Introduction
Recreating your life begins by auditing your life.
You have to spend time alone without entertainment or pleasure to do this. You have to contemplate your life; you have to meditate.
People do not understand themselves today because they are never alone. Today, people are persistently engaging with people and companies outside themselves.
You can’t know yourself if you’re always with podcasts, music, tv, YouTube, and other external stimulus.
Recreation must come from an audit of paths you walk that do not serve you. The path of pleasure, the pursuit of drugs or other vices, serves no one because pleasure cannot be fulfilled.
Change your paths to recreate your life. That may be leaving a relationship of a romantic, friendship, or family nature that no longer adds to your life. Or you may change the paths you walk of Body, Mind, and Spirit(BMS), which may involve leaving a job to pursue a new profession, or changing the habits that build your body, the orchard that is your first interaction with the world.[body is an orchard link]
Actions that seem small have a profound ability to recreate your life, like something as simple as waking up an hour earlier. Compounding is a powerful, natural force.
Consider the traits of individuals whose lifestyles you admire; not the rewards they have received, but in what they pursue mastery in. Add models to emulate to your code. If you don’t know The Way, following in the footsteps of someone you admire moves you forward.
The actions we take, consciously or unconsciously, with full minds or shallow minds, lead us down paths. It’s much better to choose the paths you walk down consciously and with a full mind, as opposed to being unconsciously pushed down a path.
To recreate your life, you need to walk new paths.
Below are some ways to consider recreating your life.
Designate paths to mastery that resonate with your spirit
The great samurai Miyamoto Musashi followed the path of swordsmanship. Later in his life when he no longer dueled to the death, he pursued mastery in writing, calligraphy, and other disciplines. He lived a fulfilling life because he pursued mastery.
You can recreate your life by committing to paths to mastery across Body, Mind, and Spirit(BMS). Each domain has its own energy level. The wanderer pursues mastery in each domain every day, switching to the other when the current is exhausted.
The Andreia Rites of passage is committing to at least one path to mastery in each domain.
Choosing your own paths helps you avoid being on paths that you do not want to be on or ones that do not serve you.
At the end of the day, the wanderer should sleep easy because they have thoroughly wandered. We earn good sleep through our pursuits of fulfillment through mastery each day.
Considerations for choosing your Masteries:
- What activities were you drawn to as a child? Before the world carved your routes. As a child you are unaware of how to be unnatural. So childhood is a good reference for finding your natural interests.
- What labor does not feel like labor? What has come easy to you? Consider all domains of Body, Mind, and Spirit(BMS).
- What activities put you into flow? Pay attention to this and determine what triggers your flow state. A life in flow is a good life. Flow means you’re floating down the path effortlessly. Moving in-step with destiny. You should be aware of when you enter the flowstate and document it. The flowstate is when your Muse puts her hands on you.
Most people have to build up to being good at something, while a lucky few have natural talent; natural talent is sacred.
- What activities do you do that are spiritually nourishing, that aren’t pleasure-based activities?
Pleasure Versus Mastery:
- Drinking beer versus becoming a brewing master
- Eating BBQ versus becoming a legendary pit master
- Watching football versus playing locally
- Looking at adult content versus building a deep and meaningful relationship
- Gossiping versus discussing ideas that grow the minds of both parties
- Repeating the same Duolingo lesson to maintain a streak versus learning a language
- Watching reality TV versus reading books or learning about paths to mastery
Pleasure cannot be fulfilled. Mastery can. You indulge in pleasure as a respite from the path; you do not pursue pleasure. This is how you obtain a fulfilling life.
Pleasure is not morally wrong in and of itself. Pleasure is Hell when it is pursued, because its purpose is a respite from the strain of the pursuit of mastery.
Reading
Many forget that books are a technological advancement that hold data. Too many think technology must be electronic. When you read books with intention, you add data to your organic hard drive.
You can see how valuable data is because corporations across industries are willing to go to extreme, even illegal lengths to get it from you. Books are data for your life. The more data you have to access, the more options you have.
Depth is mastery. Depth is more valuable than width.
Read books about your curiosities, read about potential paths. Read biographies about the lives of mentors and models you admire, and you may find your way from their stories.
Stories of any nature may aid you in this life. Fiction or reality.
Read books about the meaning of life to help you find YOUR meaning of life. Start with Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl.
Find a mentor or model to emulate
Identify traits in others you admire and steal them. This doesn’t have to be someone you know personally. We can become the best versions of ourselves faster by incorporating the philosophies of strong characters.
You should consistently adopt traits into your personal philosophy that you admire in others.
Adopting traits of mentors and models does not mean copying them. Adopting means configuring to fit.
One of the best ways to learn is by observing others. By reading the stories of others, you observe them.
