About me

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My name is Amir Durmic. I am 33 and originally from Bosnia. Along with my family, I came to the US when I was 6. That's just a little bit about me. The rest is more of my story on this creator passion I have. 

I almost can not believe that I am here. I'm so far ahead into the deep end that I can’t come back. I can only float or sink. I'm determined not only to float but to fly. Imagine you get pushed into the deep ocean. By sheer will, you can swim but your fear constantly keeps you second-guessing yourself. You can swim and you know this but the fear keeps you from swimming. But it also keeps you from drowning. It keeps us paralyzed enough that we are just barely floating. We are making it but we are only floating.

Not me I want to swim, I don't want to just swim, I want to fly. My determination at this point in my life is beyond anything I could have imagined. I am so far gone in this next chapter of my life that I am past trying to just make it. I'm determined to be my version of success. 

Why and How

Il start by explaining the “why” and then the “how” will make sense. Why I want to go on this journey in this chapter of my life. I’ve had this feeling in the past few years of my life. This feeling of waking up. I feel like I woke up from “The Matrix”. I found that I had to make deep-meaningful why statements in my life to fully wake up. I had felt like I was climbing out of that and then realizing that I had to keep digging deeper to find out my “why”. I began listening to Earl Nightingale’s The Strangest Secret speech probably 4 times a week. I was in the zone of this speech for months. I finally began to realize how well this speech was curated.

Earl Nightingale opened my eyes. I finally understood I had to dig deeper for my version of success. And why I wanted to be successful. I have ambitions, goals, and dreams. Once I started to formulate my why, I started to explore the “how” part. I kept getting somewhere but I ended up getting stuck. I’d often try something and not follow through. This time after understanding Earl Nightingale's speech, I realized the “how” part. The truth is I don’t know how. A lot of the ideas and things I set forth I just don’t know how I will accomplish them. I’ve learned that I need to just go with the flow and the how part I can figure out as I go along. I just needed to know my why.

Throughout this newsletter, and blog-style website, I plan to dive more and more into my whys and hows. With the intention that you get inspired to look into your own why and how.

Just Give Up

The number one problem that I need to solve in this chapter of my life is just consistency, staying consistent with what I want to do. I get tired sometimes, I often think I could just not do any of this right? I could just go to work come home chill do whatever. I make a good living on my salary so it's not like I'm here to make a million dollars. Although I know money will come with this I've realized that I love to do this for free. To me, I've never felt more alive than when I was creating something. I truly get inspired for life when I am creating. It could be anything that I am creating art, content, videos, writing, or posts. Anything. So, yeah some days I feel like giving up because I get those self-doubting ants in my head. And because I still face some of those doubts today. They still get to me, but my way of escaping them is to create.

So if I’m doubting myself on camera I can always write. If I am doubting myself on writing I can always just record some content. I figured I could give myself outlets of not escaping that doubt but to give myself outlets that will combat that doubt. Over the years I’ve definitely felt like I woke up. I realized that I could be so much more here. I can do so much more for myself and the people around me. I can inspire with my stories, just like I was inspired by someone's story. Not just online but in real life, when I meet people and hear their stories.

There’s always some small bit of information that I get inspired by even if I have heard it before. Hearing it from a different perspective that aligns more with me inspires me. And again that's what I plan to do here give my own unique perspective on life so that even if just one small thing inspires you, I’ve done my job. My job as a human being. 

Wake Up With These Steps

Waking Up for me was in phases. And in the future, I will write separate articles on all of these points.

