Destiny Consciousness

By Mduduzi Beethoven Dlamini

CREATING YOUR LIFE AS A MASTERPIECE

“What if you’d start questioning all the things you’ve blindly and unconsciously accepted and followed in the past? What if you’d choose to live your life in a self-created context; one that allows you to fully explore your godliness, greatness and potential? What if you’d start searching for the higher truth yourself? What if you’d not judge yourself by your past but by your potential and what your Creator says of you? What would become possible for you if you only concentrated your attention and energy on your potential and strength rather than your past and your weaknesses? What possibilities would open up for you in this life if you had a first-hand experience of God?”

Underlying true freedom, greatness, success, and a life of meaning and flow is heightened levels of awareness. Consciousness expansion is the key to creating new possibilities in life, as consciousness is the heart of everything and the determinant of all the results we create in our existence.

This book is about creating the awareness of who you really are, what you are capable of, and the abilities you possess. It empowers you to acquire the power to create your own destiny and the life you’d love to live. The insights contained in it will open in your life a new world of possibilities, and challenge you to face your conditioned belief systems and prejudices that have always lessened your power and made you lead a life of obscurity and nonentity. This book will force you to face everything in your life and avoid nothing. It will challenge you to deal with all the issues that have always sabotaged you in your journey of success and greatness, and made you lesser of a god.

“This book is packed with inspiration and oozes the energy necessary to get you going on the journey to your destiny if you’re new to your purpose, or to jump-start you again if you’ve just stalled for a while.”Michael Howard

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mduduzi Beethoven Dlamini
• Release date: Nov 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463084687

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DESTINY CONSCIOUSNESS

Mduduzi Beethoven Dlamini

Copyright © 2019 Mduduzi Beethoven Dlamini

Published by Mduduzi Beethoven Dlamini Publishing at Smashwords

First edition 2019

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Also by MBD:

Destiny is Achievable

The Journey of Being

DESTINY CONSCIOUSNESS

An Insight into Conscious Success and the Conscious Way of Living

Mduduzi Beethoven Dlamini

Dedication

To my son Joshua with love

Acknowledgements

With gratitude to all the people who have significantly influenced my life in so many different ways, in all the different seasons and stages of the development of my consciousness. I appreciate all the love, support, camaraderie, coaching, mentorship and inspiration I’ve received and continue to receive while on this journey to my destiny. I’d like to say a heartfelt thank you to:

My son Joshua, for being a source of great inspiration in my journey and for the hours we’ve spent together in my study as I was writing this book;

My mentor Marc Steinberg, for igniting my awakening and for all the great lessons, wisdom and insights I’ve received in my journey of consciousness, and whose work continues to influence every part of my existence in ways I can’t begin to describe.

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Foreword

Introduction

1. Connecting with Your Higher Self

An Insight into The Model of Conscious Success

The Critical Stages of the Conscious Way of Living

Awareness on our Conditioning

As Who or What, and Where does God Exist?

The Purpose of Mankind’s Existence

Mankind’s Significance in Creation

Mirroring God’s Image

The Call to Ruler-Ship and Dominion

Realising the Power Within

Living in Full Subjugation

Changing Your Perception of Self

Discovering Your True Identity

2. Purpose and the Higher Self

Then What?

Awareness: The Secret of our Godliness

Connecting to Infinity Through Prayer and Meditation

Realigning Yourself with Your Essence

Discovering your Purpose

‘Getting’ your Purpose

Connecting to your Purpose

Living for a Higher Cause

Growing Towards Your Purpose

Purpose and Success

Saying ‘No’ to Straitjackets

Living in Full Authentic Self Expression

3. The Leadership of Self

Leadership: Everyone’s Business

Consciousness: The Heart of Leadership

Living from Vision

The Importance of Vision

Goal Setting: A Key to Your Destiny

Creating Destiny Plans

Commitment and Influence

The Winning Character

Opposition: The Pathway to Destiny

Being on the Side of Your Truth and Dreams

Choosing Your Listening

4. Self Efficacy and Efficiency

The Transcendence of Universal Laws

Seedtime and Harvest

Productivity: The Determinant of Success

Knowing the Main Themes of Your Life

Concentrate and Specialise

Ideas: The Fabric of Greatness

Creating and Delivering Value as a Way of Life

As Who and Where are you showing up in Life?

