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Cultivating Certainty

With Desmond Devenish

Your life is a series of non-stop thoughts and emotionally provoking choices, questions, challenges, decisions, tests, beliefs, wants, needs, and values. Right at the core of that is where your certainty lives. It is your right to be certain. Your conviction will drive your decisions and actions with far greater significance. The impact of this is massive. Your stamina, stoicism, and resilience will increase exponentially. The sense you have of your place in the world as well as around others will be so much more clearly defined, refined, and better communicated. The abilities gained from living in a state of certainty will also create a radiant shield, protecting you from most of the painful and complex curveballs life will throw at you. Albeit as beautiful, enriching, pleasurable, and magnificent as this journey of life is, it is also extreme, exhausting, and existentially confusing. The greater meaning is not always conveniently situated for us. We must install it ourselves in those areas where it is not present. This course is what this will open up to you. This ability. This application. This right of yours. This place of conviction is seated in our deepest wells of life force, that may need to be reactivated, sharpened, or lit for the very first time. Come join me in these galvanizing eight lessons for an opportunity to walk away with something valuable that you will keep forever. My desire is for you to be in devoted flow, utilize your gift of certainty, and experience a new life, immensely fulfilling and definite.

How to craft your life in a crystalline, unshakable and determined direction.

8 Days

2.9k students

4.8 stars

9 min / day

English

About this course

Purpose Discovery

Motivational Self-Talk Training

Committed Action Practice

Meet your Teacher

Desmond Devenish

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New York, NY, USA

Desmond Devenish is certified in CBT, NLP, ACT, Mindfulness, Hypnotherapy & Positive Psychology. He loves to make films, cold-water swim, run, and practice somatic breathwork. His passion to connect with those who bring their A-game to the table is his driving force.

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8 Days

2.9k students

4.8 stars

9 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Purpose

Sooner or later we have to confront this or we are simply avoiding the inevitable. Your purpose may change. We will install yours or embolden your previous one(s). If we only establish this and nothing further in the course, that alone is worth the time and energy investment. It is the lifeblood of certainty. We station this lesson in your viscera. The gut. The heart. Make what is fuzzy, crystalline. Explore more of what jolts you. Grab onto a piece of that lightning bolt and integrate it. Stop waiting for divine inspiration to land in your lap like a twirling paper airplane. Purpose can be as basic as a six-month commitment to sit in nature twice a week. It is the actual carrying out of a mission-critical purpose. Not the purpose itself. It is in the doing. You can have multiple missions. We will set your target(s) on committing to that/those thing(s) with intent and hunger. This is a precursor to conviction and its basic building blocks. Where it all begins.

Lesson 2

Decisions

Exactly what you are doing right now. Reading this and deciding whether or not it resonates with you. Deciding that you want to learn, grow, agree, or disagree. Your faculty of decision-making is non-stop. This class will explore the various ways we make decisions, as well as the usual suspects that interfere with that process. Or, if we flip this upside down, can see these challengers as giant stepping stones to ultimately make fiercely strong decisions. Self-empowering choices. Unwavering selections. Picking laser-focused directions. Guilt, comparisons, confirmation bias. We will cover all of it. I want you to be more resolute than AI. Decisions are the reason you found your way to this course. Decisions are how you became the person you are today. Decisions are the directions and GPS coordinates of where you will be one year from now. Decisions are only half-effective without the force of conviction behind them. Decisions are yours and no one else's. Decisions are what I want you to be proud of making. And to stand by yours with solidarity and ownership. When that is fully executed, you don't need luck or good fortune. Everything you need has already been planted and pre-delivered by you. Be an expert decider.

Lesson 3

Thoughts

This topic deserves its own course. Maybe you will design one. This class will go through the magnitude of keeping a healthy mind. Developing a better understanding of this machine that stays more active than the apex Las Vegas casinos. These rampant, disparate, and unwanted thoughts flood us. We need to implement customized spam filters. Use discipline, discernment, and discouragement to do away with many of them. The useless ones, save for the way they belittle us, chip away at our integrity, and pull us astray. We want to monitor these thoughts around the clock. Surveillance them with our newly installed home-protection system. If they are not helping us, they are harmful. If we can eliminate the damaging culprits, excellent. If we convert them, even better. If we have to live with them and grant them limited access, then we will do that. First, we take a full inventory so we know where we stand. Identifying the good apples from the rotten is fully involving work and a thorough procedure. After this, we can implement our filtration process and keep primarily only what best serves us. Housecleaning for the mind. Streamlining. Exacting in nature. Critical for efficiency. Clear self-communication. The clearer we are with ourselves, the more we can expect to be clear with others. The best chance we also have of carving our way through this elaborate maze we call life.

