¶ Navigating Life's Lessons Through Self-Awareness
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 , presented by DG Mindset . It's your boy , dg .
We are here , we are live Life , right , life . Let me just say that Somebody I was talking to them the other day and they said man . I said , how are you doing ? He said man , life be lifin' . I said you right , life be lifin' , life be lifin' . Life is going to do what life does , right ? The question is , what are you going to do ? Right ?
Because you're not separate from life . You are life , life is you , you are a part of it . But there's a symbiotic relationship . The relationship is similar to a mirror . We've talked about this . Life is a mirror , you are the image , it is the reflection . There is no separation between the two . Without one you cannot have the other .
So I started to reflect on my life and had a situation happen . Those are in the DG Mindset community . I've shared with you kind of in depth of what's going on and it looked different on the outside till I got really to study the internal workings , I realized I'm like man .
This is the same thing that I dealt with five years ago , the hardest time of my life , and I realized that the universe was doubling back around . And this is the way it works . It comes back around with the same lesson because you had to heal or reconcile a part of yourself that had not been fixed .
And the reason why I needed to be reconciled and healed was so it could up your awareness , right . So the situation comes around and I'm sitting here and I'm like reflecting on . I'm like , damn , why are we right back to where we started ? Why ? What am I not learning ? What do I need to change ?
And I was in a meditation and we've talked about and I'm going to share what came to me in the meditation but we've talked about how the cost of the new life will be the price of you letting go of the old . We've talked about that and you can have the new life .
But the question is are you willing to pay the price of what it is to let go of the old Right ? So this situation came up . This situation came up and it looked different from the first time that something like this happened , in 2019 . And I've been on this spiritual journey .
I've been on this journey of understanding myself and getting to know myself and beginning to understand why I am the way I am , and learning the laws of this universe , and learning spirituality and learning myself , and all these things have happened since five years ago .
But yet here I am going through the same thing , based off of decisions that I made two years ago , and it hit me like a ton of bricks . If y'all stay with me , we're going to get going .
Every time that I have put in intention , every time I have written out what I want life to look like five to 10 years out , every time I've been intentional from day to day for 90 days straight , and life starts to change .
Life starts life , and here's what it means when life starts , life and life is going to bring up all the things from the old that can't come with you to the new . So all the fears , all the insecurities , all the pain , the things that you need to heal , all of those things come up because they can't come with you for where you're going , it can't come .
So I have a thing by my like , a post-it on my lamp next to my bed and it says you paid the cost to be the boss . I think Ricky Ross said it . I think Rick Ross said it . When it's on paid the cost to be the boss . I wrote it and I put it down when I was going through this tough time in 2019 . It said you paid the cost to be the boss .
And it hit me and this meditation is like oh , you're going through this , you're going through this again because there were some things that you had to learn and in order to learn , you were going to have to pay tuition . Good God , almighty , y'all ain't trying to hear me . Sometimes you got to pay tuition , sometimes you won't have to pay .
That may be with your time , it may be financially , it may be with a material object like your house , but sometimes not sometimes always you're going to have to to pay . There's going to have to be an energetic exchange , a transaction of sorts of letting go of whatever was that did not belong with where you trying to go .
So it's like you want this new life , you want to be x , y and z , but you made decisions out of fear two years ago that are still hanging on energetically . So those things , those decisions that were made out of fear .
Maybe it was you being in a relationship , maybe you know good and well that you don't need to be with them anymore , but you're too afraid because you've developed a dependency on them and you knew two years ago you shouldn't probably get going with them , but you're still in it .
What ends up happening is now the universe is going to stir and shake everything up , to bring it to the surface , so you can see what needed to be let go of . So why am I saying this ? Because everything is you and ain't nothing not you , and I realized this in the situation .
It's like man , I'm over here , right back in the situation , and when it hit me , it happened , I realized I'm like oh my , my goodness , last time I had to leave , I had to up and leave . I had to move from florida back to here . I had to up and leave , everything , right . I had to just leave in the middle of the night , right ? But that was that .
