I recently found this note to myself:
No sense in thinking small. Don't water down your vision. A remarkable amount can be accomplished if you are willing to think longer term than most and work hard each day.
If saturated fat causes heart disease, why did heart disease barely exist before 1920, when saturated fat consumption was at its highest in recorded history?
Why did it explode after 1950, when saturated fat consumption fell off a cliff and was replaced with industrial seed oils?
Why is the country that consumes the most butter per capita (France) the one with the lowest cardiovascular mortality in Europe?
Why did the Inuit, eating 80% fat by calories, have functionally zero coronary disease?
These are not gotcha questions. These are the questions the entire foundation of the lipid hypothesis was supposed to answer, and never did.
Sixty years on, we're still pretending it did.
The most attractive trait isn’t looks, wealth, or status. It’s energy. When you walk into rooms with genuine enthusiasm, interest, and curiosity, you become a magnet for the highest quality people. Energy is contagious. Spread the kind you’d want to catch.
In 1981, Jim Rohn cracked the code on why motivation fades for most people but becomes permanent for others.
It's four emotions in a specific order.
When you hit them in sequence, they rewire how your brain processes reality itself.
**Disgust** arrives first.
But Rohn understood something most personal development misses completely. Productive disgust isn't anger at external circumstances. It's the moment you become genuinely repulsed by your own patterns. The alcoholic who suddenly sees their hand shaking. The procrastinator who catches themselves making the same excuse for the 847th time. The person stuck in mediocrity who finally realizes they've been their own prison warden.
That disgust has to be visceral. Intellectual understanding changes nothing. You need to feel sick at the thought of another day, month, or year of the same patterns. Most people never reach this threshold because they cushion themselves with small comforts and endless rationalizations.
**Decision** follows immediately after.
Rohn emphasized that real decisions are different from preferences or wishes. A decision cuts off all other possibilities. The word literally means "to cut away from." When you decide, you burn bridges to your old identity. You stop negotiating with yourself about whether you'll follow through.
**Desire** then becomes the fuel system.
But Rohn's version of desire wasn't about wanting things. It was about becoming emotionally obsessed with the person you're becoming. The gap between who you are and who you could be starts generating actual psychological tension. You begin moving toward that future self the way water moves downhill.
**Resolve** locks it all in place.
This is where most transformation attempts die. People hit the first obstacle and negotiate their way back to comfort. Resolve means you've decided that the person you're becoming is more important than temporary discomfort, social pressure, or convenient excuses.
What makes Rohn's framework devastating is the sequence. Most people try to manufacture motivation through desire alone. They want things but never get disgusted enough with their current patterns to actually cut them off. Or they get disgusted but never make real decisions, just wishes disguised as commitments.
The four emotions create a psychological cascade. Disgust provides the pain that makes change urgent. Decision eliminates escape routes. Desire pulls you forward. Resolve keeps you moving when the initial emotional spike fades.
The reason this can happen in a single day is that emotions operate outside normal time constraints. You can spend years slowly building motivation, or you can hit an emotional threshold that reorganizes everything in minutes. Veterans come back from war fundamentally different after experiences that lasted hours. People have religious conversions, creative breakthroughs, and life redirections during conversations that last less than an afternoon.
The constraint isn't time. It's intensity.
Most people live in emotional mediocrity. They feel mild dissatisfaction but never disgust. They make preferences but never decisions. They have interests but never desire. They have intentions but never resolve.
Rohn figured out that transformation is an emotional process that gets executed through action, not an action process that gets supported by emotion.
The four emotions don't just change what you do.
They change how you see yourself doing it.
The biggest mistake you can make at 62
…is believing the story of your life has already reached its climax and the rest is just credits rolling slowly. Many people quietly accept that version without ever saying it out loud. They start speaking in past tense about their dreams, their energy, their chances. The job becomes something to endure rather than shape, the body something to manage rather than train, the marriage or friendships something to maintain rather than deepen or repair. Time starts feeling like an enemy instead of an asset.
What makes this mistake so costly is how invisible it is at first. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to give up. You just stop choosing. You stop asking hard questions about what you still want. You stop investing in habits that would pay off massively over the next two or three decades. You let “I’m too old for that” become the default filter even when the evidence around you which shows people starting businesses, getting fit, writing books, falling in love again, traveling seriously then you choose the opposite is possible.
The arithmetic is unforgiving and the compound interest of small daily neglects grows brutally after fifty. A skipped gym session today becomes chronic weakness tomorrow. Postponing the difficult conversation becomes permanent distance. Delaying the financial reset means working years longer than necessary or retiring poorer than you could have. Every year you wait to start the thing you’ve always talked about, the emotional cost of never having done it rises exponentially.
Yet the window is still wide open. Sixty -two usually means you have twenty to forty good years ahead if you protect your health now. You have decades of hard-earned judgment that younger people can only guess at. You have enough runway to pivot careers, rebuild savings, rekindle intimacy, create something that outlives you. The people who treat this decade as their most intentional period and not their retirement lap, almost always look back with far less regret.
The real tragedy isn’t aging. It’s deciding the game is over when the scoreboard still has plenty of time left. The antidote is simple but not easy: refuse to go passive. Pick the one area where you already feel yourself drifting and treat the next twelve months as non-negotiable. Act like those months are make-or-break, because for many they actually are.
Just know you’re not at the end and you’re at the pivot point. The question isn’t whether you still have time. It’s whether you’re willing to use it before it stops asking.
The Day Your Parents Stop Being Your Parents
Let me say this….Most people don’t realize this until it’s too late. Your parents are slowly becoming human. Not “Dad the provider” or “Mum the protector” but simply two people getting tired, getting older, and getting quieter with time.
The same people who once carried you like you were the most important thing in the world will one day start hiding their pain so they don’t become your burden.
There will be a day your father repeats the same story, because time is slowly taking things from him. There will be a day your mother calls you just to hear your voice, because loneliness has started sitting beside her.
And the painful part is this….. You will be busy……Busy building your life, chasing money, trying to become someone. Meanwhile, the people who made you someone are quietly fading into the background of your life.
We talk a lot about leaving home and becoming independent, but nobody tells you this truth. Independence should never mean emotional distance. Growing up should not mean growing away.
Call them now…..visit them also sit with them without rushing. Because one day, you won’t be managing your time around them anymore. You will be wishing for one more conversation you didn’t think mattered.
Just thought of telling you guys this
How people think of butter:
- Clogs arteries
- The thing we sensibly replaced with margarine
- A relic of less enlightened times
What butter actually is:
- A prime source of vitamins A, D, E, and K2
- The thing that feeds your gut lining
- Direct substrate for testosterone and hormone production
- Stable fat: doesn't oxidise, doesn't need a factory, doesn't produce aldehydes when heated
- High satiety: you naturally eat less at the next meal
- On human tables since we first kept cattle
- Delicious
The margarine that replaced it was industrially hydrogenated seed oil.
It caused the problems butter was blamed for.
We swapped the food for the substitute, watched chronic disease accelerate, and kept blaming the food.
The food was fine. Put it back on your table.
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