<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[the future is now]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you want to break free spiritually and materially, read my writing:]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yoa-!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f22ea0d-d6b7-4a52-b2b4-d0990002e41e_728x728.png</url><title>the future is now</title><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:24:31 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.tejdosa.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[tejdosa@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[tejdosa@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[tejdosa@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[tejdosa@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[I’m Starting A New Podcast w/ Danny Miranda!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ep 01 inside (I'm biased, but it's a banger)]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/im-starting-a-new-podcast-w-danny</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/im-starting-a-new-podcast-w-danny</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:04:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ff0a2a19-b45d-496d-82b2-fd176b96fd37_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeow what&#8217;s up, my friend! Tej here with a BIIIIIIG announcement:</p><p>I&#8217;m starting up a new podcast with <a href="https://x.com/heydannymiranda">Danny Miranda</a> (over the years we&#8217;ve run a lot of calls together and not only have those conversations filled me with the raw electricity of life, but they seem to have captured the hearts and ears of folks all over the world too. And that&#8217;s because I continue to receive emails about the impact those conversations have had, so we&#8217;re deciding to run them more frequently &amp; turn them into a new pod!)</p><p>This podcast will live on its own feed and new episodes will be released every Wednesday at 5:00 am EST.</p><p>But before we get going, we need your help&#8230;</p><p>The podcast, you see, is still unnamed and instead of cooking up names ourselves, we thought it would be better to bring you the listener into the space by allowing YOU to decide (this felt right because this new pod only really came about as a result of your messages throughout the years).</p><p>So what we&#8217;ve done is&#8230;</p><p>Record ep 01 (I&#8217;m biased, but I think it&#8217;s a banger), upload it to our individual feeds, and now we&#8217;re leaving it to you (if you feel called) to listen and offer your 2 cents regarding potential names (simply reply to this email with any and all ideas).</p><p>Then we&#8217;ll finalize the name and get up and running.</p><p>Coolio?</p><p>If so, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6M2LnQEkapMUoOztrYzM7m?si=01361e2a7ea24c19">go here to listen to episode one</a> (this will be the only ep I publish to my personal feed. Once the name is set, we&#8217;ll be uploading the podcast to a completely new feed and building it up week by week).</p><p>Your friend who is SUUUUUUPER STOKED for this,</p><p>/tej</p><p>P.S. You&#8217;re free to send in as many names as you&#8217;d like. And if we go with one of the names you selected, then I&#8217;ll make sure to repay you back in my own way to express my utmost appreciation.</p><p>Cheers and hope you&#8217;re having a great Sun-Day</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[TDL #90 - The Bryan Johnson Case Study]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to get rich(er) by "living forever"]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/tdl-90-the-bryan-johnson-case-study</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/tdl-90-the-bryan-johnson-case-study</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:03:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9878af92-bac4-4a71-99e4-1c04f73fae0d_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>APRIL 2026 // Issue #90</strong></p><p>Welcome to Issue #90 of the Tej Dosa Letter.</p><p>This issue is going to be a case study issue similar to the issues in the past where I&#8217;ve dissected and reverse engineered the rise of figures like Andrew Tate and brands like Nelk.</p><p>But today the personal brand we&#8217;re going to dissect in detail is none other than Bryan Johnson. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What The F*ck Is The Point Of Life? An Unconventional Explanation]]></title><description><![CDATA[We're so back]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/what-the-fck-is-the-point-of-life</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/what-the-fck-is-the-point-of-life</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:03:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf7b5522-c86e-4608-a739-700f0922ede1_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In high school, I started a blog titled &#8220;What&#8217;s The Point Of Living Average?&#8221; (I stole that line from a Jay Z interview).</p><p>And wrote 1 post a day for 900 consecutive days.</p><p>That was easy to do because escaping mediocrity was where my head was at.</p><p>But nowadays, I&#8217;ve found myself dropping the &#8216;average&#8217; and adding a cuss word and asking:</p><p>What the f*ck is the point?</p><p>Not out of sorrow or defeat (F that with a flying F), but out of curiosity because every now and then (quite rare, but it happens) I cross paths with a true master of life who has peaked &#8220;behind the curtains of life&#8221; and I can sense that they know something that I don&#8217;t know.</p><p>Even more, they&#8217;re living their life in a completely different way and prioritizing things that I may not deem important. And that always leaves me baffled and disoriented and like I&#8217;m missing the mark (even though society may be telling me that I&#8217;m crushing it).</p><p>Maybe I am. Maybe I&#8217;m not.</p><p>But that&#8217;s beside the point.</p><p>Point is everybody thinks the question: What the f*ck is the point of life? Has no verifiable, concrete, real answer.</p><p>But I don&#8217;t agree.</p><p>I&#8217;ve found through all my ups and downs, smiles and frowns, wins and losses that this question does have an answer. And you know you&#8217;ve found it when it renders the question obsolete. (If you think you have the answer, but you still find yourself asking this question&#8230; then you don&#8217;t yet have the answer. The real answer (once lived) satisfies you on all levels and renders the question obsolete).</p><p>So, what&#8217;s the answer?</p><p>I&#8217;ll walk you through it inside this newsletter, but first let me shed light on two things:</p><p>1. Why is it important to even answer this question</p><p>2. What are the two most common answers to this question (and why do I think they&#8217;re equally wrong).