Happy Fake New Year Fam! See you on Monday?!!
Hope you're all doing fantastic. I'm just sat here working on the outline for my next class on Monday on Harmonic Virality A-Z, and just wanted to pop in and reflect. I've really taken this holiday season super slow. Like super duper slow. Sleeping a lot. Resting. Being very present with family and friends. Letting myself fall into whatever reality has to offer without judgement or old stories. Just that, even going out with friends has been a powerful mindfulness practice of letting myself experience reality just as it is without the old stories (mainly tied to how instead of doing X Y and Z, I should be optimizing for performance, I should be working). A mindset I am quite frankly over. In 2026 I am calling in a lot more ease and flow. Deeper presence with myself and my work. Of course, it is the year of the goddamn fire-horse so best believe mad action will be taken... And, less action will be taken from anxiety of old stories. And more action taken from deep feeling. Chills as I write that. If there is one thing that has been coming up during this holiday season its the question of how to bridge, in essence, the emotion of love, with work. The kind of love where you feel so deeply you get scared. Like how can I bring this energy into work more. Because I know it is impossible to go wrong then. And the amount of fear I feel when engaging in this reality tells me it is absolutely the right next quest to embark upon. For a bit of context, in which I have never shared with anyone publicly, but when I was born, I was born with a physical hole in my heart. My mom told me about this when I was about 10, but I never thought anything of it, until it surfaced in a conversation I had with Jay end of last year. And it made a lot of sense. In my childhood and young adulthood, the only emotion I ever felt comfortable showing publicly was anger. Which I guess is because there is a certain sense of masculinity there. So yeah... Idk, softness is a whole thing for this guy. I am literally clenched to fuck writing this.