We Can All Be Great If We Make One Simple Change | VictorSchueller.com

“I would say the biggest failures I’ve had were at a time when I believed my own hype.” ~Simon Cowell

When I talk to audiences, I tell them that I want to do a quick quiz with them, and I’ll do the same with you…Let’s see how you do…

Question one: Is it better to live out of love and compassion toward others, or is it better to live out of fear and scarcity?

(I am guessing at this point you are picking option number one, like most people do)

Question two: If you know it’s better to live out of love and compassion toward others, why don’t we do it?

(Here is where I get mostly the sound of crickets chirping)

It’s a perplexing question — one that baffles and mystifies my audiences.  We know how we want to act — we know what’s the proper way to act, yet, for some reason, the human species seems hard-wired to be negative, full of complaints, prone to arguing, bullying, teasing, and many more negative behaviors.

Sometimes we just cast it off as “Well, everyone does it,” or even better, “That’s how my parents acted, so it’s no surprise I act that way.” Really?  That’s the best you’ve got?

It usually is the best we’ve got, because we have absolutely no clue as to why we aren’t living out of love and compassion for other people.  It’s as if we can’t help but not be that way much of the time, and we’re not alone — over ninety percent of the population can’t help it either, and they don’t even know why.

Fear and scarcity are protective mechanisms — mechanisms designed to help preserve us — to help us save our bacon when we’re exposed to dangerous or life-threatening situations.  This fear mechanism worked great for our cavemen ancestors, who, because of the fear mechanism, lived to see the next day of their lives, thus furthering the species, but also passing along the genes of being fearful and worrying about others taking things from us.

Because of this fear and scarcity mentality and the genetics that code for such, we have inherited a brain that is prone to looking out for potential threats and worrying about whether others are going to take something from us.  We don’t worry about people taking things like food from us anymore, but we worry about things like power, control, self esteem, proprietary knowledge, happiness, comfort, the status quo, and others, just to name a few.

When we fear that someone is going to take some of these things from us, we become self-centered in the interest of clutching tightly to what it is we fear losing.  Our inner contemplation as to why we are being “targeted” starts to chip away at our self esteem.  Fear sets in.  We start to listen to the ego as it tells us that we are not worthy or not good enough.  If we let our ego tell us we’re not worthy, we start to resort to letting our “false” or “external” self esteem get the best of us.  The result of this is that we are driven by what other people think, and we then become unauthentic and we live our lives to satisfy other people.  If we continue down this road, we won’t be happy.

At the same time, our ego takes a beating, and we start to over-compensate by defending our bruised ego with offenses directed at others.  We usually end up involved in judging, criticizing, teasing, or other behaviors that satisfy the ego and fulfill the inner “need” of reassurance that we are better than others, not the other way around.

Even though we inherited belief systems rooted in fear and scarcity, it doesn’t mean that it’s the best way to go for us, and it certainly doesn’t mean that we were hard wired to only operate in this fashion.

While it’s not an easy choice, on the surface, to make a change, it’s not the hardest choice either.  The first step is awareness — an awareness that we are serving the ego and letting it get between us and our personal greatness.  If we can awaken to the realization that we are acting like robots, automatically and unknowingly carrying out the programming we were genetically handed down by our caveman ancestors, we can then override this program and upgrade to the divine program — the program we were meant to run on our hardware.

We can all be great if we make one simple change — the change from caring so much about “me,” and start caring so much about “we.”

We weren’t designed to be mediocre; we weren’t designed to live our lives on auto-pilot, simply put here to be fearful and serve the ego.  We were designed to be great!  We are here to make a difference!  So, let’s get to it!  Make the change!

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