</p><p>Let&#8217;s start with the first question (and I&#8217;m going to make this short because not much needs to be said here)...</p><p>It&#8217;s important to answer this question because if you don&#8217;t know the point of life, then your chances of &#8220;living right&#8221; (whatever that means) are slim-to-none. It&#8217;s like playing a game that you don&#8217;t know the rules to.</p><p>How are you supposed to win?</p><p>Pretty unlikely (besides random chance) so the reason it&#8217;s important to answer this question is because the answer teaches you how to live fully. Not live in a passive, checked out, nobody is home type of way. Or even in a controlling type of way (i.e. if you don&#8217;t do x, you&#8217;re going to be punished).</p><p>But in a real way that fills your entire being with real satisfaction and real fulfillment (this is only possible to attain when you live in alignment with how life is actually designed).</p><p>But more on that later.</p><p>Now that you know why it&#8217;s important to answer this question, let&#8217;s move onto the two most common answers to this question (and why I think they&#8217;re equally wrong lol).</p><p>The first answer comes from the West.</p><p>It tells you that the point of life is to put maximum distance between where you started the game of life and where you ended the game of life and bring all your wildest dreams to life.</p><p>Why?</p><p>Because the underlying belief is: YOLO (aka You Only Live Once).</p><p>So it makes sense that the objective would be to go all out and bring your biggest dreams to life aka make millions of dollars, get a breathtaking home, find and marry the love of your life, and build/raise a family while enjoying the finer things in life (50 cent voice) &#8211; right?</p><p>I used to think so. I don&#8217;t think so anymore.</p><p>Why?</p><p>For a variety of reasons, but mostly because:</p><p>1. A lot of people do all the above and bring their wildest dreams to life and still end up depressed and unfulfilled, so it obviously cannot be the point.</p><p>2. You cannot take your kids, money, possessions with you. So it&#8217;s fun while you have it, but once you lose it&#8230; it&#8217;s like oh shit: I spent all my life prioritizing x, y, z, but now x, y, z is gone&#8230; What and who am I left with? The answer, of course, is you&#8217;re left with yourself which can be quite the scary realization.</p><p>3. I used to be obsessed with making money (still am some days). It was all I cared about. And I made a nice chunk of it. And loved seeing the numbers in my bank account go up and up and up. Then I had a near death experience. And the numbers in my bank account held the same meaning as a grain of sand. Imagine spending your entire existence worshiping and obsessing over a grand of sand&#8230; how lame would that be? Pretty lame, right? You bet.</p><p>Now please don&#8217;t get it twisted&#8230; I&#8217;m not saying the above things like running up the numbers aren&#8217;t important (they&#8217;re VERY important and worthwhile pursuits as we&#8217;ll see)&#8230; I&#8217;m just saying I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re the point of life (meaning you could do all those things, live a great life and reach the end and realize you missed the real point of life).</p><p>So that&#8217;s the first conventionally believed answer (and why I think it&#8217;s wrong).</p><p>The second answer comes from the East.</p><p>It tells you that the point of life is to transcend human life (which is full of suffering) and to get enlightened.</p><p>Why?</p><p>Because the underlying belief is: You&#8217;ll keep being born again on the wheel of reincarnation and experience great suffering until you do.</p><p>So it makes sense that the objective would be to renounce human life, move into a monastery and meditate the days away with the aim of waking up to the true nature of reality and reaching enlightenment &#8211; right?</p><p>I never really thought so. Now I don&#8217;t think so even more.</p><p>Why?</p><p>For a variety of reasons, but mostly because:</p><p>1. It seemed like living on defense instead of offense. &#8220;Oh the only reason I&#8217;m seeking enlightenment is so I don&#8217;t have to be born again and repeat this bullshit all over again.&#8221; Motivated more out of fear than love IMO and the universe doesn&#8217;t reward cowardice.</p><p>2. If transcending human life and reuniting with the divine was the entire point of life, then why even be born? Makes 0 sense. That would be a huge error in the design of life and infinite intelligence doesn&#8217;t make errors.</p><p>3. Human life is extremely precious and such a rare opportunity to experience that if you turn your back on it and renounce the world, you&#8217;re going to miss out on the very juice of existence (big price to pay).</p><p>Now please don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230; I&#8217;m not saying transcending human life and reaching enlightenment isn&#8217;t important (enlightenment is definitely a worthwhile pursuit as we&#8217;ll see)&#8230; I&#8217;m just saying I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the point of life (meaning you could do all that, be realized and reach the end and realize you missed the real point of taking birth as a human being).</p><p>So that&#8217;s the second conventionally believed answer (and why I think it&#8217;s equally wrong).</p><p>The question now becomes&#8230;</p><p>If those two answers aren&#8217;t the right answers, then what&#8217;s the right answer?</p><p>Here is when people will hit you with new age answers like:</p><p>The point of life is to create your own point or the point of life is that there is no point.</p><p>And I don&#8217;t know about you, but both of those answers sound like something a young, naive, kid that doesn&#8217;t know any better would say. Not something a mature human being aka a master of life would speak.</p><p>So those answers don&#8217;t render the question obsolete either.</p><p>With that being said&#8230;</p><p>You&#8217;re probably now thinking&#8230; if none of those answers are true, then what actually is the real answer to the question:</p><p>&#8220;What the f*ck is the point?&#8221;</p><p>And it&#8217;s a good question to sit with because most people (believe it or not) never ask this question because they think they already know the answer.</p><p>But when you start to expose the typical answers that most people unconsciously believe in like we&#8217;ve done above, then it tends to put you more into the unknown where you come to accept that you don&#8217;t actually know.