Stop Wasting Time
The first step to stop wasting your time and get ahead of 99% of people is isolation.
“If you’re going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don’t even start.
This could mean losing:
• wives
• relatives
• girlfriends
• maybe even your mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean mockery.
It could mean jail.
Isolation.
Isolation is the gift.
All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. “
Why is isolation a gift?
Why is isolation the only path without waste of time?
Why is isolation the only way to an extraordinary life?
*Disclaimer: Don’t believe me.
Ask yourself if socialization, group activities and birthdays brought you where you want to be…
Seriously…
Take a moment to pause and think about it.
If the answer is yes, stop reading this letter and go socialize.
I write that without sarcasm.
If the answer is yes, than socialization will give you more of what you want than I will share in this talk
If you have made the realization that socialization is leading you astray
You will automatically spend more time alone
Without any mechanical doing or effort
Because your mind understands
Be prepared for everyone around you to call you weird or talk negatively behind your back
I’ve had it, you will likely face the same too (unless you have some rare individuals around you)
It might feel bad…
You might feel alone…
But understand this:
You are alone
We are all alone
And that is not good or bad
There is a difference between feeling lonely and being alone
Being Alone <> Feeling Lonely
Understand the root of the emotion
And it disappears effortlessly like the leaf falling off the tree
I felt lonely
But things changed when I understood where that feeling was coming from
It was coming from a fear, multiple fears
Isolation is a gift, but be aware of these fears (that can arise)
- The fear of losing friends
- The fear of dying alone
- The fear of emptiness
- The fear of unknown
- The fear of fear
If you want to have what no one had before
If you want to feel what no one felt before
If you want to do what no one did before
You can only walk the 3 min mile alone
…
So the 2nd step is finding out what you want
What is your purpose?
What is your calling?
What are you born to do?
Quiet the noise around you to find out
When your surroundings are at harmony, your innate curiosity will show you its way
*Disclaimer: Monk Mode is #1 Trending, but to 99% just another pleasure chase.
Many count their weeks without Alcohol
Many count their days off from Social Media
Many count their minutes of Mindful Meditation
Many count their way into just another ‘doing’ (that leads to the same misery)
True understanding is the only way
…
The 3rd thing is being honest to yourself
Which brings me to number 4: Mastery
When you find out what it is you want to master in life
You can get to a point where reaching flow state is a natural consequence every day
The state of ‘no mind’
The feeling we all desire, but not know how to put it in words
The freedom from problems
The feeling of peace
In a life without permanence
Only this second counts
In a world without significance
Only this moment matters
Tomorrow can go to hell
Right now is your heaven
…
Number 5, stop consuming, start creating
Consumption gives you pleasure
Creation brings you peace
Mastery isn’t learned from instructors, videos or books
Mastery is achieved by radical self-exploration
*Disclaimer: Again, don’t believe me. Ask yourself.
If you could…
…master boxing by watching Mike Tyson,
many fighters would be legendary…
…master investing by reading Warren Buffett,
many investors would be billionaires…
Number 6, follow your instinct
Remember:
Your natural voice will prevail
When the noise around fades away
And
Your innate voice will be heard
When external noise subsides
This leads me to my final point: solving the ‘need’ for money
Money is a necessity
The sooner you can solve it
The sooner you can stop wasting time
It is difficult, if not impossible to feel free and achieve mastery
If you don’t have enough $ cash to survive for 1-2 years
Trying to trick your mind out of ‘Fight-or-flight mode’ won’t work
To start playing the game of life, understand that:
Money is a ‘need’
The mind is clever
The person you call “I” is its slave
Money is part of the joystick
It’s hard to play without it
Don’t fake it until you make it
Make it, so you don’t have to fake it
So that is what I am doing as well
Achieving financial freedom as soon as possible
And sharing how I do it
And how I grow my personal brand with social media, writing and creating art at the same time
Because you don’t have to waste your time to get to financial freedom
You can achieve it while doing what you want to master in life
I am born to create
It took me more than a year to find out
If you want to know more about it, you can watch this video:
PS: I write my own letters. You can always reply to this email. I read everything.
Talk soon
Jordan
