Agency is tough to define - but there are 3 key components:

• Bias to action

• Irrationality

• Clarity

To quickly some those up:

• You’re always one to take action - instead of being indecisive and consulting 47 people about your next move, you considered multiple avenues and then take decisive action. If you see no results, you learn, refine, and take more action

This chart may help:

Action flow chart

• Irrationality means you’re willing to think outside the collective - does this break the laws of physics? No? Then it’s possible

• While being simultaneously decisive with action, you should also be clear-headed so you can slow, deliberate, and intentional decisions. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

Now, let’s put that agency to work...

1. Direction

Where there’s no vision, the people perish.

What’s the worst thing you can optimize for?

Nothing.

You can do all the energy hacks, follow the rules, optimize your health, write, breathwork, meditation, all the right things...

But if you have no direction, you’re optimizing for more misery.

Know your goals. They set the course.

Otherwise, it’s a waste of time.

You’d be better off drifting than wishing for a life you don’t want to work for.

2. Know why

A vision is great - but why do you want it?

It’s not a question you necessarily have to ask, but it’s a good one to be aware of.

Bigger reasons = bigger motivation.

Emotion = energy in motion.

You need strong reasons that fuel you with emotion to achieve your goals.

Discipline is not real and will never work - optimize your energy (once you set the vision), magnify your reasons, and go.

3. Self audit

If this past week repeated for a year, would you achieve your goals?

Probably not, but at least now you know.

Design a week that guarantees your success.
Then act on it.
Figure out what worked and what didn’t.
Refine.
Repeat.

4. The scary questions

Note: these are extremely quantum and will open your eyes to things you’ve never thought about.

Get deep into a meditative state, and ask yourself what would I do if I had 10x the agency?

Better yet, 100x?

All of the sudden, you just became the most powerful version of yourself you could ever imagine.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of questions you ask yourself.

Then write on it.

I also set an alarm daily to go off at 8am asking me the 100x question, and I spend at least a minute answering myself.

Here’s a great read on agency I keep coming back to: https://www.highagency.com/

Building high agency isn’t hard - transmuting it into action is where the magic happens.

Don’t just “plan” on your dreams, constantly test your agency with courageous action and unconditional commitment.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

-https://www.highagency.com

Video game producers are the best psychologists on the planet.

When you start a video game, it’s virtually impossible to beat the last level of the game.

You start by completing an easy mission.

Dopamine hit.

You then complete a slightly harder mission.

Dopamine hit.

You then complete another slightly harder mission.

Slightly better dopamine hit.

So what do video game producers understand that you don’t?

Big goals require another version of yourself

and that doesn’t happen overnight.

I want you to think about your biggest goals at the moment.

You know deep down you can achieve them...

But can you achieve them today?

Probably not.

So here’s how you’re going to video game your life in order to maximize your odds of achieving your wildest goals.

and how you’re going to leverage the “levels” of life...

The protocol

1. Identify what you want - where there’s no vision, the people parish. When you don’t know what you want, you’re bound to drift. Great journaling question for this is, “If I could not fail in the next year, what would I do?”

2. Visualize achieving it - while visualize doesn’t correlate to action, it significantly improves your odds of success. The brain nearly can’t distinguish of something happening in reality and something immensely and vividly visualized. Make your brain believe you’re already the person that’s achieved your goals, and reality will eventually catch up (as long as you take action)

3. Reverse engineer the process - you have step 100 - now you need to identify steps 1-5... the entire path won’t be revealed, but the path reveals to you as you walk it. If you’re really stuck, ponder and journal on the question of, “If I had 10x the agency, how would I start?”

4. Take action - self-explanatory. Don’t overcomplicate this.

5. Refine - 1 input can equal 10 outputs as you continue to refine. If you don’t 10 inputs will be 1 output forever and you’ll eventually burn out.

6. Iterate - once you find the best methods, repeat until they wear down. And refine.

7. Repeat steps 4-6

8. Achieve goal(s) - stop the smell the roses every once in a while, even if you’re somebody who likes to have their head down all the time

9. REWARD YOURSELF - the good ole carrot-stick method. Take a big vacation, buy a nice watch, upgrade your car... whatever it is. Reward yourself, because you’ll chase even bigger dopamine hits as you raise the bar.

Then set new “unrealistic” goals and repeat the process.

Gamify your life.

Make life bend at your will - don’t bend to life’s will.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

I’ve had three run-ins with the game (2016, covid, and 2024).

My college degree would be more accurate by having GTA Studies on there rather than finance.

But how is GTA representative of success in the real world?

A quick glance

December 2015. A teenage boy in his awkward years walks into Gamestop.

I got a $50 gift card for Christmas - I thought I was rich.

GTA IV, 2k, and some game that should’ve never been produced.

I got so into GTA IV the other games were never touched.

I loved the game.

It was all I thought about, even though I was terrible from the jump.

But I took action - I kept doing missions over and over, failing over and over, and getting better and better.

Before I knew it, I had beaten the game in like 4 days.

Because I took action, refined my skills, and iterated.

Onto GTA V since I didn’t know it existed until after I beat IV.

Played some story mode then straight into online.

Again, terrible.

But I took a ton of action.

Started making a decent amount of money with basic missions.

Got good at those.

Then moved onto to the OG heists.

Terrible again.

But then I found aligned business partners.

And we ACCELERATED through those heists.

Making more money in less time, and iterating those heists over and over...

Until the motorcycle club update hit.

We got into... the businesses associated with it.

Not so bad at first, then got better and better, making more and more money.

Bunker update...

Casino heist a few years later (probably ran 200 of them).

Then Cayo...

You get the point.

But how does the best video game of all time emphasize the simplest methods of success?

It’s simpler than you think

My net worth on GTA V is pushing $500 million... took a lot of years, improvement, finding the right business partners, and iteration.

And that wouldn’t have been possible without taking the first step - stepping into the game, oblivious to the mission ahead, and being fearless and courageous in the process.

Yes I know you don’t have to be fearless and courageous to play a video game; but hopefully you get the point.

In order to achieve your wildest dreams, you have to step into the fast-paced, ruthless, and wild arena ...

AND JUST PLAY.

Embrace getting punched in the face.

Embrace failing over and over again, even when you don’t want to get up.

Embrace looking like an idiot, when all of your friends and family call you crazy and delusional for taking the action to achieve your wildest dreams.

I was not good at the game at first - I barely knew the controls, I could barely drive a car, and going from mission to mission was like moving up in the world.

But I got better and better.

And eventually, I got to the point in GTA V where I found the best method to make millions of dollars in a few hours, surrounded by the right people.

