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The Matrix Effect

The First Step Most People Need For True Growth To Occur

By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)Published 22 minutes ago 3 min read

You've been living your life for...

How many years now?

More than you would probably like to admit.

You have been taught...

You have grown...

And you have come to this point.

But you know...

As you look at all of the aspects of your life...

And the world at large...

Something just does not seem to add up.

You have a desire to grow...

But something seems to be in your way...

It does not seem to be happening the way that you believe it should...

You know...

There has to be more to everything than...

This.

But everything you have learned...

Everything that you have grown up with...

Tells you that "this" is it.

But you now have doubts....

Because you know that something is not right.

So what do you do?

Enter...

The Matrix Effect.

This is one of the most difficult aspects of growth that most people face.

There is a reason that you believe that things are not right...

It is because you're right.

They are not right.

Even if you do not know "why" yet...

You know that what you know cannot truly be right...

Otherwise the world would look very different.

But...

You have a real obstacle and choice before you...

And how you decide will determine everything.

See...

The obstacle is what you know up to this point...

Or at least...

What you believe you know.

What you have been taught.

What society has told you.

The obstacle is that what you know is not true.

You are living in a world that has been shaped in such a way...

That will actually prevent you from obtaining the future you want.

But...

What has happened to you...

Your past...

There may be good things that happened...

Things you want to believe, even if they are not true...

Sometimes...

That which is imaginary appears beautiful.

You may not want to...

Or be ready to...

Give up what you have to this point.

You may not be ready or want to unlearn everything you have learned.

For...

To unlearn means that there have been years...

Where you followed something...

Dedicated yourself to something...

And with every ounce of your being may have believed it was real.

To unlearn that is to accept...

That you have been hoodwinked...

That perhaps you were not as smart or wise as you imagined...

And that you can be deceived...

As could generations of others.

Before you now lies the choice that is provided in the Matrix...

Two pills...

A red pill and a blue pill...

"This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe… whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland; and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, The Matrix

The vast majority of people...

Will take the blue pill.

They will go back to what they have known...

Either unwilling to accept that they, and so many others, could be wrong...

Or too scared to accept what the consequences of being wrong for long means.

But...

There are a few who choose the other path...

They take the red pill.

It is the more difficult path.

It is filled with harsh realities that most people want to dismiss...

It forces us to face our own failings and lack of understanding...

Yet...

They also understand that to do this is the only way to get to the truth...

And the truth...

Is worth facing the difficulties for.

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About the Creator

Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)

Multi-Award-Winning Sageship Coach, Daily Digital Writer (1,000+ Articles), Producer, TV Show Host, Podcaster & Speaker | Faith, Family, Freedom, Future | Categories: "Sageship" & "Legendary Leadership"

https://www.SeekingSageship.org/

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