Your CORE sixpack, remember, has six parts.
Your worldview, identity, and principles (WIP) are always a work in process.
The more conscious you are of your deepest held beliefs, how you name yourself, and the values around which you run your life, the more secure your place, regardless your circumstance. Becoming more conscious requires a huge investment of your time, a huge investment of your energy, and a huge investment in something none of us seem to want more of, namely pain. Few make this investment.
Very few.
Most humans simply try to muster the inner strength, in their moment of crisis, and find that they’ve got nothing in their CORE but wishful thinking, second hand thoughts, and a vagueness that they cannot seem to grasp. Misery.
Most humans, therefore, learn to become hopeless when life inevitably throws them some serious shit. Of course, we don’t go straight to hopelessness. Some take a quick detour through goal setting and score carding of some sort. They give themselves something to shoot at as if that will ease the pain, answer their questions, and make some sense of it all. Slowly the goals lose their drawing power. Slowly we lose heart. Slowly, most humans become miserable. Sad and true.
The slow wobble starst by simply becoming more apathetic today than we once were. The slow wobble almost always begins slowly. Funny, huh. We hardly notice a change in our attitude and the ever so slight drop in our energy. Like that little “top” we had as kids, spinning, spinning, and then the slightest of wobble. The wobble keeps growing as the spin loses its momentum. AND, suddenly into the weeds we go. Moving on. Actually moving back would be more accurate. Back to your CORE.
Your CORE also has the 3 P’s above your WIP. These 3 are:
Passions. Purpose. Process.
Your passions are what give you energy, what and whom you LOVE. Your purposes are what give your life meaning and aim. Your purposes are the catalyst for your big DREAM. All humans must have this sense to be healthy. We cannot really live without a future state worth struggling toward. We just can’t.
Your process is your framework for putting your life all together. Your process is your process for really living. Your process is how you make progress. Most humans get busy figuring out the process for living before they’ve gained enough clarity on the first five elements of a strong CORE.
Do NOT make this mistake.
These humans usually focus their process on acquiring shit. They go for a different set of 3 P’s. Don’t miss this. This may be HUGE. Most humans work their process to acquire these 3 P’s:
Power. Position. Prominence.
The world’s 3 P’s require others esteem and recognition and lead to mental illness. Funny that in our pursuit of these we actually lose ourselves. Study history and prove me wrong. Study history and come with a well thought out argument, please. In my study of history, highly successful humans and the lowest of the low when they focus on these 3 P’s, all conclude their life with another “P” and it usually hits them in the form of a question.
What’s the point?
Remember, pain is inevitable. Misery, however, is a choice. Choose to face your pain now. Choose to see some semblance of purpose in your pain. Choose your attitude as you face your pain. You and I choose. Our choices have consequences.
Do you know who you are?
Have you authored your own set of deeply held beliefs?
Have you struggled through deciding what principles you hold most dear and will build your life around?
Have you embraced the pain that comes from living your life according to your purposes?
Are you still chasing somebody else’s goal?
Are you still counting down the time until this phase of life is behind you?
Have you answered the question, What’s the point?
Tell me more, my friend.
Tell me more…
BUILT TO LEAD 
You said that “Becoming more conscious requires a huge investment of your time.” it also requires huge investments in energy which is freakin’ hard work. For me the challenge is choosing to walk into the pain. The physical and mental pain of the work but also the emotional pain your find when you dig deep. I mean who really wants to wake up, listen to their conscious and go face those demons? Even writting about it right now makes me a bit squirmy with anticipation of the pain I’ll have to endure. But if I don’t do this, I will be alone, I will not be the type parent and spouse I want to be. To be who I want to be, I must face my conscious and the pain and lean on a few good friends along the way.