Quick lessons here:

1. Step into the arena - step into the action, knowing nothing except where you want to be. It will tough, you will get punched in the mouth over and over again, but it will give you life.

2. Remember the vision - if you’re in love with the vision, you’ll be in love with the mission.

3. Take action - do the thing. You know what you need to do. You know the first step. The path reveals itself to those who walk it; but only to those who walk it.

4. Refine - don’t just be reckless with your action - refine. Improve. Improvise. Make your life easier. Refined action is better than reckless action. Get better at what you do and get your results faster.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you find the best method to move towards your goals the quickest with less action

6. Repeat 5 until you achieve your goals

7. Set another set of goals that scare you and jump into the next arena

(surround yourself with the right people as well - if you walk the path, they will find you)

Success is simple, you’ve just overcomplicated because you’re afraid to step into the arena.

Don’t be a criminal, but be criminal-like.

Detailed, meticulous, and embrace the monotony.

Take action, find the best way to do it, and iterate.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

For a season I was a longsnapper (if you’re not familiar with football, it’s the center on fied goals and punts... lots of room for error).

I’ve played in some of the most hostile stadiums in the country: Washington, Oregon, Notre Dame...

When my number got called my freshman year, I had no choice but to step up to the plate and perform.

Here’s what I wish I knew as a 19-year-old playing in front of 70,000+.

1. You’ll never outperform your self-image

I would’ve flaunted at the idea of self-image when I played: but after studying neuroscience there and for years now, it is the most important lever you can pull once you get to a certain point.

The amount of potential I left on the table was insane...

Once I started working on my self-image a couple years after the game, I went from a broke 22-year-old to working with some of the best people in the info space (names you’ve definitely come across).

Raising your self-image isn’t that hard, you just make it hard.

Here’s a quick protocol on how to do it.

2. Perfectionism ≠ excellence

In order to be immensely successful AT ANYTHING IN LIFE, you have to fail at an extremely unhealthy rate.

When I got moved to longsnapper my freshman year, for the first six weeks i during the season, I did not have a single good rep (I was not supposed to be a longsnapper, but there was an injury at the position so I moved there).

It was awful, painful, and EMBARASSING how much I failed.

BUT ONLY 2 MONTHS LATER, I set a school record for longsnapping the longest field goal in Stanford football history.

Forever cemented in college football records... I think it was worth the immense amount of failure.

FALL IN LOVE WITH FAILURE.

INVITE IT INTO YOUR LIFE.

You should only be “perfect” in the things you can control, and that’s your identity and routine...

THE INPUTS.

3. You can’t just fail

you also have to refine.

Watch the film. Watch the sales call back. Evaluate your performance to the most disgusting detail.

Action is great, but without refinement and improvement, you will not grow and you will eventually run yourself into the ground.

Take action. Refine.

Take action. Refine.

Take action. Refine.

You can become SO MUCH BETTER at ANYTHING you do in life at a MUCH QUICKER RATE than you can imagine.

Don’t just work hard - refine harder.

4. Being inconsistent with your process breeds inconsistent results

If you don’t go to sleep on time...

If you’re inconsistent with your diet and hydration...

If you’re inconsistent at the gym...

your body won’t trust you when the bullets are flying.

Your word is LAW.

Act like it.

5. Impatient with the inputs...

patient with the outputs.

You have to be willing to put a DISGUSTING amount of effort and work into your process without seeing results for a period of time.

Too many people get caught up in the fact that they’re “failing” too much early in starting anything, which is why people hop from thing to thing every time something gets hard.

Detached from the outcome.

Keep knocking, and the door will open eventually.

6. The tools of a successful athlete (or you)

Here are the 5 things I focus on with every single one of my clients.

1. Identity (or self-image): again, you’ll never outperform the way you see yourself. How you do one thing is how you do everything. Write down the character you need to embody and live through it, everyday.

2. Vision - where there’s no vision, the people parish. Know what you want to the most minute detail.

3. Breathwork - the gas and brake pedal of the nervous system. Oxygen efficiency. Recovery. Energy. Better sleep.

4. Meditation - get the brain out of analytical mode. Become present in the moment. Live slowly; slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

5. Visualization - the brain almost can’t distinguish something vividly and immensely imagined vs. reality. Train your brain to perform under pressure and to act as if you’re already living your dream reality.

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After playing, I became a mental performance coach and I’ve helped over 50+ athletes at the high school, collegiate, and semipro level take their mental game from doubtful, fearful, and anxious to convicted and confident.

Watch this video for more about my process and how I do it, or DM me TRANSFORM to learn more.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

And while it looks great, it’s an indirect effect of the way he’s exponentially changed his life.

For him, a morning routine was ABSOLUTELY necessary for him to be successful...

But why?

1. You don’t get what you want...

you get what you are.

Growing up, Hall had all the football talent in the world: strong, athletic, physical work ethic...

But he wasn’t discipline.

He saw himself as a kid who was very athletic, but not somebody who was willing to do what it took off the field to be successful.

He failed classes, barely knew his playbook, and did not treat his body like the professional athlete he wanted to become.

Therefore, a routine was the only choice he had when it came to becoming generationally successful.

If you need a morning routine, have it.

If not, get up, get some sunlight and coffee, and get to work.

It’s that simple.

2. An ‘unhealthy’ obsession to be great

There’s a dichotomy and a tradeoff to every trait in this world.

For Hall, he always knew he wanted to become successful and impact lives at a global level.

And he thought he was going to do that in the NFL...

And while he was willing to take action, he dictated his self-worth based on his results, therefore discouraging him to work head.

Being ambitious can be just as detrimental as its payoff.

Don’t base your self-worth on your results; base it on the action you’ve taken.

Control what you can control, and surrender to the results.

Keep knocking, and the door will open eventually.

If you’re ambitious but struggling to see it through because you’re not seeing the results yet, this article is for you.

3. Urgency

Through college and eventually his training gigs at Planet Fitness and LA Fitness, Hall was never around the right people or environment for him to achieve the things he wanted to achieve.

I will beat this horse until it’s dead: motivation is not a thing, your environment dictates your “motivation,” the habit you have, and the action you’re willing to take.

Once he was able to leave LA Fitness and go all in on content creation and online fitness coaching, his success was inevitable.

He eventually surrounded himself with the right people, whether it was through online communities or connecting with aligned people in person or through the Internet.

If you want to make $100k/m, curate your environment, algorithm, and communities to easily achieve that.

