If you're curious about what's possible in your life, you're in the right place. Curiosity Creators is a community for people ready to move beyond fear, unlock abundance, and start creating the life they imagine. I share personal stories, mindset shifts, and lessons from my journey to help you step into freedom, power, creativity and conscious creation. Welcome to Curiosity Creators. - Justin
Breaking the Script
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NL Post # 20 — When You Break the Script When I was a young adult living back in Oregon, I didn’t realize how much of my life I was handing over to other people. I listened to what they thought was realistic, which dreams made sense, and what they believed was possible for me. Somewhere along the way, their opinions started sounding like facts. The problem wasn’t asking for advice. It was letting that advice carry more weight than my own curiosity. Before I had even explored something that excited me, I was already looking for someone else to tell me it was worth pursuing. 🔷 CURIOSITY Things began to shift when I started questioning more than just my circumstances. I began questioning how I had arrived there. Were these my beliefs? My ambitions? Or had I become so familiar with other people’s expectations that I couldn’t distinguish them from my own? I had spent years outsourcing my thinking, my permission, and my power while ignoring the things that genuinely interested me. Curiosity gave me a different place to begin: What would I choose if I trusted myself enough to explore it? I didn’t suddenly have all the answers, but I was finally asking questions that belonged to me. 🔶 PERMISSION Giving myself permission didn’t make the uncertainty disappear. I still had doubts, and there were people who didn’t see the possibilities I was beginning to see. The difference was that I stopped treating their uncertainty as a decision that had already been made for me. Over time, I moved to Las Vegas, became sober, pursued skydiving and BASE jumping, and landed a job I had once dreamed about. Those experiences weren’t one dramatic transformation. They were separate choices that gradually created a life I couldn’t have imagined from where I started. I didn’t need everyone to see it before I could begin. 🔷 DISCOVERY The full-circle moments came when I would go back home. Some of the same people who had doubted what I wanted to do now looked at me as though I had discovered a secret. How had my life become so different? There wasn’t a secret I could hand them. I had started making decisions for myself instead of allowing someone else’s expectations to make them for me. What once sounded unrealistic had become part of my everyday life—not because I had convinced everyone first, but because I had given myself permission to try. 🔶 REFLECTION Looking back, I can see how easily I confused agreement with permission. When people supported an idea, it felt safer to pursue. When they questioned it, I questioned whether I should want it at all. That doesn’t mean every concern was wrong or every choice I made was right. Thinking for myself also means being willing to listen, learn, and change my mind. But there’s a difference between considering someone’s perspective and handing them authority over my life. I had to learn how to hear advice without disappearing inside it. 🔷 CREATION These days, breaking the script means less to me about proving someone wrong and more about paying attention to what I actually want to create. There’s not much freedom in building a whole life around winning an argument with people from your past. That shift is at the heart of Curiosity to Creation: reclaiming your personal power through permission. You don’t have to reject everything you were taught. You can examine what you’ve carried, decide what still belongs, and give yourself permission to choose differently. What’s one expectation you’ve been living by that you’re ready to question? Hit reply and tell me. Not the whole life plan—just the part of the script that no longer feels like yours. Until next time—stay curious, Curiosity Creators. Author of Curiosity to Creation / Curiosity Creators Click below to get your copy of the book today
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Curiosity Creators
If you're curious about what's possible in your life, you're in the right place. Curiosity Creators is a community for people ready to move beyond fear, unlock abundance, and start creating the life they imagine. I share personal stories, mindset shifts, and lessons from my journey to help you step into freedom, power, creativity and conscious creation. Welcome to Curiosity Creators. - Justin
NL Post #23 — The Story You Were Given Your Permission Slip to Freedom Starts With You Have you ever stopped to wonder how much of the life you’re living was actually chosen by you? How many of your beliefs, decisions, ambitions, and expectations were shaped by the people around you long before you ever thought to question them? From childhood, we’re handed a script. We’re taught what success should look like, which paths are considered responsible, what dreams are realistic, and which ideas...
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NL Post # 21 —The Hardest Part Was Walking Through the Door POD Mindset in Action Two weeks before I finally went, I had already signed up. Xtreme Couture MMA here in Las Vegas—Randy Couture’s gym, a place filled with professional fighters and people who have spent years on the mats. I had a free one-week trial sitting there waiting for me, and instead of using it, I spent nearly two weeks creating reasons why now wasn’t the right time. Some of those reasons sounded pretty convincing. I...