I read “A Buddha does not dispute with the world or complain about what others have done”
Anytime life throws us a curveball, see it as a test of our ability to remain calm amongst chaos.
Marcus Aurelius writes that men will act in accordance with their nature, so surely bad men will do bad deeds? You don’t fault the spider for eating the fly, it is foolish to cuss men acting in accordance with their nature.
Every fault is on you.
You can’t outwork or outrun a bad frequency.
I kept grinding at high-ticket sales, I was getting results, but I was never happy.
Things were chaotic and inconsistent, high months, low months, money changed nothing because the work itself was draining me dry.
Find meaning and the frequency will follow, you should be excited to start work the next day.
Side quests are key to good vibrations.
Spontaneity gives you that extra skip in your step. Go see a really good movie, go explore, eat lunch at a new place alone, go to a class for a hobby you’ve been wanting to pick up.
Same job, same gym time, same meals at the same time. Routines are great, but if you’re not diverging now and then, it suppresses the spirit.
Making a random Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday feel like a Saturday makes the work more enjoyable on the following days.
There are 8 billion people on Earth; thus, there are 8 billion universes.
Beliefs are what govern what we can and can not do. “If you believe you can’t, you’re probably right, and if you believe you can you’re probably right too” - Henry Ford
Once you realise our beliefs are like water, taking the shape of whatever container you pour into, life will become easier.
Our beliefs either strangle us or serve us.
Beliefs are not facts; we used to believe wholeheartedly in Santa Claus as kids. What else do you believe that may not actually be a fact?
Debunking discipline - David Goggins is wrong
Goggins is seen as the pinnacle of discipline. His philosophy is do or die, all or nothing.
That’s a fallacy.
Discipline is simply being able to stick to your word. You don’t need to wake up at 5 am, and if your biology isn’t wired for that, you’re fighting Mother Nature.
Your word must be law. Start small. If you are prone to cheat meals, don’t say “right no more cheat meals”, say “right max X cheat meals this week”. If you’re prone to hitting snooze, just put your alarm back until you find a time you can get up at easily; you can gradually move it earlier if you please.
You can make being disciplined as easy or difficult as you please, but at the end of the day, discipline is discipline, so why not make it easy?
What if the person you actually are isn’t the person you pretend to be?
We all don masks subconsciously. You act different with family than you do work colleagues, and work colleagues than you do your friends.
Which you is the real you? The masks we wear are subconscious.
I was always extroverted but during covid19 lockdowns I found solace in solitude. I realised the loud fun extroverted version of myself was someone who I wanted to be, not who I actually was.
You don’t have to subscribe to one or the other, I love time with people just as much as I love time alone.
If you’re introverted, go solo travelling.
If you’re extroverted retreat to within yourself.
Aiming low > Aiming high
Everyone should dream big, but once the destination is set, redirect your focus to putting one step in front of the other.
Focus on the process, the bare minimum that needs to be done every single day to get you to where you want to be.
30 minutes a day is 182.5 hours a year.
Better to do that than cramming in 1-2 hours here and there, eventually falling off.
We’ve all told ourselves we’re going to learn Spanish, read a book a week or whatever it may be, then life gets in the way, we fall off, and it becomes one of those things ‘We’ll get back to eventually’.
Do the minimum, and do it consistently. As Jerry Seinfeld puts it - ‘never break the chain’.
Processed food is nuking your aura.
I did whole foods only for 75 Hard.
After 3 weeks I was high on life, the flow state from organic living is unparalleled.
Energy, vibes, work ethic, charisma through the roof.
If you were Satan wouldn’t you want temptation out in the open?
Deuteronomy 14:3 - “You shall not eat any abomination”
Sustainable floors > Perfectionist ceilings
It’s better to be consistently good than occasionally great.
I used to set unrealistic goals thinking “It’s better to shoot for the moon and land among the stars”, not realising the importance of honouring your word.
Have ceilings, but the goal should be to maintain the floor.
The standards - the bare minimum you’re willing to tolerate.
Gradually raise your floor, because you will fall to the floor more times than you will raise the ceiling.
Stop focusing on the how , redirect to who.
Goals are always external initially - more money, more muscles, more success.
This leads to us chasing instead of attracting - chasing works but it’s tiring, gruelling and unnecessary.
Begin enacting the daily inputs of your greatest self.
Begin immediately.
Don’t expect instant results, hold the end goal in mind and give reality time to catch up.
@CinemaTweets1 The only reason I hope it flops is because it might result in Hollywood winding their neck in with the woke agenda, folding and going back to making good movies without the need to check DEI boxes
Self-education is a moral responsibility.
Schooling curricula create hive-minded slaves, not free thinkers.
Pursue the topics your soul urges toward - your intellect, charisma and character will flourish.
Analysis paralysis is starving your higher self.
No one ever got rich reading a book or watching a YouTube masterclass.
Books, courses and any external form of learning are like gym supplements (creatine, pre-workout, fish oil).
But without the weights and protein they’re a waste of money.
They have their place, but there’s no substitute for sweat equity.
Steady reliable income is keeping you broke.
Our ancestors ate what they killed.
9-5s have inescapable levels of complacency.
When no one is coming to save you financially, you will learn who you are and what you are capable of.
Money only solves money problems.
I fell for all the hustle culture bravado, “outwork everyone, 16-hour days, outwork outlearn outperform,” and it led me to a place where I was worse off spiritually and emotionally from where I started.
50lbs overweight, no social life, no meaning outside of work and if you weren’t working or talking about making money constantly, “You weren’t on my level bro”.. But hey I cracked 15k months so it was worth it right?
Absolutely not because money ebbs and flows, it comes and goes but your inner world remains constant.
It took me 3 years of sheer force, then losing it all, to realise that the ‘grind’ the ‘sacrifices’ and the ‘suffering’ were not essential, it was a choice.
I used to fight with the universe, now I flow. It’s effortless and abundant.
The best biohacking routine in the world won’t outrun an unfulfilling life.
The mind does not get tired from effort, it gets tired from meaninglessness.
You’ve probably heard the saying “Get a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” but it couldn’t be further from the truth.
Once you get a job you love, you’ll work longer and harder than you ever have before, and it’ll feel like play.
Never say anything in thought that you would not speak aloud.
If you allow yourself to creep into spirals of ’screw him, fuck this’ or whatever it may be, you're sabotaging your own success.
Your thoughts are like boomerangs, any you give will be passed back.
Positivity isn’t a default, it’s a decision.
Stop trying to make $1,000,000 and redirect your focus towards becoming a millionaire.
Focus on the inputs - Organic living, spiritual practice, inner work, networking, high income skills, reading, risk taking
and the outputs take care of themselves.