Mark Holzum

"Ripeness is all."

On body, belief, discipline, and becoming

[Mark Holzum @markholzum]

Mobility isn’t about splits or stretches.
It’s about sovereignty:
causality over your body, mind, and life.

Start here → https://t.co/s0ffILsHtI

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I've had more clients experience lasting wins when they treat themselves with grace rather than punishing discipline.

The grace seems to allow them to get back on the horse more quickly. The punishment seems to make them think they deserve the loss.

[Mark Holzum @markholzum]

Where there is no capacity, there is pain.
Where there is avoidance, there is suffering.
Where you can experience reality directly, you get freedom.

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Only the dark that had waited patient since the hour I first drew breath,
the same dark that waits under every cradle,
older than grief,
older than the first word ever spoken against it.
And the dark took me home.

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from the edges

I never knew him in my boyhood.
He kept to the far country then, feeding on strangers,
careful to leave my valley untouched.
Men spoke of him only in the low dark rooms where the old sat waiting,
and even there in whispers, lest the name itself call him near.

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The beat thinned to a spent thing knocking against the fangs,
too weak even to bleed.
When he closed his mouth there was no mercy and no light.

[Mark Holzum @markholzum]

Reflection reveals your heart.
Action shapes your life.
And the latter will always outweigh the former.

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I did Morning Pages for 30 days.
Here’s what I learned:

Writing can show you the truth.
But it can’t move you toward it.

By week two, every entry felt the same:
The same worries wearing new language.

I wasn’t discovering anything.
I was circling the same self.

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I hit the ceiling of introspection.

Everything changed when I stopped writing about doing things
and actually did them.

Action gave me something new to feel.
Something new to learn.
Something new to write.

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I wrote the full story here:
👉 https://t.co/wuPpLrE5pF

Fight the fade ⚔️⏳

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A car crashed into my building.
Half the vehicle ended up inside our library.
Here’s what I learned about resilience, entropy, and redundancy 👇

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And in crisis, you see the truth of whether you have prepped your ability or not.

Most people think resilience is “never breaking.”
It’s not.
Resilience is building redundancy,
so when one system fails, another can carry the load.

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What percentage of online businesses are just businesses about business?