My Navigational Course

I was blessed to participate in a series of courses on higher learning and thinking over the last 2 years. I’m still an intern in the program. There are mastery levels that have objective, and subjective criteria to measure success of certain metrics, but the baseline of the entire series is to always know that I don’t know everything.

When rising in conscious awareness to think differently, and make better choices, it’s a constant reminder to myself daily to stay teachable. Seek understanding, before seeking to be understood.

Many times, in my life, I operated from an egotistical and narcissistic standpoint. Having an ego, and adding the excessive interest or admiration of self, is a cocktail for disaster and led to bad decisions. The valuable lessons I learned through adversity, are what alerted my internal GPS that I was finally ready to listen to her voice, and be led on the correct course.

Our Internal GPS soul is always guiding us on the smoothest and most direct route to our destination. When we make a wrong turn, she immediately yells loudly to Re-Route!! Once re-routed, we are immediately put back on square.

The present moment route displayed, may be the longer, more scenic, or a round-about path, but we will always arrive at our destination, once we become consciously aware of being present.

My navigational course is open to receive current updates. Updates are the reminder to stay teachable. New highways, curves, roads, potholes, and exits, are constantly constructed.

Staying teachable through present awareness, keeps my driving on point. I need to prepare myself, as much as I can ,to ensure the correct pivots and turns are made.

In life, I have understanding that our ability to achieve success in anything we desire has to be rooted in a strong why. Some say when we find our why, we find our way.

Michael Santos, who I consider a sound mentor in my life, along with others in his network repeatedly say to us over and over. Will the decision I make today have a negative, or positive impact on my life today, or in the future? That question replays in my mind, and muscle memory is shaping.

While taking the higher learning courses, I became enlightened on the basics of deprogramming a programmed mind. There’s no fault to anyone that I hadn’t always received the correct recipe for successful learning.

When grandmother has the golden recipe for pecan pie, you don’t change the recipe. Often times in life, when recipes get passed down through generations, certain steps, ingredients, temperatures, cook times, etc., can get slightly off due to the passing down of information.

Typically, universal laws show the passing down of information can cause a downward variation of the purest information. The passed down recipe for pecan pie may still be good, but when grandma makes it, it hits the soul differently. That’s because, the recipe is from the master teacher.

As I evolve in this area of learning, the masters of higher learning state that, who we listen to, is the 1st step of the higher learning process.