No More Being Mediocre

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Once you see what you actually are , that you're an infinite , limitless being , you'll see that nothing exists outside of you . I'm your host , derek Grant , and this is the pathway to your results podcast . Ladies and gentlemen , welcome to the pathway to your results podcast . It is your boy , dg . We are back live and , in effect , it's a pleasure .

This episode when it's being recorded you probably have been able to figure this out on your own without me telling you , but when a podcast is recorded , it does not necessarily mean that it's going to be released that week . So I'm recording this the week before I go and sit in a cave in a darkness retreat for five days .

So I'm telling you this because there will be an episode that comes before this that will be me talking about the darkness retreat , but it won't be recorded till probably after this one . But anyway , I sat and thought about it .

I'm sitting here and I read a lot , and I'm sitting here contemplating and thinking about , like why is it human beings don't reach their full potential ? Why is it human beings play it safe ? Why is it that human beings will play small ? Why is it that human beings won't do and be all that they're truly capable of being ? Why is it ?

And then here's what I realized , the reason why we're that way and I can only speak from the Western world , right , because this is only this , is only perspective that I have it's because we're conditioned at an early age to be mediocre , we're conditioned to be meaty , ochre , we're conditioned to be , to not be individualistic , to not be creative and be truly

who we are . We're actually programmed at an early age and I'm sitting here thinking about my life . I'm like dang , like I remember I used to have imaginary friends . I was that creative kid , like I was all of these things . But then it was like no , you weirdo , you're this , you're this , so what I do ?

I suppressed it , I pushed it down and now here I am , 40 years old , refinding it again , remembering it . But I always had this inside of me , so I started to think about some more . I was sitting here reading a book and they were breaking down basically how this is what the educational system does .

The educational system encourages sameness instead of like uniqueness . So , of course , we talked about unique . Why you were supposed to embrace uniqueness was because you need you and I . It was just one of you . It was there was just one of you . So here's here's my point , because I didn't want to start preaching , but I'm about to .

You got to understand that education is not the only way that you can . Formal education is not the only way that you can be educated . Do you see ? Do you see how this works ? So I look at my own children , and my mother was a teacher for a little bit . So I'm not against teachers . I'm not against . The teachers are fantastic .

But here's the reality of it If you're allowing the educational system to educate your child , there will be lessons that they will not learn in that building , every single day that they go . Okay , that's number one . Number two understand that everything in your life that you struggle with of like man , can I do this ? Are you the self doubt ?

It starts back to when you were in school . Most likely Now I'm not here when I say this , I'm not against the school system , that's not what this is about . But we also have to understand cause and effect . So I started to think about my life and I started to . I found old journals that I had written down , and I wrote down years ago .

Now , the awareness that I have now , the understandings that I have , now I could , I could look at the stuff that I was writing back then . I said , oh , my goodness , that man right there , at 36 years , 36 years old , he's afraid to be , uh , to be successful . He's afraid of success .

That man right there who's writing these , who's writing this stuff right now , is afraid of being successful . And I said , why , from the awareness that I'm at today , present day , why , why , what was he afraid of ? Good God , almighty , y'all ain't trying to hear me right now , cause , it's about to come through .

He was afraid to be successful because , in order to be successful , that meant he had to be unique . And in order for him to be unique , that meant he was going to have to rebel against the status quo . And if he rebelled against the status quo , then guess what ?

He ran the risk of being abandoned , and the reason why he had a fear of being abandoned was because he himself had first abandoned himself when he started to adopt this conformity . That school had done such a wonderful job of making him too . Do you see ? Do you see how this works ? Do you see ?

Now you think that you're afraid of trying this and of trying that . Really , what you're really at the end of the day , here's what you're afraid of . You're afraid of standing out . Don't at me . You're afraid of being who you are . You're afraid of what they may think if she steps into her light . You're afraid right now , you're afraid .

That was what you used to say Don't be scared . You're scared . Don't be scared , don't be afraid . You got to step into who you are . Do you not understand ? Do you not see who and what you are ? You're the only one . You're the only one . You were the only one . There will not be another like you .

I swear to you on everything that I've ever known in this existence that we call life there will never be , and there has never been , anyone or anything like you . There's no way in this entire universe that consciousness would ever recreate itself exactly as it was . Do you not see the snowflakes ? None of the snowflakes . No two snowflakes are the same .