Discerning the Appropriate Time to Act

Personal Strategic Planning

Deciding on the Action to Take

The Value of Excellence

Relying on Yourself

Trusting the Universal Intelligence

5. Choosing Associations of Self

Iron Sharpens Iron

The Benefits of Good Relationships

Know your Tribe and Invest in it

Relationships and Your Higher Purpose

Discernment: A Must Have

6. Creating an Enabling Environment for Self

A Prisoner of Yesterday

Face Your Past, and Keep it in the Tomb

Forgiveness: The Act of the Will

Re-Framing Your Failures

The Illusion of Perfectionism

Surviving Difficult Times

7. Embracing Self Change

Change: A Requisite for Conscious Success

Decisions: The Father of All Actions

The Curse of Procrastination

Questions: The Source of Everything

Rising Up To the Occasion

Personal Growth and Self-Development

Afterward

Bibliography

Endnotes - References

About the Author

Mduduzi B. Dlamini, also known as MBD, is the founder of MBD Revolution International, a personal development company specialising in consciousness development and the training of individuals for the realisation of maximal personal and professional success. MBD is the creator, master trainer and coach of The Mastery of Conscious Success Programme, and a personal transformation specialist with more than 10 years’ experience in the field of people development. He’s also a highly-acclaimed author of two self-help books, titled Destiny is Achievable and The Journey of Being.

His passion is to support professionals, leaders, entrepreneurs, college students and those people who want more out of life so as to enable them to discover and connect with their higher Self and higher purpose, so that, through consciousness and high performance, they may achieve inner and outer success, abundance and fulfilment, and a life of meaning and purpose. MBD as a coach supports people to see what he sees that they don’t see, yet he believes that they need to see to experience holistic transformation and to realise their goals. He inspires them to integrate what they eventually get to see into their choices, actions and communication, which leads them to being in control in their lives and to experiencing expanded possibilities.

As a student of life, MBD has spent years studying and researching the subjects of spiritual intelligence, consciousness, success and human performance in order to support people in achieving their personal and business goals faster and easier than they’ve ever imagined. As part of his consciousness development journey, he’s gone through many personal transformation programmes, from which he’s had different experiences and insights and has been able to find his authentic voice on the subject of success.

MBD’s background and experience in human resources management, consciousness development, behavioural science, consciousness coaching, leadership and entrepreneurship make his message of consciousness and conscious success reach a broader spectrum of people. As such, he’s been able to reach thousands of people in different countries and organisations, coaching, empowering and inspiring them towards high performance and achieving extraordinary results through the leadership of self and conscious choice. Through his passionate and engaging communication style, he’s able to capture the attention of his readers and audiences, and influence them towards the conscious way of living.

He awakens people to a new way of seeing and thinking about what it is to be human and what it takes to make life and work more rewarding and fulfilling. He opens the mind and the heart of people to a fresh way of seeing; giving a depth and breadth of perspective that enables and empowers them to gain unprecedented heights of connection with Self, wherein everything they do or are involved with they respond to and act on from awareness, not from reaction and conditioning.

Foreword

I stood in front of a crowd talking about meditation and consciousness – my favourite subjects. It was a noisy venue and I suspected my message wasn’t getting through that particular night. A child in the bookshop downstairs was crying loudly, competing with my voice. Even in a quiet venue it is hard enough talking to people about consciousness, because we live in a noisy world of social media and big-screen TVs. We live in a world where consciousness is not spoken about often enough. I was feeling doubtful about my message and whether it was relevant to modern people.

Luckily I was about to meet someone who would restore my faith. Just when I thought I was losing the battle to the crying downstairs, my eye caught sight of a vigorously nodding head to the right front of the audience. Relief washed over me. There in the second row, dressed smartly and looking professional, was a bright-eyed man nodding his agreement enthusiastically at me as I spoke. I didn’t know his name at the time, but from his body language I could tell we were on the same wavelength. His enthusiasm from the second row renewed my belief in what I was saying, something that as it has turned out, he would do many times for me.

