3) You ARE qualified
Listen. All of the people you look at online and idolize and tell yourself that you could never be like...
Because they have "x" knowledge or "y" talent...
Were just as clueless as you at one point and likely still know way less than you think
I never try to draw attention to unsung heroes. But today a guy came into the animal shelter to surrender his beloved dog cuz he is being evicted on Monday.Instead, the shelter staff quietly collected the funds amongst themselves needed to keep them BOTH housed. And I see grace🙏
4am. Protocol in. Getting to desk. Pound it back with a like if your here with me.
A reminder : Being great isn't about making money, building businesses or being jacked.
Its about being your absolute f$%ing top percentile best and showing up at power level 9000...whatever you do.
Being a co founder, a intern, a coach, a student (but skip college) a dad, artist, a monk. Doesn't matter.
Being slow, fat, foggy and in your comfort zone applies just as much to being a dad as it does a CEO. Letting yourself slide it just as much a disrespect to both tasks.
Don't disrespect your life, your creator and your family by choosing to be average. Be a highly energized unstoppable monster at whatever you deem worthy of your life.
4am. Cold shower/redlight/60 pills in. At desk.
I turn 35 years of age today. Here's the best life lesson on joy/fullfillment I can give you.
Your best hope for consistent joy will come from the adventures of creating, building, sharing and giving...then starting over n doing it again.
Most fail to achieve joy because they look for it in the destination or "consumption". This leads to sorrow and even worse confusion/vain attempts to regain joy via more intense consumption.
"Feck...I got the car, I got the house, I've traveled, I've partied...What the F do I do or buy next to keep myself feeling okay?!"
Most try to derive happiness via consuming OR they think they will "make it" and then enjoy a bountiful life of consuming.
AKA happiness is sitting around with all your goals achieved being able to enjoy doing nothing, eating, drinking, hanging with friends, fam, traveling....AKA coasting n letting go.
For most men at least, this is not true and a death sentence.
The journeys will always be when you are most content. Creation and building towards something will always be what gives you energy.
Once something is created sharing it & its rewards with others is all that you really have left on the table.
Then once again, its time for another journey. Regardless of how big or small it is.
Becoming a beginner again and "trying" will give you more than being a master and "coasting".
This will keep you vibrant, full of energy and satisfied.
There is actually no better way to achieve "dis-satisfaction" than reaching your goals or seeking satisfaction from consumption while failing to understand the above.
I used to believe making millions per month, 9 figures in networth would allow me to reach a point where I was "good".
This was not the case. In fact once I reached this point I was simply bored...as you would be playing a video game you've already beaten.
You can only travel, drink, talk to friends/fam so much. Once once is done, you need another fix of life consumption/time wasting to continue feeling okay.
Eventually you will wonder why DESPITE having all the consumption and time to consume you are not "satisfied" like you once were.
This is because you are no longer on an adventure or striving to do something.
This can be a vicious cycle, you see it in many. They hit their goal and then have no idea what to do so they consume, consume, consume hoping eventually it will trigger "enough".
Life then just becomes and endless pattern of "what can I consume next...Whats the next big high I can buy or give myself"
It doesn't work. In fact if you consume as most do it will make you slow, foggy, lethargic and SEPERATE you from your "muse" and drive to "adventure".
The consuming and FORCING yourself to enjoy the destination you worked hard for IS the thing the drain of joy...not the giver of it.
However the solution is easy. Start new adventures.
I started taking bio hacking, physical prowess, martial arts very seriously. It matters not that I am a beginner or "bad" at these things. All that matters is I am on new adventures.
I started a new company, which I still am not sharing.
Again I am creating and building.
I feel very little desire to consume. I "consume" very little, yet am stronger/faster/full of more energy than ever.
I am a beginner/starting from scratch in most of my pursuits, but I am more fulfilled than when I was just trying to enjoy the "master level" destination.
These things give me more joy and full fillment that any of the money or free time I am able to endlessly indulge in if I choose.
The good news is every person has the ability to get this right now. Its easy. It doesn't require years of work or making it.
It simply takes starting. It is there right now and always available. There isn't some place to escape to or destination you need to finally get to finally be "okay".
It's eternal.
Focus on growth and doing things worth doing and you will always have a reason to get up, stay strong and have good days.
Focus on the destination and consuming, and you no longer will have a reason to do much of anything.
P.S.
Don't worry I also have a lot of fun/celebration planned to celebrate my aging lol.
