I wrote down exactly who I want to be and what I want my life to look like. then I asked what does he do. how does he start his day. what does he eat. when does he sleep. how does he handle the hard conversations. what does his work look like. I wrote all of it down. then I just started doing it. you don't have to feel like him first. you act like him until you are him.
Overwhelmingly true.
2 things to say:
1. Some of you will naturally have the ability to handle high stress situations, and won't realise this until you find yourself in them w/ the competence to match it.
A lot of you work jobs that are too easy for you.
- You perform worse at "easy" jobs & it decreases your overall confidence and self esteem.
- You wonder why you're not doing well at something that doesn't seem traditionally difficult.
- You assume because you struggle w/ something simple, you'd be incapable of doing anything 'harder' – and incorrectly accept this to be your functioning level.
It is not.
Environment is everything for you.
You expand or shrink more readily than others.
Counterintuitively: your life, wealth, confidence, and wellbeing drastically improve once you commit to doing something more challenging.
Others are built to survive in the mundane. But this is not acceptable for you. Entire body rejects it.
Your vision is blurry until you fix your gaze upwards.
2. I said I'm going to make the effort to directly recommend accounts w/ good non-slop content for you to follow as opposed to just reposting or QTing them.
SovereignIM is one of them. Recommended follow.
I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!
Just do more.
You will adapt. Your body will adapt. Your mind will adapt.
You can just simply do more and figure it out along the way. Most things in life simply bend to the virtue of volume. Everything is learnable, you are adaptable and the universe is endlessly malleable.
Spend around 10–30 minutes a day visualizing a version of yourself that you are deliberately trying to build. Do it when your mind is already calm, especially in the evening or just before sleep, because the mind accepts imagery more easily when it is not being pulled in different directions.
The basic idea is simple. The brain treats repeated internal experience as something important. When a certain kind of situation is lived again and again in imagination, with enough detail and emotional weight, it starts to lose its “imagined” quality and becomes something your mind recognizes as familiar territory.
And what becomes familiar stops feeling impossible.
Old patterns weaken in this process not because you fight them directly, but because you stop feeding them the same mental rehearsal. At the same time, new patterns begin to stabilize because they are being repeatedly experienced internally before they ever exist externally.
Start by settling your body. Slow breathing. Less tension in the face, shoulders, stomach. You are not trying to force anything, you are just lowering internal noise.
Then choose one specific scene. Not an abstract goal. A moment. Something you can step into mentally.
If it is health, do not think “I want to be healthy,” instead see yourself moving through a normal day with physical ease, walking without effort, breathing clearly, feeling your body light and responsive.
If it is confidence or success, see yourself in a real situation where you would normally hesitate, but now you speak without that hesitation, you are steady, direct, and things unfold without internal resistance.
If it is discipline, see yourself already inside the routine, doing the work without negotiation, as if it is simply what you do.
Always stay in first person. Through your own eyes.
What is directly in front of you. What is under your feet. The texture of the environment. The light in the space. The small details your attention would normally skip.
Then sound. The way voices actually enter the space. The rhythm of your breathing. Any background noise that belongs to that environment.
Then physical sensation. The weight of your body. Temperature on the skin. The sense of movement. The way you occupy space when you are not resisting yourself.
Emotionally, you are not trying to force excitement. You are allowing a quieter set of states to appear. Relief that things are simple. A sense of “this is already how I operate.” A quiet internal stability that does not need justification.
You are not building a fantasy. You are rehearsing familiarity.
At the end, stop adding detail and just remain in the general felt sense of it for a short moment, as if your mind has already accepted it as normal.
Let that feeling continue lightly as you move into the rest of your day.
Repeat it often enough that the scene stops feeling like something you are trying to reach, and starts feeling like something your mind already knows how to do.
Nothing should trigger you. Receive every insult, criticism, reflection with grace. Love yourself enough to recognize what is true, and then integrate the truth, and let any falsehood fall away as projection. You are whole and nothing can remove you from wholeness. But you have a responsibility to yourself, to your loved ones, and to the world to rise. When I tweet with daggers it is because I love you and want to see you rise.
Man should fear the sterile life in which his hands are never calloused nor dirty, in which his body is not often drenched in sweat nor pushed beyond exhaustion, testing limits rather than merely theorizing
What is courage but fear put to good use? What is fortitude without choosing the difficult yet earnest path despite trembling before it? What is love which does not first break the tyranny of self before remaking you?
And what then? Virtues are the means, not just the ends. Build something beautiful. Love your family. Raise your own. Give to your neighbors. Plant trees whose shade you'll never enjoy. Lighten the burden of others and be strong with yours. Leave proof that you existed. Fear only that which prevents you from resembling the Image in which you were formed
Do not underestimate what your mind is capable of when given enough space and time
- Prolonged silence, or listening to the same song on repeat for days
- Hour plus long walks in nature, noticing your environment and passersby
- Obsession over a single piece of art, your craft, or rabbit hole of curiosity
- The occasional 72hr fast from food, 48 from social media, & 24 from talking
- Prayer that persists beyond “prayer time” and permeates daily life
- Embracing boredom as an open sandbox for thoughts to flourish
Essentially, eliminate fragmentation. Allow what’s already floating within your subconscious to settle
Anything that provokes “flow state” is utterly ideal too. Often, 15 simple minutes overlooking water or gazing into dusk will do