🔥 Day 13 of the Challenge and for some of us, even deeper than that. The cravings are quieter, the systems are stronger, and the discipline is showing up in ways we didn’t even expect. 🐬 This weekend, I challenge you to add a challenge to the Challenge. Step into a space where you normally lean on a vice and prove to yourself you don’t need it. ☕ Hit a coffee shop and skip the latte : drink water, eat some eggs, and enjoy the vibe without the jitters. 🎉 Go out with your friends sober : dance harder, laugh louder, and remember the night fully. 🎶 Show up to an event without “pre-gaming” with weed : prove your presence is enough to enjoy it. 📺 Watch a movie without snacks : sit in the story, not the sugar. 🍝 Go to dinner without ordering a drink : taste the food like you actually have taste buds. The point isn’t to punish yourself….it’s to discover how much of the fun was always you, not the crutch. 💡 Novelty rewires the brain faster than routine. Every time we prove we can enjoy life without a vice, we rewire dopamine to reward presence instead of poison. So this weekend, flip the script. Add a challenge to your Challenge. Show yourself that freedom doesn’t come from vices, it comes from choosing yourself. If the cravings get loud, remember what it will feel like when you show up to Tuesday Chooseday and are able to share your win! 💬 What’s one thing you’ll do this weekend, vice-free, to prove to yourself that you were always the main event? 🫡🐬 Hakeem

⏳ Time, presence, faith, and foundation : the four anchors that keep us steady long enough to see our blessings arrive. 🐬 The temptation when things feel uncertain is to get frantic, to numb out, to fall back into the very vices we said we’d let go.. but blessings don’t bloom overnight. Seeds need time, roots need depth, and storms need patience to pass. 💡 Our brains are wired with a negativity bias, meaning stress makes us over-focus on threats and under-notice opportunities. That’s why building a foundation gives our nervous system the calm to actually see the good when it comes. (Foundation course available now in classroom tabun SKOOL app) 📖 As Marcus Aurelius said: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Even our struggles are shaping us to receive what’s meant for us. 🙏 “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King Jr. So don’t block your blessings by running back to comfort when things feel heavy. Stay focused on the prize, stay present with your intention, and trust that the time you invest in your foundation is the very soil your blessings are rooting in. 💬 What blessing might already be growing in your life that you’ve been too frantic to notice? Enjoy your weekend - 🫡🐬 Hakeem