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Clarity creates freedom. TYM 🙏

Interesting Vs Interested. Truth is most of us have spent years trying to be interesting. We want to stand out.
We want to be seen & heard. We want to feel significant. And that’s not wrong. But it can be an hungry ghost. 
Heres what I see - at surface level our need for significance comes from seeking to prove and perform at the cost of true connection. Especially with ourselves :) My wish is for you to see this pattern. It’s primitive but also learned. What we’re really craving isn’t to be interesting—it’s to be interested. 
To feel connection instead of competition. 
To grow instead of validation. 
To contribute to others over winning their approval. Being interested is really powerful. It’s stepping into uncertainty with faith. This is what I think Lao Tzu means when he said “Not knowing is knowing”. Ask yourself: What would shift in my life if I focused on being interested instead? In that moment, you’re being guided by a deeper wisdom and creating (not reacting). Thoughts? To your masterpiece. Andrew 🙏 #wisdom #insight #transform

Cultivation Vs Realisation. In life we often focus on cultivation — sets and reps, time in the game, creating habits, doing, improving skills and becoming “better.” What if real transformation comes from not doing more, but from seeing more? Cultivation is what I call outside-in. It’s efforting. We practice, improve, do, strive, and build — from discipline to habits to mindset tools. It works but it can’t give you what it can’t give you. Realisation, on the other hand, is inside-out. It’s an insight — a moment of clarity where we see the truth about how life actually works. That we’re not broken. That our well of being is innate. That our experience is created from within — by thought, not circumstance. Realisation is transformational. It shifts the foundation we’re standing on. Suddenly, its no longer about fixing ourselves but becomes about uncovering what’s always been there. If you’re feeling stuck or striving too hard, maybe the question isn’t: 
“What do I need to cultivate?” but rather “What do I need to realise?” To your masterpiece. Andrew 🙏 #insight #transform #leader

Discipline can create a fight against life. To your masterpiece 🙏

The example of Vs the nature of. We often confuse the example of something with the nature of something. It’s a subtle distinction, but it can change how we see the world around us. An example of something is merely surface level stuff. Like a result, an event, situation, a behavior etc. It's what we see. But the nature of something is much deeper. It’s the essence of what is creating. A client came to me in 2022 wanting help with his constant stream of frustration. He had loads of examples in his life and business. Now most would play there - strategies and behaviors to manage. But it doesn’t reveal the nature of. We explored the nature of his frustration. That whilst his examples were real, the fact that there’s no frustration build into his business or his relationship shifted him. So ask yourself next time you feel up against something. Am I seeing only the example of what’s going on and not the true nature? To your masterpiece. Andrew 🙏 #transformation #insight #awake

Masks. “True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself.” — Lao Tzu. We’ve been conditioned to believe that our worth comes from appearing flawless—perfect standards; performance, results, personas, appearance. But what if the truth is that our power lies not in perfection, but in authenticity? Vulnerability pulls. Pretending pushes. Life isn’t asking you to be complete in the eyes of the world. It’s inviting you to reside within yourself. Then step into the world to create. When we let go of the illusion of needing to be “enough” we free ourselves to be fully available—to love and lead. In all life arenas. This verse reminds me: when we stop trying to ‘get it right’ we often end up doing what truly matters. Thoughts? To your masterpiece. Andrew 🙏

Observant Vs vigilant. Most people think they are observant when the truth is they are vigilant. True power is being observant. Flow. 
Total fear is being vigilant. Survival. Observation is awareness without attachment. It’s a masterpiece. 
Vigilance is attention driven by threat. Innocently. And more is never enough. One expands our presence and the other contracts our organism. We are not here to monitor life for danger I’m suggesting we are here to meet life with clarity. The moment we stop needing to control the future, we become free to step into bed with life. Freedom isn't found in watching everything, It's in seeing and meeting life with new eyes even without anything changing externally. That’s your power. TYM. Andrew 🙏 📷 Awake crew April 2025 Ibiza, rooftop hotel Can Salia ☀️

Paradigm. We live through invisible lenses called paradigms (I sometimes refer to this as our VR headset) that shape how we see the world and ourselves. It’s a download. Then we show up and behave accordingly. Innocently. No lasting change in behavior is created until a current perceived paradigm is made obsolete. If not it’s struggle, grind, force, discipline and willpower stuff. The world changed when: Newton discovered gravity. Einstein discovered relativity. Wright brothers discovered aeronautics. And on…. And it was a terrible time for sailors until their model of the world was shattered by a discovery of a spherical earth. Fear over. It all shifts via a deeper understanding that our current reality is simply a reflection of our thinking. For progress, performance and fulfillment this I have seen, really matters. The moment we choose to see things differently, everything changes. To being your best. Andrew 🙏 ♾️ Awake Home July 11 Brecon - only 50 spaces - are you coming? Jamie Watkins Simon Delve Sophie Jones Sian Howarth Sebastian Watkins #transformation #paradigm #insight #masterpiece