That man was Mduduzi B. Dlamini. We spoke privately after my talk that night and I soon realised how much we had in common. We have become good friends in the short space of time since – good friends who support each other in our mutual quests for destiny consciousness. Mduduzi’s positive attitude and insight into human nature in our long chats have left me breathless. His eyes sparkle with life and joy when he talks about his purpose and when he listens and comments on mine.

I am delighted to say that every bit of insight, every bit of joy I have come to witness personally in him is on these pages of his most inspiring book on destiny consciousness. As I am grateful that he has come into my life, so will you be too. This book is about the beautiful and awesome destiny that we all have. It is a passionate outcry to all people to see and believe their destiny is real.

Mduduzi does not reduce our destiny to material success like many inspirational writers tend to. He does not ask us to expect that we will be rich and famous or that we will achieve some superficial quasi-success. No. For him real success is far more personal and subtle. He inspires the reader to find and focus on his or her personal and profound calling. He beckons us to discover a purpose and destiny that define us as images of the Divine God on this earth. The passionate writing on these pages will move you towards a far richer purpose for your life than you could have ever imagined in even your wildest dreams. Start dreaming beyond your wildest dreams. To go beyond our wildest dreams we must let go of our false perceptions of ourselves and be aware of all the limiting programmes and beliefs that are running our lives. We must radically open the gates of our minds to newness.

With typical insight the reader is asked: What if you’d start questioning all the things you’ve blindly and unconsciously accepted and followed in the past? What if you’d choose to live your life in a self-created context; one that allows you to fully explore your godliness, greatness and potential? What if you’d start searching for the higher truth yourself? What if you did not judge yourself by your past but by your potential and what your Creator says of you? What would become possible for you if you only concentrated your attention and energy on your potential and strength rather than on your past and your weaknesses? What possibilities would open up for you in this life if you had a first-hand experience of God?

Like my friend Mduduzi, I located my purpose in a realm that is beyond the mundane, beyond the programming of the past. I believe that the sky is the limit for us if we’re conscious of our divine spark, if we’re open to our most profound destiny and we then act with undiluted enthusiasm towards that destiny.

This book is packed with inspiration and oozes the energy necessary to get you going on the journey to your destiny if you’re new to your purpose, or to jump-start you again if you’ve just stalled for a while.

I hope it moves you and inspires you like it has me. Blessings to you in Destiny Consciousness.

Michael Howard

Author and creator of The Seven Aspects of Spiritual Intelligence

‘What if we’re really not who we think we are?

What if we don’t know who we are and yet we think we do?

What if that which we’ve always believed to be ‘The Truth’

about ourselves and about life is not ‘The Truth’?

What if who we think we are is what our minds have been

conditioned and programmed to be? What if we’re nothing but a

figment of the ideals of other people, institutions, systems, cultures

and customs? What if we’ve always been trapped in this false

identity and belief about ourselves and we did not know it?

What if we think we have a choice and power to choose

what we want to do, be and have? Yet we actually do not.

Because everything that we find ourselves doing, being and having

is pre-determined and decided for us. It’s imposed on us as options,

giving us the illusion that we have freedom when we do not.

What if we don’t have a say and power over everything

that we’re doing? But we are simply having our lives run by human

programmes developed over thousands of years of human existence

based on collective unconsciousness.

What if there’s more to us and to life than we actually know,

think and believe? What if we really have limitless potential and abilities?

What if we already have what we want but it’s just that we’re not aware of it?

What if we needed to ask these questions in order to experience something

new in our lives? Then step into our greatness coming from Being

and awareness; not from who we are really not...’

(MBD: The Journey of Being, 2014, p4-7)

Introduction

"You do not get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you are going to live." These are the profound and timeless words of Joan Baez, which eloquently articulate the responsibility each one of us has for the kind and quality of lives we lead.

Whether we choose to ignore or be blind to the glaring truth about our reality and about everything that’s not going well in our lives, as a result of following the conventional ways of being and doing that were passed down to us by past generations; or we face the truth, and seek better ways that are based on awareness and enlightenment, in order for us to find our true north and make our lives work in totality, are solely our decision to make. This decision determines our entire experience of existence and what becomes possible for us in life.

