Information Is Useless Without Awareness

A few years ago I bought a new car and something weird happened?(Weird till I realized it was actually me being silly).

I was trying to increase my speed, but it felt like no matter how hard I pushed the gas pedal, the car was not speeding up in the way it should.

So, I put my foot down on the accelerator all the way, the speed increased marginally but I still felt like I was not getting to the speed I should have.

It felt as if someone was pulling me back.

I parked the car on the side and did a quick google search – ‘Why My Car Is Not Picking Up Speed?’

The first article that I found gave me?6 different reasons: From Oxygen Sensor Malfunction to Timing Belt.

It was then that my wife asked me to check if the handbrake was on, and sure it was. (My excuse: My previous car had an automatic hand brake)

In a sudden epiphany, I realized this is how I used to live my life a few years back. I was always looking for a magical solution, some new information, some new strategy, but what I really needed was awareness, presence and taking a step back to analyse.

I was running my restaurant business and when things would go tough, I would work harder and longer. In a hope that if I pushed harder, I would go faster. Right? Wrong.

While I did make some progress, the progress was nowhere justifiable in comparison to the work I put in.

I hired consultants and they gave me more work to do and I worked more. 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. But it felt as if the faster I went the slower I got.

What I did not realize at that time was that even though my hours were increasing, my effectiveness was not. That’s because I had handbrakes inside me such as stress, worries, overwhelm, lack of creativity, lack of energy alignment, Excessive Beta Activity, almost no delta-level sleep, etc.

The thing with ‘information’ is that it is just that ‘information’.

Just like without the right question you will never get the right answer,?without awareness, information is useless.

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