You have no idea what’s on the other side of surrounding yourself with people who take massive action and risk, have a Godly amount of urgency, and are willing to go the extra mile to get what they want.

Success is simple, just not easy... sometimes.

Figure our what you want, become the person that achieves those goals, and do the work.

Vision, calibration, execution.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

My life CHANGED when I implemented this one mental frame...

I don’t believe in mental frames, I believe more in identity, as your thoughts and mental frames are sponsored by your subconscious mind - not in some “mindset” you saw in a surface-level, motivational YouTube video.

I don’t write long articles so let’s get right into it.

If you’re not willing to take action to change or solve a problem...

don’t complain about it.

It leaves you with two options when you face adversity, a problem, or a tough circumstances:

1. You acknowledge the problem, maybe complain about it, and do something to fix it

2. OR you acknowledge the problem, complain about it momentarily, and then move on from the problem if you’re not willing to do anything about it in this moment, or ever

This does two things:

1. It closes the open loop in your mind. When we’re faced with a problem/circumstance , we open a “tab” or a “ticket” in our brain - so you either close this loop by taking action, or ruthlessly AND unapologetically deciding not to take action

2. With closing the loop in your mind, it brings you peace and clarity and allows your mind to focus on the tasks that will move the needle forward

It also allows your body to be free and light, evoking smoother action and a clearer mind.

Take action to solve your problems, or don’t give them your invaluable energy.

This is not a be all, end all solution for you to run from all adversity or the problems you need to face.

But this will be extremely beneficial for you to implement in your life, as you face tough adversity or minimal problems.

Let the water flow off a duck’s back, and reclaim your limitless energy and life.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

Not because I started just writing - but because I had the frameworks to identify what I want and what was getting in the way of the pursuit of my dream life.

Don’t get me wrong - braindumping is great.

But to get the most out of journaling, you need frameworks you can rely on to make QUANTUM leaps.

Without further ado, here’s the sauce I’ve learned from my mentors, which include some with millions of followers and millions of dollars.

1. Daily wins

When you start tracking your daily wins, you train your brain (specifically the RAS) to start unconsciously look for more wins. Eventually, you’ll start to see wins in every moment, compounding into a life of gratitude, wealth, and abundance.

2. Future gratitude

The deepest programming in your brain (the subconscious mind) runs 95% of your function... yet it somehow doesn’t understand the concept of time.

That means all of your thoughts, beliefs, and actions come from a self-image that your subconscious mind inhibits.

This is why hypnosis works - hypnotists can rewire brains in a matter of minutes by firing million upon millions of neurons, provoking somebody’s highest version.

And since the subconscious mind doesn’t understand time, we can rewire it to believe that you’re already where you want to be - therefore, you have the thoughts and beliefs this version of you, prompting you to take more bold and urgent action.

You don’t just achieve your goals faster; YOU COMPRESS TIME.

You will NEVER outperform your self-image...

Start journaling like you’re already there.

3. The 100s

This one changed the way I saw my ability to do difficult things...

You’re going to create a Google Doc of a running list of ALL of your accomplishments - from as big as a $10 million sales to as small as learning how to ride a bike for the first time.

What you’ll start to notice is that you’ve accomplished much more than you’ve ever realized...

And it makes your next goals seem easier, and maybe even small.

Go year-by-year. Take your time with this one. Revisit every 3-6 months and COMPOUND your confidence.

For the rest of these life-changing prompts, see this video.

These have helped over 50 athletes (including college and semipro) and 7-fig entrepreneurs quantum leap. DM me JOURNAL to learn more about my process.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

Which is why they’re part of the 99% of ordinary people...

The quality of your life can be influenced by your thoughts...

but it goes much deeper than that...

You DO NOT control your thoughts... directly

Last August, I stayed at The Boca Raton for a healthcare conference...

It was the first time in my life I was exposed to REAL wealth.

100 foot+ yachts, CEOs of the largest companies, serial entrepreneurs, the nicest of cars, a perfect golf course, unthinkable amenities, the highest quality food...

But the thing that stood out to me most...

It wasn’t the endless rari’s or Rolls...

It wasn’t the Yacht Club or the display of billions of dollars...

It was the pace of life.

The peace.

The lack of anxiety.

How people moved slow... but smooth...

The way people were in the moment, friendly, and at ease...

They weren’t “controlling their thoughts...”

Their environment allowed for them to have a regulated nervous system, which is a downstream of your reality.

How your world is influenced

Take a look at the image below:

A lot going on here - but I’ll break it down.

Your thoughts are just a small part of the equations...

and honestly your thoughts are insignificant to the bigger picture...

AGAIN, YOU DO NOT CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS.

The thoughts you have are a direct byproduct of the way you see yourself.

Your reality is a direct byproduct of the actions you take - but the actions you take are based on the thoughts you have, the beliefs you inhibit, and the you your subconscious mind sees you (or your self-image).

Your self-image is HEAVILY reliant upon and influenced by the box on the left. Your circumstances (living situation, $ in bank account, health/fitness, relationships), your environment (the energy in the air, the way your home and city operate), and the people around you SIGNIFICANTLY impact the way you see yourself - resulting in a change of thoughts, beliefs, and therefore action.

But let’s take it another level deeper.

There’s a great argument for your dominant emotional state dictating your reality - if you’re constantly in a state of fear, your thoughts and beliefs will be scarce, you’ll have a poor self-image, and you’ll take limited action.

But if your dominant emotional state is comprised of peace, gratitude, and willingness, you’ll be able to take more risk and action, all at a smoother pace and greater energetic potential - which will COMPOUND into a reality you can be even more grateful for.

But let’s go another level deeper.

Negating the uncontrollables

NOW...

If you’re not in the most circumstance, environment, circle of people etc.

A regulated nervous system can negate ALL of these negative factors and propel you into a more favorable situation that aligns with your dream life.

As one of my most successful mentors says...

You can only get rich if you’re nervous system is regulated.

“Nervous system regulation” at this point is a buzzword... kinda overused - but it’s important to define it and iterate its EXTREME importance and influence it has over your reality.

A regulated nervous system is one that is bulletproof - when you’re cut off in traffic, overwhelmed and stress, or just can’t get anything to go your way, your nervous system stays grounded and calm.

Which protects your dominant emotional state...

Allowing you to have positive thoughts and beliefs...

Which facilitates higher and sustainable action...

Propelling you into a higher reality.

The dominant state of your nervous system controls your reality - EVERYTHING in your reality is a downstream of the dominant state of your nervous system.

The dominant state of your nervous system can either have you peaceful, abundant, and smooth...

OR it can have you in a constant state of FEAR, anxiety, and scarcity.