</p><p>In other words:</p><p>All this time you&#8217;ve been waking up at 5am, making your to-do list, building businesses &#8230; but you don&#8217;t really know why. (You may think it&#8217;s to make money/get rich and it is, but since you don&#8217;t know the point of life&#8230; you cannot even use the money you make to assist you in the highest of ways).</p><p>All this time you&#8217;ve been playing the roles of son/daughter, brother/sister, friend, spouse, father/mother&#8230; but you don&#8217;t really know why. (You may think it&#8217;s to build and raise a happy family and it is, but since you don&#8217;t know the point of life&#8230; you cannot even support your loved ones in the highest of ways).</p><p>All this time you&#8217;ve been waking up at sunrise, taking a 90-minute walk while barefoot, hydrating with the most premium water money can buy, eating a breakfast rich in protein, using red light therapy, and putting on the blue light blockers at night&#8230; but you don&#8217;t really know why. (You may think it&#8217;s to get healthy and it is, but since you don&#8217;t know the point of life&#8230; you cannot even use your health in the highest of ways).</p><p>Waking up to this fact may be a bit jarring at first, but it&#8217;s not a bad thing. It&#8217;s a good thing because the discomfort you&#8217;re feeling is the discomfort that comes from leaving the confinements of your familiar mind.</p><p>So now that we&#8217;ve started to do that, the million dollar question remains:</p><p>&#8220;Ok Tej, enough already. What the f*ck is the point? Why get rich? Why get healthy? Why build a family?&#8221;</p><p>And I&#8217;ll tell you.</p><p>But I don&#8217;t want you to take my word for it.</p><p>I want you to simply be open to this possibility and nothing more. You don&#8217;t have to believe it. You don&#8217;t have to take any action. You don&#8217;t even have to remember what I&#8217;m going to share with you.</p><p>All I ask is you remain open to it as a possibility &#8211; cool?</p><p>If so, let me get into it by first sharing with you three personal stories from the days gone by.</p><h3><strong>Story #1</strong></h3><p>My uncle got a call on a Monday.</p><p>The person on the other side of the phone was a stranger to my uncle, but the stranger somehow knew everything about him.</p><p>Where he lived.</p><p>What companies he owned.</p><p>What new projects he was building.</p><p>And more importantly: The names of his wife and kids and the address they called home.</p><p>Scary, right? You bet, but what made it even spookier was this wasn&#8217;t just an ordinary call.</p><p>It was an extortion call.</p><p>So after relaying all the above, the &#8220;stranger&#8221; finally made his ask:</p><p>&#8220;Give me $2,000,000 or you&#8217;re dead.&#8221;</p><p>Now, I don&#8217;t know what you would do in that situation, but I&#8217;ll tell you what my uncle did:</p><p>He told the guy to fuck off and hung up the phone.</p><p>Three days later:</p><p>Just after midnight a truck with three men rolled up to my Uncle&#8217;s house and they let off 4 or 5 gunshots into the house and then proceeded to light the cars parked in the driveway on fire.</p><p>Then they sped off.</p><p>(Everybody was home, but thankfully nobody was hurt.)</p><p>Five or so minutes later:</p><p>My uncle received a text.</p><p>It said: &#8220;Those were warning shots. Next come the kill shots. Pay up. Or else&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>Then came through a video attachment that depicted the gruesome murder of a prominent local businessman who was allegedly killed just weeks prior by these same extortionists.</p><p>So needless to say, the stakes were quite high.</p><p>Or at least, that&#8217;s what the extortionists wanted my Uncle to believe because this whole operation runs off fear.</p><p>But my Uncle wasn&#8217;t the type to give into the fear.</p><p>So he did what any rational person (not run by fear) would do:</p><p>Got the police involved, hired private security for the house, and called a &#8220;spontaneous&#8221; family vacation and left the country to an undisclosed location.</p><p>Meanwhile while all this was going down&#8230;</p><p>I was housesitting for my parents who live just minutes away from my Uncle&#8217;s house. But completely oblivious to all this.</p><p>Until my mom called me and asked:</p><p>&#8220;Did you watch the news?&#8221;</p><p>To which I replied, &#8220;I never watch the news. Why?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Your uncle&#8217;s house was on it.&#8221; She replied. &#8220;It got shot up last night by extortionists.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Oh shit.&#8221; I remember thinking or saying. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to hear that because I normally just live in my own world. So to hear that was surprising and quite concerning.</p><p>But it kind of was what it was.</p><p>So I did whatever I could do to help (which wasn&#8217;t much) and left it at that until a couple days later&#8230;</p><p>When another businessman&#8217;s house in the area was targeted.</p><p>Then another. And another.</p><p>It got so bad that the government had to declare the extortionists a terrorist group and put a chopper in the sky to police the city.</p><p>But that&#8217;s beside the point.</p><p>The point is I remember being surrounded by all this chaos and just being on edge for a number of days (sleep was pretty hard to come by as the smallest of noises would wake me in the middle of the night and I&#8217;d go downstairs to look at the cameras).</p><p>So much so that I inquired into it with one of my teachers.</p><p>And after relaying the facts and the potential dangers of living in the prominent area I was currently residing in&#8230;</p><p>She said something that felt like a &#8220;peek behind the curtains of life&#8221; moment.</p><p>What did she say?</p><p><em><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to take the necessary safety precautions and stay alive&#8230; so you can continue working on yourself.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>For whatever reason&#8230;</p><p>Those words hit me quite deeply and made me feel as if there&#8217;s a lot more going on here (and at stake) than what we&#8217;re normally conditioned to believe.</p><p>In other words:</p><p>You&#8217;re not just alive for the sake of being alive.</p><p>With every day that we&#8217;re alive, there is a very special opportunity to seize for those who have the eyes to see.</p><p>Or at least, that&#8217;s how it landed for me.</p><p>So that&#8217;s the first story.</p><p>Now time for the second story.</p><h3><strong>Story #2</strong></h3><p>For the latter half of Jan and the better part of Feb&#8230; I flew to the other side of the world&#8230; and took in 3-4 weddings of friends and family (just before shit got crazy in Dubai and caused havoc to all the flights coming out of that area).