If you like a guy reminding you of your unavoidable incoming old age and scaring you into choosing the right path be sure to like and follow.
I post extremely useful shit to push and have the track record of money/health/well being to back it up.
People will act like giving up drinking/bad food, keeping a HARD routine, cutting back on friends/fam and cheap dopamine like games is suffering.
Listen here young man.
TRUE suffering is waking up in your mid 30s-40s and realizing your life/income/self has not grown in the past 10 years.
You will look around and realize your are roughly the same quality and level of person, just in a weaker body that has been beaten by years of stagnation.
TRUE pain is the how you will look back and realize all you have experienced is the same repetitive experiences over and over and over WHILE you stagnated in the same position. Remaining in your comfort zone abusing cheap pleasures.
REGRET will fill you as you watch the few people who DID decide to sacrifice slowly pull EONS ahead of you over time. Living in the house you want, married/dating the girls you want, making money you could only dream of. Looking healthy, happy, fresh. Living a life that is fulfilling and fun AS they age and full of OPTIONS.
You will remember these people being roughly in the same position as you at one point, then look at them living now 10 social classes ahead of you enjoying people and experiences totally off limits to you with respect, power and passion.
The pain you will feel if you ever meet them again. A man whose had the same time as you, the roughly the same IQ/advantages but better than you in every measurable way.
All because they gave up the "okay and comfortable" for the "Great".
You will be mid life and full of regret as you look in the mirror and are just a older version of who you were at 21 with the same options.
As you now are JUST starting, a full decade behind people you once knew...You will experience TRUE pain and you realize that the "comfort zone devil" got his claws in you and slowly sucked away your youth/time/energy...and left you alone/starting from scratch while facing older age burdened by struggle.
That is pain. That is a hard life. It'll come for you if you don't make the hard choices and give up short term pleasure and societal norms and take your life SERIOUSLY.
Most are so addicted poison that they literally don’t feel okay or think life is “good” without them.
Caffeine to have energy, booze to have fun, games to feel success, sugar to feel satiated, porn to feel connection, mindless social media scrolling to relieve the pain of the in between moments,weed to sleep/feel content.
NOTHING about them is real. Not a single aspect of their life happiness is controlled by them.
Their entire life experience is simply rotating from methods to trick their brain into dumping “happy” chemicals artificially.
In fact they will get upset and lash out if you even suggest their dependency on these things is 100% optional and that they can be happy without all the negatives if they stop.
“Oh but Elon musk eats doughnuts, smoking helps me be calm, what’s life without desert”
Arguments from an addict. A sugar high is more important to them than clear skin and mental acuity. They are so addicted they DEFEND their self destruction and try to make it seem normal.
All while making their energy, clarity and life experience when these are absent unbearable.
A person can wake up and get every single thing they need internally. You can 100% live a deliriously happy real life.
Most just let all these little monsters slip into their life and get their claws so deep that they have become the center of “life”.
And instead of simply giving them up to regain life, people sacrifice their health, goals, focus…everything… just to fit/keep these artificial cheap pleasures in their lives.
Sugar, getting high, drinking is more important to them than living longer, feeling good and achievement.
It’s sad and pathetic. Don’t reduce your life down to a never ending rotation of cheap chemical hits.
Treat yourself right and use your bodies chemicals to motivate you to greatness…not reduce you to dependence.
I am making this post hoping some HEROES will be able to help Sponsor Jacob by Donating to his Medical costs.
Jacob is 6 years old and has Williams Syndrome (Special needs).
Jacob Had his first productive day playing since his 30+hr
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Complicated Double Heart Surgery.
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My Son Jacob is my life. He is the reason I wake up in the morning.
Sadly we have reached a point of total desperation.
I pray all the time that my son's story takes off and we can raise as much as other stories.
Jacob is 6, special needs (William syndrome) and is recovering from one of the most severe double heart surgeries (990,000)
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There’s the fight on Trump. There’s the fight on gender. There’s the fight on Ukraine….
They are all distractions from the big fight which is gaining enough wealth to say “fuck you” and move to beach in any country of your choosing n never think of this nonsense again.
Speaking very honestly here...
I do not believe there is any legislation that could be passed in the USA to prevent mass shootings WITHOUT violating the 2nd Amendment.
This is because the problem is not political at its root. It is spiritual, cultural, mental, and familial.
Mexico's President AMLO says the United States cannot talk about human rights with Julian Assange detained, cartel violence with President Joe Biden bombing the Nord Stream pipeline, or democracy while arresting the leading presidential candidate Donald Trump.