Let me tell you a story. Back whenever I was younger I used to change myself for hours. If someone had said to me, "Oh Calvin, that shirt you're wearing looks a bit cringe," I would have gone home that day, overthought, and then would have gone to JD Sports or whatever and got a new T-shirt just because of that one small thing. I just want to say that's such a weak way to live. Let me just tell you my lesson: whenever you change yourself for hours, you're just weakening yourself each time, becoming less authentic because you were genuinely happy the way you were. If that was the case and it was working then you should just not fall to their influence. I want to say, however, if you are getting advice, for example, from someone who's much more experienced in this area of life and you genuinely like this person and they're just trying to help you, then that's fine. What I mean is the things, from people who you don't want to be like. If people are saying to you, “Why are you focusing on this business? Why don’t you just go to college or something?" if you were happy the way you were and things are working, don't change yourself to those people. You don't even want to be like that anyway. I just wanted to share my lesson as this will lead you to the most regulated and happy place in your life. Just keep this little brief reminder in mind to not change yourself and to only listen to people who have achieved what you want and who genuinely think the advice is beneficial.

We’re remarkably comfortable with change—as long as it gives us someone new to become. A higher version. A freer version. A more aligned version. Same protagonist. Better wardrobe. That’s the trick. The old self doesn’t need to resist change. It can simply become the new self. Becoming can look like transformation while quietly preserving the one thing that was never questioned: the one who needs the next version. Remarkably adaptable, that one. It can survive almost anything. Even transformation. Maybe nothing is asking you to become anything. Maybe what is falling away doesn’t need a successor.

There's nothing wrong with thinking and taking some time to really make your decisions correctly. But if there's something that you think could genuinely benefit you but you're scared and you've been thinking about it for months, for instance, maybe it's a really cheap online course for literally about $40 or something like that. You've been putting it off for months. Let's say as well you even work a good job that pays well but you're still thinking about it. That's not good… Let me further tell you why this isn't the lesson that I've learned. Whenever I was younger I saw this make money online program: The Real World. I was interested but I literally delayed joining for over a year! And if I had of taken action earlier I would be in a much better place right now. It was only about $40, I believe, $40-something a month, something around that, which is so cheap even for a 15 year old. I was going out every day with my friends and was buying energy drinks, snacks and garbage like that and I could have been investing in my education instead of thinking about it. I just want to say though if there's something that you're putting off and it doesn't have to be financial, it can be anything, then simply just turn off your brain when in doubt and just try. If there's something that's such low risk and not cheap, that doesn't have a big investment financially, mentally, or time-wise, you may as well just try instead of thinking about it. There's no better way to find out something than to actually be there experiencing it. It's like a lot of people think about starting their content creation on YouTube, for instance. Thinking about it isn't gonna help you. The real way you can get experience is by recording your first video and 24 hours from now or something like that. Instead people will delay it and think, "I need to get the perfect video, need to write the perfect script, need to have the perfect editing," and then they'll delay for three weeks, and then they may make that video.

Bhagavad-gītā is the oldest and most widely read book of theistic science in the world today. Also known as the Gītopaniṣad, the Bhagavad-gītā has been the principle handbook of yoga for more than 5,000 years. In contrast to many mundane literatures of the present day, the Bhagavad-gītā is free from mental speculation and is complete in knowledge of the eternal self (ātmā), the process of bhakti-yoga and the nature and identity of the Absolute Truth, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. As such, the Bhagavad-gītā is the single most important book in the world, surpassing all others in wisdom and enlightenment. The first word of Bhagavad-gītā is dharma. Sometimes dharma is mistaken to mean religion or a particular belief, but it is not so. Dharma means the quintessential duty or knowledge that elevates our consciousness to a direct connection with the Absolute Truth. This is also known as sanātana-dharma, the occupational duty of all living beings. The Bhagavad-gītā begins with the word dharma – thus we can understand from the outset that Bhagavad-gītā is not about dogma or a sectarian way of thinking. Indeed, Bhagavad-gītā is the complete science of realising the Absolute Truth. Bhagavad-gītā is certainly a scholarly work, but one need not be a scholar to understand the Gītā’s straightforward and simple message. Indeed, Arjuna, the first student of Bhagavad-gītā, was not a scholar, but a warrior. In the past many great scholars, gurus and self-realised masters have written illuminating commentaries to accompany the Gītā – its ‘as it is’ meaning, its poetry, philosophy and its hidden treasure – so that the people of their time, as well as the people of future generations, may have a better appreciation of the message of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Since time immemorial, the Bhagavad-gītā has been a prime source of inspiration for many great thinkers and philosophers in both the east and the west. In ancient times, the first commentary on the Gītā was written by Ādi Śaṅkara, who was the first ācārya to treat it as a freestanding text. Subsequently, other great ācāryas such as Rāmānuja, Madhva, Śrīdhara Svāmī and others wrote commentaries on the Gītā that presented its essential devotional significance, in stark contrast to Ādi Śaṅkara’s impersonal interpretation.
Originally, the Bhagavad-gītā is part of the ancient historical epic, the Mahābhārata, composed by the great sage Vyāsa in approximately 3100 BCE. The eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad-gītā are found within the Sixth Canto of the Mahābhārata known as the Bhīṣma-parva, which altogether contains 117 chapters. Initially Vyāsa wrote the 8,800 core verses of the Mahābhārata and later his disciples Vaiśampāyana and Sūta added further historical details until the Mahābhārata finally consisted of 100,000 verses – seven times the size of Homer’s Illiad and fifteen times the size of the King James Bible.