</p><p>And that was cool.</p><p>But leading up to it&#8230;</p><p>I remember having a conversation with somebody that I consider to be a true master of life and I was giving em the play by play of my upcoming travels.</p><p>And after I was done&#8230;</p><p>I remember him smiling and saying:</p><p>&#8220;That sounds like a lot of fun and weddings are great and to be enjoyed, but there&#8217;s certain things more important than that *eye wink*. So don&#8217;t forget about the Work and keep making it the singular priority.&#8221;</p><p>To which I thought (in all honesty):</p><p>&#8220;Maaaaan this mofo is lowkey ruining the trip before it even begins.&#8221;</p><p>But a deeper part of me knew what he was pointing to. Weddings, vacations, exotic travels, fancy hotels, adventures, fine dining, days in the sun are important and to be enjoyed, but they&#8217;re not necessarily the point of life.</p><p>All these exist on the surface and if you remain attached to these things, you remain at the surface. Yet a deeper current resides below the surface and this deeper current is more important to get in touch with (ironically enough this deeper current is also what allows you to enjoy the surface level contents to the fullest).</p><p>So that&#8217;s the second story.</p><p>Now onto the third and last one.</p><h3><strong>Story #3</strong></h3><p>I got an unexpected call earlier this month telling me that my cousin was on life support/medically induced coma and it wasn&#8217;t looking too good, so if I wanted to see him before he passed&#8230; I needed to race to the hospital at once.</p><p>So I did.</p><p>Once I got there, the doctor had just given my family members the final report which essentially said:</p><p>There&#8217;s not much we can do anymore. He is dying and only has 48 hours left (at most). All we can do is make him comfortable, so that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to do: &#8220;Make him comfortable.&#8221;</p><p>And emotions aside, the last line fucked with me.</p><p>Not because it was a new line. I had heard it many times before whenever I found myself in the hospital next to a loved one who was transitioning to the other side.</p><p>So that&#8217;s not why it fucked with me.</p><p>It fucked with me because as I kicked it with my cousin for his last 48 hours on earth I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder:</p><p>What&#8217;s the difference between my cousin who is laying here before me on a ventilator and dying and everybody else (including myself)?</p><p>The obvious difference is we&#8217;re still alive and breathing and moving around while my cousin lay before me unconscious and was only able to breathe through the ventilator.</p><p>But deeper than that:</p><p>I couldn&#8217;t really find a difference because just like the doctors and hospital staff were doing whatever they could to make my cousin &#8220;comfortable&#8221; before death came to take him&#8230; wasn&#8217;t it true&#8230; that this is what everybody else (including myself) was doing in the world too? Making ourselves as comfortable as possible before death came knocking?</p><p>I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true for you, but I could see how it was true in my own life.</p><p>Not only that, but while standing in that hospital room I couldn&#8217;t help but feel that spending a lifetime prioritizing comfort was such a foolish way to live. As if it was disrespectful to the real purpose of life.</p><p>So that&#8217;s the third story.</p><p>Now with those three stories in mind, you&#8217;re probably left wondering:</p><p><em>&#8220;Ok, so what exactly is the point of life?&#8221;</em></p><p>And I&#8217;m finally ready to tell you.</p><p>But it probably won&#8217;t make much sense to you until I explain it, so let me tell you the point of life and then explain it (before you use the familiar mind to dismiss this as bullshit and close yourself off to this possibility).</p><p>Coolio?</p><p>If so, here goes (*drum roll*):</p><p><strong>The point of life is evolution (everything else is secondary). But not evolution in the normal &#8220;scientific&#8221; frame because the world out there isn&#8217;t really a world out there, but a world in here that is just a dream. Evolution meaning the evolution and growth of your individual consciousness.</strong></p><p>This evolution is made up of two components:</p><p><strong>1. Self realization</strong> &#8211; Waking up to the truth of who and what you *fundamentally* are. Hint: It&#8217;s not the character you see in the mirror.</p><p><strong>2. Self actualization</strong> &#8211; Actualizing your true nature in your everyday human life (not in a monastery or a cave) because human life (with all its beauty and challenges) is the ultimate arena for <em>rapid</em> acceleration.</p><p>Now with that in mind, you&#8217;re probably left thinking:</p><p>&#8220;Ok, but how does this differ from the conventional meaning of life we discussed earlier related to the West and the East?&#8221;</p><p>And it&#8217;s a fair question.</p><p>Both these perspectives, you see, are only half right.</p><p>In the East, the concern is all about self realization so they dedicate everything to realizing the truth of their nature which is a worthwhile pursuit, but the abandoning of human life robs them of true acceleration and growth because living a true human life is how you actually learn to embody and hold your realization (it&#8217;s not enough to be a master in the monastery, you must learn to become a master in the market). Not only that, but living a real and meaningful human life to the fullest is what leads to real fulfillment, juice, and infinite glory. So to pursue realization without actualization is going to wake you up to Divinity, but not to the personal fulfillment that comes from actualizing Divinity through your human form (which is the entire point of taking birth as a human being).</p><p>On the other hand:</p><p>In the West, the concern is all about self actualization so they dedicate everything to experiencing the &#8220;contents&#8221; of human life such as relationships, achievements, career, adventures/travels, raising families, business building, impacting others which are all worthwhile pursuits, but they&#8217;re doing it through the false and distorted identity of the personality without knowing the real truth of who and what they are. This, in return, results in them &#8220;gaining the world&#8221; but still feeling empty and deficient inside because the real source of fullness and satisfaction is not the world, but your true and ultimate nature. Without realizing this nature (aka pursuing actualization without realization), you not only remain asleep at the wheel and disconnected from your real power, but also miserable, depressed, and in pain (unconsciously).