Choose now. Be a Sleeper or one of the Awakened.

Sleepers. Zombies. Sheep. The Uninitiated. Average people. There are lots of creative names that "Awakened", somewhat enlightened individuals tend to apply to those who have not yet made the decision to take command and control of their lives. But, regardless of the moniker chosen, the reference is to a person or people who are not really living.

The world is filled with people just trying to survive. They have their 9-5 jobs, their evening routine of dinner and television/spending time with the kids and then heading off to bed to start it all over in the morning.

Surviving is just getting by, still being above ground when the sun comes up the next day. Living is about so much more, like enjoying what you have, planning for what you want and then actually getting it.

What really separates the survivors from the living? Simply put, it's awareness and willingness. Both the Awakened and Sleepers are often unhappy with their lives. The difference is, the Sleeper either doesn't know or doesn't care that it is within their power to change their life for the better. The sleeper will complain about his or her life, but will do nothing to change it.

An Awakened soul is one that is conscious of the fact that they are in the driver's seat. They have accepted that they can and are willing to steer their life in whatever direction they want.

The first step is observation. Both types of people realize that their lives follow certain routines and patterns. The Sleeper is comfortable(even if unhappy) with getting by on autopilot, letting whatever happens happen and knowing that each day will be much like the one before. The Awakened, however, looks for those patterns and routines in life, determines how they feel about each thing that happens and then decides to modify their behavior so as to get different results. They keep experimenting and changing things until their lives are exactly the way they want them to be.

Sleepers suffer and complain. The Awakened forge powerfully positive happy lives. Sleepers are losers. The Awakened are winners even before they start to win.

The Awakened soul is an adventurer that leaves the village, always looking to discover something newer or better than what they already have. The Sleeper looks no farther than what is outside their front door.

The Sleeper blames everyone but themselves. The Awakened all know that they are responsible in one way or another for everything that happens in their life.

The Sleeper gets by but is guaranteed to have a mediocre life. The Awakened are the only ones throughout history that have ever accomplished anything of note. Every inventor, explorer, athlete, celebrity, musician, politician or successful person in any position has made conscious choices about their life that a Sleeper is incapable of making, until they make the one choice that matters. To wake up and start steering the bus.

If you had a choice, and you do, which would you choose to be? Would you rather be the person that is just barely scraping by, unhappy and looking forward to a few more decades of unhappiness before kicking the bucket? Or would you rather be someone doing something about the things they don't like and forging the kind of future that you do want?

It's up to you.