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Freedom From Failure

With Desmond Devenish

This course focuses on anyone struggling with the gap between their dreams and the current state of reality. To avoid the pain of disappointment, the magnificent visions and expectations we’ve once held get downsized, along with our driving purpose. The origin of the hurt is when deep inside we know we can reach our greatest versions of ourselves, yet deny that in all forms. To release this anguish we must work to remove the layers of misguided, faulty conditioning. We’ll venture on a courageous up-leveling, life-changing journey. You'll learn to challenge and dispose of outmoded beliefs, and transition from feeling stuck and disabled, to embodying healthy self-empowerment, passionate presence, and unstoppable conviction. The ultimate version of what you bring to the world will most impressively mirror it back to you. Experience elevated insights, integrity-fueled decision-making, and elite performance. Mind traps that once miniaturized you, leaving a sea of doubt, will be collapsed and dissolved. Your deepest calling will be honored by vigorous determination, authentic self-love, and liberation from personal hardship. No more holding back from your soul's highest mission.

Immerse in a 10-step guide to actionably transform painful setbacks into life-defining triumphs.

10 Days

1.4k students

4.8 stars

16 min / day

English

About this course

Goal Setting Practice

Growth Mindset

Gratitude Meditation

Meet your Teacher

Desmond Devenish

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New York, NY, USA

Desmond Devenish is a filmmaker, author and music composer, certified in CBT, NLP, REBT, ACT, EFT/TFT, Mindfulness, Hypnotherapy, and Positive Psychology. Desmond actively runs, swims, meditates, practices qigong, and practices somatic breathwork. He loves to connect with those who bring their A-game and raise him to do the same.

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10 Days

1.4k students

4.8 stars

16 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Facing Failure

Understand how to best channel your drive. We’ll cover drawbacks such as desire entitlement, shortcuts, over-belief, lack of self-trust, and fear of the long process. We examine the tendency towards impulsiveness and redirect focus by fashioning your dreams as an extension of yourself, instead of letting your dreams dictate and suffocate your dearest identity.

Lesson 2

Ambition's Downfall

A root cause of many failures is a “Fear of Slow.” We’ll deconstruct its core components, such as weak self-trust, lack of authenticity, and desperation. From here, we get granular and examine these defects’ parent hazardous behaviors, and their tendencies towards impulsiveness, impatience, short cuts, and lack of discernment.

Lesson 3

Risking Right

Observe how depreciating, fear-based ideas and criticism, bully and condition you into a frozen state of procrastination. We remodel the relationship with these downgraded thoughts and involve several challenging necessities towards the grand self-loving action of risking right. We’ll illustrate how monumental life-defining wins come with a specifically tailored energetic trade-in. By recognizing the value of your potential rewards, you move into fierce courage, reliable willpower, and a clearer mindset. This class emphasizes the paramount importance of strengthening boundaries to inhabit high energy-focused solitude, the paradox of opportune “ill-timing,” as well as comfort in uncertainty. Your path to fulfillment is ultimately your own.

Lesson 4

Optimum Environment

We examine critical components that form your inner and outer environment. Part one: Inside (health; nutrition, fitness, meditative, energetic optimizing) How do you serve your body back from the gifts you receive from it? Is there a desire for deep consistent breathwork and body movement? Part two: Outer (relationships, distractions, essentials, inspiration, nature) How sacred are the roads to your goals within the hierarchy of your personal connections? When it is best served to walk away from that which does not raise you. How much does your workspace inspire you? The importance of daylight, fresh air, and designing this area, as if it was your final destination.

Lesson 5

Relentless Reality: Of Your Design

In this session, we center on you knowing yourself meticulously, as you fully immerse into the life you desire with non-negotiable terms. We will inhabit new rewiring, by adopting a fresh inner dialogue that speaks to your highest truth, and one that feeds fanatical focus and zero ambiguity. This teaches us to steer clear of intrusions that dilute our most promising visions. We’ll further recognize the gravity of devout discipline, routines, recharging, time managing, and good competitiveness. We apply these tools with humility, hunger, and grit to create unstoppable drive and service to your endgame. Finally, we face our deepest phobias to bring about absolute self-possession.

Lesson 6

Surrender To Growth

This one is about hardship as a glorious rite of passage, and how deep acceptance = reversing victim mode resistance. Recognizing when fears are irrational and how they want you to prove them so, as well as seeing their beauty, in how they are supportive catalysts. We will examine surrendering to discomfort as a way to boost confidence and create inner trust and safety, instead of externally searching for it. Other big topics we’ll explore include: Canceling your dreams and reestablishing them on your terms. When the desire is removed, who is the “real you” left over? Working through limbo stages and learning to love them. Passing the universe’s tests, and talking to it in a language it hears. Modifying applications of forced manifestations by letting go of the wheel, so the car will drive itself.

Lesson 7

Active Patience Is More Than Waiting

This class teaches The mindful dance of wanting, yet not too much. Loving the world when it gives you the silent treatment. Readying for the long haul, being your own beacon, and using trust to remove unnecessary armor. How, when you impose strict deadline limits, they can adversely interfere with your progress. We reveal the dark days, the undermining effects of cynicism, and how even mini-doubts can amplify your worst fears. Spotting clues and clarity in chaos, and where that will create stable and consistent stoicism. Profound gains through gratification delay, time as a mirage, and patience as your ally.

Lesson 8

Miracle Cultivating

The lesson today is: Defining what miracles are. We distill them down to their core components. With plausible and actionable ways, we can show up and ultimately co-create these life-transforming phenomena. We dig into the execution of full submission to faith and living in unquestionable vibrational alignment to receive. Giving to get, the benefits of metabolizing pain as a blessing, and allowing the world permission to gift you in return. We’ll cover authentic gratitude as essential, and how deeper grounded, dynamic sacrifices will yield more impressive miracles. We’ll close out this session by showing how your requests have been heard, your attitude is everything, and the importance of being a generous host.

Lesson 9

Sky Dive

We now approach our watershed moment. By now, healthy, high-impact, leveling-up risk should be a daily diet. You can exist frequently in the daunting unknown because your purpose is self-affirmed and secure. When you are called to jump, the paradox will approach, as you won’t “feel” ready, even though you will be. This is where we trade out intellect and move into the heart and gut with intuition and newly invited expansion. No option-weighing and operating from pure instinct, you’ll see right through fear’s mask and walk the invisible bridge to the next lifeline. You then courageously leap, free fall, and rise reborn, fully aware of how these actions facilitate large-scale transformative breakthroughs.

Lesson 10

Gateway To Freedom

You’ve made it to the end. Well done! We’ll round this one out by asking you to fire up your meaning of freedom, and where you may have been energetically imprisoned. We highlight the invaluable process of relabeling failure and repurposing suffering as a way towards liberation. Finally, let’s operate with no fixed limits on time and space, keep self-observations free of judgment, and engage the universe as it were a loved one. We underscore optimism as your North Star, to emerge from the darkness with a stronger light. Celebrate these new victories through pure soul consciousness, praise, and true freedom.