</p><p>So with the above explanations in mind, we can now conclude that the REAL path to living fully integrates both self realization and self actualization.</p><p>In other words:</p><p>If you want to live this life to the fullest and truly fulfill the meaning of life, you have to commit to:</p><p>1. Waking up to your true nature</p><p>2. Actualizing this nature in the world by embracing all the contents (relationships, carer, health, adventures, challenges/problems/stressors) that makes up human life (aka being your nature IN the arena)</p><p>If you just focus on one, you only live 50% optimally and miss out on the other 50% of gold.</p><p>SOOOO&#8230;</p><p>Now that you know that, I want to present you with the REAL *use case* and purpose of your money, health, and relationships. Then, I&#8217;m going to conclude this letter by bringing your attention back to the three personal stories I shared earlier. And explaining their real significance.</p><p>Coolio?</p><p>Let&#8217;s go (I know this letter is getting super long but stay with me here because this is very important).</p><h3><strong>The real purpose of health</strong></h3><p>I know a lot of people that have dedicated their entire life to health. They lift weights, eat clean, walk 10k+ steps, drink the best water, sleep 8-9 hours, and look and feel absolutely amazing.</p><p>But the real question remains:</p><p>Why?</p><p>In other words:</p><p>What&#8217;s the point of having good health?</p><p>It sounds like a stupid question because most people think the point of having good health is so you can stay alive for longer (without falling ill to disease) and maximize your time on earth &#8211; right?</p><p>I don&#8217;t agree.</p><p>Fuck is the point of staying alive for longer if you&#8217;re just going to spend your time doing bullshit? I&#8217;d argue that somebody who lives 25 years, but fulfills the meaning of life is ETERNALLY better off than somebody who lives 120 years without realizing the point of life.</p><p>So with that stated:</p><p>You&#8217;re probably thinking&#8230;</p><p>&#8220;So should I not focus on improving my health?&#8221;</p><p>And that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m saying at all. Good health is very important, but it&#8217;s not important because it necessarily allows you to live longer. It&#8217;s important because the Work required to realize your True Nature demands a lot of ENERGY and good health provides you with exactly that.</p><p>So the real purpose of health isn&#8217;t to look good naked (which is fine), but because it gives you the ENERGY you need to wake up to the truth of who and what you are.</p><p>Now that you know the real purpose of good health, let&#8217;s move onto money.</p><h3><strong>The real purpose of money</strong></h3><p>If the point of life is evolution and this consists of self realization and self actualization, then you may be thinking:</p><p>How does money fit into the meaning of life?</p><p>And it&#8217;s a fair question.</p><p>Most people think money either plays a very BIG role or NO role at all, but IMO both perspectives are wrong.</p><p>Money plays a small, but very CRITICAL role.</p><p>What&#8217;s the role?</p><p>Twofold:</p><p>1. It allows you to buy back your time, so you can dedicate it to waking up to the truth of who and what you are (self realization)</p><p>2. It allows you to buy *access* aka training by the masters of life who have peeked beyond the curtain and seen life for what it truly is: the ultimate arena for rapid acceleration, growth, and fulfillment</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png" width="601" height="735" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:735,&quot;width&quot;:601,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ljlA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17f822c4-9492-42c0-965c-641ee39ec6b1_601x735.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Without this, money really serves no purpose besides getting you more comfortable before death comes knocking. But with this use case, money becomes an extremely VALUABLE resource for your ascension. Such is why I&#8217;ve always encouraged people to get into online business because it allows you to not only express your nature, but also achieve time, location, and $$$ freedom which are extremely useful for achieving the real purpose of life.</p><p>&#8211;</p><p>Quick side note:</p><p>I know a few people that have sold companies for hundreds of millions of dollars and then after they get depressed and sad. After moping in the sadness for weeks or months or years, they think to themselves: The reason I&#8217;m sad is because I&#8217;m not building anything. So then they start another company, sell it, and repeat this entire dilemma all over again.</p><p>This to me is quite foolish because you remain stuck at the same level.</p><p>The reason you&#8217;re sad is because you&#8217;re looking for the world to give you what only your nature can. So the real solution is not to build another company and repeat this process all over again, but to leverage your money towards self realization.</p><p>This is the only way to actually experience the glory you seek (the sadness/depression is feedback from life that you&#8217;re currently missing the mark. So take the data into account and adjust your approach).</p><p>(This doesn&#8217;t mean you cannot build another company. Building another company is a great way to actualize your nature in the world, but it&#8217;s important to actually be in touch with this nature otherwise your actions aren&#8217;t real actions that deliver real nourishment, but empty actions that are mechanical and just food for evolution).</p><p>Ok now that you know the real purpose of money making and achieving time/location freedom, let&#8217;s move onto relationships.</p><h3><strong>The real purpose of relationships</strong></h3><p>Many people think the entire point of life is to bring children into the world and raise a happy and healthy family and this is great, but it leaves so much on the table because it doesn&#8217;t really fulfill the real potential/purpose of relationships.</p><p>The real purpose of relationships is twofold:</p><p><strong>1. Support the real in your loved ones and assist them in waking up to their true and infinite nature.</strong></p><p><em>A fake friend/spouse/parent supports your ego/personality.</em></p><p><em>A real friend/spouse/parent supports you.</em></p><p>The above may just sound like a clever change in words, but it leads to a drastically different outcome in personal relationships.