Do we not see fingerprints ? No two fingerprints are the same . Do we not see a leopard striped ? No two patterns are the same . What about a zebra ? Sorry , a leopard has spots . The zebra has stripes . But you get what I'm saying . You see what I'm saying . If it's triggering , I apologize in advance .

But this is the real , cold , hard , truth conversation that I had to have with myself and I started to say whoa , whoa , whoa , hold on now . Now , granted , I'm 40 years old , I'm not in the education system anymore , but I started .

But I have children who are in the education system and I said okay , how do I find the balance of them being a being and them being a human as well ? I have to educate my children , but I cannot rely on the educational system to educate my children .

Do you see , if I'm depending on the educational system to educate my children , my children will grow up unaware , my children will grow up asleep , my children will grow up victims . And not that that's good , not that that's bad , but the reality of it is they have just as much potential as anybody else . I have just as much potential as you and vice versa .

If I'm not doing what I know needs to be done , what can be done , then I'm not reaching my full potential . Now imagine if you're genes . Imagine if your heart , imagine if your lungs , imagine if any parts of your body were not doing what they were capable of doing .

Imagine that Now don't get me wrong We'll go and eat some crap or we'll go and do things to hurt them , hurt these organs , so they don't function the way they need . But imagine if your organs had the same mentality that you have . The heart's like well , I could pump this blood , but I ain't gonna pump it today . I'm only going to just do a little bit .

I could , yeah , I could probably go and do that if I want , but I'm , do you see ? Do you see ? So my point of this is this you have all of the potential already inside of you . It's already there . But in order to do that , you would have to unlearn what you have learned .

You would have to break down all of the things that have caused you to be boxed in . You would have to become what are the James Dean , the actor back in the 40s , 50s , 60s , whatever he was , whatever it was , you would have to become a rebel with a cause .

You would have to start to rebel , and when I say rebel , go against the status quo of how you were programmed . And that , my friends , is what is scurry . That , my friends , is what is frightening . I'm here to tell you because I'm on the other side . I did it , I'm doing it .

If you can step towards that fire , good God , almighty , if you can step towards that fire hear me when I say this if you can step towards that fire , if you can step out of that shadow of living in fear , of living in mediocrity city , if you can step out of that shadow of and move just a little bit closer to the light of courage and moving towards the

energy that says I don't know how , but I'm gonna figure out a way If you can do this and not allow your energy to move off of tract or what we call be distracted , you will start to see life change . You'll start to see life changing Guess what ?

And you'll move from mediocrity why do I keep saying that I can't say that word Mediocrity into exquisite-ness , uniqueness , huh , huh . You're not going to be confined anymore by the world standards . You're not gonna be confined to what the man or who else says and says this is what you better do or what you're . But nah , I do it .

I do it how I want , what I see is best for me . At this point of awareness that I'm at , if someone tries to get me to , hey , you need to do this , no , I don't . From the level of awareness that I am at , I feel as though this is the best decision for me . Did you see what I just did ?

I'm making sure I'm being accountable for my awareness and where it's at . So my point of this is I know I'm jumping around a lot . I'm trying to get you to understand . It's going to be like scary . It's going to be . You're going to feel fear , but it's time for you , in 2024 , to stop playing so dog on little with yourself .

Stop playing so little with yourself . It's not . It's like you have levels inside of you that you could have never even imagined , but in order to get to those levels , you got to release and let go of the box that has been around

you . It's like they say that you ever heard of the thing with the elephant , right ? They say the elephant , if you tie elephant up young to a tree and put a shackle around their ankle , around their foot , when they get older they're going to .

Even though they're strong enough to pull the tree out of the ground , they won't do it Because when they were young and they tried , they couldn't do it . So then they grow up with this mindset , this mentality that this tree , I can't move it .

So now , even though they're strong enough now to pull out the roots , out of the ground with this tree , when they're adults , they still won't do it because they still have this belief . So what do they do ? If you notice , if you go on YouTube , we go on TV . I don't watch that YouTube because that's the only form of TV I don't watch TV .

But if you see elephants , they have shackles around their ankles , but the chain isn't tied to anything . This is why it's because the shackle has a psychological stranglehold over this creature . Do you not see that the system is created to create a psychological stranglehold on you and the only way for you to become free would be for you to free your own mind .