Trying to overdrive a sensitive nervous system with “positive” thoughts will have your body fighting itself - the subconscious mind (95% of your brain) doesn’t entertain thoughts - it entertains strong emotion and the state of your nervous system, and your nervous system will ALWAYS win.

So while you keep trying to influence your reality with toxic positivity...

This is the protocol I follow to keep my nervous system regulated, so I can create any reality I desire:

1. Identify your dominant emotional state - “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate” - Carl Jung. In order to become aware of what’s redlining your nervous system, you must become first aware of your dominant emotional state day-to-day: is it doubtful, fearful, and anxious? Or are you generally living in a state of peace, abundance, and courage? If you’re not ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN it’s the latter, then it’s the former. But that means you have a ton of room for potential to become even greater.

2. Dive deeper - get your journal out. Once you’ve identified this dominant emotional state, ask why. If it’s fearful, what do you fear? Once you identify all of your fears, why do you fear them? What’s the ABSOLUTE worst case scenario?

3. Regulation - breathwork. Meditation. Release. We need to lower our brain waves so our analytical brain isn’t firing on all cylinders. Use 4s in, 8s out breathing for 5 minutes to enter a meditative state. Once you’re in this meditative state, you’ll be able to explore these fears without over-analyzing them. Neutralize the fears, feel the tension in your body, and let the tension release and the fears go. Come out of this meditation slowly.

4. Integration - once you’ve let these fears go and downshifted your nervous system, you must integrate this into your daily life. Be deliberate and smooth in everything you do. Slow down - slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Nothing is important as you make it. Do as much as you can to avoid being in a rush. Moving at 80% will allow you to operate at 100%.

Bulletproofing your nervous system - The protocol above is more of a tool to use when your nervous system is over-firing. HOWEVER, you can strengthen your nervous your system with intermittent hypoxia, the practice of intentional exhale holds.

Exhale holds are extremely powerful because as your body becomes more and more deprived of oxygen, your nervous system shoots into emergency mode. As you become more and more capable of not only holding your exhale longer BUT ALSO staying calm in this emergency mode, your nervous system doesn’t become reactive - it becomes responsive.

And a responsive nervous system is one you control - therefore controlling your thoughts.

The Coherence breathwork app gets me into a regulated state in minutes, while also using the Vortex Method to strengthen my nervous system. Code JLOWE for 2 weeks free.

Your ability to control your nervous system is how much power you’ll have over your thoughts.

Your dominant nervous system compounds your circumstance, results, and reality.

Regulate it, or it regulates you.

Learn more about the iceberg of your mind/identity here (neuroplasticity, self-hypnosis etc.): YouTube.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

The power law is stated best by Albert Einstein:

He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it,

Or by the Bible, on multiple occasions:

• Matthew 13:12 - Whoever HAS will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

• Galatians 6:7-9 - A man reaps what he sows. ... Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

• Proverbs 14:23 - All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

• 2 Corinthians 9:6 - But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

• Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

• James 5:7 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

• Psalm 1:3 - And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in HIS season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

I could go on and on - but to summarize this into one statement...

Anything worthwhile and fruitful comes with compounding, dedicated, and unconditional commitment to a large vision.

Success comes from the unconditional process of putting years of work (laying brick by brick), being patient with your results, and seeing the long-term vision instead of the short-term results.

Stupid games win stupid prizes

But those who can see the long-term VISION... AND not be hard on themselves in the process...

Will reap ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING they EVER set out for.

The more audacious your goals, the more you might criticize yourself, as the gap between you and your goals is wider.

If you want to lose 30 pounds, the task can feel daunting - it might take 3-6 months, a complete change in your routine and diet, and one cheat meal feels like committing a crime.

But here’s what separates the GOOD from the GREAT...

Impatient with the inputs, patient in the outputs.

The downside of setting large goals over years is that it can be easy to become less urgent over time with the inputs.

Being able to combine URGENCY with PATIENCE is critical.

Your inputs have to be urgent, deliberate, aggressive, and iterated at an extremely high level with intention.

Simultaneously, you must be patient, unconditional, and impartial to your results, meaning you have to be easy on yourself while not becoming too high or too low based on your results.

Success IS NOT hard, and if you think it is, you’ve overcomplicated it - but those who don’t understand the power law AND/OR are too hard on themselves in the short-term will struggle to pursue anything great.

Impatient with the inputs, patient in the outputs.

Aggressive, but impartial.

Urgent, but patient.

Intentional, but unattached.

Your ability to integrate urgency with patience will be the ceiling of your potential.

Larry Bird famously said..

You’re either getting better or getting worse.

Stagnation is REGRESSION.

If you’re “staying the same,” your competition is improving, the dollar is losing its value, and your skills are slowly becoming rusty.

One of the best laws of physics states that things, unless tended to, will naturally divert to chaos.

That business owner without systems? If he leaves his business alone for 72 hours, it falls apart.

The offseason where Johnny Manziel partied in Miami 24/7 after he won the Heisman? He lost his edge, magic, and finesse that made him a DOG as a true freshman.

The sales rep that only sells? He’s throwing shots in the dark, becoming more and more frustrated with his process, and it missing out on QUANTUM improvement by refining his process.

Nothing ever stays the same.

You’re either getting better or getting worse (yes, rest is required brother - I recover harder than a pro athlete, my guide here).

But you must be willing to be obsessed with CONSTANT improvement.

Brick by brick.

Day by day.

Input by input.

And your desired reality will become inevitable.

Don’t get self-worth caught up in the now - set the vision, run the mission.

Find a BIG vision worth fighting for - ONLY obsess over the vision morning and night (guide here), and live through the IDENTITY of the person that is capable of achieving those goals.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

You tossed the 2025 goals that didn’t seem important or achievable, kept some, and then added a few more that felt good... at least in the moment.

You felt an odd sense of accomplishment, satisfaction... yet dissatisfaction.

You felt unpleased and guilty by not achieving all you set out for... yet you justified some goals by bending the rules or simply wrote others off because they felt overwhelming or “misaligned.”

You fell into the trap of constraining your goals with everybody else’s clock.

Your goals felt achievable at the start of the year, but increasingly became less and less attainable.

You knew the identity and habitual transformation it would’ve taken (which wouldn’t of been that hard), but your time horizon was too constrained.

Long-term thinkers...

can set long-term goals - without the pressure.

Long-term goals mean more opportunity for audacity, delusion, and risk...

Not only can long-term thinkers set more audacious goals because of their safety net (whether it be finances, career, etc.)

