The Pursuit of Awesome with Charlie Harary

The Story of Chanukah

If we want God to treat us with miracles, then we have to treat him with miracles. If we want God to bend nature, then we need to bend our nature. It’s natural for us to be comfortable, predictable, and to take the easiest route. We have to rely, on something even deeper than our conscious mind and memory. We need to be ok with being comfortable with the uncomfortable. It's a new way of life. This is the story of Chanukah.

Finding the Unpredictable

We love things that are familiar because our brain feels not only comfortable with things that we've already experienced before but because we know we can do them. However, if we can embrace the unpredictable, we could open a world of infinite possibilities.

No Pain, No Gain

The reason why we’re not growing is that we're cutting that potential off from ourselves because it takes work. The place of growth is in discomfort and vulnerability. God gives us the ability to grow in this space because we must earn it.

Stretching for Greatness

When we go out into the world we lead with our brain, not with our soul. Our brain wants to live today in yesterday because it's familiar. Our soul wants greatness, which usually are things we haven’t done yet. Every single day we get opportunities for greatness, to stretch, extend and expand who we can become.

The Power of Today

Our brains love yesterday because it’s easier. All the greatness in our lives comes not from yesterday. It comes from today and all the new opportunities that await.  It comes from growth, change and the ability to imagine a new way of living.

Elevating Our Souls

In order for us to overcome our challenges we have to be different people. WE have to grow and see our obstacles as gifts. We have to shift our minds. And, as the mind shifts the priorities shift.  Then, we can become an elevated version of ourselves.

A Life of Purpose

The ability to understand the world is going to give us the lessons we need to become who we are meant to be. It is part of the belief structure that that everyone has a purpose in this world and the world isn't random. A life of purpose means that we recognize everything we are going through is specifically custom designed for each one of us.

Building the Aspirational You

When we focus on building a life that is aspirational, our life changes. The problems in our lives are going to be the same, but we are going to change. And when our relation to the problems change, then they no longer are problems.

Becoming Aspirational

The mind is the gateway to the soul and our mentality is critical to our state of being. We have people in our lives that we look up to. To become greater ourselves, we must take the values of those people, bring them into our lives and begin to build the aspirational idea of who we want to be.

Changing Our Identity

Every single morning we have the choice to become the person we imagine ourselves to be. We can decide what our identity will be because we don't have to be bound by yesterday's identity. The more we imagine, the closer we come to being that person until we actually are.