Does The Wake Drive Your Boat?

How excuses make no sense at all.

Dr. Wayne Dyer in his lectures often asks: „Does the wake drive the boat?” The metaphor of the boat and wake originates from Alan Watts.

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Watts compares human life to a boat, heading up the river at a certain speed. Let’s say, somehow, you can stand at the stern and look down.

Look down and answer those three questions:

• What do you see? What is the wake?
• What is driving the boat?
• Is it possible for the wake to drive the boat?

Wake is a trail left behind. The present-moment energy generated by the engine drives the boat. It is impossible for the wake to move the boat.

Our thoughts and how we use them in the present moment determine the course our life takes. Each of us has a metaphorical wake. There are an enormous amount of things in it.

We tend to look at the wake to create excuses.

Why my life is like this? Why did it happen to me? Why can’t I go a certain way?

You have to forgive me, my parents were …… I’m like this because I was ………. Someone betrayed me, so now I’m …… Last time it went bad, so now I …… It was always like this because ……. My family was ……., so now I am ……… I had no family, so now I am ……….

There is a difference between being in touch with your past and using it as an excuse. Only you are the one preventing yourself from going in the desired direction.

We can take total control over our lives in the present moment. Our past is just the past and at any given time, we choose what we feel and who we are.

We can not equate the past and our narrative, but there is an apparent connection. Without a doubt, the stories we tell about ourselves are based on our past. The story you keep repeating about yourself does not have to define you, nor dictate the direction your life goes.

This approach is simple, yet so powerful. However, to start living by this theory could be hard at the beginning. Incorporating it means taking 100% responsibility for how our lives are.

We are programmed to believe otherwise. We believe that everything that happened in our past defines us. We create our personal narratives based on what was. We all have history, but it does not have the power over the present moment.

Our past does matter, but it does not have to limit us.

Nor determine our future.

Do you have any regular excuses? Does your wake drive the boat? How much significance do you give to experiences of the past?

Cheers (h2o), Karo

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