We can spend our lives in self-deceit and self-defence, always covering up the truth about our reality and pretending all is well to protect our only known ways of being and of doing we inherited from our forebears and which we’ve always used to define ourselves and to make sense of life.

We can spend our lives fighting each other, always trying to assert ourselves on others to protect our fragile identities and egos (ego: the sense of self-esteem or self-importance, or the ‘I’ or self of any person based on their thinking and feeling, and by which it (I) distinguishes itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought) for fear of change and for fear of having to come out of our comfort zones so that we do what we’re always supposed to have been doing as fellow earthlings. This includes relating to and uniting with each other to liberate our combined maximum potential in order to facilitate the flow and oneness of the Whole, and to make life better for all of us.

We can also spend our lives reacting to everything life throws at us or what’s happening around us; always preoccupied with trivia and chasing after illusions and vanity. Also, not allowing a shift in consciousness, or the full development of our multi-dimensional being that will enable us to gain new insights on how we can lead better and meaningful lives.

We can do the above or we can spend our lives connected to a higher truth and with our higher Selves and God, fully awake, present and aware of everything that’s taking place in and around us and not reacting to anything as a result of our egos. Through awareness we can live consciously, purposefully, intentionally, proactively, passionately and in totality, while we continue to seek enlightenment and growth in every area of our lives in order to reach higher levels of consciousness and maintain a good balance of our multi-dimensional being.

Only through a shift in consciousness are we able to develop the awareness, competence and art of distinction or differentiation we need to be able to effectively navigate through life and make sense of life or existence. Through enlightenment, we’re able to have the right perspective of God, ourselves, and life in general, which enables us to have new insights on how we can powerfully make our lives work in totality.

Through an expanded consciousness we realise that life is a movement and a journey that requires from each one of us absolute participation and flexibility. It’s a journey of present moments filled with infinite opportunities and possibilities, hidden in all the experiences, situations and circumstances that we encounter and create along the way. For life to work for us, it requires us to show up 100 per cent in it, and not hold back our full participation and engagement, but live in totality from one moment to the next without being in opposition to the flow of life.

It demands us to be non-attached to anything, but from moment to moment, yield to the flow of life and live in total trust and full surrender to the higher wisdom and plans of God or the Whole, while giving it our all and standing in ‘not-knowing-everything’ in this journey. Non attachment is the ability to let go of the need to change, fix or control outer circumstances. It’s the wisdom to always remain open to the divine order or higher arrangement and not be attached to any outcome, any specific way in which things are supposed to go or be done, or anything for that matter, whether it’s people, things or thoughts. Non attachment is letting go of control because you trust that God the universal intelligence knows what’s best for you and what’s the best way for you to realise your dreams and goals more so than what your mind can ever think of. This is because, at every stage of this journey, there are no guarantees or securities, only opportunities and possibilities which demand from us faith, courage and fluidity. As such, being inflexible, too cautious and keeping our best move for the time when everything is perfect, or when we have all the information we need, is not an option in this journey, as that time never comes.

Everything we’ve become or are in life today is nothing but the result of all the choices we’ve made from the infinite field of all possibilities that exist for us in the universe, based on the level of our consciousness at different times or moments in our lives. Whether made consciously or unconsciously, these choices are the creators of our current reality. Had we developed our consciousness, we could have established new competencies and made different choices, thus our lives and current reality could have also been different.

Life is, therefore, an encapsulation of a series of events, occurrences and movements that daily demand us to make numerous decisions and choices. Not only do these decisions and choices affect the now but they also affect the morrow. Everyday life compels us to make decisions that can either release us to success and greatness or to mediocrity and barrenness. Oftentimes, because of our unconsciousness or lack of awareness due to our negative mental conditioning and programming, we make decisions that negatively impact our lives and the lives of the next generations in such a great manner.

Every morning when we wake up, we stand before an infinite field of possibilities and opportunities. We can choose anything from this field, be anything, and do anything. However, because of the poor quality of our consciousness due to our conditioning and programming, we never see all these possibilities and opportunities before us. We only see that with which we’re familiar and that which our minds have been conditioned and programmed to see, do and be. Consequently, what we choose daily from the buffet that the universe serves us are the same old and predictable medieval models or ways of being and doing passed down from one generation to the next. These outmoded ways of being and doing lack awareness, authenticity, originality, spontaneity, vitality, creativity and consideration of the Whole (the Whole being the entire universe, our world, our planet, all creatures, all people, all plants, all animals, and the entire human civilisation, which all of us are a part of and from which we can’t separate ourselves).

