Friends.
My apologies, as it’s been around a month since I last sent out a newsletter.
As you may have noticed, besides some posts on X, not much content has been created in the past bit. And it’s because I’ve decided to spend a lot more of my time digging deeper and releasing some very critical resistance I’ve experienced.
Over the years, I’ve struggled to do 2 key things:
- Consistently create content over an extended period of time
- Balance many moving plates at once (projects, platforms, etc.)
What’s the solution here? Well, most people decide to work more. But this is a trap in my opinion.
James Clear (author of Atomic Habits) recently asked his audience on X, “At this time next year, what will you be thankful you spent time on during the next 12 months?”
Here was my response (including grammatical errors and all):
Releasing foundational, underlying resistance related to the type of person I want to be and the life I want to live. I find myself trying to push it to the side and replace it with more work. This can be effective in the short term, but neglecting the energetic root cause of reality always comes back to bite me in the behind and steals a disheartening amounts of potential. This is extremely common for humans, but I don’t want to be extremely common. I want to be exceptional. And I think this one thing makes all the difference and will some day be viewed as a meta unlike anything else we’ve experienced in this time-space reality.
I believe neglecting the code that runs your life behind the scenes is a fool’s errand.
Your inner resistance is like a balloon in the water. You can push it down all you want, but eventually, that motherfucker always makes its way back to the surface.
So, I’ve decided to take a step back to take many steps forward by reducing production to instead focus on what matters most: releasing what’s really stopping me from consistently doing what I know I need to do within consulting and content creation.
This is critical because this realm affects everything.
As I progressively go situation by situation, topic by topic, releasing on all sorts of nuances, emotions, beliefs, illusions, etc. — magic is occurring and it’s radically transforming this life experience for me in so much more than just work.
The most recent breakthrough however in a content sense is filming, and more specifically, filming in a casual and fun way.
After releasing on this, I’ve found myself picking up the camera more in the past few weeks than I did in the prior 4 months combined.
Now, it helps that I just got a new camera specifically for vlogging that I’m excited about, but the reality is I’m also picking up my other cameras way more too. Without much effort, I’ve found myself filming random moments in my day-to-day again.
Now, I don’t know exactly what I’ll do with this footage. Maybe I’ll make a compilation vlog of random moments in my life. Maybe they’ll become clips. Maybe I’ll put this footage in the archives. Or maybe I’ll use it for b-roll over top of my main channel videos. Who knows.
But it just feels great to get back to casually filming life again and getting out of my own way without needing to force things — it’s just naturally occurring.
Over time, I’ll continue to do this for every area within content and consulting, because I’m tired of letting my bullshit bite me in the ass.
So thankfully, this means more content will be coming soon. And the more I release, the more consistently I’ll be creating, and I can’t wait for that.
If I want to be exceptional, I can’t take the same path as everyone else.
I need to do things differently and embrace the unconventional — that which people do not understand or utilize yet.
It’s a major competitive advantage, yet in this specific case, it goes far beyond competition on a physical level.
If you’re prone to getting in your own way like I’ve been — and you probably are because you’re human — it’s critical to embrace a process like this so you’re able to work through the root cause, which stops you from going through life on autopilot in all the wrong ways.
This “technique” is having a monumental impact on my life and I hope it does for you too. Not only that, but it’s enjoyable, interesting, fun, fast and one of the most profound, impactful processes I’ve discovered.
To learn more about it, you can either purchase the Sedona Method book (wherever you get your books) or you can practice it more deeply with me within my consulting program. Either way, I hope you get on this because it’s a key building block to maximizing your potential.
P.S. The next major thing I’m focused on releasing will change the game fundamentally for all aspects of communication and creation. I’m very excited.
Ideas
Is this all just what’s apparently happening? What is illusory that we hold real? Can you find the separation where you stop and everything “else” begins?
You don’t need to figure it all out. Einstein once said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” You’re not going to think your way out of thought-level challenges. Figuring it out, trying to control it all — it doesn’t change anything, it doesn’t solve it. The more we let go of those things, the more things can happen naturally and truth can appear. But are we making things happen? Or are things just happening and things just revealing themselves? Am I typing this? Are you reading this? Or are typing and reading just happening? How much of life unfolds without our “doing”? Some questions to consider…
Higher-level truths may seem abstract, but that’s the way things really are. The truth of life transcends the mental plane, hence the mind’s struggle to grasp and understand that which goes beyond understanding, words and concepts.
Are the minds that try to discredit higher-level questioning of “reality” just subconsciously trapped in a prison of their own creation, defending it because life as they know it depends on it?
Will you ever be fully qualified to speak on something? Or will there always be something you’re lacking in, where you aren’t fully qualified? Will you ever achieve perfection? Or is this merely an illusion, a subtle trap to stop you from expressing?
Positioning yourself as someone exploring and learning about a topic can be enough to create content around it. You don’t need to be an expert around the thing in the meantime, so long as you keep it real and don’t claim to be an expert. Sharing your learnings in the meantime can be of incredible value.
In a world full of bullshitters and liars, it’s easy to stand out. Just tell the truth. That’s your greatest advantage.
“You” are at your best when you aren’t identified with being you. When you let go of this body & mind you are used to identifying with, and instead let source flow through you, action naturally happens. And it’s often more effective, more efficient and the “right” thing to be doing, while simultaneously not having an attachment in the world to any of those criteria.
How much unnecessary hell do we cause ourselves just because of our expectations and attachment? Where are you causing yourself a hell that you don’t need to?
The more attached you are to something, the more intense you want it and need it — the harder you make the path to attaining it. Attachment creates hell. Surrender creates heaven.
A day spent on releasing is more valuable than sitting there staring at a blank page, plagued by resistance to the project in front of you, not moving forward.
On the other side of resistance is the greatest version of yourself.
The freer you are, the more you can create, the more you can get done and the more you can help others. I want this freedom across the board for myself and everyone else.
Resources
Sedona Method. Back-to-back plugs in the newsletter because it’s that impactful. This technique is truly goated. Also loving their facilitator course right now, as it puts everything on steroids.
House music. I’m really liking house right now. It’s made a huge comeback over the past few years and I totally understand why now. I find myself often listening to the “housewerk” playlist on Spotify in the gym & while working too. Here are some of my top 3 songs on loop of recent: Zerb – Mwaki (ft. Sofia Nzau), AC Slater, Chris Lorenzo, Fly With Us — Seismic, GENESI – Done, Twin Diplomacy & Sunday Scaries – Numb (last drop is mental lol).
Anti-resource: productivity without any caffeine. Once you get through the “dead” phase (which I did a few weeks back), the body adapts. And natural energy is OP. Video on this coming soon 🙂
Thanks for reading. Until next time,
—Josh