Erase negativity – break binding chains
Negativity of any kind is a chain that binds your Body, Mind, and Spirit(BMS) to the source of negativity.
You can recreate your life by breaking the chains that bind you to Hell.
The pursuit of pleasure is a binding chain. The pursuit of pleasure is addiction.
Identify the chains that bind you by observing your Body, Mind, and Spirit(BMS) when interacting with your chains. You may have chains binding you to people, places, or things. Below are some examples.
Binding chains – people:
- A toxic spouse who discourages your ambition while manipulating your emotions to sabotage your dreams.
- A parent who does not believe in your vision, even when you have pursued mastery diligently under their observation.
- A friend group that tramples on your ambition because they are afraid of being left behind.
Binding chains – places:
- A hometown that has no opportunity for you to pursue a specific path to mastery.
- Living at home or with others who restrict your freedom to wander.
- An office job or other occupation that drains the spirit.
If you want to recreate your life, remove the negative chains that imprison your good life. If you cannot remove a chain immediately, add it to your code and move on to other chains you may break more easily.
Know that some chains are sturdy and you will need patience and opportunity to break them. Be prepared for opportunities at all times by adhering to your code. Do not dwell on what you cannot change in this moment; instead, change something you can.
MOVE
Cover and move is one of the fundamental laws of combat. If you desire to recreate your life, you can assume there are components of your life that have stagnated. That haven’t moved.
You can recreate your life by forcing stagnant life components into motion.
This could be moving out of your hometown, or moving back to your hometown to finish a degree in a field that has a defined path to mastery that resonates with your spirit.
Move far away from chains, move so far that the chains snap from the distance. Free yourself. Move towards positivity.
Staying in the same place is captivity. Being captive to a path to mastery that serves you is freedom.
Intake better fuel sources
Recreate your life by recreating the orchard of your body[link]. You are what you eat. Your brain is made of what you eat.
What do you want your cells to be made from? You decide that each time you eat or drink. Food fuels your mind. A healthy diet leads to a healthy body and mind. An inflamed, unhealthy body has an inflamed, unhealthy brain.
Like all things, the way you eat should be in the pursuit of fulfillment, not pleasure. Pleasure is an earned respite from the path.
As a basic rule, eat around 0.8 – 1.2g of protein per pound of target bodyweight. A high-protein diet is what makes you satiated, which means how full you feel. Eating a high-protein diet will help prevent overeating as well as curb the desire for sugar and other dietary pursuits of pleasure.
If getting enough protein is difficult, supplement. You can have multiple protein shakes per day, and powered protein is a cost-effective protein.
Two two-scoop protein shakes a day is roughly 100 grams of protein, of which the rest of your protein needs can be met with whole foods.
If you can meet your protein goals entirely with whole foods, even better, but don’t shy away from protein shakes if this is difficult to accomplish.
What matters is accomplishing the mission.
MINIMIZE & ORGANIZE
The things you own can eventually begin to own you. This is truest when the belongings do not contribute to paths to mastery. Discard items that are binding chains that do not serve you but force you to serve them.
If you have declared paths to mastery, or have found a new direction for your life, minimize belongings that do not promote your paths to mastery. This does not mean you become a monk; it means you prioritize fulfillment instead of pleasure.
Minimize, then organize what remains.
Develop awareness of objects that require significant investments of time that bear no reward or development of mastery.
A video game addict may benefit from selling their PlayStation, while an individual who uses their PlayStation as respite from their paths benefits from keeping the relationship.
Wisdom is not universal and cannot be applied uniformly to all individuals.
If you have pursuits of pleasure, removing them from your domicile is an effective first step.
Evaluate & measure
What gets measured gets done. To recreate your life, you need to become a professional and measure important, quantifiable metrics pertaining to your lifestyle.
Almost any change you want to make can be quantified. A good starting point is days doing something or not doing something.
You can always use time for measurement.
Compounding is the most powerful force in time and nature. The Grand Canyon is grand because of compounding. You create wealth through compounding.
If you compound good actions and minimize negative actions, you will recreate your life in your favor.
Be aware that you can recreate your life against your favor by compounding negative actions.
Measure and evaluate what fulfills you throughout your life. Not what gives you pleasure, but what truly makes you fulfilled. Move in that direction.
Consistent measurement will identify problems that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Unrecognized problems slowly accumulate like spiritual plaque, creating known and unknown diseases in the wanderer.
Unknown problems are the most dangerous. What is known can be changed. Measure and evaluate.
Final Notes on Life Recreation
The internal relationship oscillates between Alpha, creation, and Omega, destruction.
To recreate your life, you must first destroy that which does not serve you. Omega.
Then you must build, not rebuild, but build anew a life that serves you. Alpha.
Be aware of what is constructive and destructive, and when you should destroy or create.
