BY JOE BARNES

We can achieve so much more than we are led to believe. We can feel a level of happiness and joy we are told is impossible, and we have a very real power that are duped into thinking does not exist. Life can be the adventurous, exciting and meaningful experience we dream of living, but we have to approach it from a completely different perspective than the one we are conditioned to adopt. I want you to break through all and have the knowledge needed to start living an exciting life that is authentically yours.

LIE NUMBER ONE: GOOD GRADES IN SCHOOL ARE THE KEY TO A HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL LIFE.
Our parents will insist on it. Our teachers will enforce it and our politicians will preach it, but do they really know what they are talking about? No, is the short answer. Good grades in school are not the passport to a happy and successful life. In fact, quite often, they lead to a stiflingly conformist life where you join the ranks with a lot of people who feel no passion whatsoever in their working lives. Instead, specialisation is the key. Way before you graduate from school, start thinking about what you want to do with your life and begin doing it.

LIE NUMBER TWO: A 'GOOD JOB' IS ONE WHICH EARNS YOU A LOT OF MONEY.
There is a big difference between a good job and a well-paying job. Sometimes the two overlap. But, if your job does not make you feel alive, treat you with respect and understand there are other areas of your life just as important as work, then it is not a good one.

LIE NUMBER THREE: TRUST THE EXPERTS; THEY KNOW EVERYTHING.
Whether we are looking to make a living blogging, seeking advice on our health or trying to improve a sporting skill, there will always be industry experts telling us how it is done. While I'm not advocating complete dismissal of everything they say, I want to strike a cautionary note about putting all your faith in their knowledge. As much as the experts want you to believe they are like God (and pay them lots of money), they are not. They make mistakes and get things wrong. Scientists rarely agree on their own research. The answer is, you have to be your own expert.

LIE NUMBER FOUR: CONSUMPTION MAKES YOU HAPPY.
This is perhaps the greatest lie of them all. On a subconscious level, we have been conditioned to think that the big car, grand house, expensive holidays and designer clothes are the pinnacle of what this world has to offer. We will consume more food, more drugs, more sex and more extreme experiences because the dominant message of our societies is that happiness is to be found in the material.
The evidence, though, suggests otherwise. Amazingly, research has shown that being in the highest income bracket of your country will only make you 3.5 percent happier than the average. This new understanding gives you the freedom to ditch the system's dream and find, pursue and live your own. In the process, you will discover one of the most liberating truths known to man: Creation, not consumption, is what makes us truly happy.

LIE NUMBER FIVE: THE INDIVIDUAL CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
We are told that our vote won't make any difference to the election outcome so we don't bother. We are told that we can't challenge the government because they have got all the resources and all we have is our voice. And guess what? We start to believe it. So instead, we will spend our time playing video games or watching TV, safe in the knowledge that there is nothing we can do, anyway.
You see, contrary to what the system would have us believe, the individual is the only entity that ever makes a difference. Remember, every great invention was born in an individual mind and every righteous cause was formed of small groups of individuals whose hearts burned with desire to see the end of man's inhumanity to man. By inspiring themselves and others to take action, the individual does not make a difference.