That was . That was the cost that I had to pay . That was the tuition that I had to pay in order to learn . I learned , universe came back around .
You thought , you learned there was another layer that you need to learn , that you got involved with someone who's who looked different , but it was still the same energy , right , you kept attracting these narcissists . Why ? Because you had low self , low self-worth , you had low self-acceptance . So that's why you couldn't say no , you couldn't put up a boundary .
So you needed to do some healing , my , my guy . You need to go back and fix some things within you and then , over the course of these two years , you start to heal yourself , you start to go through the seven laws of healing the inner child and now , now you can say no , absolutely not . So now I'm doing that , right , I'm doing that now .
And here's what I'm learning Everything is crumbling . And the reason why it's crumbling good God , almighty , stay with me the reason why it's crumbling ?
Because you're seeing how much of your life was built off of the old paradigms of fear , the old paradigms of lack , the old paradigms of lack of self-acceptance , the lack of self-worth , the version of you that didn't quite see all of yourself , that version of you , all those things that it had attracted into its reality .
It is crumbling because you are now moving into the new frequency , into the new way of being , into this new life . So those things cannot go with you . But in order to let go of them , you're going to have to pay the energetic transaction of letting go , and we can do it consciously , or the universe is going to help us out . It's going to help us
¶ Letting Go and Transforming Fear
out . You knew good and well that you were supposed to go after that dream , but you had too much fear . You had too much fear to start that food truck business . You had too much fear to start that online coaching . You had too much fear . And the universe says no , this ain't it . So I'm going to have to evict you . I can evict you .
You're going to have to be evicted , and what it's going to do is it's going to have you hit rock bottom . When you hit rock bottom , you're going to let go of everything . You're going to let go of all of these attachments and all of these desires and all of these things that the fear-based mind had attracted into its life .
And when you let go of those things now , you're going to start to transform into the almighty version that you are , the I am . You're going to start to see yourself . You're going to go on a journey . You're going to join the DG Mindset community and go on retreats and hire a coach and get a therapist and do all of these things . Why ? Why ?
No-transcript ? I'm sorry , sweetie , that's at a different frequency of where you're going . Do you see how this works ? No , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , you can't do that . So why am I saying this ? Why am I telling you this right now ? Because we all will have to pay the price . We going to have to pay the price . We all going to have to pay the price .
The question is are you going to do it consciously and go ahead and pay them taxes ? And I'm not talking about the tax , uncle Sam , I'm talking about the universe's taxes . The universe will give you everything . You can have it all , but you're going to have to pay . You're going to have to let go , and it's going to be painful .
And the reason why it's painful is because we thought something was going to stay forever . Nothing is forever . Trust and know that everything is waiting for you . I'm going to tell you something . Get it tattooed on you . I don't know what you need to do . Write it down . Whatever you need to do , remember this . Remember this Life honors perspective .
Life honors perspective , meaning life is only going to mirror whatever it is . So when you have the ability to comprehend that you can have this , but you have to give up that . It will be a little bit easier for you to start ushering in this thing that we call trust . It'll be a little bit easier to start ushering in this thing that we call trust .
And when you trust , now you can move . You know when to move , you know when to sit . Still , because you trust , you see how this works . Here's the thing . It's like . We do this all the time . These energetic exchanges happen all the time . They happen all the time . What happens when you go to the store ?
You want to buy a pair of shoes , you want the shoes . Then you got to let go of the money . You see , but what if you had an attachment to that money , to that that $200 ? You had an attachment to it and you don't want to let go of it , my $200 . This is everything to me . Well , you , that's fine , but you can't have them shoes .
But I really want them shoes . And this is what ends up happening we want our cake and we want to eat it . Now you can't have both . Now there's got to be an energetic exchange . I told you the universe does not carry debt , so which one is ? Is it going to be ?
You can have the shoes , you can have the new life , you can have the new relationship , you can have the money , but you're going to have to let go of what you got right now . But we don't want to do that because we don't have this ability to trust .