</p><p><strong>2. Use your relationships to actualize the qualities and capacities of your true nature.</strong></p><p>The entire point of relationships is you get to ACTUALIZE who and what you truly are (and when you do, you experience real fulfillment, joy and delight that only comes from being who you truly are).</p><p>In other words&#8230;</p><p>Remember how I said it&#8217;s not enough to be a master of life in the monastery, but you must become one in the market if you are to fulfill the real meaning of life?</p><p>Well, this is what I mean.</p><p>It&#8217;s easy to be in touch with Presence (your True Nature) and experience the qualities of love, kindness, strength, power, creativity, joy that makes it up when you&#8217;re solo dolo, but can you express those qualities at the dinner table? What about in the boardroom? What about in the hospital room?</p><p>Maybe. Maybe not.</p><p>(I personally cannot&#8230; yet.)</p><p>But this is where the &#8220;Work&#8221; lies.</p><p>Ok now that you know the real purpose of health, money, and relationships&#8230; let me bring this letter to a close by briefly touching on the three personal stories I mentioned up above (and illustrating their true significance).</p><p><strong>Story #1</strong></p><p>When I was going through it and my teacher said: <em><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to take the necessary safety precautions and stay alive&#8230; so you can continue working on yourself.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>What did she really mean?</p><p>She meant that you&#8217;re not alive for just the sake of being alive. You&#8217;re alive because life brings the rare opportunity for self realization and actualization. This is something that most people ignore entirely, but it&#8217;s such a rare and precious opportunity so do whatever you can &#8220;in the world&#8221; to support yourself so you can then direct all that power/time/energy/resources towards self realization and actualization.</p><p>This is the highest ROI lever to pull.</p><p>Everything else pales in comparison.</p><p><strong>Story #2</strong></p><p>When I was sharing my upcoming travels and the master of life responded with:</p><p>&#8220;That sounds like a lot of fun and weddings are great and to be enjoyed, but there&#8217;s certain things more important than that *eye wink*. So don&#8217;t forget about the Work and keep making it the singular priority.&#8221;</p><p>What did he really mean?</p><p>He meant: &#8220;Don&#8217;t let the glitter of the world put you to sleep again. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with the above, but if the above is all you focus on&#8230; then you live unconsciously and miss out on the real juice of existence that comes from living fully/consciously. To live consciously is to be in touch with your nature AND enjoy your time in the sun. The latter without the former is not heaven, but hell.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Story #3</strong></p><p>When my cousin was slowly dying in front of me and the doctor said:</p><p>&#8220;All we can do is make him comfortable&#8221;</p><p>&#8230; and the line fucked with me&#8230;</p><p>Why did it hit so deeply?</p><p>Two reasons:</p><ol><li><p>I realized that&#8217;s what most of humanity is doing (while they wait for death)</p></li><li><p>Dedicating your life to just being comfortable was a foolish way to live because at death all you take with you is not the spoils of your comforts, but the degree of your realization and actualization</p></li></ol><p>Not prioritizing this is thus missing the mark because death unfortunately isn&#8217;t a get out of jail free card.</p><p>This poem by Kabir titled &#8220;The Time Before Death&#8221; articulates this beautifully:</p><p><em>&#8220;The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotted &#8211; that is all fantasy.</em></p><p><em>What is found now is found then.</em></p><p><em>If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.&#8221;</em></p><p>So with all that stated, you now know the real significance behind these three stories and what they&#8217;re pointing to.</p><p><strong>All that&#8217;s left to do now is </strong><em><strong>realize</strong></em><strong> and </strong><em><strong>actualize</strong></em><strong> the point.</strong></p><p>Thanks for reading.</p><p>Your friend,</p><p>/tej</p><p>P.S. The reason I talk about online business/copywriting is because it allows you to build time, location, $$$ freedom. The reason I talk about spirituality/consciousness/awakening is because it allows you to direct all your resources/energy towards achieving the ultimate aim:</p><p>Self realization &amp; actualization.</p><p>P.P.S. I spent a lot of time drawing attention to the realization part of the equation because that&#8217;s where most people (including myself) are lacking, but this doesn&#8217;t mean actualization isn&#8217;t equally important. The entire cosmos is designed because True Nature wanted to experience itself through human form so the worldly contents are equally important.</p><p>In other words, God wanted to taste ice cream (substitute ice cream with whatever&#8230; writing, creating, building, having sex, running marathons, jumping out of planes, birthing babies, going on dates, making money, etc.) and the only way to do it was by creating You. </p><p>So don&#8217;t renounce the ice cream. </p><p>Enjoy the ice cream, but do it in a real way ;-)</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[TDL #89: Advanced Mindset Engineering (That'll Help You Make More Money)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Change your mind to change your income]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/tdl-89-advanced-mindset-engineering</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/tdl-89-advanced-mindset-engineering</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:03:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4f5380f8-9179-41f6-adf0-ced78926db4b_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>MARCH 2026 // Issue #89</strong></p><p>Welcome to Issue #89 of the Tej Dosa Letter. This issue is going to be an advanced mindset engineering issue that is designed to rewire your brain so you can break through stubborn income ceilings. And start hitting the numbers that you are capable of earning, but maybe aren&#8217;t yet fully comfortable holding.</p><p>This is extremely import&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[happy 2026 + 3 unconventional thots ]]></title><description><![CDATA[keep these top of mind]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/happy-2026-3-unconventional-thots</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/happy-2026-3-unconventional-thots</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:13:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/652ed731-8a77-415e-9e05-b66222da6bfc_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy new year, my friend! Hope you had a great holiday break. And have an even better year ahead.