This is holding you back from shifting to a new reality (the familiar trap)

In this motivational vlog, Aaron Doughty explains how most people are trapped in a familiar "matrix" of 9‑to‑5 jobs, fear‑based conditioning, and reliance on external authority. He shares his personal experience working retail at Nordstrom/Barney’s, the humiliating write‑up for using his phone, and the moment he decided to stop serving others and start serving his own purpose. Doughty describes the concrete steps he took: committing to create a YouTube video every day, learning editing, SEO, marketing, and discipline, which allowed him to quit his job within six months and begin attracting viral content. He emphasizes the need to become one’s own inner authority, to confront shadow aspects and past conditioning, and to adopt an abundance mindset. To help viewers replicate his transformation, he promotes a 21‑day "Magnetic Abundance Challenge" that includes live coaching, breathwork, and teachings on shifting from scarcity to abundance. The video ends with a call to action to join the challenge and a reminder to align with one’s true purpose, flow state, and higher vibration.
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If you can even see this video, it means you are about to break out of the box and the matrix you've been living in your whole entire life. You are about to create for yourself a leap in consciousness, a leap in vibration and your energy that will result in the outer reality completely shifting as a result. Now, the thing with the matrix and understanding that we live in a form of matrix is that we are living in the confinements of the familiar, and most people are working 9-to-5 jobs they hate. They are completely— have normalized it. They believe it's all they're worthy of. They've been watching, maybe they've, they've heard from social conditioning, you're not good enough, or the news keeping people in fear and anger. And what ends up happening as a result is people stay living in the matrix. They, they stay living in their own limitations. Now, in this video, I want to show you exactly what you need to know to make that leap in consciousness, what it took for me to go from working my 9-to-5 job to doing what I love full-time, how I woke up to this, and then eventually everything began to shift. Now, you could only perceive that which you are the vibration of, and that's why I believe you are about to go through this shift. Now, one of the first things you have to do is you have to realize that subconsciously, you may be addicted to the familiar. Think about this. I had to look at this and it was hard to look at when I was working that 9 to 5 job selling women's shoes. And by the way, in my, I went through an old, my Snapchat from years ago because I knew there was this video in there. There was these photo, here's a photo of me when I was working that 9 to 5 job on my last day when I really broke free from the matrix. And there's even this video of me kind of showing around the shoe department on my last day because it was a big moment for me. And prior to this version of me going full-time with my purpose, breaking outta the matrix, I had to realize that I was thinking, feeling, acting equal to the reality of living in the matrix. I had familiarized and normalized working for someone else, working for bosses. Many times, by the way, the pattern I was in was the bosses, the managers were very controlling. They got away with a lot because they were protected by upper management. And that was quote unquote normal. And I didn't like it, but it's what I felt I was worthy of. I would say, I wanna be doing something else. I wanna be creating YouTube videos. I wanna be doing something that's meaningful. However, my thoughts, my actions, and my feelings were all equal to a resistant job that I did not enjoy. Now, one of the first things that you have to realize is that in order for you to break outta the matrix, you have to first off realize that you are completely in alignment with the reality you're currently in. And this is sometimes hard to look at, but the key to this is understanding that this is how you take your power back. You take your power back by realizing that this is maybe not where you wanna be. This does not feel in alignment with you living your purpose. And sometimes it may take a little bit of pain for you to get there. But remember, you can use the pain or you can use just a choice that you make that says, I'm gonna make this happen. Really, it's a commitment to you breaking outta the matrix. And for me, one of the things that provoked this commitment to breaking out of the 9-to-5 job was realizing that there was unfair dynamics with management, first off. One day I got called up to the office because I was, they had a video of me on my, you know, they had video cameras all around that of the, the store and they were writing people up for being on their phone. And part of that was I go up there, there's the store manager, the HR manager, and my department manager. And the store manager was pretty narcissistic dude that got away with a lot 'cause he was protected by corporate and nobody liked him. Literally no, not one person actually liked this guy 'cause he was so controlling and manipulative. Calls me up to the office. The other managers, the HR manager was actually nice. The department manager was actually nice, but they were just the minions of this person. I go up there, I'm sitting in front of them, and on the screen they have that of a photo of me, not even a photo, a video, a 5-minute video of me on my phone. Now what we would do is it was so slow working at Nordstrom's, that video that I showed you earlier, there was like no customers. We were open. There was not one customer at the store. And what we would do is we'd have someone on the sales floor, one of my coworkers, one of us would go in the back and we'd take turns going back