Author Your Destiny

Q4 Updates & A Call To Arms

As the year accelerates towards it's close, I am both excited for what's to come, and immensely grateful for the year I'm leaving behind.

My list of 2024 goals is almost entirely checked off. I still need to finish reading The Bible, get a new Tattoo, and run a marathon, but I am once again struck by the power of the written word.

I wrote the list on December 31, 2023. At that time, I had no idea what this year would look like. And yet, I authored my destiny.

As you know from a previous vlog, I stopped setting output focused goals (money, followers, subscribers, etc.) to entirely input focused goals (posts per day, podcasts released, outreach done for business, etc.)

Not only has this shift guaranteed that I complete my entire list, but it has placed me in complete control. I am at the cause. And every single goal I set is independent of all external circumstances.

It may seem like things like income, followers, progress in your physique, etc. are in your control. But they are DOWNSTREAM CONSEQUENCES of your consistent action.

Returns are non-linear, which means that when it rains, it pours. But sometimes you will wander the desert praying for a single drop.

You can't change the weather. Your only job is to maintain momentum and never interrupt the compounding.

Control your effort, attitude, and faithful actions. The results will unfold as they are meant to. Sometimes far sooner than you expect, and sometimes after a decade of patient pursuit.

Your timeline is a pipe dream; God is the best of planners.

The good news is, however, if you actually give your best, you will receive more than you can imagine, faster than you can imagine, in ways that you can't imagine.

God is the best of planners.

With the above in consideration: I dare you to author your life.

Take up the pen, and actually make something of yourself.

Your 5-year plan is collecting dust alongside The Bible and every other book your smart friend recommended over the years.

This is how your dreams die: Passive neglect.

Without RADICAL ACTION, your dream life will end scribbled on a napkin, and tossed out with the grocery list.

You must be a JEALOUS decision maker: Do what YOU love. Do what sets YOUR heart on fire.

Do it all. For YOURSELF.

Because if it’s not for you, it’s for 'them'.

And the only ‘them’ worth your time are close friends and people who share your blood: Family in every sense.

The peanut gallery can kick rocks. The critics won't be attending your funeral.

When writing the story of your life:

• You play the lead

• You assemble the cast

• You live the heroes journey

• You almost die along the way

And anything can happen...

Just make sure no one else holds the pen.

For myself, I will be closing out the year here, in Lombok, Indonesia, then back to the U.S.A. for December with the family. Then onto a founder house in Miami for the first 6 months of 2025.

More podcasts, vlogs, newsletters, and a brand launch are all on the way. And to be honest, I have no idea how I am going to make it happen.

But I'm starting with pen in hand.

Thanks for reading, share if you feel called. Otherwise, talk soon.

Be The Renaissance.