-emotional, to care for others and be cared for-social, have fun-explore and most of all LOVE for who we are! 100% acceptance! But we can't give those to others if we cant give it to ourselves. Unfortunately, most of us have become our worst enemy, consistently judging ourselves, holding on to false beliefs and limiting ourselves to who we're meant to be. But guess what! We, you don't have to be that way! Take a deep breath! In and out! BAM! Your a different person. That's all it takes, one breath, one choice! I say become your biggest fan! Tell yourself your proud of what you did today and MEAN it! Start with 1 thing and watch it spread. See what it feels like, notice how your body reacts and understand that life is a process of growth. It won't be easy at first but keep developing that skill and watch it change your life. Remember we all want that same things, yes they may look different but the reasons are the same.
Lastly, don't ever forget... I'm with you!
I understand the struggle of what it means to express your true self in our current world that does not really want you to be whole, even though they say they do. Our current economic system is set up for you to buy off emotions of not having enough, its running off the worlds insecurities rather then trying to optimize our abilities. Intention is everything, we feel before we logically make sense of things. We plan vacations based on how we'll feel when we get there than make logical plans to get there. When we look at the sun set were not all thinking that the sun isn't actually setting but we're rotating. It looks amazing! Feels amazing! It's gives us a feeling of ease, of peace. Community is what we want and we're in this together like it or not. So let's connect with ourselves and let's connect together!
My message is simple!
It's starts with you!
Be what you want the whole to be!
Follow you heart
And build the path with your mind!
Get out of your own way and move!!!