And the reason why we don't have the ability to trust is because we never get taught that there's going to be a transaction . Why do you think it's against the law for you to steal ? You can't steal , you can't steal . You're going to go to jail . Why ? Because there's an imbalance of an energy exchange .
I want the shoes , but I don't want to give up the money . Well then , you can't have the shoes . So when I go and steal the shoes , I've just created imbalance , because now I got the money and I got the shoes .
When we start looking at our life the same way because this is nothing more than a hologram as above , so below , so below , as above now we start to realize I can have the new life , but I got to be willing to let go of the old .
So liken your old life , your old perspective , your old way of thinking , your old way of life to nothing more than money when you go to buy something . Stop being frugal with your life , stop it . This is the energy of abundance . I let go . Hey , who I am today may not be who I am three months from now . Here's where it gets hard .
You ready , stay with me , because it's going to be triggering for some people . It's going to be triggering . Stay with me , promise me You're going to stay with me here . There's nothing and I put an air quote harder .
There's nothing harder when you are working on yourself and you have given yourself full permission to leave the old life to become this new person that you are , and you walk in it . You walk in that embodiment . But the people around you are still seeing you as the old version of you . I know it's challenging .
I know it's challenging Because here you are , you over here , trying to become who you truly are or who you know you can . But you around some folks Family Spouses , coworkers they still looking at you like the old version and if it's bothering you , that just means there's just a little bit more within you that need to be reconciled .
So you can let go , you see . So here's what I my mentality , because I can only share my perspective and hope that it resonates with you In a way that can help you . I've come to realize the true nature of consciousness is creation . Consciousness , spirit , god , source , creator , whatever you refer to . As it can't create , there's nothing it cannot create .
It has to create . But you can't create something new from something old . I'm trying to build a whole , a brand new house . I'm trying to build a brand new life , but I'm over here trying to build some old bricks I want to hold on . I want to build a new house with these old bricks . How's that going to work ? It won't . You can always make new bricks .
You see , we can always create new . So I just started to realize how many of us miss out on the opportunities of creating a new version of us because we're too afraid to let go . The new version of you is literally waiting patiently , patiently . Close your eyes right now . Go ahead and close your eyes . Close your eyes , go ahead and close them .
If you're driving , don't close your eyes , pull over , but close your eyes and just imagine every version of you , every version of you in the future , every version , every version is waiting for you . It's waiting for you patiently . It's just waiting for you to embody it , to embody its frequency . There's a version of you that's a millionaire .
There's a version of you that's healthy . There's a version of you that's in a beautiful , wholesome relationship . There's a version of you that is the best mother , the best father . There's a version of you that found peace . There's a version that's already waiting for you .
Literally , it's like , well , like when you watch the movie batman , you watch batman , and when you went to his uh , uh , uh , when you went to his house , the , the cave , the bat lair , whatever it's called he had all of his bat suits right there waiting . That's imagine that the suit , the body , was just the suit .
The body was just a vessel that was carrying spirit through this third dimension , through this physical reality . It's waiting , but we had to attune ourselves to that frequency . Now , what am I if I'm going to sit here and talk about this but I don't tell you how to do it ? Okay , here's how we do it .
You got to have a destination , you got to have an end point . I got to know where I'm going , right ? So that's what we , that's what we talked about being intentional , right ? So when you get in the car , you know where you're driving . When I know where I'm going .
If I know I'm going to the store and that store is three miles away , now I know whether or not I'm moving further or closer to the store . I have context . You see what I'm saying . I have context because I know where I'm going .
But if you don't know where you're going , meaning you ain't written down what you want in life , you haven't done your five-year plan , your 10-year plan of what it feels like to be this version of you , but what you have , what your house looks like , what your car looks like , what your body looks like , what your mindset's like , what your perspective is , if
you have not done this , then you will not know from day to day , from moment to moment , if you are moving in that frequency . So here's what I've learned A lot of us don't give ourselves permission to dream . You're going to have to dream . You're going to have to dream . You're going to have to use your imagination .
That's the only way you're going to break free . This is the only way you're going to become more than what you are right now . This is why you were given an imagination . See , I have an imagination and I sat here and I cast it out like a crankbait on a 15-pound line .