</p><p>Personally speaking:</p><p>I don&#8217;t really have any goals for the new year.</p><p>I don&#8217;t really have any &#8216;word&#8217; or &#8216;theme&#8217; for the new year.</p><p>I don&#8217;t really have any plans.</p><p>I just went to sleep at 9pm last night, woke up this morning, kicked it with my parents, looked up at the bright sky and chuckled like a crazy man while thinking to myself:</p><p><strong>&#8220;Whatever happens, </strong><em><strong>happens</strong></em><strong>.&#8221;</strong></p><p>And that felt good.</p><p>Not because there&#8217;s anything wrong with setting goals or themes or plans. Truth be told, I usually do those things. But this year I didn&#8217;t feel the need to. Instead, I felt like goals, themes, and plans are just tools I use to remind myself of what is important in case I fall asleep at the wheel of life (and the more I live in my sleep, the more I need goals). But the more time I actually spend awake and present to my life, the less I need goals, themes, or plans.</p><p>Instead, I simply remain awake, show up to meet the moment before me, and optimal right action just flows&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; leading to the unfoldment of my life (which has been quite wild as of recent!).</p><p>The only real aim I guess I have to support that process is to stay awake.</p><p>And I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s just relevant to me.</p><p>I think for the vast majority the problem isn&#8217;t that people don&#8217;t know what they want. The problem is that they don&#8217;t stay awake long enough to actually get it.</p><p>Instead what happens is they&#8217;re awake, excited, and present on January 1st, but shortly thereafter the pull of their familiar conditioning pulls them out of the excitement of the new year and before they know it&#8230; they have fallen back asleep and don&#8217;t wake up again until December 31st.</p><p>This is what happens to most people.</p><p>Heck, this is what used to happen to me.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t anymore because the solution out of this predicament isn&#8217;t to set more goals or clear goals or smart goals or realistic goals (F realistic goals) or whatever else people do&#8230;</p><p>The solution is to focus on staying awake aka maximizing presence so you end up treating every day like January 1st.  Make (and keep that) your singular aim this year and watch what happens to your life!</p><p>So that&#8217;s the first thot.</p><p><strong>Now onto the 2nd (all these are kind of related, but not really&#8230; kind of just things I was pondering and wanted to put out there to kick off this year):</strong></p><p>When I was a teenager, I would read articles like the &#8220;top regrets of the dying&#8221; and would always see: &#8220;I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself&#8221; at the top of the list.</p><p>But I couldn&#8217;t understand it.</p><p>How could people not live a life true to themselves?</p><p>Then I grew up, entered adulthood, and experienced how all of society is designed to collectively stab at you until you walk down your chosen mountain and embrace the mountain of the time.</p><p>It takes great courage, boldness, and the capacity to stomach many lonely nights to go against the conditioning of the time and stay true.</p><p>Definitely lost my balance here and there, but overall happy to say that I made it through all the dark nights and stayed true.</p><p>My only wish for you this year (and beyond) is to do the same.</p><p><strong>Now onto the third and final thot:</strong></p><p>Mindset work is very useful, but eventually it becomes a prison too.</p><p>In the beginning, the world conditions you negatively.</p><p>So positive programming is extremely useful and needed to step into a new version of yourself so you can run up the numbers and bring your wildest dreams to life.</p><p>But if you remain at the level of positive programming, you remain at the level of the mind and over time it not only becomes a juiceless existence, but you also miss out on the objective reality that exists beyond the mind.</p><p>This reality is &#8220;heavenly&#8221; and I don&#8217;t use that word lightly.</p><p>Choir bells are ringing. Liquid gold is falling from the sky. And all of creation is singing Hallelujah.</p><p>I know that sounds like just words, but it&#8217;s a small taste of the actual experience of reality in its true form. But in order to get there, you have to give up what got you here. And that is your allegiance to the mind.</p><p>The good news is nobody can force you to give it up, only you can decide for yourself. And reality is infinitely patient so there is no rush. But when you&#8217;ve had enough of living the life of the mind, you can boldly (or cautiously) drop it all and step into the land of no time.</p><p>In the beginning, it may be scary (or at least it was for me).</p><p>But eventually, it becomes liberating because you see the face of Divinity.</p><p>And once you do, all of creation is freed! :-)</p><p>&#8211;</p><p>That&#8217;s it for me.</p><p>What&#8217;s up with you?</p><p>Shoot me a reply and let me know what&#8217;s on your mind heading into 2026. I&#8217;ll read every response and do my best to reply (but it may take me a bit).</p><p>Cheers!</p><p>Your friend,</p><p>/tej</p><p>P.S. Ok thots come in bunches, so I got one more&#8230;</p><p> &#8220;Wherever you go, there you are&#8221; is often said in a negative context</p><p>Meaning:</p><p>If you&#8217;re depressed in x town, you&#8217;ll probably be depressed in y town too</p><p>And that makes sense</p><p>But the real gold of this quote is mined when you realize</p><p>If you can do the work to cultivate inner freedom and liberation and connection with your ultimate nature (that is beyond time and space), then you can remain free no matter where life takes you</p><p>Because&#8230;</p><p>Wherever you go, there you are ;-)</p><p>&#8211;</p><p>I think that&#8217;s worth doing? Not even for just this life, but all lives.</p><p>I&#8217;m not there yet aka fully stabilized personally. But I&#8217;ve definitely turned the corner.</p><p>I think I&#8217;ll crack it this year?</p><p>Idk&#8230; we&#8217;ll see, but cheers!!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[TDL #87: How To Start Making Money Online In 2026 (Resources Included)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ignore everything else. It's all noise.]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/tdl-87-how-to-start-making-money</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/tdl-87-how-to-start-making-money</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:03:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yoa-!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f22ea0d-d6b7-4a52-b2b4-d0990002e41e_728x728.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>JANUARY 2026 // Issue #87</strong></p><p>Happy New Year, my friend! I hope you had an eventful and enjoyable Holiday season and now you&#8217;re back into gear with a fresh 12 months of relentless focus and execution.</p><p>In order to help make that happen, I&#8217;m going to focus this issue on helping you address the main issue most people will want to focus on this year:</p><p><strong>&#8220;How to start&#8230;</strong></p>