They understand the patience and time it TRULY takes to achieve the unachievable...

Jeff Bezos didn’t start Amazon from his garage in 1996 and wanted to have its ecommerce doing billions in sales by Q2 1997...

Steve Jobs didn’t return to Apple in 1996 and plan to turn it into the world’s most prestigious technology company in a couple of years...

The most successful people on this earth think in decades...

Not on a surface-level vision board that you forget 6 weeks into the year.

And while these people did OPERATE with a maximum level of urgency, they combined it with a sense of calm, controlled, and peaceful patience.

Setting big goals is a dichotomy - you have to have the PACE of an emergency room while have the PATIENCE of a monk...

Impatient with the inputs, patient with the outputs.

But here’s the one trait MOST people ignore...

calibration.

If you set an end-goal for 6 months (let alone longer than that), you are not going to know what the entire journey looks like.

The more audacious your goals, the more you must be willing to set your ego aside in order to calibrate your approach and identity.

Don’t just set the vision - build the SYSTEMS and the IDENTITY that allow you to be urgent AND calm under pressure.

Because goals without systems and an identity shift... goals are just wishes.

If you want a YouTube video on this, DM me “systems.”

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

It started when I read the Success Principles by Jack Canfield, an absolute staple.

Once I started implementing the basics and saw immediate results, I was hungry for more.

I doubled down on everything - reading, breathwork, vision boards and goal-setting...

Ordered more books.

Hired a mentor.

Accomplished A TON in a short amount of time.

But then I hit a plateau...

And one that really stung...

The trap of self-development

Eventually, it became a form of escapism from the real work.

Because your brain registers self-development the same as accomplishing your goals - it thinks you’re advancing, so it wants more of the same dopamine hits that come with self-development.

And eventually, you’re running around the same circles, reading the same things, and “always getting better.”

When in reality, you’re going nowhere...

Which is why this book (not Success Principles) can be you last and FINAL book you’ll ever need for personal development...

Let’s dive into the principles:

1. FULL responsibility

None of personal development matters without this principle - your life is entirely your responsibility - NOBODY else’s.

The basic formula of E + R = O explains this best (event + response = outcome)

There are things we just simply can’t control.

Let’s say you got into a car crash and you were injured, but not at-fault - this is the event.

Your RESPONSE to this event will significantly deter your outcome.

You can either be a victim, complain about it to everybody you know, and wallow in self-pity...

Or choose to become healthy quickly and structure your driving around different times to put yourself in a better position by minimizing your risk to the best of your ability.

Completely control what you can control, and don’t complain about what you can’t.

2. Your biggest limit?

You.

Your identity.

Your self-image.

The way you see yourself and the story you tell yourself.

You will never, EVER outperform the way you see yourself and the emotions that surround the story you constantly tell yourself.

3. Your circle/environment MATTER

You could do 20% of the work you do now around high-performers and achieve 10x more than you do now.

You absorb the beliefs, thoughts, habits, and actions of those you surround yourself with the most.

You might as well make it easy by surrounding yourself with high-level people.

4. Beliefs → thoughts → action

You must believe you can achieve an idea, then dominantly think like the person you want to become, then MOST IMPORTANTLY, ACT like the person you want to become.

No matter what your favorite manifestation guru wants to say, you must have alignment across all three of these planes: mind, body, and spirit.

Or one of them will hold you back like a weak chainlink...

5. Being humble

Most people have the wrong interpretation of humility.

Most people think humility is about being nice and respectful to those around you while not flaunting your achievements/abilities.

And while that does hold some merit...

Humility is more about the internal picture of yourself.

Being humble doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to be “realistic” either...

It’s about being open to constant growth, refinement, and self-awareness.

Being able to be aware of your abilities WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY having the delusional thought-forms that you’re capable of SO MUCH MORE is the humility that the greats hold.

If you’re able to balance humility and hubris well, you’re going to be able to grow at an exponential pace.

For the rest of the points and the book, hit my YouTube where I share 20+ principles that will TRANSFORM your mindset and life.

Chapters are included so you can bounce around between ideas.

One LAST masterclass for personal development that you can implement into your dream life.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

No purpose, no vision, no goals...

I’d wake up with no fire, no clarity, and completely lost...

I’d lay in bed, confused about my path ahead or even at my first task at the day.

Life felt as if I was in a void....

Completely black and white.

Trapped in my own body.

My mind either completely empty or in uncontrollable rumination.

Ridden of guilt and shame because I wasn’t moving towards something or getting better.

Only feeling satisfied if I was “working” or completely distracted from my negative energy.

Doing anything and everything to distract me from my biggest fears or problems, whether it was consumption or victimization.

Wallowing in my own pity, wondering if the void was everything going to end.

We all go through these experiences, and tactically should...

Because here’s where the magic happens...

The magic in nothingness

Regardless of what your favorite guru says, you can’t always be moving forward.

Muscles grow during recovery.

Your brain recovers during sleep.

And your nervous system expands to hold more capacity when you surrender to adversity.

When you have no clarity of your future, your first instinct is to fight to know more, force your way to the path, and beg for an answer.

But in times of disparity, the most powerful thing you can do is surrender.

It is NOT easy to embrace the adversity and truly feel the shame and guilt that might be running your life and ruminating underneath.

But you strengthen your ability to control your emotions.

You learn how to alchemize your emotions.

You learn how to neutralize fear, anxiety, and the guilt that comes with not progressing.

And here’s how to do it:

The protocol

For this kind of emotional state, there is certainly no one size fits all protocol.

But here’s what has worked for me in the past:

1. Not labeling the state - when you label this stage as depression, nothingness, purposeless etc. you’ll find excuses to satisfy and therefore perpetuate this state. If you label this state as normal, you neutralize the emotions associated with this state and therefore can look at it with an unbiased lens - it oddly eventually becomes peaceful, because you go from rumination to rest, leading to clarity

2. Nervous system regulation - easier said than done. When you’re lost/purposeless, your body and mind are going to be more comfortable in fight-or-flight - they want clarity on the future, as it as safe to your survival. But being able to downshift your nervous system is going to be your fallback. Try 2-4 breaths per minute. Extremely slow, extremely controlled, but extremely peaceful and eye-opening. You might even have breakthroughs as soon as your nervous system finally slows down

3. No forceful thoughts - toxic positivity is your worst friend here (and always). Trying to force yourself to “be positive” will be like pouring water on a wildfire. The fire needs to slowly burn out, not be halted

4. Rest - you’ll never outwork one of these phases - ever. Spend time with people you love, slow down in the gym, and give your body the capacity to rest, so you can recover and grow. You’ll be able to hold my stress and responsibility as a result of resting. Protocol here.