I got a bait caster and we're out here on Kentucky Lake looking for a ledge because we're about to get these fish . When we catch one , we know we're going to catch 100 . And I cast my intention , I cast the 10-year version of me , I cast it out there and I let that mother sit out there .
I let it sit out there because now I know where my bait is and I know what kind of bait it is . I can start to summon these fish . But if I don't cast it out there , how am I going to catch anything ? So this is where the cultivation of your imagination is everything . So I sit here and dream . I ask myself who is it I want to be ?
What does he look like ? What does he look like ? What does he walk like ? What does he smell like ? How does he brush his teeth when he walks in a room ? What do people say when he gets into a car ? How does he drive ? What type of music does he listen to ? I go all the way to the finest detail . When he wipes his butt , how does he wipe it ?
I go all the way to the deepest detail . So now here's what I've done . I have . Maybe I don't go that far with wiping myself , but you know what I'm saying . I cast it all the way out there , so I know what this is and what it looks like and the reason why .
The reason why I do this is so I will have a destination , a checkpoint , a waypoint to measure whether or not I am moving from closer to it or further from it . Do we see how this works ? Okay , that's the first part . I know where I want to be in 10 years . Now we know that time doesn't exist .
The only thing that exists right now is this present moment , moment , moment , moment , moment , moment , moment , momentum , moment , momentum , momentum . So I got to create momentum , I got to create momentum , and momentum just means continuous energy in the same frequency . So here's what I got to do I have to become an actor , I must become an actor .
I must become an actor , I must become this version of me right now . You know that's going to sting like a mother , because here you are , you're going to start living as that version of you , and the world is going to say the complete opposite . So here you are , living as a millionaire in your mind , in your heart , and you're moving .
You got the positive vibration . You're moving like that , but then you're going to look at that checking account and you're going to look at those bills and you're going to look at that credit card debt , and that's the old frequency , that's the old life . You see , it's going to take some time , though .
It's going to take some time for it to show itself , and this is where you got to hold the vibe , friends . You got to be able to hold that mother vibration . Hold it . So this is when I close my eyes and I focus my gaze inward , meaning I focus my energy on my energy . Good God , almighty , are you trying to hear me ? I focus my energy on my energy .
Good God , almighty , are you trying to hear me ? Focus my energy on my energy . I'm focusing my energy on my perspective , I'm focusing my energy on my actions , and that's all I'm doing . I got my head down . I ain't worrying about what it looks like on the outside , because I know what it looks like on the outside is just reflecting what I was .
But what I was is no longer who I am , and I got to walk into who I am going to be right now . And now I start to create momentum . Right , that means from moment to
¶ Manifesting Reality and Personal Power
moment . I got the frequency of the version of me 10 years out and if I can do this long enough , there's going to be enough thought energy , there's going to be enough emotional energy that it will become a force that will start to bend space and time and manipulate this three-dimensional reality , this field , this universal field of consciousness .
It will start to bend and conform , and now my video game that I'm living in will start to render the scenery . Do we see how this works ? Just like in a movie . Just like in a movie when I start to act like the actor and we got the recording on . When we got the recorder , we got the camera running .
If I can do it enough , it's going to look like this is a real movie . All I'm doing is carrying out the script . So this is why my son used to tell me sorry , my dad used to tell me son , character is everything , character is everything , character is everything .
And I used to think character was like what are people going to say about me when I'm not there ? They're going to speak on my character . Good God , almighty , you see what character was . So that character is nothing more than you embodying that version of you . So when I'm embodying it , everybody gets to know that version of me and that iteration of life .
So that's my character . So they speak on my character . You see , the longer I can hold this character , this will now become my character and that's what people will know me as . That will be my character .
Here's the deal when people start to see it , when people start to speak on behalf of your character , and they see your character , that means it's already collapsing space and time . It's already out there in the physical reality . Now all you got to do is be patient , and this is where patience comes in . So I got to be intentional number one .