When you come to think of it we’re not running the show or our lives, as we often tend to think or would like to believe, but our ancestors and those people who we’ve given power to over our lives are. Our lives are just used for the maintenance, defence and propagation of ancient ways of being and doing which we inherited from people who died so many years ago and who were at a certain level of consciousness at that time. To date a lot of us are still not open to any change or anything that’s new, and that challenges what we’ve always known or that which we have always believed in. After so many years of our existence and evolution as a species, we’re still holding tight to medieval and obsolete ways of being and doing that no longer serve who we’ve now become as a species.

We practically live our lives in the past because we’ve been programmed to religiously and faithfully repeat and recycle ancestral tendencies, behaviours, choices, and thought patterns which no longer serve us in the world and times which we live in today. As a consequence we’re never daring and explorative through challenging and breaking free from our conditioned belief systems, prejudices and ways of doing and thinking, and by taking on new paths, doing things differently, breaking old patterns and habits, starting new trends and maximising our potentials. We spend much of our time and effort on the maintenance and survival of obsolete belief systems, perspectives, traditions, tendencies and behaviours that we inherited from our ancestors, instead of progress and growth where we explore and express our full godliness and capabilities as we evolve with the times.

We keep doing things that aren’t working for us anymore and things that limit us and keep us stuck in the past. These are the very things that create the socio-economic and political problems and inequalities that cause us misery and suffering today. Oftentimes, because of our conditioning and programming, that which we do is that which we don’t want to do and that which we don’t want to do is that which we always find ourselves doing. Instead of being explorative, courageous, spontaneous, dynamic, fluid and also filled with love and passion for life as our Creator intended for us as gods here on earth, we’re controlled and bound by our minds and all the noise around us. This makes us fearful and act like robots programmed in medieval times, not capable of choosing and creating their own destiny.

Our robotic demeanour makes us incapable of full authentic self-expression (authentic self-expression is you expressing yourself according to your essence or your true Self, not according to the mind-created self that’s ruled by ego and identity and which seeks recognition, approval and acceptance from others). It makes it impossible for us to read into the times we now live in and allow for the necessary evolutionary transformation that will usher in a new order and enable us to be self-determining as gods. As a result, we unconsciously follow and vehemently defend ways of being and doing which, firstly, we were never a source of, and which, secondly we don’t have full comprehension of and conviction on. Thirdly, ways which we find incongruent to who we now are or who we want to be as human beings, but which, because of our egos, we feel obliged to defend and promote. These are mechanical, lifeless routines, practices and traditions often based on superstitions, myths and human projections of life and God. They are imposed on us as ‘The Truth’ passed down from one generation to the next without any probing, inquisition or review for accuracy, verity and relevance, as our consciousness continues to evolve and expand.

Although we now claim to be awake, free, literate, and in control of our lives and destinies, our reality says the opposite. Owing to our dependence on the conventional ways of being and doing, we still don’t own or control the most important things in life such as our time, our freedom of being, the means of production that support our very existence, and the land in which we live. We don’t have the freedom to do and be what we want, when we want, and how we want, as we authentically express ourselves according to our essence. We don’t have the freedom to go wherever we want, whenever we want. We don’t have the freedom to be self-determining and to decide our own destiny. We lead borrowed lives and borrowed lifestyles. We live in borrowed comfort and convenience, borrowed land, borrowed health, borrowed prestige and affluence, borrowed success and happiness and, even, borrowed spirituality. This has become our normal and acceptable way of being.

