The ONLY Way Out Is In.
David Wilkinson
Mental Performance Coach for individuals & teams looking to excel their performance. Focusing on individual performance, leadership, and creating a high performance culture.
In September 2020 myself and my fiancee moved to Marbella Spain and the reason for this transition??
We decided we wanted something different from and for our lives.?
The food, culture, weather and lifestyle in Spain really suits us. Also I believe the Covid-19 pandemic pushed many people to re think their lives and moved peoples communications online, so it provided the perfect storm to make this move.?
In the time since leaving the UK we have focused on building a new life for ourselves in Marbella, this has been both exciting, eye opening and challenging.?
Moving countries at times can be lonely, isolating and uncertain, especially when it comes to meeting new people, making friends and creating social circles. Yet these are essential as they enable you to feel connected to somewhere.
On top of this, I personally have been focusing on deepening my coaching services and powerfully serving my current clients whilst growing my coaching practise.?
The final piece to this is what I believe to be the most important and the purpose of this article...
I have done a lot of?"inner work"?on myself mentally, emotionally and physically.?
This for me is what makes the difference between people spending their lives constantly trying to change everything and everyone else outside of ourselves in the pursuit of happiness...
...Vs going inwards and working on THEMSELVES to create an abundant life.?
This is not a judgement, but a fact. People spend their time trying to constantly change everything outside of themselves:?
ALL of this in the hope that if they change all the things, people and stuff outside of themselves that they "perceive" makes them unhappy, then eventually they will be happier and more at peace.?
Hey, Im not judging anyone wanting to level themselves up...
...Change at times is great, in fact it can be essential,
However, When we are always searching for NEW things, people or?places to make us happy, then we have an issue.?
Trying to change, control, influence or adapt everything outside of ourselves BEFORE or WITHOUT first looking inwards, is a recipe?for further dissatisfaction.?
The real change or transformation as I like to call it, are always made on the INSIDE.?
I spent most of my adult life trying to change my body image, business, lifestyle, even relationships to find happiness and fulfilment.
In fact in 2012 myself and my fiancee even considered moving to Spain. We went as far as spending 6 weeks out here. Living and working to see if it fit us and it did...
However, the intention behind WHY we wanted to move wasn′t aligned.?
We were trying to escape, trying to find happiness outside of ourselves before we ever looked within.?
When we returned to the UK after those 6 weeks, I spend another 6 years oblivious to the inner work required to create true freedom and peace.?
I went on the search for nicer cars, more success, bigger and better business, even obsessive over my body image. None of which made me any happier, in fact i′d say I was more stressed, anxious and unfulfilled as ever.
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But the true route to inner freedom I found was when I went inwards...
"The only way out is in".?
The ONLY real way out of the discontentment, suffering, anxiety, depression, lack of fulfilment and unhappiness is to go INWARD. Back into ourselves to actually get to the route causes of these feelings.?
These feelings are VERY real and very debilitating for people. However they are also symptoms of something MORE deep seated. So just treating the symptoms and not going to the route cause means these feelings will almost always return.?
Who wants more Freedom, inner peace, happiness and joy in their lives??
Who wants to move away from their things that cause them suffering and pain??
Of cause the answer is all of us (I hope)
The path to unlock a more content, fulfilling and freeing life is found by doing the inner work on yourself.?
It means no longer ONLY looking to outside objects, places and people to bring or create happiness,?But to actually discover WHY you aren′t feeling that way already in life and what′s actually getting in the way!
Why you feel you have a "lack" of something in your life, vs seeing yourself as abundant.?
It′s about creating awareness of ALL the limiting beliefs or subconscious narratives that keep you stuck in life and have created the lens in which you see your life through.?
That very lens that keeps you believing you aren′t enough as you are and why you need more "stuff" for that feeling to go away, but even with the acquisition of more stuff or a the pursuit of a better body, it never does because its never enough.
My belief in life is that we can have it ALL.?
We can realise our potential in life and we can create all the things we desire. There′s nothing wrong with desiring a better lifestyle, more income, more wealth, more health and more connection. These are powerful drivers for people.?
What can also co-existing along side these is feeling mentally free to be who we are, to have a purpose in life and to be happy with who we are and where we are today.?
BEING?both the master piece and the work in progress!?
The way to get here is not always going outside of ourselves,?
Its about going inwards.?
Lifting the veil and revealing to ourselves who we truly are and what we have ALWAYS been truly capable of becoming.?
The ONLY way out is in!?
David?
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To understand how to go inwards and why,?check out my YouTube video?HERE
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1 年Really great to read this post, David Wilkinson, albeit a bit after the fact! Congrats on your move and the shifts it has brought about for you in your life. I know from experience it's not easy, but it's powerful. The only way out IS in. Indeed.
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3 年Happiness is not something we get….it’s something we are !