1. Since I was about 20 I have been waking up at 5 am. I hated it at first but then I realized I could make it a habit and turn it around. I did exactly that, I made a routine and got better at staying consistent. That was the phase one I had been working on in the background.
2. I watched a movie called “The Secret”. I watched this movie when I was a young teen around 16 - 17. It didn't make sense to me whatsoever. And I forgot about it honestly. It wasn't until around the age of 25 or 26 that I rewatched it again. After watching that movie I got really into the law of attraction but not the law of attraction where you wish you had a million dollars and then you just go back to rotting on the couch. I got into it where I started understanding the power of intention and action. I will eventually write a newsletter of my law of attraction journey but for now, il keep it short. That was phase two.
3. Phase three was studying. I was never good at school. I was pretty good at math but other subjects I just had no interest in them. I at times wish I had a better reading and writing course but it wouldn't have helped. I was just not a school person. I like school and the idea of it. I know it's not the best Idea in society, as it just pushes us to what society makes for us. But I get why we need this type of school system. It's a challenge. So around the age of 25 my wife and I started getting into books, some novels, some self-help books, and journaling. I got this idea also to surround myself with what I wanted in life and I wanted to be surrounded by these books so that I could read them and be intimidated by them. I wanted to have books so that at any given moment I could just pick up a book and read it. Which I always do. I was creating habits for myself that I didn't quite understand how they would work in my favor but they did. Again I will make a separate article on this point.
4. Phase four was action. Around this time I'm having some stress in life and work that are pushing me really to the brink. I'm thinking of all the ways I could just fly away up deep into the sky so that I can feel the cold and height to literally shake myself back to life. I just had such low energy levels. I had no direction in life. I felt like I was reading these books and wasn't getting anywhere really. And I wasn't. And it wasn't anyone or anything's fault but my own. I wasn't taking any action. I had learned a lot and knowledge is power. But not quite. Knowledge only becomes power when we use it. I wasn't using my knowledge, therefore I wasn't happy with my life and where it was now. I had to do some inner work.
5. Inner work. I realized something so important through those next few years. No one and I mean no one is coming to save you. I did this exercise because I heard it somewhere. Close your eyes and take a trip back in time and see yourself at the age of 10 and now you are there and the 10-year-old version of you is there also, and while you are there, the 60-year-old comes out and sees you both. The moral of the story you are all you have. The second very good quote is No one and I mean no one is going to work harder for you than you. You are the only person working on your future, no one else gives a shit. They are busy with their future. After I did this exercise, I was on it. All along the only real approval I was seeking from was from me that 10-year-old and 60-year-old me. That’s when I realized I was the only person who could save me. I did just that. 
6. I don't want to just live my life I want to build my life. Another favorite quote that I’ve stumbled upon in my research. I mean what a quote that describes life so perfectly. I realized I had to build my life. I had to build the things that I wanted. I had to earn those things. No one was going to just hand them to me. Sorry, our world doesn't work that way we don't live in a happy-go-lucky world. But when you earn the things you've worked hard for. Our soul gets fuel. Our life gets fuel. Our meaning starts to get formulated. For me, I realized with the small confidence I had gained, with now having my own approval and realizing that I had to build my life. I sought out to do just that. 
7. So all of this happening and I've turned 30 and I'm thinking to myself this part of my life I have to build. I have to build until my deepest desires are met, I have to build with a passion. I have to structure my life and build a foundation for my children's children's children. Not a foundation of money but a foundation of success, a foundation of honesty, a foundation of meaning, a foundation that starts a new line for my family. I began to realize that I tapped into something I hadn't had before. I tapped into a higher level of consciousness where I was in the present moment but I could see all of the things I had wanted to achieve in the future. I realized I had to live in the moment and that no matter how it happened, even if the plan changed, the goal would remain the same. To build my version of success.

Chapter 1

The past chapters of my life were amazing. I truly look back on them now as the chapters of my life that built the foundation for my next chapters. Writing this as the first chapter of something very meaningful and life-changing for me. When the next phase of my life starts that will be Chapter Two. I don’t know how that will be. The way it will start is when I have a life-changing mindset/moment in time.

To build my version of success. That’s a powerful rooting statement. It was to continue following my gut feeling. It was a way of connecting to the universe inside of myself.

That's where I believe our higher self lives in that gut feeling. It can feel when something is not right. It is the most powerful way I can imagine our higher selves working. Because our gut feeling is something so out of this world and unordinary that we all have it. We all have a gut feeling. Mine told me this. Get some fire in you, get some spirit, and write down what you would like to build with this one precious life.

I hope you can find your version of success. Join me on this journey and mark the chapters in your life.

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