I’ve realized lately I had been clinging to a story that my best chapters are behind me. Some of the “Greatest Hits” playing in my head are: I’ll never have success again like I’ve had. I’ll never be on a big stage again conducting the energy of thousands of people. I’ll never make the money I’ve made so easily again. I’ll never create a business as successful again as the ones in my past. That it’s time for me to take it easy, to give back, to help others achieve success.
Ironically, part of this is a side effect of all the work I’ve done overcoming my imposter syndrome. As I began to accept my role in all of my successes, that none of them “just happened”, that I was the most important element within all of them, and I let the scope of that sink in, it had the unintentional effect of leaving me in awe of myself and what I’ve done. So much so, I doubted I had it in me to ever do it again.
So, I’ve been inviting myself to lean into the possibility that I’m not simply creating my next chapter, but my greatest chapter.
That means that this next chapter will be so impressive that when I introduce myself it becomes the lead item, not the tag item to my past.
That’s why I’m allowing myself to play really big. I’m challenging myself to find the intersection between me at my most powerful, my greatest personal challenge, and what the world needs.
If you were to ask me what I do now, this is my answer:
I’m the founder of AAGI, the Association of Awesomeness for Global Impact. We’re solving the world’s greatest challenges, like climate change, by collaborating with the most successful, audacious, and unorthodox entrepreneurs on the planet so that they can turn their next chapter into their greatest chapter. The world is too important and the stakes too high for me to want to spend my time doing anything else.
I’m also co-founder of StealthSeminar.com – a multi-million dollar tech company, I’ve hypnotized over 5,000 people as a comedy stage hypnotist, in the 1990s I was better known as “Anabolic Frolic”, one of the biggest DJs in the world and an architect of the original rave movement, and I’m a published author of multiple books. Not bad for a high school dropout.
How’s that for playing big? I wonder who is going to show up in response? I can’t do this alone, my mission has become too big.
What was your biggest takeaway from the above?
