This isn’t about restriction. It’s about freedom. For the next 30 days we’re proving that our discipline belongs to our purpose, not our poison. For 30 days we cut out: 🚫 Sugar 🚫 Liquor 🚫 Weed 🚫 Nicotine 🚫 Porn 🚫caffeine 🚫video games 🚫gambling 🚫gluten 🚫 Instant dopamine (mindless scrolling, junk food, cheap escapes) And for 30 days we lock in: 💧 Hydration 🏋🏽 Movement 🌱 Clean eating 😴 Solid sleep 📖 Reflection & journaling 🐬 Foundations that keep us consistent 🧠 Science says dopamine pathways for sugar, nicotine, alcohol, and screens light up just like hard drugs. That means most of us have already been disciplined… just in the wrong direction. The Challenge is about flipping that same loyalty toward our growth. ⚡ This is where confidence is built. This is where clarity comes back. This is where we find out who we are without the crutches. 🐬 Zoom check-ins: - Monday 6PM EST (CYC KIDS) - Tuesday @ 10 a.m. (CYC Tuesday) - Tuesday @ 7 p.m. (Challenge Check-In) 💬 What’s the first craving you’re ready to flip into confidence?

💥 “This Challenge is too strict… too militant… too much discipline.” - victimhood & addicts 🐬 The truth is, we’ve already been strict. We’ve already been disciplined. We’ve already been militant.. just in the wrong direction. Think about it: 🍬 Strict with sugar : sweetness in the morning, desserts at night. 🍺 Disciplined with liquor : weekend drinks never skipped. 🌿 Loyal to weed : premeal & bedtime ritual, like it’s scripture. 📱 Militant with screens : scroll after scroll, like it’s a second job. 🚬 Nicotine on cue : stress hits, and so does the lighter or vape. ☕ Caffeine clockwork : not a day missed sometimes twice. ⚠️ The problem isn’t that we can’t commit, it’s that we’ve been committed to our cravings. 🧠 Science proves it: sugar, nicotine, alcohol, and screens activate dopamine pathways the same way hard drugs do. That means we’ve already been living with militant discipline but toward habits that drain our energy, gut health, and focus. 🔥 The Choose Yourself Challenge (Sept 15th) isn’t strict. It’s a reset. It’s proof that the same loyalty we’ve been giving to our vices can be flipped into discipline for our purpose. And let’s be real …addiction loves to dress itself in logic: 🚬 “Nicotine helps me focus.” ☕ “Coffee helps me digest.” 🌿 “Weed helps me sleep.” 🍯 “Honey is natural, so it’s good for me.” Sounds reasonable… but the science doesn’t lie: 🚬 Nicotine spikes cortisol and damages blood vessels. ☕ Excess coffee wrecks our sleep cycles and depletes magnesium. 🌿 Weed blocks REM sleep — the deepest restoration our brain needs. 🍯 Honey spikes blood sugar almost instantly, just like table sugar. We don’t deny these things do something.. we deny that they’re necessary for peace, purpose, or performance. Out bodies, our minds, and our spirits are designed to function better without them. 🐬 Starting Sept 15th: 30 days. No vices! The real question isn’t “Can we commit?” The question is: “What are we already committed to and is it building us or breaking us?”

🔥 The Choose Yourself Challenge isn’t about cutting things out… it’s about calling yourself out. Today we recapped what it really means to reset. To stop outsourcing our energy to sugar, caffeine, nicotine, weed, or screens and to start living in our natural state. Because if we always need something to be productive, then we’re not really productive, we’re dependent. CLICK FOR REPLAY 🧠 We pulled from the text -The Molecule of More to understand how dopamine wires us to chase, crave, and scroll without end. And how the reset breaks that loop. 🥦 I recommend these books - Deep Nutrition and Good Energy - books that show how food isn’t just fuel, it’s instruction for our body, our brain, and our future self. ⏳ And Fasting Like a Girl will help us with the fasting throughout the challenge, we tapped into how fasting changes more than the body, it shifts hormones, energy cycles, and even how we interact with people. When we reset what we consume, we reset how we connect. 💥 Most of us don’t need another quick fix. We need to relearn how to sleep without substances, socialize without a buzz, and create energy without a crutch. ⚡ Resetting dopamine = resetting discipline. Resetting food = resetting freedom. Resetting cravings = resetting confidence. 💡 If you didn’t have your usual crutch, would you still trust yourself to show up with full energy? That’s the question this Challenge answers. 📚 suggested material to G.Y.M - The Molecule of More – Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long - Deep Nutrition – Dr. Cate Shanahan - Good Energy – Dr. Casey Means - Fasting Like a Girl – Dr. Mindy Pelz 📅 What’s next: - CYC Kids: Monday @ 6 p.m. EST - CYC Tuesday: Sept 16th @ 10 a.m. EST - Challenge Meeting: Sept 16th @ 7 p.m. EST 🐬 We’re not just removing toxins. We’re proving to ourselves that we’re enough without them. And that’s where real freedom starts.

💥Without a foundation, every goal becomes a guessing game. 🐬 That’s why I created the Foundation Course... so we can stop relying on willpower and start living by systems that actually hold under pressure. For CYC self choosers it’s only $24 ( $59.99 for everyone else). ( 🔌 CYC always gets a plug on anything I create! CYC .. strongest dolphins in the SEA! 🐬) 🏗️Go to the CYC feed in the school app and access The Foundation Creation under the Classroom tab. Tap in and learn what it really means to design your days instead of letting your emotions decide them. The video course has more details, story telling, motivation, comedy and.. ME 🤓 but here is an outline of a foundation: FREE FOUNDATION WORKSHEET ✨Even if you already have a foundation, this is your time to restructure, refine, and reset. I do it constantly. Foundational shifts are where growth begins. And with the Choose Yourself Challenge coming up in just two weeks, this is the perfect time to: ✨Rebuild your routines ✨Set clear goals ✨Make real claims about the habits you’re keeping and the vices you’re cutting This isn’t about hype. It’s about habits. It’s about entering the hardest challenge yet with systems that make freedom sustainable. Be prepared to break out into accountably partnes to reflect and make claims about: 🌟 What will be the biggest win after completing the choose yourself challenge? 🌟 What is an adjustment I will make to my foundation this week? 💥Are you building your foundation on discipline, or are you still trying to stack goals on sand? See you at 10 AM ET - 🫡🐬 Hakeem