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What if some of the things we spend our lives chasing, protecting and believing in are the very things trapping us?

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The matrices

How much of your life did you actually choose?

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Which Matrix Are You Living In?

36 short statements across 12 areas of life. Your result shows where outside expectations, habits or systems may be influencing your choices most strongly.

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Before you begin

This is not a test of how “awake” you are.

It is a mirror. Answer for your life as it is today—not how you think it should be. There are no right or wrong answers.

01Answer instinctively.
02Choose what is true now.
03Use the result to question, not judge.
The idea

Maybe the cage has no bars.

A matrix is anything we stop questioning simply because it feels normal.

Some systems protect us. Some habits help us. Some traditions carry wisdom. And some things that once served us may now quietly control us.

The purpose here is not to reject everything. It is to examine what we inherited, what we were sold, what we accepted — and decide consciously what deserves to remain.

Maybe it is a trap. Maybe it isn't. Let's examine it.

01Question
02Discuss
03Discover
04Act
Why I started this

Something is going wrong.

If we compare our lives with earlier generations, we have better healthcare, faster connectivity, powerful technologies, greater comforts, more conveniences, more choices, more money — and access to things they could hardly have imagined.

And yet, when we look around, it is difficult to ignore the feeling that something in modern life is still going wrong.

So instead of simply accepting the way things are, I want us to question them together. To discuss what may have gone wrong, understand the traps we may have unknowingly created or inherited, and explore how we can correct them.

Not just to make our own lives better — but to make our society and our world better, together.

Anket Bhalla
Your Wakeup Assistant
Tools & Resources

Print, reflect and examine your own life.

Three simple resources to help you question what feels normal, reflect honestly, and identify the areas you want to understand better.

Preview of 21 Questions to Wake Yourself Up workbook
Reflection workbook · PDF

21 Questions to Wake Yourself Up

A short workbook of thought-provoking questions on success, money, attention, consumption, beliefs, relationships and freedom.

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