Why Personal Mastery is Your Destiny? Part 2

Two of our ancestors were standing outside a lion's den. Suddenly, the lion roared. One of our ancestors ran to climb the nearest tree, perspiring with fear. The second ancestor laughed at the first one who had run off; feeling masterful, powerful and full of joy at being alive; with no fear of anything at all. The story ends, obviously, with the devouring of the second ancestor by the lion. The first ancestor survived because of his fear. And, we ended up being his children. 

A Question - Any answers to why a dinosaur is not writing this blog and dinosaurs aren't reading this blog. You got it. It's because they are extinct and humans SURVIVED. Charles Darwin called his theory of evolution - Survival of the Fittest. We all got confused and focussed on the wrong word. The most important word is not 'Fittest' but 'Survival'. When do you need to survive? Obviously, when you have Fear in your body and are constantly surveying the environment for what will go wrong so that you can put up your defenses to survive. And, that's the story of our evolution. We are children of 'Fear' and not 'Joy'.

Our default state is 'Fear'. Our brain has been wired through the evolutionary process to give a default unconscious fear-based response to the environment. Fear is hard-wired in our brains. Transformation is about 'trans'cending this default fear-based 'form', which is what Mastering the Self is all about; which I also refer to as Personal Mastery.

If we were sitting in a room having a conversation, and I ask you to take away the Light from the room. You could unscrew the bulb or the tube-light, and walk out. After keeping them on the table outside, you come back into the dark room and I ask you to take away the darkness with you. Would you be able to do that? You wouldn't be able to, isn't it? If the Test of Reality is that you should be able to hold what is real in your hands, feel it and it should have weight, shape and volume; then Light has existence and Darkness is merely an absence of it.

Similarly, Fear is merely an absence of Love. Then, Personal Mastery is about transcending the default 'Fear' in the 'form' to be 'Love', moving from an absence of something to a presence of something. That is why mid-life crisis and now quarter-life crisis are described by a visceral experience of emptiness. Fall on your knees and thank the Universe if you are in the middle of such a crisis because it is the call of your Highest Self to lead you to your greatest version of yourself; to learn, grow and evolve from Fear to Love.

There are five stages of Transformation. I call them Gears of Leadership because you need to move from a lower gear to a higher gear, gear at a time; just like in a car.

If we are seeking to lead organizations from good to great, working on the surface will not serve the cause. We need to dive deeper under the layers to seek transformation from within to learn, grow and evolve to being Gear 5 Leaders because only Gear 5 Leaders have the Power to Create and lead organizations from good to great; and Have It All. Everything else is merely huffing and puffing on the road of mediocrity.

Wishing you strength and courage to give yourself the permission to let your Light shine through, walk on the path to your Greatness to live your purpose of life, your destiny and Have It All.

Love,
​Jyoti.