Stability Feels Unstable; That's The Point(?) (Week 9/12)
Letter 011: A Decade Early
“Don’t Believe What They Tell You. You Can ALWAYS Make A Comeback”
I. The Captains Log
I’m between worlds and chapters again, and now that I actually sit to write about it, I can see more clearly why I’ve been so unstable lately: it’s because this time is approaching, and I’m stable.
My body is so used to crisis coming with the end of any phase that now that there is none (knock, knock, knock, knock, knock – five is a magical number, and Grannie always said knock on wood), I need to retrain myself to be still.
To accept that despite the world burning, I can control my actions.
That’s enough.
I’m standing at a threshold I built. A decade early, somehow. Everything I’ve worked toward quietly in the background of my life like a sociopath is materializing, and it feels absolutely surreal.
How rewarding, to get the opportunity to train your nervous system that it no longer needs to keep waiting for the other shoe to drop because it’s forgotten what earned endings feel like.
I got me this time, and I’m coming to accept this as fact. MINDSET Magic indeed.
II. What Shipped This Week
Getting @IsaacsRoughCuts and The MINDSET proper up and running was priority one this week.
A0017 – The MINDSET Is Dead, Long Live The MINDSET – went live via Isaac’s Ideas. The MINDSET Daily ran Monday through Friday, and with my best eulogy voice, I delivered the old newsletter from suspended animation to the grave via The Morning Thunder. Sent it off well, I think.
Ya Boi been busy, you see…
The draft reading of “Your Old Beliefs Are Holding You Back” is now on YouTube. I can officially say “The Revolution Will Be Uploaded To YouTube For Mass Consumption” while simultaneously crying out that “I’m building a Cult of Builders!”
Tell me if I sound crazy, but I’m definitely having fun. Something about getting down on a podcast mic brings out a kind of passion I have immense difficulty nailing down with words.
My soul is on fire with creative passion
or some such, I don’t know.
I may have started writing poetry again…
III. Behind The Bulkhead
We switched gears entirely from hands-on building to technical drafting in my manufacturing course, and my brain short-circuited there for a bit. CAD is cool, but I’m having real difficulty grasping it too firmly at the moment. Too much going on with The FeverWorks.
It feels good to record for The Morning Thunder. I’ve come to deeply enjoy the ritual. I’m waking before my alarms, even. As I solidify the launches to different platforms, new avenues open up and puzzle pieces start falling into place. I’m both hyper-excited to write about these discoveries in detail and incredibly frustrated that I have to wait a week to get to it.
Everything changes after this week.
I’ve worked and waited my entire life to set these conditions, and it feels absolutely surreal that I’ve arrived here, let alone the timing. I’m a decade early.
I want to write that “The Work” article so I can reference it in these sections. I want to do the deepest dive into X; I don’t know why, but that platform calls to me like a siren, and I MUST come to understand it. I will (62\40).
Gotta bring the Open Notes Archive up to current, just like the index article on my Capital Site and the Legion Directory.
Then there’s Skool. Travel plans to solidify. And that ...other... thing.
Soon.
Many things are about to happen.
“Blessed be thine holy accelerator, for casually yeeting me up to Mach Jesus in order to match speed with my ambitions.”
IV. Your Assignment This Week
Look at your life and your goals. Determine how close or how far you are from them.
I set my goals some time ago and have been working toward them quietly in the background of my life for as long as I can remember. There’s power in intentional practice. There’s power in knowing where you’re going and checking your position against it without fanfare or announcement.
And there’s power in acknowledging that there’s no shame in doing a course correction when it’s needed either. I’ve been totally derailed countless times. The universe will guide those willing to work back to the path of progress, but one must be willing to work to be assisted.
Most people don’t know how far off course they are because they never plot the course to begin with.
V. This Week’s Battle Plan
Get through this last week of split efforts. Graduate from the course. Take time to both be proud of climbing mountains to reach this peak and admire the countless more ahead of me.
It’s groovy.
It’s also MINDSET Week 2. The old MINDSET has been laid to rest, so this week we celebrate its revival and relaunch with proper positioning. The focus is on Extraction; we will free ourselves of any and all forms of toxic situations. We will not carry more than we must.
All that we give in to that does not give back with the same level of effort is detrimental. We must shed these things before entering the new year.
I’m crossing the finish line to run my final lap around the college campus, and I can feel my spirit reaching for freedom. We’re not trapped, but I’ve hit a massive store of creative motivation, and it’s unashamedly taking center stage.
More to come. I’ll be around ;)
Per Aspera Ad Astra Through Hardships to the Gorydamn Stars - Isaac
