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Jon Mayo
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violence, the new waymaker single, is out now. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com

joy, the new waymaker single, is out now. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com

rent is due, the new waymaker single, is out now. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com

few will hunt, the new waymaker single, is out now. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com




life, the new waymaker single, is out now. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com

signs follow, the new waymaker single, is out now. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com

seize your mind, the new waymaker single, is out now. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com

we choose how we burn, the new waymaker album, is out now. Five songs: slippin, chains i choose, wealth i claim, send it anyway, borrowed flame. Listen: distrokid.com

I will not fear. Fear is a mind killer. I will continue. The past does not own me any more than the future. The past is gone. The future is fickle. The present is now. And I will meet now with all I am. What a strange battle for the mind. The game of life we play. So filled with perplexity and unknowns. It is almost imperceivable that so much of it is a war for mind control. For the mind controls the material. So to control the material, seize your mind. If you don't, others will. And most often you will thank them for it. I refuse. I choose freedom. It is terribly liberating. And worth it.
When it is time to make a costly decision with significant consequences it is okay to suffer as you deliberate. There is preparation that must be made, research to be done, risks to be avoided, mitigated, and accepted. Resources to be aligned and work to be organized. But Once you make your decision, the time of anguish must end and every iota of energy you have must be committed to the success of what you decide. In other words. The suffering serves in the deliberation. Not in the action. When it’s time to act, ACT! With everything you’ve got.
Think of the last person who mocked what you are building. Now ask one question: are they where you want to be? They never are. The people ahead of you do not hate you. They remember how hard the first steps were, so they either cheer you on or stay quiet and keep working. Hate does not come from above. It comes from beside you and behind you, from people who feel your movement as a judgment on their standing still.
Emotion becomes dangerous when it is mislabeled as reality. Pain may teach, but pain also interprets. Fear may warn, but fear also writes fiction. Desire may reveal direction, but desire can inflate evidence. The discipline is not to stop feeling strongly. The discipline is to stop giving every strong inner feeling the authority of fact.

"When do you lose your greatest advantage? It’s the second you delay what needs to be said. You convince yourself that holding back is just tactical patience. It isn't. It's hesitation wrapped up in a polite excuse. The right moment is rarely something you passively find; it’s something you actively prepare for. " -Phil M Jones


What breaks the groove is strain. Deliberate practice requires operating beyond the current comfort zone, under high concentration, with immediate feedback and a precise target. This is cognitively expensive in a way that ordinary performance is not. It is also the only mechanism known to actually drive improvement. Nothing else substitutes for it.
unified living practices (ulp) or standard operating procedures (sop)? ulp is what technology is making realistic to us. sops are what we needed when things moved slow. now that we can create software on demand, we can adjust our tools in real time as we use them. need to train a new person? ask ai to print a training overview. the weight of responsibility goes from maintaining documents to utilizing and improving workflows.