All of this is much, MUCH easier said than done. Surrender to the abyss, and you’ll somehow, someway, find peace... God has a plan for you. Jeremiah 29:11:

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

You’re not always going to have clarity on what to do, let alone sometimes where you’re even going.

God puts you through these seasons to rid of the negative energy and tension that’s been holding you back from your potential.

Embrace it; don’t label it. Your power is infinite.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

Your opinion might be different than mine, but some things, quite frankly, are indisputable.

And this article is one of them.

I have never, EVER understood the concept of more money, more problems.

I don’t think it stands on any tangible or even JUSTIFIABLE merit.

But these are hypothetical problems that can from the opinions and thought-forms of those who’ve never experienced the peace financial freedom can offer...

It’s purely cope.

I’m calling a spade a spade: money solves 99.99% of ALL problems...

It may not buy happiness.

It may attract the wrong people into your life, in which you learn how to manage.

It may come with a heightened responsibility and more risk, in which you learn how to manage.

But money solves all problems.

Think about your current biggest constraints... whether it’s

• Your living situation / location

• How hard you work to stay afloat

• The car you drive and the problems it has, gas prices, and car insurance

• Health insurance / any health concerns

• Cost of groceries

• Where you can vacation

Any of the problems above CAN BE ALLEVIATED with your ability to make more money...

More money gives you the opportunity to explore options you didn’t even know existed before.

More money gives you the leverage to meet people you couldn’t even fathom connecting with before.

More money gives you the peace to live in a state of abundance rather than survival.

Let me also be abundantly clear - you do (almost) everything for your bottom line.

And that’s ok.

There’s no absolutely reason to hold shame or guilt over it - money is required and is an exchange of energy to make your life more abundant, efficient, free, and peaceful.

Don’t hold guilt and shame over the fact the 99% of your efforts towards going making more money - see it as an honor and service to those you love.

Here’s a GREAT podcast of how financial freedom can bring extreme leverage and peace into your life... try to ignore the ego, but understand he comes from a poor, scarce background and has built a SIGNIFICANT amount of wealth in a short period of time.

Let me be ABUNDANTLY clear: I am NOT saying you should worship money, in fact the opposite. Matthew 6:24 states:

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

HOWEVER...

I do FIRMLY believe that your net worth is directly correlated to the exact degree of your impact on humanity...

Serve God’s mission and your purpose...

And you’ll be fruitfully rewarded financially...

Allowing you to curate a life of freedom, peace, and options.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

What I’ve come to realize is...

faith and fear are the EXACT same thing - AND hold the same energetic potential.

Faith is having a blind, positive outlook on your future / outcomes, while simply FEAR is a negative outlook on your future / outcomes.

THAT’S IT.

It’s a powerful reframe, as we tend to forget 99.9% of our fears hold little to no merit.

Fear is simply rumination - it starts small, and we progressively find a very small amount of evidence to prove these larger, potential catastrophes right.

Fear CAN be killed.

But it MUST be met head on.

IF you decide to shove away fear instead...

It WILL ruminate in the background...

and dictate EVERY last thought, belief, habit and action you ever take...

What you resist, persists.

How to neutralize the energy of fear...

Fear is always stored somewhere in your body - for me, mostly in my solar plexus and head.

Get out your journal:

1. Identify your biggest fears - this can be few or many, there’s no right or wrong answer - the more you identify, the better

2. Create a chart - start with your most prominent fear - what if this materialized? Why do I fear this? What is the underlying cause? Am I afraid of letting others or myself down? What is the risk associated with this fear? What are the underlying fears?

3. Energetic alchemy - once you’ve disgustingly explored your fears, it’s time to alchemize that energy into faith. Get deep into meditation - see these fears materializing and feel where the energy is stored in your body - feel the energy with no bias, just feel it simply as it is - let the tension dissipate - you should feel lighter as a result of this exercise

Great questions to ask yourself during this meditation:

• Is this fear true?

• Is it ABSOLUTELY true?

• How would it feel to let this tension go?

Simple said, simple done.

Don’t overcomplicate it.

You may not rid of ALL of your fear on your first try, but becoming aware of and neutralizing the energy behind your fear will be EXTREMELY fruitful.

Great fear protocol here as well.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

Most people don’t want to be great.

And there’s nothing wrong with that.

There’s nothing wrong with having a comfortable, easy, and stable lifestyle - there’s really not and I respect those who can maintain that and be ok with being average.

But there’s one differentiating factor that separates from those who talk and those who walk... and it’s not complicated.

It’s all about collapsing the time of implementation to action.

But most like to make it complicated because complexity feels good to them.

The traits of those who win...

1. Volume - no matter what somebody portrays, those who are masters at what they do have thousands of reps and hours of experience to back it up - the more you do, the better you get, and therefore the higher odds of your success

2. Speed - the more speed, the more successful. The greats don’t wait for permission, they pounce on their ideas - they test the market, their consumers, their competitors etc. and they act upon their intuition as quickly as possible

3. Correction - this is where you take volume and speed and direct it - ONLY having volume and speed can be reckless - you MUST refine and redirect your efforts so they can be as effective and efficient as possible

4. Over-delivery - the greats, especially early on, overdeliver - there’s no detail too small to overlook - they’re as perfect and as detailed as possible

5. Slow urgency - while the greats have a high sense of urgency, they understand that relentless rest will do FAR MORE than being relentless 24/7 (my relentless protocol here)

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You feel productive... but are you?

Most people would rather do ANYTHING but the work...

You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, bought the courses, done the inner work, sought the mentorship...

But ask yourself... what are the things that are going to ACTUALLY move me toward my goals?

And what’s cool about that?

Most people hate the work it really takes to be successful...

And that’s your advantage.

A lot of people like to feel productive.

And then there’s those who ARE productive.

Don’t just feel, DO.

You can collapse the time and space to your dreams with the right action.

But you can only find the right action with action.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

Let me give you some perspective: in September 2024, I was diagnosed with a second lumbar disc herniation that only got worse and worse. Eventually, a piece of the disc fell off and prevented me from being able to lift my left foot - AND I was living in New England (cold weather is not good for disc herniations, as your nervous system is constantly taking hits).

Life sucked.

I move backed to Florida and opted in for a second major back surgery (21 at the time, college student).

Early in my rehab I was on a walk with my dad, telling him about how I felt a little lost, didn’t know what I wanted to do career-wise, etc.

His response?

You can just be a deadbeat.

From that day forward, EVERYTHING shifted.