and forth where someone was covering the floor. And when you go in the back, we'd just be on our phone. And it was just for hours, for 8 hours, for 4 hours you wouldn't see a single customer. So we would just take turns doing that. Now what happened is got pulled into the office. There's a 5-minute video of me on my phone scrolling on Instagram. There's like a video camera straight down at me. And I'm sitting there with the manager, the store manager, the department manager, store manager, and HR manager. And they're like, we wanna show you something. I was like, okay, I know what's gonna happen. I'm gonna get written up. And I was like, okay, after a minute of watching me scroll on Instagram with 3 other adults, I say, you know what? I get it. You can write me up. And they say, no, we wanna let it sink in. That's what the store manager said. We wanna let it sink in a little bit. I'm like, okay. So for another like 30 seconds we're watching it. I'm like, listen, I'm not gonna sit. Eventually I said this. I said, listen, I'm not gonna sit here and watch this. If you're gonna write me up, you can write me up or I'm gonna go. And they said, they ended up just writing me up. And it was so humiliating to watch for a couple minutes. And imagine silence watching you on your phone with 3 other adults. It was humiliating. But in that moment of that pain, I decided I'm going, one day soon, I will not be working for anybody. I'll be working for myself. Very shortly after that, I committed to making videos every single day on YouTube, 'cause I felt like in a way, the universe, God, my higher self, there was some divine guidance there that was telling me, if you make a video a day, your life will transform. So what I did is I committed to making a video every single day, and within a very short period of time, it was like I was embodying the energy. Now remember, the first step is realizing you are thinking, feeling, acting equal to a 9-to-5 job living in the matrix version of you. Then I recognized that the version of me that was full-time on YouTube, I realized that version of me made videos every day. I realized that that version of me had different skills than this version of me. That version of me had more discipline. That version of me maybe worked 35 hours a week selling women's shoes, but the other hours was making videos, was learning how to edit, was studying concepts, was coming up with titles, was learning something called SEO, search engine optimization. I learned, I noticed that version of me knew marketing. So what did I do? I committed to the skills of this version of me that was full-time that broke outta the matrix. Now within 6 months, I was able to quit my job selling women's shoes. I was able to basically buy my freedom back and really start living life on my terms. Within a month, I had videos starting to go viral. If I would've known what I knew now, then I would've been full-time within weeks, but instead it took me a few months because I had to figure out some things. How do you actually do this? Now, one thing I'm gonna be doing too, if you wanna learn how to break out of the matrix, how to tap into abundance, how to find your purpose, I'm gonna be doing a 21-day abundance challenge. It's called the Magnetic Abundance Challenge. It's 21 days of lessons that help you shift out of scarcity and survival mode into abundance. I'm gonna be doing live coaching sessions where I bring people up and do group coaching. We're gonna be doing breathwork. We're gonna be learning everything there is that has helped me go full-time and also break out of the matrix. I'm gonna show you exactly how to do it. So now is the time to join. If you wanna join the 21 Day Magnetic Abundance Challenge, click the link below, join. Hope to see you on the inside and realize that when it comes to abundance in general, here's one of the main things you also need to know. When we grow up, we look to authority for validation. We look to authority and to everybody else to see what is everybody else doing so that I know how I need to be so that I can be validated or feel quote unquote safe. Now, this is also weird thing to look at, but it couldn't be that there are people on the planet or organizations on the planet that want people in fear, anger, because when people are in fear and anger, they're much easier to control. They're much more likely to look around for safety, and they're much more likely to look to authority to tell them how to be and what to do. So your whole life, you may have been subconsciously living in a reality where you're primed from a very young age to go to school for somebody else to tell you all of these things, for you just to listen to a whole bunch of content, to regurgitate the content. Don't talk out of line. Sit there for 8 hours a day, learn your lesson. And what happens is look to authority, look to authority, look to authority. We have been primed and conditioned to look to authority for safety, And what happens is then we keep growing up and we keep living in this matrix of life, not realizing that we can break out of it. But in order to break out of it, you have to become your own inner authority. You have to give yourself permission because if you wait for someone to tell you, which is kind of funny 'cause I'm in this video right now and one of my goals is to help you tell yourself that you can give yourself permission to be your own authority. So I'm not trying to be the outer authority telling you to take authority, but you need to be the one to do it. I was waiting for a long time to break outta the matrix, to go full-time on my purpose. I was waiting for someone to tell me to go for it. I was waiting to meet one of my idols 'cause I worked at Barney's New York in women's shoes, a high-end store. I met like famous people and stuff. I thought I'd meet like Tony Robbins or some, Literally this like crazy idea, I'm gonna meet some speaker and