I got to be persistent . Number two so we can build momentum , I got to be able to be persistent sorry , I have patience . Number three , and then , lastly , number four , I can trust . And when we trust , that already ushers in the fifth one , which is embodiment . And when you walk in embodiment , this is when you speak on it . Now I speak it into existence .
Damn , he's spoken into existence . Anything that we speak , we were already thinking it . You see , anything that I speak , we were already thinking it . You see , anything that I speak , I was already thinking it . So when I'm telling you 2025 is already going to be the best year . It is over . I'm already walking in that energy . I'm already walking in it .
You may see me in 2024 . I'm still patching up things from 2023 . I'm patching up , I'm doing the work . It's like I'm cleaning up old stuff . I told you the stuff , the situation . I had to clean up some old things and I'm realizing the universe is like nah , brother , 2025 , that 2023 energy ain't welcome . You can't bring that . Clean it up .
You're right , I got you . This is why I keep telling you accountability was everything . I'm accountable enough to be able to say like no , you know , good and well , this is you . You got to fix this within you , fix it . You want this , then you want to fix that , and when you fix that , you let go of that version .
And when you let go of that version , now you can have this version of you that you've intended . I hope y'all see what I'm saying . Y'all probably ain't hearing nothing I'm saying right now . You're not hearing what I'm saying . It's so simple . It's so simple . It is so simple . It is so simple . We make it complex . You've been doing this .
You've been doing this . All the quote unquote bad things that happen in life , every hardship , everything , every stroke . You did it , you created it . I can tell you exactly how you did it . We can go all the way back and it's hard . It's hard to admit , but here's what I'm trying to tell you .
If I know it's me and it's always only been me , then watch what me does , watch what me does , now that I know it's only me . The only reason why you didn't realize that it was you , because you got like most of us , including myself . We get taught to think that things are outside of us .
We get taught to make us think that we aren't God in the form of flesh . Oh my gosh , that's blasphemous . How , how can it not ? How can he not be ? How can I not be God ? How can you not be God ? How can nothing be , not the one thing ? How can it not ? Because I go to sit in church and he says not the one thing ? How can it not ?
Because I go to sit in church and he says God is omnipresent , omnipresent . So if something's omnipresent , it's everywhere , all the time , 100% of it . How is it going to be everywhere , but in me ? How is it going to be everywhere , but in me God is omnipresent . Well , if it's omnipresent , well , I got to stand on that .
Then I got to stand on that , and that's from somebody else's perspective , right ? This was the biggest illusion that we fell for . We thought that this thing was outside of us . I'm telling you from firsthand experience . I got myself caught up in a lot of stuff because I'm like , oh God , please deliver . Look , dad , you probably don't listen to this .
I asked my dad how are you feeling today ? He said I call him . Look , dad , you probably don't listen to this . I asked my dad how are you feeling today ? How's life ? He said oh , it's good , great Thanks to the good Lord . I'm like what'd you do ? Did you consciously set your mind ? Or is this God ?
If it's something outside of you , you won't have control over it . And this is when we move into the space of the victim mentality and when you move into the space of the . You're not using these gifts that you have been anointed with to create your reality .
Why do you think you have six mind muscles Imagination , memory , intuition , reason , willpower , perception . Why do you think you have these ? Because this is what allowed you to collapse and bend space and time . This is what allowed you to collapse , the wave into the particle . This is what allowed you to create your reality . Look at your life .
You've been doing this . You have been creating your reality . The issue is , you have been unconsciously giving more energy and creating more momentum towards the things that you don't want instead of the things that you do . You can have both of them . I can have what I want and I can have what I don't want .
The question is , which one am I going to give more energy to ? And here's the other thing too I don't want to go off on a tangent , because I'm doing another episode . I'm going to do probably a series on religion and spirituality and science and all that , how it all pertains and comes together .
So you can understand , every time that we say God , we say he , he , I don't know , something tells me if god was anything , god gonna be a woman . God's gonna be a female , god's gonna be . I've never seen nothing come from a male , nothing . Creation I'm talking about creation .