Most of us are in a state of deep slumber. We’re sleepwalking through life and appear to be in a deep hypnotic trance. We’re not aware we’ve been ‘captured’, and are under the control and mercy of forces beyond ourselves that are the drivers of our conditioning, programming and sedation. Our lives are continuously on auto-pilot, and we drift aimlessly and unconsciously through life like a rudderless ship in the sea. We’ve become victims of our own belief systems and all the knowledge we’ve accumulated over the years, which we now feel obliged to defend and propagate at whatever cost, because of how we’ve based our whole identity and existence on it. Consequently, we’ve fallen prey to predators of all sorts and kinds who know how to enslave, exploit and manipulate us by taking advantage of our psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual needs to fulfil their own egos and to benefit themselves financially and otherwise through our unconsciousness. Life is doing us, we aren’t doing the living.

Since we’re sleepwalking through life, a great majority of us are not present to what’s going on in our lives, and are not present to the forces and powers behind everything that’s happening in our environment. We’re never present in what we’re doing, never fully alert to our environment, and are not even aware of what motivates us to do and say the things we do. We do things that we don’t comprehend and, even more sadly, things we don’t want to do because they don’t resonate with us or who we are in our essence. We don’t question things; we just blindly follow ancestral and archaic traditions, customs, behaviours and tendencies that are a threat to us and our existence.

We also follow trends of which the origin, purpose and ideology we have no insight about; trends that are meant to suppress us and render us powerless and dependent on other people for our very livelihood. In our expression in life, we limit ourselves as gods because we lack the awareness of ourselves and our environment. Also as there’s no flexibility and willingness to be enlightened within us, but such stereotypical stubbornness, rigidity and stiffness, stemming from our mental programmes and utter unconsciousness. We’re enslaved by our mental programmes, belief systems and prejudices, and can’t see beyond our conditioning. As a result, our capacity to enjoy life in all its richness and splendour is limited.

This is not the life our Creator intended for us. This kind of life makes us less of gods and more of robots which are blind consumers of everything we’re fed on by our mental capturers and by those to whom we’ve ignorantly surrendered our souls and destiny. What a boring and limited way of existence we continue to choose for ourselves from the infinite field of all the possibilities that exist for us in the universe.

For a long time, we’ve lived in this state of total unconsciousness, ruled by conditioning, ignorance and fear; our eyes totally blinded and our ears blocked from the higher truth – truth about God, ourselves and life in general. We’ve always thought that what we’ve been doing is what we should have been doing. We’ve become so used to and comfortable with being who we’ve been made to think we are. As such, we find nothing wrong with ourselves and how we think and do things. We also find nothing wrong with the state of our affairs, and all the injustices taking place around us, often in the name of God, culture and religion, such as patriarchy, sexism, bigotry, religious factionalism, racism, segregation, tribalism, nationalism and many other crimes against humanity and nature.

Since we don’t know any better because we’re born into abnormality which to us is normality and ‘the will of God’, we feel comfortable being a part of these oppressive ways of being that have reduced us to being lifetime tools, servants and slaves for other people at our peril. We feel comfortable producing the meagre results we’ve been producing month after month and year after year, and we always give philosophical and biblical explanations and excuses for all the injustices we experience in our lives. Owing to how our world has been unevenly calibrated, that which we put into life in terms of our time, energy and resources, individually and collectively, is not what we get out of life. We put in or invest so much into life and get so little out of it. This has become normal and acceptable to us.

It’s sad to realise how we find normalcy in operating at a small fraction of our potential and in living in total unconsciousness where we have no freedom of being and of expressing ourselves authentically as the creatures God created us to be. We find normalcy in suffering and being treated unfairly as undeserving beings because of, among other things, our world views, where we were born, our gender and the colour of our skin.

A lot of people, however, tend to claim they’re already awake. They think that, because they’ve managed to get certain results in their lives, it’s a sign that they’re conscious or enlightened and free. They therefore see no need to make an effort to be awake, or to do some deep personal transformation work on themselves, especially on the full development and activation of their consciousness or spiritual side, to fully liberate themselves and the rest of humanity from the grip of the ego and the power of their conditioning. They only concentrate on working on the mind or intellect and, at times, the body, and neglect the other critical aspect of their multi-dimensional being - the soul or spirit. They focus on the acquisition of job-related skills and knowledge to get the best jobs, and to enhance their job performance. Also to increase their chances for promotion and to make more money, so that they prolong their time with whatever they’ve borrowed, whether it’s comfort, convenience, land, health, spirituality, prestige and so on.

