The Step Into the Unknown

My Declaration to the Universe

There comes a time when things in your life are still working on the surface, but deep down you know. It’s time.

You’ve outgrown your current habits. You’ve outgrown the level you’re living at. Maybe even some of the relationships around you. And suddenly, you’re at a moment of choice.

Do you wait? Wait until your intuition becomes cold hard fact after another year or two of slow decline into a life you already knew wasn’t for you? Or do you decide this is it. I’m moving forward. I’m not going back.

I know I must transform. I know I must step into the unknown. Face my fears. And become the version of me that’s been waiting all along.

But so often we wait too long. We don’t trust the instinct. We look to others for permission. We ask for advice from people who aren’t even living the way we want to live. We scroll for encouragement from influencers who feel miles away. When they’re trying to be real with you about how their fourth startup by age twenty-five failed and it took a lot to push through and start that fifth, and that’s when it all finally clicked, I believe them. But that might feel a million miles away for you.

You might be feeling like, hey, I’m not in my twenties. I’ve never had a startup. I’ve been running unconscious patterns my whole life and I’ve just woken up, as if in a dream, fully to the present moment and where I am. And I see I must change. But can I?

This past weekend I went to a Wim Hof breath seminar. It was powerful. I’ll share the full story another day, but there’s one thing the instructor said that really got me thinking.

He told us about the hope experiment.

Decades ago, a cruel researcher placed rats into containers of water. The rats swam for about fifteen minutes before giving up and drowning. Other rats were rescued at the moment they began to drown. They were dried off, nurtured back to health.

And something strange happened. When those same rats were put back into the water, they didn’t swim for fifteen minutes. They swam for sixty hours.

Sixty hours.

That’s a nine hundred percent increase. Why?

Because they believed they’d be rescued.

That is the power of hope. It allows you to dig deep into levels of your being you didn’t even know existed and find a way.

But here’s the thing. They knew what hope felt like.

Maybe it’s been a long time since you felt real hope in your life. I considered myself a very positive person for a long time, not realizing the layers of unconscious patterns that were running me away from my goals. That though the five to ten percent of my conscious brain was valiantly striving toward my goals, as soon as I let go, the unconscious which makes up ninety to ninety-five percent of your brain pulled me right back to where I was.

And that can feel like destiny. Especially if you’re surrounded in an environment with others in the same trap.

But it’s not. It’s a story.

A story you created, maybe because you had to survive, and these were the tools your mind created to allow that to happen. After a great heartbreak or trauma, you might’ve told yourself, “Well, it’s not really worth believing in something like that.” After the fifth time you tried the diet, you said, “It’s just not for me.”

But it’s not true.

You are endless potential. You can keep transforming, growing, and discovering new and wonderful things the rest of your life.

But you can’t change into the person you want to be by staying who you are now.

For me, I’m not waiting six months to become the man I see in my vision. I’m becoming him now. Not through words or affirmations. Through embodiment. By pulling the energy of that version of me into the present.

How?

I sat down and wrote out, in detail, the version of me I see six months from now. What I’m doing. How I’m living. How I speak. How I move. What I believe. What I’ve let go of. What I’ve embraced.

I wrote it with honesty, not perfection, understanding that it will evolve with time, but my north star is set. And whenever I’m in doubt, I can look at it and get back on the path.

Every day, I take ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes at night to feel the version of me living the life I want. I breathe into my heart. I let the emotions rise. I live from that energy, even if only for a moment.

And each day, it becomes more natural. More embodied. More me.

This isn’t just visualization. This is nervous system reprogramming. It’s breath. It’s presence. It’s repetition.

This is where you’re stepping into the unknown. Beyond your current edge. Into fear. And embracing it.

That’s the moment transformation begins.

This is also the foundation of how I coach. I guide people through four pillars that I return to again and again in my own life:

Awaken to your inner world. Understand what’s actually going on beneath the surface. Your conditioning, your patterns, your programming.
Release what’s no longer serving you. The patterns that once helped you survive but are now keeping you stuck. Let them go with compassion.
Reclaim your voice. Your energy. Your truth. After you clear out what’s not you, it becomes easier to trust what is.
Express your real self. Embody your truth in how you speak, move, create, love, and show up in the world. Watch as new energies in the world align with your new self.

These are not just stages. They are ongoing initiations. You move through them again and again as you rise.

There are many other tools I’m using too. Celebrating small wins so they register in my nervous system. Naming old patterns without collapsing into them. Building structure around my spirit instead of trying to fit into someone else’s.

I’m learning, adjusting, growing, and I will share it all as I go.

So I say to you, if you are ready, if you feel the call deep down inside yourself, take a step into the unknown. Toward your soul’s call. Out of the comfort. Realizing that it wasn’t real comfort at all. Only a defense to keep you from being hurt again.

You are more than your past. You are more than your pain. You are more than your stories. You’re more than your emotions. And you are much more than your thoughts.

Trust in what’s deep inside, even when fear is there. Not overwhelming fear, but the kind that tells you you’re stepping out of the familiar. Embrace it. Love it. It’s your guide. It tells you you’re on the path of growth, a path to a new you.

There are many people out there waiting to meet the real you. There are people out there whose entire lives could be changed for the better if you embraced your unique gift.

There are adventures, friendships, loves, challenges, and victories to be had.

The universe wants you to create. That is what it’s here for. It wants you to paint your brushstroke on the canvas of this world.

Energies. Opportunities. Synchronicities. They magnetize to what you truly embody.

Live it now. Go on the adventure. Take a step into the unknown and watch as the universe meets you there.

This is part one of what will be a six month series of my real time transformation in every area of my life. I will go into detail. Follow along and join the evolution. Tell me what you want to transform or what you’re transforming. If this spoke to something in you, share it with someone who might need to hear it. Subscribe to follow the journey. And if you feel the pull to work together, check out my website for a free consultation or reach out to me directly here. I’d love to hear from you.