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THE INFINITE MIND

Something I’m genuinely struggling with lately is being able to turn off my mind.

I preach about meditation, breathwork and morning pauses—taking those moments for yourself to come back to the present, to get out of your head.

But over the past few weeks, I’ve struggled endlessly to actually do that.

I’ll sit down to meditate for 20 minutes and just have thoughts swelling through my head. I’ll try to do breathwork and the entire time I’m thinking. I’ll lay down to go to sleep and my brain just will not switch off.

And if I look at my life and critique myself honestly, I know why.

I’m overworking myself.

I’m thinking too much about the fine details of trying to continue building this platform. I’m getting stuck in the perfectionist loop that I talk about in Module One. I’m constantly thinking of ways to be better, improve, progress.

And in itself, that isn’t necessarily an unhealthy way of thinking.

But when it becomes your entire way of living—when your entire being is consumed by thoughts of constantly becoming better—you stop allowing yourself moments to simply exist.

We don’t allow ourselves moments for the present.

We don’t allow ourselves moments to truly appreciate what we actually have around us.

Love. Friendship. Family.

Or just the simple act of enjoying where you are right now.

I honestly haven’t had a moment like that in a while, and it’s starting to bug me this week.

So I’m taking a step back.

I’m locking in my sleep architecture—shutting the laptop down at 1am, sleeping at 2, waking up at a better time and getting my morning habits back in.

One thing I have noticed is that I’ve been checking my phone way too early, which is exactly what I said not to do in the Blue Light Control section under Non-Negotiable Six.

So the answer isn’t that I need to find some revolutionary new way to improve myself.

I just need to return to the little things.

Small habits.

Small disciplines.

The non-negotiables that actually give me the thing I’m desperately missing right now—

Clarity.

Presence.

Groundedness.

I think sometimes we become so obsessed with progressing that we forget to actually live.

But when I think clearly on it—progress is the ability to have these moments, and actually catch yourself in them and be able to reset, and go again.

It’s not about constant movement or perfection. It’s the ugly moments like this one where you realise you’ve been redlining yourself for two weeks and need go and have a fucking sauna and an ice bath and stay off your phone for two days. 😅

So if anyone’s struggling with the same shit. You’re not alone.

And forget to reset and take time for yourselves and what’s around you lads, and enjoy it!

That’s my mind for the day, boys.

I hope you find some value in that—and please don’t be shy about speaking your own mind here too.

Comment back to this. Write your own post. I want to know what your voice is thinking, what you’re feeling, what you’re going through.

I want to know everything.

Because this isn’t just a typical fitness or lifestyle platform.

It’s where we go deeper.

Where we look beneath the surface. Beyond the curtain of what we’re told is the full scope of our reality, thinking and awareness and actually dig deep enough to understand what’s truly going on within ourselves—and within each other.

We’re all brothers here.

There’s no judgement, and there’s nothing you can’t say.

Unless it’s some weird shit.

Keep that to yourself. 😂

Peace, boys. Have a good day.

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THE INFINITE MIND