This Still HITS 🙌🏾

"Risk taking is the highest virtue, the only signal that you cannot fake. - Nicolas Nassim Taleb

When you young one the hardest things to understand is letting time tell the truth & letting time play the situation out. Patience is virtue. The most high didn’t say no but “not yet”.

"what a beautiful thing it is to look back one day and realize you were brave enough to chase the life you always wanted"

Self-betrayal is the one sin you cannot hide from. You feel it in your gut, in your chest, in sleepless nights. Your body becomes the judge, jury, and executioner. Live in alignment with your nature, it is the only path to peace.

Emerging market currencies will tank first, sovereign credit spreads will rise, European banks will crash at the same time as global interest rates rise, food shortages will start in the fall, 3 day work weeks in Asia, copper shortage, helium/memory shortage, and generic drugs

five words. 20 years. unfinished.

Steve Burns "Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently." - Maya Angelou Holds the test of time.

People on Instagram are enjoying sunsets, vacations, destination weddings. People on X are posting like we’re in the final chapters before civilization collapses. Same world. Different timelines.

The real secret in a quote: "Alignment outperforms force. Every Time." Forcing yourself in the wrong lane & spaces, is a hard slog... But if you are in your lane, doing what you are meant to do...you have all the momentum in the world. Alignment is everything.

Fighting through pain is the best way to heal 🪖

one of the best ways to build self esteem is to create clear evidence of your own courage

everybody has self cared & boundaried themselves into loneliness. mfer used to drive by your house and you was on the porch. they stopped and talked for hours. not one penny spent. you may offer them a beer (or drink whatever) and that was an activity.

You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Not there cause I’m here. Right where I’m supposed to be

The Year of the Fire Horse (2026) shows you that blessings never go to the wrong address. Even the piece of fruit you eat today was meant to be yours from the moment the seed was planted. It went through a long journey, but came to you. What’s yours always comes to you, always.

You start to make quantum leaps when you repeatedly ask yourself “what is the top constraint in my life?” and then relentlessly attack the it until it’s no longer the constraint.

My life got a lot better when I could see things as logistical rather than personal. When you’re not fighting against (un)worthiness, all that’s left is cause and effect. e.g. I do x and y happens. Life is less a cosmic jail and more like levers and gears.

This is what New York City looked like in March of the year 2000 exactly 26 years ago

Any situation is fixable if you’re good with words because words literally make up the meaning infrastructure, control the traffic of desire, and reorient the posture of someone’s heart which is where the true center of gravity is in a person that makes them want to do anything