Lesson 4

Words

Consider your lexicon of words and their designated use to be more than just a way to express yourself, but as a teacher, spiritual guide, and specifier. If you place as much importance in the activity of the words you choose to think and speak, as you do in who you become friends with and have physically intimate relationships with, that will be a great approach. Words are very powerful. They can start wars. End them. Create protest and peace movements. Forge love. Persuade and repulse. Generate best sellers. Award-winning films. Timeless songs. Fabricate entire languages. Of course, the intent behind them is critical. But often the words will dictate to you what to think, feel, and how to act. It might be subtle. But it's there. Every word carries meaning. The same way every action does. See your verbal thoughts and speeches as legally binding. Everything you say is telling a story about yourself. What is your narrative? How is your character projecting out onto the surface, their deepest within? Install your auto-suggesting program to hand-pick the best options to express yourself. Make your words work for you, and inspire you to strive toward greater self-possession and certainty. Your awareness of the way you select your words will inform you very quickly on what areas you need to fortify.

Lesson 5

Actions

Taking action is one of the best ways to exercise your autonomous will onto the canvas of life. It is the force that creates the dividing line between what you feel your life has been fated or reduced to, and flipping the script on limited and debilitating theories. Although hindsight may be 20/20, the physical materializing of actions is first created in the present. It is your self-determining power. There are far more potent memories of mine both satisfying and unsettling that come with actions I took, than from opting to do nothing. Actions are revealing, edifying, and certain. You cannot undo an action. We will explore and cover this, as well as its monstrous constituent benefits. Take action.

Lesson 6

Limbo

We will shift gears a little bit in this lesson. Neutral to be precise. But not just any neutral. Your hardest, harshest, most challenging neutral. The one slapped with the rather unpopular descriptor known as "limbo". This can mean different things depending on who you put it in front of. A negative, cyclical, personal relationship, your efforts, and useless wishing cannot seem to change. A dreary job you would celebrate leaving but have yet to discover the exit door. Bureaucratic red tape. A giant ocean swell of monetary debt that just will not get minimized to a place of financial security. A seemingly interminable pandemic. In general: A torturous day-to-day that feels like an endless, recurring, painful dream you would give anything to wake up from. I would like to say you are not alone. However, the very nature of this experience is precisely what this amplifies. Your sense of being on a piece of driftwood out in the middle of the midnight black ocean. Now what? You dig in extra deep and transform that Sisyphean aloneness into something spectacular. The "you" you never knew. But will now meet.

Lesson 7

Beyond Meaning

This class is the "break glass" and grab this in case nothing else makes sense. We all have rock-bottom moments. I have had too many to count. For better or for worse these scenarios are often necessary catalysts to transport us to the next chapter. For the most intense ones, if and when these happen can feel punishing, panic-ridden, or just thrust us into a state of hopelessness. This is where we take our deepest plunge in the course and cross over the marked lines. This is when nothing appears familiar. Exceedingly outside of our comfort zone and then some. Like a train you are on that has passed your station and then express warped a thousand stations beyond that. Arriving at a destination completely unrecognizable and unwelcoming. This level of certainty is symbolic and tantamount to those moments where you perform the most courageous acts you never knew you were capable of. You had no setup quite this way to allow for that. To see it coming. We'll illustrate the supremacy of fully maximizing your sovereignty as a human. Beyond meaning. Without answers. It is in this evolution where certainty peaks. By distilling it to the rarified simplicity of existing normally in your most out-of-control environments and situations.

Lesson 8

You Are Your Path

This final session is a resounding reminder on being true to your journey. We do this by honoring that and everything that comes with it, both rewarding and temporarily impairing. We focus on the certitudes that have got us this far and leverage them while utilizing any tools and awareness we have gained from the course, as an anchor to keep us stable if we are energetically ambushed. Or momentary blindsided from our pristine perspective. The mission will continue. Thank you for your time and commitment. I wish you the most gratifying adventures.

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Cultivating Certainty

About this course

Meet your Teacher

Desmond Devenish

Lesson 1

Purpose

Lesson 2

Decisions

Lesson 3

Thoughts

Lesson 4

Words

Lesson 5

Actions

Lesson 6

Limbo

Lesson 7

Beyond Meaning

Lesson 8

You Are Your Path

Lesson 1

Purpose

Lesson 2

Decisions

Lesson 3

Thoughts

Lesson 4

Words

Lesson 5

Actions

Lesson 6

Limbo

Lesson 7

Beyond Meaning

Lesson 8

You Are Your Path