Are You Still A Child?
You aren’t going to like this, but that’s kind of a myth.
When we were children, we didn’t have to do anything. We just kind of expressed ourselves, however we knew how, and got instant feedback.
This lead us to develop a strategy, that was helpful as a child, but not so helpful as an adult.
As a child, in most situations, you just need to speak up, and somebody will come and give you what you need. If you’re a parent, then you know children are hard wired to be the best manipulators on Earth.
Before they learn to talk they learn that certain expressions and sounds will get certain results.
It’s hard to shed this strategy.
As an adult, it’s incredibly tempting to think that all we need to do is simply express ourselves, and get our needs met.
The trouble is that in the adult world, we’re dealing with other adults. Adults we AREN’T related to, and adults who really don’t have any reason to “give us” what we want or need.
In fact, when you consider that MOST adults still have remnants of this childhood strategy, it’s kind of silly to expect that it would work.
Because if you’re sitting there thinking all you need to do is express yourself and you’ll get what you want, everybody else is thinking the same thing, to a certain degree.
Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!
It’s that deep inner child screaming out, “Look at me! Notice me! I’m special!”
See, in order for others to fully recognize who we are, we’ve got to make it worth their while. Since most adults are still operating from a childhood mentality, they’re not going to suddenly ditch that mentality when we show up and demand the same thing that they’re demanding.
So, how do you make it worth their while?
How do we set it up so they’ll WANT to get to know us?
By becoming a leader. Not the kind where you get up on the table and rally the troops to march on the castle, but the kind of person who REALLY knows where he’s going.
By becoming a person who has shed all neediness, and looks out into the world with eyes of expectation and curiosity.
Someone who looks out into the world and thinks, “Hmm, I wonder what opportunities I’ll find here…”
When you develop THAT personality, that energy, that aura, people will feel they are getting their needs met simply by being around you.
And since they’ll feel, on a deep subconscious level, that you are NOT biologically connected, that good feeling of being around you will ALWAYS be conditional.
Making them the perfect support crew for WHATEVER you’re creating in life.
How do you GET that personality?