In this solo personal‑development video, the speaker shares his personal transformation from relying on Adderall for ADHD to adopting a daily candle‑and‑breath meditation practice, which he credits with developing deep self‑awareness. He explains that self‑awareness—recognizing who you truly are—allows you to discover an inner purpose (the universal aim of being present in the now, as described in Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth) and then align it with an outer purpose (the individual’s concrete life direction, such as communicating ideas). The talk outlines practical tools: daily 20‑minute meditation focused on a candle flame, observing thoughts without judgment, and repeatedly asking “Who am I?” and “What is my purpose?” to trigger insight. He emphasizes staying in flow states (through music, reading, or other immersive activities) and treating thoughts like passing dogs in a park, which naturally quiets the mind. By consistently practicing these techniques, the speaker claims you can act from a place of presence rather than ego‑driven neediness, gaining momentum, congruence, and better results in life. The video ends with a standard call‑to‑action to like, share, and subscribe.
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In this video, I'm going to be speaking about the idea of us understanding a little bit more about the idea of self-awareness and ultimately how self-awareness can change our life by having certain levels of realizations and finding what is called our inner purpose and our outer purpose. Now, just to get into this, uh, I think self-awareness is one of the most powerful things that anybody can have because when we become aware of who we are, we then become aware of what our our purposes in life, we allow ourselves to act from a point of congruence. But until we get to that place, uh, it's very easy to kind of veer off road. It's very easy to identify with certain ideas that aren't really who we are, or to even take action and make choices or decisions in directions that don't really serve who we are. Now, I know I've done this a lot in my life, and recently within the last like 4 or 5 years, I've come to this idea of self-awareness, and I kind of stumbled across it, to be honest with you. 5 or 6 years ago, I had ADHD and I took Adderall in order for me to get to a place to where I could actually focus. And it was something that worked for me for a while, but the, the side effects of it were you couldn't really eat a lot and you couldn't sleep a lot. So after a period of time and me growing up doing it, I just kind of got to the point to where, hey, I'm gonna look up online and see if there's something that will maybe be an alternative or see if there's anything else that can work for me. And I did my own research and I came across the idea of meditation and it was like there were so many powerful positive things that it showed that it did with even like studies and research that it was like I have to try it. So what I did was is I sat down one day and I decided that I was going to stare at a candle flame and the reason I stared at a candle flame is because I read that if you stare at one point your mind doesn't wander as much. So I was like, okay, I'm going to try to stare at this candle flame and I'm just going to focus on my breath and just observe my thoughts. I did that and just for like maybe a couple minutes the first day and I started to, you know, it felt pretty good. And then I did it for the course of like a week and over that week I began to really enjoy the feeling of it and it was like the more that I did it, the better I felt and it was like natural within, within 2 weeks I completely gave up Adderall and from that point forward, the first 20 minutes of my day every day when I wake up, I meditate in the last 20 minutes of my day every single day I meditate and it just means I simply, you know, stare at a candle. And observe my thoughts and focus on my breathing. As simple as an idea, uh, that, that is, it was one of the most profound changes I've ever had in my life. And one of those is because I also developed what is called self-awareness. Now, self-awareness, I think, is the most powerful thing that any of us could come aware of, because when we become aware of who we are, both from an inner purpose and an outer purpose, we then begin to align ourselves towards having more momentum to really live in the life that is of the most value, that feels the best, and also yields the best results. Now I'm going to talk about this idea from the point of a book that's one of my favorite books. It's called A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. I'm going to put a little, uh, show you what that book is right here. And in that book, Eckhart Tolle talks about the idea of us first having to come to conclusions of what our inner purpose is before we can even actually find out what our outer purpose really is. Now our inner purpose for every single person is the same. The inner purpose that we all have is to become aware that the only moment that exists is now and to feel into that and to become more observant of the thoughts we have and not to identify with it. It's the idea that we are more than just the ego that we have. There's a deeper level of consciousness that exists in every single one of us, and once we begin to tune into it, we begin to develop a new level of being, and that being feels so much better than the being that we were before. And by that, I just mean the activity of us. You know, being identified with our ego versus us being identified with the present moment, with being alert in a present state. And there's a big difference in how those feel. Now, once I began to find out this inner purpose through kind of stumbling across the idea of meditation, I then began to understand and become more aware of like what my purpose is in life. I began to find myself drawn towards certain ideas. I began to find myself into a flow state more often when I was researching certain ideas, and that is what led me to understand what my outer purpose is. Now, my outer purpose involves the idea of communicating ideas, different layers to it, but I ultimately found out more of what that is from that inner purpose that I was able to connect to. Now, there's a couple things and tips, practical tools that I want to give you guys that worked for me that might work for you, uh, if you choose to try it. And one of those is simply adopting the idea of meditating, or if it doesn't have to be something where we sit down for 5 or 10 minutes a day, it could be simply the idea of you doing something that puts you in a flow state. Could be that you read something that really resonates with you, or you listen to music that you love to listen to. I think that the more that we do those things, the more that we align ourselves to the present moment and really think about what those things really involve. They involve not thinking, when you're immersed into good music and you're enjoying it, you're feeling into it. You're not so much analytically labeling it as much as you are feeling into it. When you're reading a good book, you might be reading it, but you're not necessarily analytically breaking everything down. You're kind of immersed into the story. It's becoming a part of you in that moment. Well, in the same way, when we begin to do that from a point of who am I, when we begin to ask the question, who am I, we begin to open up a new level of possibility inside of us. I think that our brain, the way our brain works is it looks for answers to the question we ask it. So if we ask questions like, who am I? What is my purpose? I think that we're more likely to find out what that is, either through the idea of us just knowing that from within or us coming across something that we're reading that really resonates with us, that kind of reflects to us what we do enjoy doing. So there's different ways of interpreting the signs of what that is, but even if it's just us feeling within what it is That comes from asking the question, learning how to observe our thoughts rather than react to our thoughts. Now, a simple tip for this that I want to give you guys is if you were to sit down every day for 5 or 10 minutes, become alertly aware of every thought that comes into your mind. The idea that one thought comes into your mind and instead of thinking that they shouldn't be there and trying to control your mind, simply become aware of what that thought is. Put attention on it and observe it. Just observe it almost like you're at a park and you're watching like dogs walk by, right? You're just watching them walk by. You're not like running after them or trying to follow it, see where it goes, or trying to tell it to do something else. You're just sitting on the bench and you're watching it walk by. In the same way, become the silent observer that's watching the thoughts in your mind. When we begin to observe it, the thoughts will naturally go away anyway. So it's kind of a funny paradox. So the idea is that we can just sit there, we can ask the question of, who am I? What is my purpose? We can begin to think feel into the deeper dimensions of who we are by having a sense of stillness within us. Self-awareness is one of the most powerful things that we have the ability to tap into. When we become aware of who we are, when we align our inner purpose to our outer purpose, what we then begin to do is have more congruent type focus. We then begin to align ourselves to who we really are, and we allow ourselves to have more momentum in the direction of what we prefer to find our inner purpose. All we simply have to do is become aware of the present moment instead of thinking and being identified with thoughts. We become aware and observant of the thoughts that we have, and then we can simply ask the question, who am I and what is my purpose? And as we begin to do that, we begin to find out more and more of what our outer purpose is, and then we align ourselves so that we can take more conscious action because it's coming from a place of presence rather than a place of neediness or or not knowing or loss of awareness. So you have that awareness in you and all you have to do is align your inner purpose to your outer purpose. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Feel free to like this video if you liked it, share it if you found it of value, and, uh, I'll see you guys on the next video. All right, much love. Bye.