Anything that's created , it's gonna be coming from , comes from the feminine , the feminine energy . Huh , I know me . I know my biology , I know me , my anatomy . Ain't no baby coming out of me . Ain't no baby coming out of these . It ain't coming out , it ain't happening . So what is my point ?
This is going to be a good segue into another part , another series , because I'm going to do a series on this . So , part another series because I'm gonna do . I'm gonna do a series on this so we can understand what god is . And I'm only speaking from personal experience . I've been on both sides .
I've been on , I've been within the christian , I've been on the christian paradigm . Uh , I've been within religion and to understand religion , I've gotten outside religion to understand right .
Life changed when I realized and really started to put everything together and see like , oh my gosh , it's been me , it's always been me , it's been me , it's been me , it's always will , it always will be , it always has been , it's never not been me . But I had to understand what the me was . Not the me of the mind , not the me of the mind .
Hear me when I say this Not the me of the mind , not the me of the mind . The me of the mind is the ego . The me of the mind says this is mine , that's mine , this is mine , right , my thoughts , my life , my this , my this . What ends up happening is now we've created separation and nothing in this universe is separate from anything .
Everything is the one thing . Everything , everything is the one thing . I can take you to the Sufis , I can take you to the Gnostics , I can take you to Kabbalism , I can take you to every esoteric teachings that preceded the exoteric teachings of every major religion , and they all said the same thing . All of them , everything , everything is
¶ Understanding Ego, Unity, and Compassion
one thing . But here's what happens Our fragmented , segmented mind . We don't understand that the mind is separate , sorry that it's like fragmented . We did this . My son asked me today . He bought a magazine on fishing and there were some people in there hunting and he goes dad , why do people kill animals ? Why do they do that ? And I looked at him .
It's like one of those movies , like a scene from the movie . I said , son , human beings have something that we call the ego . The ego resides within the mind and the ego fragments itself . And the reason why it fragments itself is so we can have this physical experience of experiencing polarity , because this is what consciousness wanted to do .
It wanted to see what it was like and experience both sides of it . So here's what ended up happening we developed separation and now we think we're separate from every other creature . We think that we're not the creature . So we're now the me of the mind Instead of the I of the infinite .
And when you identify as the I of the infinite , now there is no me of the mind anymore , and now you'll love thy neighbor . Now you will see yourself in everything and everyone . Now you will love the sinner and the saint just the same . Now you will have compassion for the millionaire and the beggar .
You will not see anyone separate from you , and now there will not be a need for you to harm or kill another creature , because you realize that this creature's life is no less valuable than your own . Do we see ?
And if you do have to take the life of another animal , you're using this animal to give you more life so that you may help to give others more life . Do we see how these work ? You start to see , like all native cultures right , we have the Native Americans , we have the indigenous cultures , who all knew this . They all know this .
We get away from it , from this capitalistic society , but we forget that we're all one thing , we're all together , all of us . So now that we know that everything is you , everything is trying to help you to let go of the parts of yourself that do not resonate with where you're going .
Now that I know that I can trust that , and if I trust that I can perceive that , and if I perceive that life will honor that , will honor that , I just want to extend my gratitude towards you . I extend my gratitude towards you for continuing on your journey , continuing to show up every day when it's hard , it's challenging .
You're like dang , it's not working , like what's going on . I just want to tell you thank you from the bottom of my heart because it allows . You're helping me , whether or not you see it or not , everyone . You're helping me to keep going deeper , to keep figuring out who you are .
So you can not necessarily help others , but so you can figure out yourself and share it with others . So I just want to tell you thank you truly . As always , I encourage you to join the DG Mindset community . It's a beautiful community of people who are .
They're an extension of my energy , and the energy in there is so pure , it's so pure , it is so pure , it is so pure . I don't know how else to say it . We got some exciting things being put in there within the DG Mindset community . Go and get your membership Play for the year , for the month . Try to make it cheap . Try to make it affordable .
Obviously , everything's relative so you will have a place for you to grow . You'll have the resources . I got my book list in there . I'm constantly adding new books to it , books that I'm reading . I actually just bought three books today that I'll add in there . But keep going and , as always , I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results .
