"Most men die at 25, we just bury them at 72"
I think one of the greatest tragedies in life is how early people begin negotiating DOWN their ambitions.
At 15, they want to conquer the world.
At 25, they want to be comfortable.
At 35, they just want to make it through the fucking week.
What happened?
At what point did you decide that the extraordinary was no longer available to you?
There is something DIVINE about the human impulse to ascend. To reach beyond everything you presently know yourself to be.
The ancient theologians called the highest heaven THE EMPYREAN.
I think every man ought to have an empyrean of his own. Some magnificent ideal, so impossibly high that its pursuit demands the COMPLETE transformation of his character.
Jim Rohn used to say, "I recommend each of you to make it a goal of yours, to become a millionaire. Not for the money, for what becoming a millionaire will make of you!"
Most of you, sad to say, are shooting far, far under what you're capable of. It's no wonder you're not excited by it.
And the really tragic thing is that you have mistaken this absence of excitement for some deficiency in your own character.
Yall niggas, think something is wrong with you.
You think you need more discipline.
Or maybe, it's that you don't have enoughn "motivation."
Or that perhaps the answer is some new routine to drag yourself out of bed in the morning.
When the REAL problem is that the future you're working toward is nowhere near magnificent enough to COMMAND your FULL ATTENTION.
Give yourself something worth becoming OBSESSED with.
Something that makes the sacrifices seem trivial. Something that demands more of you than you have ever demanded of yourself.
Something that frightens you a little, for God's sake!
You may never reach the summit.
But GOOD GOD, look at what you might become in the climbing.
Three quotes for your contemplation:
1) Ralph Waldo Emerson,
"Hitch your wagon to a star!"
2) Robert Browning,
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
3) Napoleon,
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools!"
“Nothing worth doing is ever easy.”
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF.
I AM A DIFFERENT FUCKING BREED, MATE.
I REJECT YOUR CURSE.
EVERYTHING I DESIRE THAT ALIGNS ME TO MY HIGHEST SELF, MANIFESTS EASILY AND EFFORTLESSLY.
Normalise calling people out on bullshit sayings.
For example:
“Nothing good comes easy”
Fuck you, says who? Nice self-curse bro LOL.
AFFIRM: everything good comes easy to me
For example:
“It’s only after you have lost everything you are free to do anything.”
What idiot came up with that one?
NEWSFLASH: You are a sovereign soul with will and imagination capable of directing your life in any direction of your choosing.
Please. Use yer brains.
YOU MUST CONTINUALLY SUBJECT YOURSELF TO GREATER AND GREATER LEVELS OF PRESSURE, STRESS & RESISTANCE.
IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO ENSURE YOUR CONSTANT AND CONTINUAL EVOLUTION.
CONSTANT EVOLUTION IS THE WAY.
EVOLVE EVERY DAY.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Literally because of the chemicals produced = extremely healing.
But also because:
No matter how dire or monstrous your situation, if you have the strength to laugh at it, it immediately loses power over you.
Stay woke.
Find energy multipliers.
Above all, you must learn to become (and remain) flexible and adaptable.
As 19th Century Prussian military strategist Helmuth von Moltke so eloquently put it:
"No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy."
Put a different way, when asked his thoughts on the strategy of his opponents, Mike Tyson responded;
"Everyone has a plan... until I punch them in the mouth."
There is no such thing as a bad business plan on paper.
But shit happens. Life unfolds with its myriad of unexpected and unaccountable variables.
You WILL get hit. It's not a matter of if, but WHEN.
And when circumstance does strike, how are you going to respond?
The amateur falls in love with the plan.
The professional falls in love with the mission.
But the plan is just the first draft map drawn, not yet bloodied by reality. Reality has teeth. Markets shift. Technology develops. Wind changes direction.
Encountering change, and emerging victorious is less a matter of "having a plan", and more about having the internal resources and architecture to keep moving, and adjust on the fly when your plan gets murdered.
Musashi said,
"Fixation is the way to death; Fluidity is the way to life."
YOU MUST STAY ADAPTABLE.
NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH THE PLAN.
BOB AND WEAVE. ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES.
Plan lovers are one variable change away from being paralysed. When rubber meets the road, and life doesn't match exactly how they spreadsheeted it.. they freeze, they panic, they quiver, cower, and give up.
Then they look for someone to blame...
Be it the weather, the economy, the jews, their childhood, their competitors, the algo, their genetics, their parents, the nature of the other gender, their ex, their "trauma", their timing, their lack of resources. Anything.
ANYTHING, except the ugly truth.
They CUCKED. They folded under pressure.
They threw in the towel.
All because, what they failed to realise is...
Much like a rocket, which does not fly to it's destination by being perfectly on course the entire time... but rather, through TINY and CONSTANT course-corrections, deviations, and adjustments. Over and over. Again and again. YOU MUST LEARN TO ADAPT ON THE FLY.
(No pun intended)
Success does not come from being right at the beginning. Success comes from correcting course at a rate faster than the environment can kill you.
Darwin echoed this in his final conclusion, determining the exact quality that allows organisms to survive, expand, flourish, and prosper:
"It is not the strongest, nor the smartest of the species that survives. It is the organism MOST ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE."
FALL IN LOVE WITH CORRECTING COURSE.
Rather than having the goal of creating a life where nothing hits you, instead, aspire to become the kind of person who can take the hit, absorb the feedback and alchemise the experience, becoming better/faster/stronger because of it.
Be bending, but never breaking.
Pivoting, but never abandoning the mission.
Condition yourself day by day to be fluid in method, and violently resolute in commitment.
Above all, you must learn to become (and remain) flexible and adaptable.
It is the only way to ensure your survival.
Namaste.
Michael in April 1982 seen outside the Westlake Recording Studios when he had just started working on “Thriller”.
He says personal affirmations helped him prepare to make the world’s biggest selling album of all time.
“I look in the mirror, and I would say over and over to myself… I’d take a deep breath, put my feet together, raise myself erect, strong like a… a hero warrior, and I’d say,
“Biggest-selling album of all time, greatest seller,”
over and over to my mind, and look in my eyes.
And I’d mean it. I’d say,
“Biggest-selling album of all times.”
And I wouldn’t accept anything unless this was exactly what I wanted. My attitude was: I want the biggest-selling album of all times, to break records, to do phenomenal work.”
"Aut viam inveniam aut faciam"
(I will either find a way, or I will make one.)
-- Hannibal, to his generals, when they told him it was impossible to cross the alps via elephant
Being serious is dense and heavy.
Being playful is light and frictionless.
There is an appropriate time and place for both.
And there is a key here,
Laughter, humour, playfulness, lightheartedness, will allow you to float through the dense heaviness of life with ease.
IT BEGINS WITH VISION.
Get CRYSTAL CLEAR on EXACTLY the type of person you want to become. With the outcome in mind, reverse engineer what the daily steps to get there... looks like, and execute RUTHLESSLY with SINGLE MINDED FOCUS. KEEP ALWAYS that extremely COMPELLING, EXCITING, BURNING, image of who you could be, front of mind.
And bathe yourself in it daily.
Hiding who you are, suppressing your energy in hope of gaining the approval and acceptance of others... is one of the fastest ways to fall out of the path of divine alignment and avoid fulfilling the original destiny you determined to complete here, prior to your incarnation.