they're gonna say, you have so much potential, go for it. And then I'd be like, oh yeah, I do, okay, thanks for the authority and permission, I'm gonna go for it now. And I waited and I waited and I waited and it never came. Why? Because I had to become my own authority. I had bosses telling me what to do, gaslighting me, bringing me into an office, wanting me to watch a 5-minute video of me on my phone because I'd given them that authority. I hadn't claimed it for myself. If you want to break out of the matrix, you have to claim the authority for yourself. You have to give yourself permission to go after your purpose or your passion. You have to commit to the vision. You have to commit to it and understand that your purpose is connected to you adding value into the world. And you add value by being you, but also focused on how you can add value by whatever it is you're passionate about. You know, when I make videos, it's not to get views. It's a side effect of adding value. But what I find is that when I have the intention of just being authentically myself and adding value to the people that watch, however many people watch, that has a much better energy. If I was working my 9-to-5 job in the matrix, which was a sales commission job, and I went into work and I was like, I'm gonna make $5,000 today, I'm gonna visualize $5,000, I hope to sell $5,000 'cause that's this much commission, guess what? It's manipulative energy. It's I wanna take, I wanna take, I wanna take instead of I wanna go into work, I wanna add value to people, I wanna connect with people, I wanna have fun. That energy would do better than anything else. But there was this alignment that would happen when I was in that energy. Now you can use that same energy when it comes to abundance. Realize if you've been primed and conditioned to live in scarcity, and it's become familiar to not have your needs met, it's become familiar to live in a reality where people tell you what to do and you feel resistance, that may be what's known. That may be the familiar. You know, it was an interesting thing where when my dad divorced my ex-stepmom when I was 17, it was an interesting thing when all of a sudden I had all this freedom. I was allowed to have friends, I was allowed to have enough food to eat, didn't have to sneak food anymore, wasn't locked outside doing yard work. I was able to watch television, which I didn't do from 7 to 17 basically. I think I saw maybe 4 or 5 movies those, that whole 10 years. Pity me, I only watched so many movies. But the reason I share this is I had all that freedom. You wanna know what came with that freedom? Anxiety. I remember feeling like I can do anything, I can do all these cool things now. This feels kind of unsafe. So what did I do? I attracted people into my life to reflect back that control, whether it was jobs that represent that control, ex-girlfriends that were controlling or jealous. 'Cause that box felt somewhat subconsciously familiar until one day I woke up, I broke out of it, and I had to honestly also forgive. Part of it was forgiveness of the past and starting to find safety inside of my own body, starting to find safety within myself. So one of the main parts of you breaking out of the matrix is you really looking at your shadow, looking at the parts of yourself that feels familiar with working a job that you don't like. And understand that you can break out quickly when you commit to a new you, when you become your own inner authority, when you start living according to your purpose and your passion, when you become resourceful, you just figure it out. I realized that in order for me to become this new version of myself, I had to become my own boss, which means instead of waiting for someone to say, "Hey Aaron, what vacation time do you want? Are you gonna come to work today? You gotta do this inventory thing, you gotta do this," Instead of me waiting to go, okay, okay, I had to be like, no, I'm gonna do this. I'm going to make videos every day. And it wasn't always easy, but I committed. Your identity is what you commit to. And over the course of like a couple weeks, the cool thing is your identity adapts and then it becomes easier and easier as time goes on. It's only hard in the beginning. Eventually it gets easier and easier the more you put your energy into it. So if you wanna break outta the matrix, realize you must commit to this new you. You must become your own inner authority. You must understand that you didn't come here to live in the familiar box that maybe is a recreation of the similar childhood dynamics. And what you then begin to do is to commit to adding value to other people by being the real you, by connecting to something larger than yourself, allowing the divine to flow through. A huge part of why I'm at where I'm at, almost all of it, is because I've allowed energy to flow through. I've got into a flow state. I committed to the flow state. And when you're in the flow state, you're in a higher vibration. When you're in resistance and you're just doing what everyone else tells you to do, you're staying locked in the past. So if you wanna break out, you have to become your own inner authority. You have to be the one to commit. You have to commit to the unknown also. So if you want to learn step by step how to become the most abundant version of you, shed scarcity beliefs, understand that when you follow your purpose, it completely changes your reality, join the upcoming 21-day Magnetic Abundance Challenge. It's a 21-day process. You get— if you can't make it live for all the days or whatever, you can— there'll be replays there as well. It's It's gonna be epic, I can't wait. It's the first 21-day challenge we've done in almost a year, so at least 8 or 9 months. But anyways, it's gonna be a ton of fun. Hope to see you on the inside, and as always, peace, much love, and namaste.
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