Honor your father and mother. - Keep your space clean. - Do the dishes. - Make your parents dinner. - Take care of them now. - Be the man now. - Steward the property now. - Build your assets now. - Grow your money now. - Build the empire now. And in 10 years, you’ll look back and say, “I did this for them.” When you’re 31, what do you want to be looking back on? For me, I want to look back on the wealth I planted for my mom and dad. I want to tell my dad: “It’s okay. You can relax now. Take a breather. Drive your Jeep, race drones, make videos by the beach.” And I want to tell my mom: “Sit in your rocking chair. Read your favorite book. Sip your coffee, watching the sunrise from the front porch of your cottage on the water in Maine.” ______________________________________ But here’s the thing: You must look at the actions you’re taking right now, every day. Ask yourself: - What habits are creating poverty? - What habits are sowing division? - What habits are poisoning relationships? Are you being the responsible adult who’s owning his life? - Owning your finances. - Owning your body. - Owning your influence. - Owning your skills. Or are you just leaving them to chance? ______________________________________ Change Happens in the Micro Disciplines: If you want to get jacked and lean, there are specific factors you must account for consistently: - Drink enough water. - Train hard 3-4x a week. - Condition your aerobic system 1-3x a week. - Stretch every night. - Prime your body every morning. - Bulletproof your joints with mobility work. - Eat sufficient protein daily. - Consume micronutrients through whole foods. - Time and control caffeine intake. - Manage stimulation habits. - Modulate stress. - Monitor biofeedback. - Go to bed on time. - Cut off screens on time. - Cut off work on time. It seems like a lot, but it’s not one big secret. It’s a layer of habits built around one keystone habit: going to the gym. Everything else flows from that.

Every day the pain hits. Every day you get harder. That run doesn’t get “easier” or “shorter” - you become harder, faster, stronger, more conditioned–more calloused to the everyday process of winning. However, the long term process of becoming hard NOW will make your life easy. It’s not that you won’t face bigger giants, you will just have already overcome the hardest part—the first mountain.

When you get to your deathbed, you’re going to think about those goals. You’ll either know you did your absolute best to reach them, or you’ll know they’re still inside you. There’s a dream planted inside you. At least try. Because what else are you going to do? Sit around and wait for someone to give you permission? Wait for someone to hand you the platform, the tools, the help, the support, the access to achieve your goals? Wait for someone to open the doors and give you all the opportunities? Even if you had all the opportunities, no one is going to do the work for you. We live in a world of infinite opportunities, overwhelming options. But you don’t get to keep all the options. You only get now. You don’t get tomorrow. You don’t get yesterday back. You don’t know how many cards you’ve got left. Are you betting on that dream—or playing it safe, trying to protect what you already have? One day, you’ll wake up and think: Damn, why didn’t I just try? The truth is, you don’t even know what’s possible. When you stop asking hard questions and stop seeking new information, you stop living on the frontier. You stay stuck in the limits of your current knowledge, ideas, beliefs, and opinions—which, by the way, are probably wrong. The bigger you think you are, the smaller your perimeter of knowledge. When your knowledge grows, your frontier expands. The unknowns increase. And the truth? You don’t know. You just don’t know. But you will regret not trying. When you lay your head down tonight, you won’t regret saying no to video games. You won’t regret saying no to toxic relationships. You won’t regret saying no to partying every night, wasting your time, or destroying your body. What you will regret is not chasing your passion. Not learning how to train. Not building that clothing line, that business, or that dream. Not getting that specialization, certificate, or skill. Not diving into that field you care about. Not introducing yourself. Not applying.

We argue to stay where we are because we’re scared we’ll lose it—what little we have left, what we already have. We play narratives in our minds that we’ll be rejected, lose everything, that we won’t be enough. Who says you can’t live in a $25k/month NYC apartment with an infinity pool? Where is it written.. that you can’t make it with the gifts and talents you already have? Who told you that this is all that’s left? Your limit? Your finish line? Why do we play into these small-minded narratives? Because it’s easier. It’s easier to believe you’re not enough, or that your trauma and circumstances have ruined your life. It’s easy to write off your dreams as impossible or someone else’s fault. Eagles living with chickens. We surround ourselves with small-minded people. We feed on a hollow diet—physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. We disengage from the flow of life and blame others. “She’s so mean. She has it out for me. I came in 3 minutes late, and I texted a manager. Then she told me to see her after work. She’s the only one here with a stick up her a**…” Everybody does their own form of this. Traffic. Bills. Food. Online content. Politics. The election, dear Lord. It’s so easy to blame everybody, blame God, blame the government, blame TikTok, blame the phones, blame your parents, your boss, the algorithm… So easy. We’re quick to spin stories about why we’ve been wronged and how poorly things will go because of x person, event, or entity. It helps us make sense of reality and excuse our problems instead of owning them, along with the potential beneath them. If there weren’t someone to blame, you’d have to own your infinite potential and do something about it. It’s easy to blame God. It’s harder to fix things.

If I measure what’s missing, I will never be enough. Because the measure, the focus, the aim, the intention of your attention will always determine what you find. The focal point of your viewfinder will always determine the picture you create. It’s a fundamental reality. How you measure reality determines the reality you create in your mind. Seek and you will find. PERCEPTION CREATES REALITY If your focus is on the “I don’t have enough” in your life, this perception will bleed. You may not “have” enough, from an objective surface level view. And if that’s the level of depth you choose to see your life from, fine. But that external perception bleeds into your internal world perspective: on your self, others, and your future. “I don’t have enough” quickly becomes “I am not enough.” Why? Because the focus of your attention always determines the quality of your reality. It is the core factor on which the rest of your life is built. INVISIBLE SETTINGS A lot of these internal perspectives (concepts of self) are invisible to us: We can’t see the settings on the camera, because we’re in the picture. We’re in the current focus, current mindset, current program, and we haven’t looked at the camera’s settings, which influences how much light comes through the lens, the depth perception, the overall frame of things. **btw this is why we meditate, pray, journal, train together, go psycho, etc. — we’re testing the settings.** These concepts of self, when unexamined, become core limits in our lives. They’re the thermostat settings in our lives to which every data point in our field of attention will be adjusted to. To put it simply, we’re talking about who you think you are on a deep, often subconscious level. You must take command of internal self-talk, it is your job. - Out of doubt and into faith - Out of your weakness and into God’s strength - Out of your head and into God’s vision. PART X // THE ENEMY There is a constant battle for your mind, every second of the day.