Nobody can free your mind for you and nobody can do that ? Every country that's what we call civilized has its own government . Do you notice that Every country that we would deem as civilized has a government ? If you don't have a government , you're not civilized . Do you see ? Government ? All that means is control , mind .

Government control meant is mind , control , mind . Every country that is civilized has a controlling mechanism of the mind . Do you see how this works ? When I say civilized , civilized just means conformity . I'm just trying to break free . I'm not . I'm sorry . I'm trying to help you break free .

I'm probably gonna get a target on my back for doing this , but here's the reality of it , folks . Don't you sit here to keep using people or something else as the excuse . You're the one who had the power . You did , you did . You had all the power . So if you wanna go start that hair salon , go start that hair salon .

If you wanna become an entrepreneur , go be an entrepreneur . If you wanna do this , go do it . Nothing's stopping you , other than you . If you have a fear of being successful because you're worried about you having to break out of the conformity and break out of the system that says no , you can't be who you are . I'm just telling you .

I got to a point in life . I went ahead and tried . I said let me try and see what happens . Look , this ain't working . Let me see how . Let me see if this works . Lo and behold , it worked . I'm no different than you . I'm no more capable than you are . Go and do it . Go and do it . And here's the other thing .

I know a lot of people wanna say , oh well , well , I don't have the money . I don't have the money , I'm not talking about nothing on the physical plane . Give yourself permission in your mind , in your heart . Do you not see ? It cannot be in the physical world before it is in your mind .

If you do not have it in your mind , you're not gonna hold it in your hand . I forgot who said it , but it's really quite simple .

So , everything that you see and you hear me talking about , or what I'm doing in reality today , I was doing this four and five years ago because I allowed myself to at least have a dream , I allowed myself to at least step out on faith , I allowed myself to believe in something before I could actually see it , and because I was able to water that seed , it

eventually got down and grew some roots down inside of the ground and the soil in my heart , and I took action . I'm not sitting here , sitting on top of a mountain , saying , oh , look at me , I'm doing it . I'm telling you that if I can do it , you can do it .

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The conscious choice is you saying I'm not going to be paralyzed by this fear anymore . I'm going to actually walk towards it and see really what it's about , because that's what fear does Fear keeps you stuck . Fear keeps you in one place . I need to test fear . I'm gonna test fear's chin . I'm gonna see what fear is really working with .

So here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna step forward , I'm gonna step toward it and I'm gonna see if you really gonna be with you about that life that you're making me feel like you're about and you'll see that as you step towards the fear , the fear gets just a little bit more quiet . The fear gets just a little bit less and it tries to flare up .

But because you've called it bluff , you've already seen I flinched at you and you flinched fear . Do you see how this works ? So you becoming and doing truly what you're capable of . I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that there will not be fear .

You best believe there's gonna be fear , and the bigger over whatever you're trying to accomplish , the more fear that you're gonna have , the more that you have to step out and be who you are and not worry about what people gonna think .

The more fear you gonna have , the more you're gonna have to go against what mommy and daddy maybe thought that you had for you in your life and now it's completely opposite and they don't agree with it . Maybe your wife or whoever doesn't agree with it . The more fear that you're gonna have .

I'm just telling you , if you're able to step towards it , that fear is gonna have to subside just a little bit . And the more steps that I take , the more it will keep subsiding and subsiding and it gets . It keeps subsiding . So this is how you break free , and hear me when I say this , I'm talking on using material things to help you .

The same goes for you in this journey that we call life . That revolves around your healing . Your healing is where the most fear will be . Why ? Because the thing , this tool , this instrument , this vehicle that is even creating the fear that we call the ego .

If you move towards your healing , then the ego will not be able to exist at the level that it does understand this . The fear that you're feeling . Is that actually real is just a mind-made construct . All because when you were young , the fear of what if I am who I am ? What if I'm not like the rest of these sheep ? What if I don't conform ?

What if I raise my hand in the question that I ask , maybe too off the wall , too outlandish ? What if I'm questioning what I'm being taught ? So we develop this fear and we lose ourselves . We lose ourselves , or what we would call we , we abandon ourselves .

