The art of getting out of your own way is greatly understated.
And you'll be surprised with what you're capable of when you finally do it...
One day, many years ago, the leaders of an underground health movement were happening to pass through my (back then) hometown of Vilcabamba, Ecuador.
This group had isolated several protocols for reversing cancer and a host of other "incurable" diseases and was spreading this information worldwide.
I had heard a little about it beforehand, but only bits and pieces, and not enough to be convinced.
Naturally, since I loved these kinds of topics and this was up my alley, my team and I arranged to interview these men.
I got my whole team together and we spent the whole day shooting an interview that blew our minds.
We were suddenly thrust into a world I previously only knew a little about... a radical discovery that could change the world if only more people knew about it and the science was presented in an easy to understand way to the public.
"The whole world needs to know about this!" was the agreed-upon consensus amongst my team, and we joyfully went back to the editing room.
The excitement was short-lived.
The next day as we looked at the footage, our stomachs took a plunge.
Someone had forgotten to put the triple-A batteries into the Sony voice recorder attached to me, so instead of an interview we only had the broken clips of one person, "Mark", talking.
The disappointment and frustration with the lead cameraman was palpable as the room buzzed into opinions of what to do next...
I could feel everyone's frustration... a whole day wasted, our hopes and dreams up in flames, and this important topic not being shared through our channel...
Only one person in the room wasn't phased... me.
I was busy staring at the footage and playing it over and over again with a big smile on my face, I couldn't even hear the room.
Amidst the broken footage... I saw something glaring back at me like a diamond in the mud sparkling in the sun.
I could feel something big coming.
Suddenly everyone turned to look at me, and the room went quiet.
"Yeah, guys... this is a documentary!" I suddenly proclaimed with excitement.
Several people laughed thinking it was one of my "wild-Kacper" moments and I was making a joke.
But I was dead serious...
In the broken pieces of our footage, I saw a masterpiece, the whole thing came to me like a download and I just knew we were making a documentary and this was the core footage and it was perfect.
If the batteries were in that recorder... I would have never even conceived of the idea... but because of the empty space... it all came to me.
I explained to the team exactly what we were going to do, and after a brief period of disbelief, everyone got to work.
We spent the next 6 months shooting and editing that documentary, it was hard work and we loved every moment of it as we tackled enormous challenges together.
Towards the end... we ran into a problem... we had a good little film, but didn't really have a powerful introduction for it...
...the most important part of the movie was the first 60 seconds and I knew we had to make it good... I had scripted something but it just didn't "feel" right.
I remember when it happened, I was sitting in a room with two camera operators and another team member...
Suddenly, without any script, without any preparation, a voice began to come through me.
I asked the team to roll the cameras, and I just... spoke... I channeled my heart out starting with the words "When I was a little boy..."
That became the iconic opening sequence to the documentary movie "Quantum Leap," about the oxidative medicinal properties of chlorine dioxide (otherwise known as MMS) which affected millions of people worldwide.
That movie went massively viral, has been deleted, shadowbanned and re-uploaded all over the internet, and even more aggressively since 2020.
I can't begin to tell you of how many miracles I've heard of because of the making of that movie.
One recent one... I was walking through the streets of Pisac, Peru, in the sacred valley, and ran into a man who had just spent months in Uganda.
He told me how he and his friend were so moved after watching the movie that he personally flew to Uganda and set up a massive operation with "pop-up tent clinics" and saved thousands of people from dying of Malaria before the red-cross and corrupt government tried to shut them down.
Story after story like this for years.
And the whole thing was technically an "accident," the result of someone forgetting to put the AAA batteries in the damn voice recorder... how cool.
I cannot take credit for any of it, as that credit goes to my team and the wonderful people behind the movement, including Mark Grenon, his sons, the late Jim Humble, and the tens of thousands of people who have been involved since the start.
However, I'm not sharing this to talk about the movie or that movement... that's another story.
The point I'm making is...
Imagine what would have happened if I just believed we had a failed interview?
Imagine if I didn't listen to that voice that said "Just go, just speak, don't even look at the notes, let your heart tell the story."
How many times have you stopped yourself short because you believed it wasn't going according to plan?
How many times have you thought you needed to be prepared or needed to have a plan to get to your destination?
How many times have you held a broken puzzle and stopped because you didn't have all the pieces?
I learned many important lessons from that experience, critical pieces of wisdom I rely on every day to this day.
#1. When something doesn't go according to plan, it's always because there is a higher plan trying to move through you.
I find this true over and over again in life in all circumstances.
When something doesn't go according to my expectations, I let go, relax, and get curious as to what's really trying to unfold.
You have to remember you are part of a much grander divine play, and often the divine has a much better plan than you could have conceived of.
#2. Just F***ing Go and Follow Your Heart 100%
When you feel something is real, it's real, follow it, and more real will come.
Even if you're holding the seemingly broken pieces of a dream, if you're feeling a calling in your heart, it's enough.
You don't need all the puzzle pieces to make a masterpiece, you just need one, and that's your willingness and your vision.
In your willingness to take the step ahead of you, the next one will appear.
#3. It's Happening Through You, Not From You
Had I thought I was making this movie, it would have never been done.
The entire first few minutes of that movie were entirely channeled and unscripted and spoke right to the heart of every man, woman, and child who would watch it.
I couldn't have written it better.
This is how I operate my whole business and life these days.
Minimum preparedness, maximum presence.
I turn a camera on and just speak my heart out, no plans or preparations, no scripting, or bullets, it's 100% real and raw and so much more powerful, plus this saves me loads of time.
Most of the things you think you need to "get ready" are just obstructions in your way and procrastination mechanisms.
To get out of your own way is to accept that you are ready as you are.
#4. The Real Impact of Your Work Is Far Beyond Your Imagination
Just as the bumble bee flies from destination to destination, flower to flower, its real work is in pollinating thousands of adjacent flowers as it flaps its wings and sends pollen flying.
Your inspired idea or calling isn't just coming to you for your own benefit, it is coming for the benefit of countless people whose lives you will touch...
The real impact of your work will come from the 2nd 3rd and 4th degree consequences that you cannot predict or plan for...
...and that's amazing.
...and that's what is calling your heart.
...and that's what you're saying "no" to if you don't listen and take action.
Thanks for reading.
Would you like my assistance in this area of your life?
If you're feeling the calling to get out of your own way, turn a vision into reality, and express your true gift out into the world, watch this video in which I explain how I can help, and book a call with me here.
Kacper
PS. This article isn't about the movie, but undoubtedly many will probably be writing in to ask me about the link. You can watch it here.
Please know I am not involved with this movement in any way and will not answer any questions about it, everything can be found in Jim Humble's books which are available on Amazon and I suggest you go there.