I embodied full authority, freedom, and liberty over my life.

Nothing was going to deter me from ME and MY GOALS.

And that happened...

You are either living in VICTIMIZATION or AUTHORITY... which can lead to 2 paths...

and you can only compound in one direction...

everything compounds…

4 things....

Here are 4 quick things to see if you’re living in a more victim mentality or a more authoritative state.

1. When you have problems, do you seek the opinion of many, or just 1-2 close people?

2. Do you attach PAST events to your CURRENT self? (this one was very liberating for me, as our ego likes familiarity and comfort... therefore, your mind will always look for ways to affirm your victimization... just like it will your authority)

3. Do you take COMPLETE responsibility and ownership for EVERYTHING in your life, or do you tend to blame others, or even yourself? (nothing is your fault, but everything is your cause)

4. Does my circle complain and blame others, or are they forward-moving?

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Simple one today... yet very powerful.

Don’t blame others, don’t even blame yourself for your mistakes... blame and shame are what keep you glued to misery.

Let go, move on, move forward.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

There is NOTHING that can compare to the feeling of a clear, peaceful mind.

Whether you’re a content creator, writer, or anybody trying to contribute anything to this world (YOU), having a clear and peaceful mind is a CHEAT CODE.

NOTHING in this world can beat a clear mind - your thoughts flow easily, work seems effortlessly, and you become INEFFABLE.

You experience reality as blissful, peaceful, and creative instead of narrow, scarce, and forced.

You create on command.

You feel as if you’re in a video game.

Your vision is open, broad, and picks up anything and everything to PULL you closer to your goals.

But unfortunately for most, this isn’t the norm.

Most experience a reality that’s rushed.

Chaotic.

Full of TENSION and fear.

Doubtful.

And sometimes ... this can even feel threatening.

You might feel as if you’re unsafe, not secure, or not in control of your world, let alone yourself.

You’re either in control of your reality and circumstances, or you’re not.

Let’s get into the protocol.

The protocol

The most American thing you can ever do is add more.

Instead of sleeping more, most Americans would rather add another energy drink or some “nootropic” that is just a placebo.

Instead removing distractions from their environment, most Americans would rather clunk up their desk and have a journal for “other tasks” instead of just having no option to do anything but the work.

But less is more.

And here’s the part you’re forgetting...

you have a vessel.

The voice in your mind, the intuition from your higher self, and the part of you that doubts and fears everything.

That vessel is either spoken from your intuition, or your ego.

It’s either serving you, or hindering you.

It’s either moving you forward, or keeping you in the same patterns.

You’re either consuming or creating.

And it is NOT easy to go from consuming TO creating.

So let’s clear your vessel:

1. Minimize your inputs - you don’t need more, you need less. Less time consuming, less time listening to music, less “learning” through incessant and unnecessary guilt-tripping podcasts, less self-help, and more intuition - THIS FIRST STARTS WITH REMOVING - less music, less sugar and caffeine, MORE silence and nature

2. Detox - your dopamine sensitivity is your baseline - if you can’t sit down for an hour and work, forget about being able to listen to yourself and focus more on being able to sit in stillness - protocol here

3. Relentless rest - you can’t create your best product without your best rest - protocol here

4. Breathwork/meditation - one of the highest ROI things you can do IN ANY MOMENT of your life is to shut off the analytical part of your mind. Practice 5 minutes of breathwork a day, sit in meditation for 15 minutes, and allow your mind to slow down - slow is smooth, smooth is fast

5. Write - journal, brain dump, create fear charts, explore your repeating thoughts... think about your thoughts as if they’re a ball of yarn - we want to untangle that ball of yarn so we’re in CONTROL of our thoughts

6. Implement - this will not be easy, but it will be EXTREMELY fruitful. Slow down on a day-to-day basis - do one thing at a time - be in your body instead of your mind - let your subconscious mind takeover, not your ego

The funny thing?

You probably already know what you need to do...

You’re just attached to your old patterns and old self...

CLEAR YOUR VESSEL...

so you can create whatever it is you desire.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

Don’t think so?

You make around 33,000-35,000 decisions PER DAY from your current identity, thoughts, beliefs, patterns, etc.

Imagine how many SCARCE decisions you make...

How many of those decisions are MISALIGNED with your dreams...

How much REVENUE you’re missing out on...

Your identity isn’t at the surface level...

It’s at a subconscious level, which runs 95% of your mind and body.

Therefore, in order to REWIRE our brain, we must go to the ROOT to create LASTING change.

The protocol

Reality creation is easy... you just make it hard because your ego likes complexity.

Mark 11:24:

“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer (vision), believe that you have received it (REWIRE), and it will be yours (action).”

This means you must (simply):

1. Become crystal clear over what you want to manifest over the next 90 days and 12 months. A quarter gives you enough time to take action while seeing some result, while 12 months gives you enough time to reverse engineer your process. Financial, career, body/strength, and any other measurable goals will suffice. You should be able to measure all of your goals; there should be no room for subjectivity, as your subconscious mind speaks simple, yet powerful language.

2. Meditate, pray, and visualize living this reality every morning and night. The version of you that has manifested this reality... what do you think like? What do you wear? What kind of mental attitude and frequency do you embody? How do carry yourself? How do you speak to others? Take yourself through a day of you living in your desired reality... journal it, then voice memo it with vivid detail. Listen to this voice memo every morning on your commute.

3. Surrender. Surrender to God and your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is always seeking validation to match your identity to your reality. Therefore, if you become your desired reality internally, it must and only can reflect externally.

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Don’t overcomplicate it.

Hit my YouTube for more.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

The ability to say you’re going to do something and to believe that you’ll actually do it is a superpower.

-Chris Williamson

The idea of delusional optimism has been potently and obnoxiously flying around the internet - the unwavering, sometimes irrational belief that things will turn out well even when current facts or past patterns suggest otherwise.

Believe me: I am delusional.

If you know me personally or have done anything with me, you know.

I played football at Stanford, closed HT offers at a 52% close rate, and have amassed now 5 offers in the healthcare business space with doctors coming to me, mind you at 23 y/o, to get help when they have business, marketing, compliance, or payment needs.

I am fucking delusional.

But unlike most who just talk about it...

I actually do something with it.

And I could probably do more...

But delusional optimism is ONLY HALF OF THE EQUATION.

‘Delusional optimism’ isn’t the strongest form of delusional optimism

There are a significant amount of highly successful people that don’t touch on the mental aspect of becoming successful, whether it’d be mindset, goal-setting, visualization, etc.

