The world is not changed by your opinion, but by your example.

The events of the last few weeks have enraged me, but politics is a game of you vs. me. It’s a game that I don’t want to play, because the truth is: what I do to you, I do to myself.

All we can do is be beams of light, shots of energy, forces for good in situations where people are choosing to be the opposite. The form can be different, but hopefully we choose the light. And if we find ourselves in darker places, may we have the grace, strength, and humility to see it, and pull ourselves back.

Health as a Path to Purpose

Prioritizing health and fitness has been my key to achieving everything I wanted. It’s because of the tools and attitude I developed when I put my health at the center of all that I do that I was able to start my business and achieve more than I ever thought possible.

Making decisions and taking action based on things that make you feel your best teaches you self-respect, discipline, consistency, and patience.

As I’ve refined my process, I’ve found that I will often reach a point where I need to push out of my comfort zone to shake things up. I recently joined a new gym where I know very few people. As a result, I find myself in uncomfortable positions semi-regularly.

Each morning, I experience fear but a little excitement about how I’ll handle the discomfort. The experience gets me out of both my head and my routine. It gets me thinking and acting differently. I find the more I workout with others, the more I feel capable of doing other scary things. I feel more energized, more ideas flow, and I make more connections. Often after the workout, I realize that there’s a lot more hard stuff that I can do. The experience changes my state.

We’re all at risk of atrophy. What are we going to do about it?

Answer: Develop Resilience

The nature of our world today is comfortable and easy (yes, I know I’m saying this with WW3 at our doorstep and kidnappers roaming the city but it’s still true). We work in climate-controlled rooms, sitting for hours, interacting with words on a screen.

These easy lives have weakened us. Emotional discomfort feels impossible, uncertainty sends us spinning. We can barely engage in conversation with someone who disagrees with us, or walk up to a stranger and start a conversation. This is a problem. Or maybe it’s an opportunity. Because if you can get good at any one of these, or all of them, you can beat most people.

Being hard to kill is cool. Being able to start a (good) conversation from 0 is a skill that is (in my opinion) indicative of your net worth. Being able to endure uncomfortable conversations, to be vulnerable, to be patient in the face of uncertainty, to approach opposing viewpoints with curiosity and open-mindedness, these are all markers of a high agency person.

Most people have chosen to insulate themselves from these things. When you do that, you become far more susceptible to the programming. Think less and consume more is what they want us to do. The comfort is only going to get comfier. The only person who can help you build resilience is you.

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It’s not a joke. Keep me out of it.

Love you, bye!