Although excelling in their careers and chosen fields, they still operate at a fraction of their full potential because they can only do so much through the mind and with what they have at their disposal. This makes their ‘success’ fragile and elusive because of its dependence on external factors and on the owners of the means of production, or on those who control the socio-economic and political systems and hold the power to decide who gets what, when and how. What also makes this success fragile is its dependence on the mind, which by nature is limited, and whose abilities and the quality have a short lifespan. Most people lack the awareness on how to connect to and operate consciousness or the spiritual domain in their daily expression in and engagement with life. This consequently limits the scope of results that they could otherwise achieve in their lives. This is because our full power and capabilities as gods lie beyond the realm of the mind. Our power, wholeness and divinity lie in consciousness, the realm of God and the field of infinite potential. We’re only able to function as gods here on earth when our consciousness or that formless side of our Being has been awakened.

In this book, you’ll learn the importance of taking full ownership of everything that happens in your life by being aware of or being present to your conditioning and all the programmes that run your life. You’ll learn how you can connect to and operate consciousness. How you can create the context that serves your higher purpose and enables you to consciously create sustainable success repetitively, instead of always being dependent on things you can’t control.

Even though some people have earned their success because of what they’ve done to be where they are today, with most of them their ‘success’ was by chance. Their success wasn’t their full conscious creation; hence they can’t boast or take full credit for it. They were somehow at the right place, at the right time, and with the right people. Some of them were born in favourable conditions and circumstances that afforded them certain privileges and gave them a head start in life; hence they enjoy all these opportunities and resources at their disposal and are able to achieve results which others, because of their circumstances, struggle to achieve.

Their ‘success’ had nothing to do with their competence or ability to consciously connect to and operate consciousness or the spiritual realm, in order to access or source the infinite powers available in this realm. With some of them, their so-called ‘success’ was a result of suppressing and prostituting their essence or higher Self; and being corruptible in being to achieve financial or material gains through corrupt means and practices. Hence the emptiness and lack of fulfilment they always experience even though they have thriving careers or businesses, and appear to be outwardly wealthy.

Personal growth is a key part of the human journey and the conscious way of living. Being ‘success’ calls for us to be open to growth, and to always see and seize opportunities to personally evolve and grow in all our different situations and circumstances. It calls for us to never be complacent and let our success today be our enemy tomorrow.

A lot of people, because of the applause and cheers they’ve received from their peers and compatriots after achieving certain goals, have unconsciously allowed their ego to take over their lives, making them shut themselves up to any wise counsel and further personal development. This has been the cause of their stagnation and downward spiral, where what was once beautiful and promising has dissipated in pride. Other people, because of all the praise they’ve received, have unconsciously slipped into mediocrity and have stopped dreaming bigger dreams and setting bigger goals. Instead of becoming global trendsetters and players, they’ve settled for the position of being local champions.

Very few people have dared challenge the status quo and the way things are done and have always been done by continuously seeking enlightenment, and by pushing their limits and breaking their boundaries. Only a few have placed a demand on themselves and on their capabilities by setting bigger goals beyond their survival context and needs. Also by going an extra mile in whatever they do, to realise and achieve even greater and more phenomenal results that serve the greater good.

People have come and gone, leaving no indelible mark and very little impact on the lives of others. Most people are only known and remembered for their unique physical attributes such as their faces and nothing more. The only significant events that ever happened in their lives were being born and dying. Nothing of significance happened between these two events – everyone’s natural rite of passage. No legacy, no impact and no value worth passing on to the next generations were left. In all the time they spent on earth, they showed up in life as nothing but lower mammals whose lives were only about meeting their survival goals and needs.

All of humankind is now being called to a higher standard of living and of being. Every man and every woman is being summoned to assume their place and position in all of Creation. All humanity is being called out of the life of unconsciousness and sedation to one of wakefulness and sobriety where they are the masters of their destinies. We’re being called out of the life of lies and deception, where we have blindly followed things without asking the right questions and allowed ourselves to be manipulated and abused by others. Every person is being called out of mediocrity and average living to live lives of productivity, success and greatness. We’re being summoned out of the life of nonentity and shame to that of purpose, significance, meaning and power.

