I only listen closely to a few people, like Chris Williamson, Goggins and Hormozi. My rule: listen to and copy the people who have the life you want. Pretty much ignore everyone else's opinion on how you should live. Not in a rude way. Your uncle, your coworker, your friend who "just wants you to be realistic" might love you. But if they don't have the life you're going after, they can't show you the way there. Look at the voices in your head this week. Whose are they? And do those people have what you want?

There's this idea called deferred life syndrome. "Life starts once I get X out of the way." "I'll be happy when I hit Y." Chris Williamson calls it holding your happiness hostage. When I sat with that, I was on this exact boat. It felt like I was in the pre-season of my life, like the real thing would start later. So I was never present. Either stuck replaying the past or stressing about the future. "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." Seneca Stack that with productivity debt, that voice telling you you're behind even after a day where you ticked every box, and you get total chaos. What if that happiness never comes? What if you can be happy where you are right now? Maybe not satisfied, if you have goals to pursue, but you can still be happy. Let me know in the comments if you guys also feel like you're in a pre-season.

You need to make decisions when you're unsure. You never get 95% of the information. And if you do, you're probably already late. I used to wait. Wait until I knew enough, until the plan was perfect, until I felt ready. All that waiting was just a slower way of not doing it. I'm reading The Book of Elon right now, and one of his ideas is to move with uncertainty and speed. In his world, if you're not literally breaking stuff, you're not moving fast enough. Create first. Optimize later. Decide with what you have. Adjust as you go. A wrong decision you can fix. A decision you never make just quietly costs you time. What decision have you been sitting on, waiting for more info?

Quick one. How would you use a block? Most people say construction. Obviously. Alex Hormozi has an example like this in $100M Offers. What if it's a block of gold you could trade? A tiny block on a keychain? A block of cheese? Same word, totally different answers, once you stop taking the first one. I was reading Zero to One around the same time and it sent me down a rabbit hole on static vs dynamic thinking. Static is Monopoly: there's one way to make money. Pass Go, buy property, collect rent. Dynamic is real life, where there are hundreds of ways to solve the same problem. Most of us still play life like it's Monopoly. My framework when I'm stuck: 1. Name the real bottleneck. 2. Sit with it and list every way it could be solved with what you already have, not just the obvious path. 3. Pick the best one, even if it's uncomfortable. Find your bottleneck and try to find different ways to get over it. Comment below if you'd like to share yours.

The upside of never trying is you never feel the pain of failing. If I never start the business, I never fail at it. If I never ask anyone out, I never get rejected. Easier to say all men or all women are the same and none of them are for me. It's a safe little deal we make with ourselves. And it costs us everything. Fk, I never thought I'd try to write. My first Substack article was shit. This whole community feels like... how tf is this going to work out? I've never done anything like this. I'm not a coach or a mentor in any way. But I still gotta start somewhere. Do it scared. Do it embarrassed. The pain of failing wears off. The regret of never trying sticks around. What's the thing you've been protecting yourself from by never starting?