“When you stop putting more faith in your limitations than you do in your leverage, you will begin to experience a life of flow.” — Myron Golden

How do people go from being broke to owning a million dollar business? How do you become a mover and shaker in the world? How do you go from nothing to something, from broke as a joke to rich and fit? It’s simple. All you have to do is be better, do better, and have better.

Changing Your Circumstances Through Self-Mastery

I want to share six ideas of how mastering yourself can help you change your circumstances by solving your problems. These principles work for anyone if they apply it correctly to their lives. I personally used these principles in my life and they helped me to increase my level of value and because of that I was able to find solutions to problems that I was struggling with for a while. No matter where you are in life, I know for a fact that if you learn to apply these principles correctly, you will gain a great deal of value and increase your current level of value in a short amount of time.

1. Know Yourself

I believe that knowing yourself is one of the most important aspects of education because you cannot be truly educated without the knowledge of self. This means that until you know who you are, why you are here, what you can do, where you are from and where you are going, you will never be able to reach the culmination of your true potential. Learning and developing yourself is supposed to help you become who you are meant to be. The more you know of yourself, the easier it will be to solve your problems.

By knowing yourself, you know what you’re capable of doing. You become more confident, more courageous in your actions; you will make better choices because you have a vision of where you want to go and you will be able to say no to anything that won’t help get you there. To know yourself is to know your core or to know what is at the heart of your innermost being. Your heart is the foundation of identity! It is hard to build anything on a weak foundation. Because whatever you build on a weak foundation is at greater risk of being destroyed. Self-discovery will help you build a solid strong foundation.

2. Develop Your Abilities

The more you increase your abilities the easier it will be for you to solve your problems. Ability is the inherent power, skills or resources to accomplish something. You increase your abilities by using them. As a child, learning to walk was hard at first. But the more you continued to do it, the easier it became. Now you don’t even have to consciously think about what you’re doing in order to walk. Your mastery of the ability to walk has grown to such a height that you are operating on a subconscious level. The more you develop your abilities the more obstacles you can overcome. The greater your abilities, the easier it is for you to change your circumstances.

3. Expanding Your Vision

Mastering your vision has a big impact on your circumstances and your attitude. It is different from physical sight. Sight is a physical ability but vision is a spiritual ability that comes from the heart (your internal world) and it influences your external world. Vision is a conceptual view of the future. It is said that where there is no vision the people perish. In order to change your circumstances you must have a clear vision for your future.

Your vision is your dreams. When you expand your vision you increase the level of growth for your abilities. Your abilities can only grow to the level of your dreams. The farther you can see, the more you can plan for and the greater your capacity for growth. Solving problems takes vision because creativity helps you generate new ideas and vision is the vehicle for creativity. Because you have to be able to believe in something that is not there yet in order to create it.

Idea 4: Increase Your Influence

Self-mastery helps you to increase your influence. If you want to change your circumstances, you must become influential. The more influence you have the more control you will gain. Self-control is a major part of self-mastery. You must be able to maintain your influence by controlling your passions and your abilities. When you gain influence you have more power to control your circumstances. You can increase your influence by generating wealth, acquiring knowledge, having ownership, maintaining control, increasing your power, earning respect, building trust and specializing in an area of expertise.

Influence is not popularity. You can be influential and not popular; And you can be popular and not influential. Being popular means that a majority of people like you. But even if they like you, it doesn’t mean that they respect you enough to listen to you. On the other hand, being influential means that you are able to convince people to listen to you. Even if they don’t like you, they will still respect you enough to be persuaded by you. Influence lasts longer and is far greater than popularity. The more influence you have, the easier it will be to solve problems. Because if a problem is too big for you to handle on your own, you can enlist the help of others to solve it with you.

5. Expand Your Comfort Zone

Expanding your comfort zone is one of the key components of self-mastery. You must force yourself out of your comfort zone in order to increase it. This is probably the most difficult part of self-mastery for most people, simply because you don’t like being uncomfortable. Honestly speaking I don’t like it either, but I discovered that if you want exponential growth, you must do things that make you uncomfortable. If you want to strengthen an ability that you aren’t comfortable using, you have to become uncomfortable by actually using it. For example, if you don’t like public speaking and it makes you uncomfortable speaking to large crowds but you know that you have to become better at it in order to increase your business, then you must force yourself to practice public speaking by doing it as much as possible.

When you expand your comfort zone, things that used to be uncomfortable for you become comfortable. Things that used to be hard become easy. Each time you expand it, your ability levels increase as well. You have to become comfortable at being uncomfortable if you truly desire to master yourself because the road to self-mastery will make you do things that other people don’t want to do. And this is the challenge, to willingly put yourself in uncomfortable situations. However the rewards are greater than you can ever imagine. Because if you can do this, you will be able to solve many problems and gain victory in many circumstances.

6. Refine Your Gift

Refining your gift is probably one of the most important steps to self-mastery that you can do. Because when you are refining your gift you are mastering your area of expertise and increasing your area of influence. You cannot obtain self-mastery if you don’t develop the talents that were given to you at birth. Your gifts are there to help you fulfill your purpose and release your hidden potential. Your gifts allow you to generate wealth by tapping into your treasures that are within you. They make a place for you in the world.

You have the ability to be wealthy; everyone does. All you have to do is to discover your gifts and refine them and gain mastery over them. Your gifts were given to you so that you can solve specific problems. The greater your mastery over your gifts, the easier it will become to solve your problems as well as the problems of others.

Conclusion

Problems will never go away for good. As soon as you fix one, another one finds its way to you. As long as life remains, there will always be a problem to solve. Problems are there to help us gain experience and increase our overall level. Everything that you need in order to overcome your circumstances was given to you at birth. That is why you must work at becoming the best version of yourself. Because mastery doesn’t come without resistance. It takes resilience to overcome the storms and become stronger in the midst of them. You have it within you to conquer your circumstances by mastering yourself.

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Thanks for reading!

Hans Fleurimont,
Founder & CEO of The Galerie Media Inc.

If You Don’t Do This, You Will Never Become a High Valued Person With Power and Influence.