Finding the courage to start telling better lies. And acting on it.

One of the hardest things for many of us to do is to DO. You know – as in “just do it.” We can talk all day until we’re blue in the face but it’s a cold day in hell before we muster up the courage to get our hands dirty in the pig pen of life. I’m certainly no exception. The majority of all the talk that comes out of our mouths is really just a cover up for the fears, the insecurities, and the anxieties going on in the back of our minds. Here, I am no exception. We’ll look up to successful people and hide behind their words of inspiration without actually applying them to our own lives. And once again, I am no exception.

What all that noise really does is cover up what our intuition has been telling us all along – if we’d just give it a chance and listen.

Do you ever feel like an imposter? Like you’re living a double life? You wonder how long you can keep up with this charade and how long it’s going to take before someone reveals you for the hoax you are?

Don’t feel bad. You’re not the only one lying.

The truth is most of us are imposters. We steal ideas and thoughts from others and use them as if they were our own. Sometimes we give those words our own creative twist. But then our words and our actions never quite match up the way they’re supposed to. And even when they do – they’re still lies. Technically, we lie to others and to ourselves all day long.

And that’s okay.

Being an imposter has its benefits. Life is what you think it is and the fastest way to change the way you think is to adopt new thought processes until you truly believe them. If you look at it like this, everything is a lie until you believe it. Even if you believe it, it’s a lie to others.

For example: this post is a lie, unless you believe it. Only you can give anything I say on here a life of its own. And everything I’ve written in this blog represents stolen lies [thoughts] from different things I’ve seen and heard throughout my life. Plagiarism, much? But plagiarism doesn’t exist because the opposite of it doesn’t. Just like how light exists simply because its opposite, darkness, does.

Tell me: have you ever heard a truly original lie [thought]?

Anyway. Faking-it-til-you-make-it. It’s quite an unoriginal lie [thought], right? But a good one if you know how to use it. Except most people just fake it and never make it. All this lying for nothing. Why would anyone let a good lie go down the drain, right? Beats me – maybe they don’t have what it takes to make it.

So what does it take to make it, then?

I’d say the answer is courage. Some of us never make it because we’re too scared to. We’re scared of the person we might become because it’s so unfamiliar to who we are now. We’re scared of what we might have to sacrifice to become that person, even if the sacrifices aren’t as big as we make them out to be.

But then some of us reach a tipping point: we get brave. It doesn’t mean we aren’t scared. It just means the desire to ‘be’ overcomes the fear of being. It’s when we remember that all of our fears are lies. The insecurities are lies. The sacrifices are lies. Heck, ‘being’ is a lie. And some lies get old. So then we give up those lies and create another set of lies to believe and act on. Instant courage.

Yes, courage is a lie, mixed in with a lot of action. But if one lie works better than another, what’s the harm? Especially if you can physically do something to prove the lie. Any lie can be proven, if you put your mind to it. Like when I lie to myself and believe that I can make $1 million in 5 years. Or I’ll fly to every country in the world by the time I’m 30. The only thing left to do is prove it. To yourself and only yourself.

I guess those people who said the world is flat were right after all… A lie is a truth is a lie, depending on who’s asking.

The world’s your science laboratory, is it not? Anything you say goes. You just have to prove it. And you know – I’m beginning to think it’s far easier to accomplish that than we like to think.

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