Why your life looks like a rerun (and how to change the channel)

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There is a Universal Law that is as certain as gravity and as precise as a Swiss watchmaker with obsessive-compulsive disorder. It is this: Your personality creates your personal reality.

Now, I know what you might be thinking. You might be thinking that your reality is defined by your boss, your bank account, the traffic on the I-70, or the fact that your cat, Mr. Whiskers, refuses to acknowledge your existence unless he requires sustenance. But let us zoom out. Let us look at the grand, infinite canvas of life with the eyes of the mystic and the wit of a modern sage.

If you wake up tomorrow, drag yourself out of bed on the same side, drink the same coffee out of the same chipped mug, drive the same route to the same job, and see the same people who push the same emotional buttons, you are not living a life. You are running a program. You are essentially a biological record player, playing the "Greatest Hits of the Past" on repeat. And let’s be honest, some of those tracks were not even good the first time around.

The brain, you see, is a record of the past. If your thoughts, actions, and feelings are identical to yesterday, your tomorrow is just a photocopy of today. The Infinite Intelligence that governs the stars and the tides does not do photocopies. It creates. It expands. It breathes fresh life into every nanosecond.

To change your life—to see the zeros in your bank account multiply and your health vibrant enough to run a marathon (or at least jog to the fridge without wheezing)—you must fundamentally change your state of being. You must become a new personality.

Think of it like the movie Groundhog Day, but instead of Bill Murray learning to play the piano, you are learning to master the very fabric of reality. When you live by your senses, reacting to what is already there, you are creating more of what is already there. You are letting the outer world dictate your inner world. That is doing it backward! It is like shouting at a mirror, demanding it smile first. The mirror cannot smile until you do.

The more you read my emails, the more success you will have in spotting these patterns. You will begin to catch yourself in the act of being your "old self." You will pause before you react with that standard sigh of frustration. You will realize that to create a new future, you must stop firing the same old neural circuits that keep you anchored to the past.

We are talking about a biological death of the old self. It sounds dramatic, I know. But we are not burying a body; we are burying a habit. We are saying goodbye to the version of you that believes in lack, limitation, and that you are a victim of circumstance. We are stepping into the expansive, creative power that lives right between your ears.

You are likely grateful for having clicked the links in my email, because you are starting to see that you are not stuck. You have just been on autopilot. And autopilot is great for airplanes, but it is a terrible way to drive a destiny.

But here is the rub: Your body has memorized your emotional state better than your conscious mind has. Your body is actually addicted to the past.

Tomorrow, I am going to explain why, by age 35, you are basically a walking hard drive of subconscious programs, and how to break the addiction that keeps you small.

One Question: What is one specific routine you do every morning that feels like it’s running you, rather than you running it?

Bradley Woods

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