They just happen to have delusional optimism already wired into their coding - which leads them into the MOST IMPORTANT part of delusional optimism...

They integrate their delusional beliefs into a delusional amount of ACTION and/or LEVERAGE.

Nothing will EVER materialize in your world without the integration of your belief systems.

You can believe, do scripts, affirmations, visualizations all you want...

But delusional optimism MUST be met with a delusional amount of action and/or leverage, which could be:

• Simply action: do more, sell more, post more content, learn more, make more connections, more outreach, more f/u’s, invest more in mentors, etc.

• Leverage: go into GOOD debt for your dream, hire before you’re ready to hire to earn back your time and effort, take out a business loan, etc.

Sure, it might sound like ‘bro science.’

But you’ll NEVER do anything in this life by just thinking about your dreams... the law of attraction IS NOT real (it only works because THERE IS some form of action in between)...

Don’t ONLY think and believe with delusional...

act with delusion as well.

Here’s how you can rewire your brain to integrate delusional optimism: YouTube

Meet it with a delusional amount of action and/or leverage.

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

I was overseeing a mental performance offer for high school athletes, running a coaching offer with , and balancing college on top of it.

I was cooked.

So I needed a trip... somewhere I could detach and recharge.

Yep, you guessed it.

Miami.

Out of all places, this is where I was going to find some peace and hit a HARD reset.

(while I did not plan on clubbing, a close friend from LA was in Fort Lauderdale so we hit Mila).

On this Wednesday/Thursday/Friday in MIA, I had no sales calls....

Until they started flooding in...

As soon as I hit 95 in Dade, something shifted... iykyk

I hadn’t been to Miami since I was really young, but the energy in the air was just different.

Once I got off at Brickell Ave., something shifted...

For the first time in my life, while I felt so small and insignificant, but I was ALIVE.

I had instantly recharged.

Nick and I ended up doing just under 15k that weekend.

Surely, that’s a lot of money, right?

Not according to this guy.

While I was at a gym in Miami, I was talking to somebody about the offer I was running with Nick.

He mentioned Jeremy Haynes, somehow I had never heard of him...

Then this podcast dropped in January... and oh my.

Here’s what shifted 👇

Money may not buy happiness...

but it gives you OPTIONS, FREEDOM, and LEVERAGE.

... which gives you the ability to curate a life of happiness.

The people who claim “money doesn’t buy happiness” live extremely scarce monetarily - they’re paycheck-to-paycheck and can’t fathom holding a lump-sum of money.

As soon as they get their hands on some cash, they flip it immediately on consumerism because their body and nervous system don’t have the capacity to save it OR invest in more skills or in mentor.

So, in projection, money doesn’t buy THEM happiness.

While they know deep down that money gives them more options, their EGO won’t allow them to accept that more money = less problems, therefore more peace.

I don’t believe in worshipping money, but I do certainly believe in its ability to create a life of freedom and peace I desire.

Leaping to more income

If you knew how to double your income, you’d already be making it.

Unfortunately, there are no handbooks to life and not one journey is unilateral to others.

But that’s the beauty of life: your path is unique.

While there isn’t a roadmap, you have the ability to take risks...

Maybe not financially, but with TIME and EFFORT.

Because money is extremely worshipped and valued in this new world of social media and larping, we’ve collectively forgotten that our most valuable currency is our TIME and PEACE.

Therefore, if you can’t take FINANCIAL risk now, you must LEVERAGE your time and effort in order to create a new life.

A new life requires new inputs, bigger risks, and more “sacrifice.”

Leaning into the unknown

Just because there’s no roadmap doesn’t mean that you don’t know what to do.

If you want to 10x your YouTube subscribers quicker, you must try out different things - leverage different analytics, learn how to split test, try new thumbnail formats, run ads, drive traffic from different sources, etc.

What’s funny about life is that 99% of the time, we know what to do.

ESPECIALLY if you’re tapped into meditation and/or prayer.

You will be punished for not listening to your intuition - whether it’s by losing opportunity or by regretting not taking risks...

Your intuition will never yell at you but it’s always clear and it’ll repeat itself a thousand times if it needs to

Act upon your intuition - it might not be right, BUT IT WILL LEAD YOU TO THE NEXT STEP.

and teach you something you didn’t know...

Leveraging pain

Since all pain whether big or small “threatens” our existence, our mind does anything and everything to avoid pain.

Whether it’s physical, mental, or even the smallest of annoyances, we IMMEDIATELY come up with solutions to rid the pain...

Haynes talks about using this to his ADVANTAGE...

He grew up with a family that was poor, broke, and scarce - he wanted to change that trajectory...

So instead of running from the smoke, he took it head-on.

He leveraged the PAIN of feeling insignificant and not enough to become somebody who’s impacted millions of lives via the ripple effect...

What’s your biggest annoyance in your current life right now? Do you not make enough money? Are you letting your family down? Are you not posting enough content?

Identify it, and kill it at the throat.

The biggest lever you can pull...

A few weeks ago, my dad was struggling to get Google reviews for his law firm...

Mind you, he’s had over 1000 clients he’s served in the past 20+ years...

He’d been trying to get Google reviews for MONTHS ... and since his clients are very busy (doctors), they don’t prioritize minute tasks like such.

He had a couple of his assistants try.

No luck.

He reached out to them himself.

No luck.

So he asked me to take care of it.

I told him all I needed was a list.

In 24 hours, he had 25 5-star reviews and shot up to a 4.8 Google review, making him more likely to pop up in Google and AI searches.

Why THE FUCK couldn’t the others do it?

Because they don’t move with urgency and attention.

They don’t move with SPEED.

A task that should’ve taken maybe an hour to do was lingering around for MONTHS, causing him STRESS and holding back his brain from operating at full capacity.

Most people don’t act immediately upon their ideas - by doing so, you can get ahead of 99% of people.

Just as as easy as it’s said is just as easy as it’s done - contrary to most things...

Selfishness is selfless

especially if you’re serving others.

When you’re able to operate at full capacity, you’re able to make more money, impact more lives, and give your family a more abundant life.

You can’t take care of others if you don’t take care of yourself.

You are just as human as everybody - taking care of YOU FIRST is the most selfless thing you can do.

Here’s the pod (Jeremy Haynes on the Grant Owen Podcast).

Money solves all problems - don’t believe the opposite for a SECOND.

You will be punished by not acting upon your intuition

to your inevitable success,

Jlowe

P.S. Skool of Jlowe (The Last Mentor) is in the works...

DM me “SKOOL” to get on the waitlist for free and early access. Limiting free spots and you must take action. 😉