Those of you that have been here a while have heard me praise and rave on about what an incredible spell
“MY TIMING IS ALWAYS PERFECT” is,
Just start saying, out loud, with force and conviction. And see what happens.
I just pulled up to the airport 30 minutes before takeoff for an international flight.
Checking in luggage calmly, I notice the desk attendant frantically hurrying and pacing as she processes my boarding pass.
(Good charisma training: ALWAYS shoot your shot for upgrades, perks, and special allowances. JUST ASK! You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take)
I see the opportunity and go for it:
“Excuse me, I’m a little worried (I wasn’t actually) about missing my flight as takeoff is very soon… I’m wondering if you can help me, do you think it would be possible to be escorted quickly through security?”
The answer was no.
And the reason for that? My flight needed some cleaning (wtf) and would be delayed 25 minutes.
And everything worked out super smooth.
“MY TIMING IS ALWAYS PERFECT” is a strange affirmation. It works in weird and odd ways, seemingly able to reorient reality and re-arrange circumstances that would typically otherwise be far outside your control.
Use it. Spam it, even. And then let me know what you noticed as a result of it.
Namaste.
I always called the early period of child raising the “blurry days.”
My wife took this picture of me awhile ago and I wasn’t even sure which of my children this is.
This what life feels like in this era. Moving so fast and you can hardly remember it.
Start raw-dogging life.
Drive in silence. Read at the gym. Talk to strangers. Eat without social media. Run without headphones. Walk barefoot on the grass. Delete social media from your phone (except twitter). Cook from scratch. Hand-write a letter. Stare out the window on a flight. Skip the GPS. Get lost on purpose. Eat at the bar alone. Talk to the bartender (flirt with her). Do nothing, actually nothing. Take a walk with no destination. Enjoy boredom because the richest experiences are "boring."
Simply start to not give a fuck and your life will become amazing.
Stop being a loser. Get up early. Make your bed. Go train. Eat clean. Do your laundry. Pay every bill on time. Save till it hurts, then save more. Pick a craft and get obsessed. Pick a person to become and start acting like them today. Care more than everyone around you. Push till you break, then get back up. Knowing when to quit isn't weakness, it's strategy. Stand up straight. Speak up. Go all in. Smile anyway. Life is short and then it's gone. Misery is a choice. You're not the first to suffer and you won't be the last. Someone with less than you made it. So will you. Nobody's special. Everybody is. Keep moving.
You want your kids to be strong
But they've never seen you do anything hard
You want them to be confident
But they watch you avoid anything difficult
You want them to be disciplined
But they see you quit everything you start
Either you lead by example or stop expecting it from them
MOVE BEFORE YOU BELIEVE
Stop waiting to feel ready. Move first. Wake up. Shower. Clean your room. Train your body. Speak slower. Look people in the eye. Finish the task. Keep the promise. Walk like you’re not ashamed to be seen. Stop asking your mood for permission. Stop explaining your potential to yourself. Give yourself proof. Give your doubt less evidence.
Call it delusion if you want.
Most confidence is just behavior repeated until belief catches up.
we only get to do this one time, so experience and do everything you can while you have the chance. your entire life shouldn't hinge on whether something goes the way you want, cause i think, “life will give you what you need if you're willing to listen.” so experience things. take the trip. tell people you love them. try things even if you might fail. stop acting like life is something you can save for later. let me remind you some of the best moments in your life probably won’t happen the way you planned them. and it is not the length of life, but the depth of life.
life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. life has a weird way of giving you what you need instead of what you thought you wanted. not everything has to go perfectly for your life to still become something beautiful. some endings are actually redirections. some delays are saving you from the wrong things. and some of the things that hurt you the most end up teaching you the lessons that change your whole life. stop putting so much pressure on everything working out exactly how you imagined. just live man. be present, take some risks and make memories. cause in the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.
Pewdiepie reveals how to break free from the algorithm
“A lot of this is going to sound crazy but you’ve gotta hear me out, it’s a step by step process. I’m not saying you should do all of it but you should try some of it”
“Step 1 is creating friction. I put all social media and attention hungry apps in a second profile and I can’t understate how much this changed my life. Those 5-6 seconds it takes to switch profiles stops me every time and makes me think, is this what I want to be doing?”
“The second thing I did was self hosting. The effect that had on me is I’m not the product anymore. The things I use are mine and because they’re not free, I’m not paying with my privacy. I think the main difference is ads and news don’t reach me”
“Next thing I did was disable Shorts, I like YouTube but I hate how Shorts is everywhere I can’t escape it”
“Then I unfollowed everyone. You don’t have to do this, this is definitely a me thing, I just got really fed up”
“Next, get a DNS blocker. You can remove ads completely, most of it won’t even reach your device”
“I think you owe it to yourself to take some time today and start building your tech fence”
“These tech companies don’t care about you, so you’ve got to care about yourself. The cheat code is building some friction and filtering out the noise, that’s your defence and your cure”
You can brainwash yourself into liking the gym, and the work you keep putting off. The people who do these things every day aren't forcing it. It feels easy to them, and you can do the same.
The thing stopping you usually isn't laziness. It's that the action feels heavy before you start. Your brain guesses how bad something will feel, and it guesses high, so the dread shows up before the gym does. But the dread isn't about the gym. It's about your brain's guess, and a guess can be changed. You change it by running the whole thing in your head first, in detail, before you do it for real. Walk through the action in your mind enough times, paired with a light and easy feeling, and your brain stops expecting misery.
There's a physical reason this works. When you vividly imagine moving, the same brain circuits that fire during real movement fire too, the signal travels almost all the way to your muscles, then gets cut off right before it moves them. Those circuits get stronger with repetition whether the reps are real or imagined. People who only imagined practicing piano ended up with nearly the same brain changes as the ones who actually played. So when you finally do the thing, it isn't foreign. You've done it before, in a way, so it's easier to do for real.
Here's how to actually do it.
Get in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Pick a trigger that already happens every day, like your alarm going off or closing your laptop at the end of a shift. Tying the new behavior to something that's already there is the part that matters most. Once the link is built, the alarm fires the behavior automatically, the same way a smell can drop you into a memory before you've decided anything.
Then run the action from inside your own eyes, not watching yourself from across the room.
For the gym: hear the alarm, feel yourself getting up before you can talk yourself out of it, your clothes going on, walking out to the car in the cold, the drive there, the gym door, the smell of the place. Then the weight in your hands, the bar, your breathing picking up, the burn in the middle of a set, and you just keep going.
For work: feel yourself sitting down at your desk, your coffee next to you, looking at the task without it feeling like too much, picking the first small piece, and starting it instead of reaching for your phone.
By the time you actually go, you've already done it in your head dozens of times, so it doesn't feel like starting from zero. The first move gets easier the more you run it.
This is the elephant in the room for this World Cup that no one is talking about. If you do, in any way, shape or form, you’re silenced. White Genocide is real and it’s easily reflected in this World Cup.
Thank God for Argentina. Never fielded a negro.