So the reason why I'm saying this in the whole point of this is , as with everything and as always , you don't have to go back . You're gonna . You're gonna have to go back . Go get the one that you abandoned inside of you . Go get the one that you abandoned , go get it . Go get her . Go get him . She's still there .

She may be hiding in the dark , but she's still there . He's still there . Go get him . Go get him . Go shine some light on him . Go grab her hand and start walking even more into the darkness so that way they know they're gonna be okay .

And the more that you step into the darkness , the more that you step towards your fears , the more that you embrace the uniqueness of who you truly are and stop worrying about what people think , you will start to see life magically conspire , to see that you win . That's the thing about this thing called life . Life is life is life is . Life is on your side .

Life is on your side to the direct proportion that you are on your side . If you ain't on your side , life life's gonna not be on your side either . And I made this decision . I realized , oh my goodness , life is just a mirror . So all I got to do is be too turned up for myself . All I got to do is clap for myself .

If I can do that , life gonna do the same thing . And again , no choice . That's why the ancients refer to it as a law . It's a law and ain't got no choice . So , me being how I am , I want to test them . I want to test them . I want to see if you really who you say you are , if life is really what it is .

I really only tested and see if it really is a mirror . I'm gonna smile so damn hardness in life's face and I'm gonna see if life gonna match my energy and I'm gonna keep smiling until it does . Lo and behold , life finally did it . Life finally did it . So here's why I'm telling you this they teach me this in school .

They didn't teach me this when I was sitting in Miss Moran's social studies class . They didn't teach me this when I was in Mrs Curry's math class , they didn't teach me this . That's not where I learned . Did you see what I'm saying ? Do not think that the educational system is going to educate you on life .

That , my friends , is done through you consciously and intentionally making the choice to say I'm gonna learn more about myself , because really everything in life was you .

So , as always , figure out you , learn , you , find you be you and do not worry about what they may say or what they may think , because the reality of it is it was none of their business what they thought about you . It was none of your business how they felt about you . It was none of their business what they believed about you .

So I have to tell my children this now they're in school system , they're in the system . They're in the system right now . My son came home . He was saying something about his teacher , said something , and I said okay , that's cool . Yeah , yeah , yeah , why don't you ask , ask this question ? He's like no , I might get in trouble .

Okay , then we'll deal with that , but let's ask this . I'm not teaching him to be a jerk , but here's what I am teaching him . Question , ask , ask , question . The status quo . You want me to work five days . Where did you get this five days from ? And why is it Monday through Friday ? I just wanna know . I'm just curious to know . Do you see ?

Do you see how this works ? Just by me questioning Ooh , good God , almighty , y'all ain't trying to hear me Just by me questioning , the box won't fit on me , do you see ? It's the one who doesn't ask questions that the box is gonna fit seamlessly around , but you can't see . See , this is the one thing about it For my fellow Sagittarians out there .

You know , we got to know how , we got to know why , we got to know where . So already we got to stand out because there is no box . When you ask why , why ? Who says this ? Well , if Jesus was everything , how come he ? Just by asking that question , that box of religion ain't gonna fit on you , boy .

You can go ahead and put it around your head a little bit if you want . I tried , but it didn't fit . Good God almighty , y'all ain't trying to hear me . I didn't wanna start preaching . Do you see how this works ? Just by you asking questions ? Not just asking questions just to ask , just to refute . Ask questions because you genuinely wanna know .

When you start asking questions , you now are no longer conforming , and when you do not conform , the box can't be put around you . And if the box can't be put around you now , you're not coming with a set of beliefs that came with the box . Good God almighty .

So when , now that you don't have this belief system already , you have an open mind and an open heart and the universe will do the rest , do you see ? Do you see how this works ?

So you did not consciously choose this because , guess what you probably were raised by parents who did not have the awareness , or maybe the courage , to step outside and ask the questions and be outliers of what we would call be called in the system . I understand the game of life to the point that you have to still play the game .

So I'm teaching my children right now Play the game , but do not be in the game . We gonna ask questions . We ain't gonna . Just because you tell me something , you hit me over the head and blindfold me . I had a coach who used to tell me .

He used to say , judge , don't you piss at my face and tell me it's raining Meaning , don't you just tell me something ? And I'm just supposed to believe it because you told me . So those days is done , we done doing that . We ain't doing that , no more . We're not doing that , no more , we ain't doing that .

