Overcome Yourself: Embrace Awareness to Thrive | Nana Gyesie

What gets in your way when trying to use your superpower?

If you are like most people I talk with, your response is, “Myself.”

Overcoming yourself requires awareness of what is holding you back from your best self. Maybe it's your programing, the negative experiences and trauma you've experienced, and our liberation comes from doing the work.

But how?

For Nana Gyesie, the answers lie in many paths, and all those paths start with mindful awareness and our innate intuitive intelligence.

Nana is a Leadership and Life Coach with INNER MILEAGE Coaching, a mindfulness teacher, a yoga instructor, a photographer, and a practicing Buddhist. Nana sees the world and his experiences through the lens of his own acceptance of things as they are, which gives him the ability to choose something different.

And since we live in a time of tumultuous and exponential change, where we are seemingly turning from one existential crisis to another, Nana believes it’s critical for our future flourishing and thriving to be able to bring our humanity forward in order to collectively address the very real challenges ahead of us.

We can create the future we want only when we have done the work of overcoming ourselves and overcoming our past, individually and collectively.

In this episode, Nana answers the following questions:
- How to accept the way things are?
- How to get out of my own away?
- How to have more awareness and mindfulness?
- What does the Buddha say about joy?

My favorite quote from the episode: “The real joy is in seeing things as they are and accepting things as they are. In accepting things as they there, there’s a realization of your power and efficacy to choose differently.”

I have never liked the word “surrender.” It feels like giving your power away. And yet, Nana suggests the opposite. That is, by accepting the way things are, (i.e., surrendering), you increase your power to choose something different.

What I know to be true about the episode: I know Nana’s wisdom does not come easily, he’s done and continues to put in the work to overcome his programing and tap into his intuitive intelligence. For that I am grateful that his superpower, purpose, and joy all lead him to share with us the knowledge and wisdom his does in this conversation.

What I learned from the episode: Besides not remembering yet how to pronounce “Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,” (Sorry, Rick!), I really appreciate something Nana said in the episode: “When one moves away from self-judgment to compassion, one is overcoming one’s programming.”

As is often said, “the past is never in the past,” Nana suggests that self-compassion is a way for us to overcome ourselves.

Resources mentioned in the episode:
- Nana’s company: INNER MILEAGE Coaching https://www.innermileage.com/

Keywords
#Awareness #Compassion #Joy #getoutofyourownway

Music in this episode by Ian Kastner.

"What Do You Know To Be True?" is a series of conversations where I speak with interesting people about their special talent or superhero power and the meaningful impact it has on others. The intention is to learn more about their experience with their superhero power, so that we can learn something about the special talent in each of us which allows us to connect more deeply with our purpose and achieve our potential.

For more info about the podcast or to check out more episodes, go to:
https://whatdoyouknowtobetrue.com/ 

"What Do You Know To Be True?" is hosted by Roger Kastner, is a production of Three Blue Pens, and is recorded on the ancestral lands of the Duwamish and Suquamish people. To discover the ancestral lands of the indigenous people whose land you may be on, go to: https://native-land.ca/