There’s an understanding that when we ask somebody how are you feeling today out of 10, the mind tends to go to our perfect imagined future to compare the current state to that future – the highest potential state of what we can imagine to be possible right now.

From there, of course I’m only at a 7/10 because there’s so much I still want to create and acquire, and experience.

That all makes a lot of sense and yet when we continue to live not fully present to what we have around us right this very minute, we end up in this future-looking gap of never having nor being enough.

What happens though is we begin to carry this “aroma” around ourselves of only being a 7/10.

This “aroma” then gets onto everything that we touch throughout our days. Each conversation, every email, every thought, deed and word gets stamped by this “smell”.

For some reason I’m still trying to sell that it is not only important but most essential to get to be living our lives as 10/10 no matter what goes on around us, no matter the numbers in the bank account, and no matter if your plans are coming along according to your expectations or not.

Then of course, once that is out of the way, we get to have a more impactful conversation of HOW to actually get there.

First step is getting enough of the courage to see where you truly are on this 1-10 scale.

Many get scared when they find out, and they delay looking at this again until later… or they try to “fix” this by addressing the external reality believing it’s the thing that’ll make them feel better.

But since you’re here receiving this, it probably means you’re ready to rise up the ranks. I’ve got the how-to, we’ve never been taught this in schools, and I all I can ask is would you accept my invitation to begin the journey up to a life of 10/10?

– Dmitri “Beyond Average” Sennikov