Unless you realise that there’s one life for each one of us that is our own and that is worth living to the fullest, you’ll never take it seriously. Unless you get tired of being where you are and where you’ve been all your life, you’ll never do anything to change your situation. As long as you think that success and greatness are meant for other people, you’ll never strive to explore your godliness and maximise your own potential. As long as you delude yourself that you’ve arrived and have indeed reached your goal, you’ll never begin to leave a mark of greatness and change for other people to follow even way after you’ve passed on. Consequently, when you die you’ll only be remembered for your unique face, and time will quickly erase your memory from the face of the earth.

All of humanity is being called to a higher level and standard of living and engagement in life. This is a life of continuous personal growth and development, which results in heightened levels of consciousness and wholeness, and a high work ethic. How can you become better and realise growth and success in every area of your life if you don’t have the necessary resources and tools for such? Success is not a destination but a journey, and the road to it is always under construction. It’s work in progress. Never fait accompli. You’ll never get to a point in life where you can say ‘I’ve arrived’ because complacency is an enemy of success. Anything that stops growing will inevitably begin to die. However, growth, like greatness, is not a function of circumstances, but rather a matter of conscious choice.

John Schaar once submitted that: The future is not some place we’re going, but one we’re creating. The paths are not to be found but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.

We all possess the power, capacity and potential to become anything in this world. Hence the reason we’re called human beings or human ‘becomings’. We’re always becoming something, whether positive or negative. Our thoughts and actions are always creating our reality and framing the world we find ourselves living in at any given time. This creative process that involves our thoughts, feelings and actions is always in motion whether we are aware of it or not. That’s why it’s important that we learn how to consciously control the creation process or cycle so we influence our becoming.

We need to learn how we can become that which we desire, and how we can begin to produce the results we want or desire in our lives. To attain the kind of results that draw us closer and closer to our destiny, beyond our common need for survival, we must be able to take charge of our thought process and influence all circumstances in our lives. This calls for us to become awake or enlightened so we come out of our unconscious creation cycle and become conscious participants in the creation process. The process of waking up or becoming enlightened begins when we step outside of our unconscious cycle of creation and become present to our thoughts, feelings and actions, by continuously examining and modifying them. The more conscious we are of the activity of our minds and the impact of our thoughts and actions on our lives, the more able we are to make positive changes in our thought life and take those actions that will set a different course for our entire lives.

By being born into this world that’s driven by conditioning and ego, we’ve all experienced deep mental conditioning and programming of all sorts, which today controls our lives. As a result of the programmes that run our lives, most of us have developed repetitious and predictable responses to whatever is happening in our environment. We’ve become human reactors instead of human creators. This subjects us to a life that’s undesirable and one that’s contrary to what we would otherwise choose or create for ourselves if we knew how, or had power over these programmes. Most of our reactions are automatically triggered by people and circumstances, making us accept whatever is happening in our lives as fate or the will of God; something that’s beyond our control.

These external forces and triggers make us think and believe that there’s nothing we can do to influence the direction of our lives and gain control over our circumstances. However, the truth is there’s always something we can do to have different realities and life experiences. This is because of the power we possess to choose anything from the field of all the infinite possibilities that exist in the universe, including our responses, behaviour and actions. This power, however, can only be fully accessed and optimised through a change in consciousness and a heightened level of awareness. We need to heighten our level of awareness so that we inform and strengthen our decision-making competence, and be able to consciously make better choices that will result in us having better lives. Also, so that we don’t always rely on our personal power and intelligence to get the results we desire.

I’m therefore pleased to present to you this life-transforming, inspirational, empowering and refreshing tool in the form of this book, in its second life. This powerful growth material is based on my experiences in life and all the lessons I’ve learned over the years in my journey of consciousness. It’s based on the insights I’ve gotten through my connection to and experience of the field of infinite potential or the universal intelligence. This book will revolutionise your consciousness and ultimately your life. It will usher you into a space of inner power and clarity where you’ll begin to succinctly see the importance of unapologetically taking charge of your life and moving towards your destiny; a destiny of your own creation in spite of everything you might be going through. Everything in you will begin to shift as you read it. If you’re sitting down you’ll begin to walk. If you’re walking you’ll begin to run. If you’re running you’ll begin to fly.

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