This generation coming up , you can bush a bush , but it ain't gonna work . It will not work . These children that are coming in , these children are what we would refer to as enlightened . They are already their souls . They already know what it is , they already know what time it is . So you can't sit here and pull the wool of the system .

Ain't gonna work no more . Give them permission to ask questions . Give them permission to say why do I have to go to church and put this money in every Sunday ? Who came up with this ? Where did this come from ? For what ? Why ? How come you sit here telling me something that my logical mind says there's no way that this is even possible ?

But you supposed for me to just go ahead and believe it because your granddaddy's granddaddy , granddaddy , granddaddy , told me Do you see how this works ? But it takes courage , my friend .

The only way I can give myself , my children , the courage to ask the questions and go against the status quo , the only way I can give them courage to do that , I myself must have that energy .

And the only way I get that energy energy is going back and dealing with the things that happened in my past , the traumas , the abuse , being able to ask mommy and daddy why , why , why did you do this ? Why did you do that ? Why did you do this ? Did you really think that that was gonna help me later on in life ?

It may have helped at that moment , but did you think he was gonna serve me when I was 37 , 38 years old , trying to get something off the ground . Did you think I was gonna believe in myself , did you ? It takes you having courage to go back there . Do you see how this works ? So I say this to you and I got to go .

If I'm gonna change this world , I realize , if I'm gonna have the courage to change this world , if I'm gonna have the courage to go out here and do all these things that I know , good God , almighty , I know I'm capable of doing , if I'm gonna do that , if I'm gonna have the courage to do that , I cannot have the courage to do something on the outside

before I face my demons on the inside . That's the real courage . I can't help my children , I can't help this world before I help myself . I can't go and help you heal and help you heal until you just stand up and tell you to go against the status quo . I can't do that with you and you and you and her and her , before I've done it for myself .

Do you see how this works ? You're not going to change the whole unless you change the part . You , my friend , were a part . You , my friend , were a part of the collective , of the whole . This is why I try to tell you , you matter . Do the work on yourself , educate yourself , learn yourself , love yourself , find yourself , be yourself .

When you do that , you won't depend on a system to do it for you . But as always , you know , dg is here for you . I'm here to watch you ascend and climb up this mountain . I'm here , I am here for it . You know that there's in . I'm doing all I can right now . You hear this in 20 , 20 , 23, . We're going to be to turn it up in 2024 .

It's going to be live and in effect in 2024 , because I got a mission . I got a mission . I got a mission to do . So these resources that I'm providing is so you can get on your grizzly , you can get on your grind , you can get on this journey of you figuring out you .

Retreats are live , the whole , so you can go ahead and book them out at somebody first day . I swear to you on everything . Shout out to . I'm not going to say but you know who you are . Much love to you . Not much love you for sign up for my retreat .

Much love for you doing the work and investing into yourself to get this job done , to figure out who you are .

But they signed up for all three retreats . They put down a deposit on the first day for all three retreats . They go into Mexico , they go into the Grand Canyon and they go into Hawaii . Like I said , it isn't because it's through me , it's because I see somebody who's trying to figure out who they are , that they own they . They own the hunt .

As always , these resources are here . Look in the link . All social media is at DG mindset . You always find the link in the bio . Sign up for a retreat . Come to the global the life is mental global summit where it's not like a . It's not a retreat , it's a convention . It is , it is a harmonizing of the collective .

It is a gathering of the frequencies that will move this earth into love and light . Sign up for the community , the conscious evolution community , where you will find people who are on their journey like mine , individuals . It's literally like having a whole other social media . I'm not really on social media like that .

I have my team really handles it , but I jump in here and there and answer comments and do put my own energy into something . But you get inside of this app you will see like , oh my goodness , this is like . It's like . It's literally like love and light Facebook , in which I don't even know , if that's possible , the way Facebook will be running .

But , as always , these resources are here for you . Keep going , y'all , keep going , keep going . Don't be afraid to be unique , don't be afraid to be who you are . Do not be afraid to be , to rebel and say I'm not doing this , I'm taking my minute . Take your wig off , take your weave off , take the extensions of this . I'm gonna be who I am .

I feel like I got to do what you need to do for you to be truly who and how you are and , as always , I wish you nothing but the best along the pathway to your results .