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Avoid.]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/33-mini-habits-that-quietly-ruined</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/33-mini-habits-that-quietly-ruined</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:02:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2270c991-db08-44a0-b6df-fe5a2334531e_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few months ago, I wrote <a href="https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/33-mini-habits-that-quietly-changed">33 mini-habits that (quietly) changed my life</a>.</p><p>Now it&#8217;s only right that I give you the reverse aka the mini-habits that (quietly) <strong>ruined</strong> my life.</p><p>This is important because these mini-habits don&#8217;t really seem that big of a deal at the moment, but if you do them repeatedly&#8230;</p><p>You can very quickly destroy your life.</p><p>I&#8217;ve been there. I&#8217;ve done that.</p><p>So hopefully you can learn from my mistakes and either avoid these habits altogether or identify 1 or 2 from this list and put an end to them.</p><p>Coolio?</p><p>If so, let&#8217;s get into the list:</p><p><strong>1. Making &#8220;yes&#8221; your default response (without thinking).</strong></p><p>Why: In the moment, you don&#8217;t want to disappoint the person asking so you say yes without thinking. But later on, this creates obligations and demands on your time that you may not have which brews resentment and may lead you to backing out/cancelling/disappointing the person. This damages your will, relationships and personal follow through which is the bedrock to confidence. With that in mind, it&#8217;s best to avoid this altogether and say no from the jump. Only say yes if it&#8217;s a hell yes. Don&#8217;t say yes when you really mean &#8220;maybe&#8221; or &#8220;probably not, but I don&#8217;t have the balls to say no outright so I&#8217;m just going to say yes to string you along.&#8221;</p><p><strong>2. Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom.</strong></p><p>Why: How you start and end the day is pretty much what dictates the quality of your day. If you sleep with your phone in your bedroom, then you&#8217;re likely to start and end the day scrolling. This is a horrible habit to fall into, so make it easy on yourself by making the bedroom a phone free zone. This will naturally give rise to you starting and ending the day in a more healthier, productive, and fulfilling way (i.e. reading, meditation, stretching, whatever).</p><p><strong>3. Using your iPhone as a swiss army device</strong>.</p><p>Why: I used to use my phone for everything. Calling, texting, listening to music, reading books, replying to emails, listening to audiobooks, using Slack for work, watching YouTube, using social media, calculating financial stuff, etc. This, in return, would give rise to high screen time, but also endless distraction loops.</p><p>In other words, I would open the phone to calculate something for business, but then see some random Whatsapp messages that would create unnecessary context switching and derail my focus. Avoid this by just using your phone for calling and texting. If you want to read, buy physical books or get a Kindle. If you want to listen to music, use an old iPod. If you want to crunch numbers, get a physical calculator or use Excel. This simplifies everything and drastically reduces screen time because it changes the association you have with your phone (whereas previously you would pick it up without thinking&#8230; you now pick it up only to call or text).</p><p><strong>4. Thinking about your life (and getting caught in never ending thought loops) instead of sensing your experience (and allowing it to unfold).</strong></p><p>Why: This one is subtle, but life changing. If you want your life to unfold fully and freely, stop thinking about it. Instead start sensing it from the inside out by asking yourself: What&#8217;s going on inside me? What am I feeling? What am I sensing? What is this all about? Get curious because the answers are contained in your experience. Nothing is random.</p><p>By sensing your experience and feeling it from the inside out, you actually allow your experience to deepen, unfold, and reveal its deeper truth. This, in return, results in real growth and effortless change that is far superior than the mind could ever imagine. (If you&#8217;re constantly thinking about your life, nothing will ever change. You&#8217;ll just continue to rearrange your thoughts in a million different ways, but keep the same room intact. Been there. Done that. Not fun.)</p><p><strong>5. Slow response time (because you want to give the perfect answer)</strong></p><p>Why: I&#8217;m still guilty of this and my reply game is trash as fuck. One because I get a lot of texts, messages, emails, DMs. But two because I fall into the mindset of wanting to give a detailed reply instead of a quick reply. This is a mistake because you&#8217;re sacrificing speed for perfection and perfection isn&#8217;t what the medium of texting/emailing/DMing is made for. It&#8217;s best to keep detailed responses to calls and keep texting for fast, efficient, quick responses to keep things moving in the right direction.</p><p><strong>6. Trying to be creative while looking at a screen.</strong> </p><p>Why: I don&#8217;t know about you, but it&#8217;s hard for me to be creative while I&#8217;m looking at screens. It&#8217;s easier to be creative when I have a pen in hand and I&#8217;m looking at a fresh sheet of paper.</p><p>With that in mind, I wasted too much time trying to come up with creative ideas/angles/breakthroughs while seated at my desk with my eyes glued to the screen. Better use of my time would&#8217;ve been to leave my desk, touch grass, and carry a pocket notebook with me.</p><p><strong>7. Identifying with the superego.</strong></p><p>Why: The superego aka the inner critic is the internalization of the early judgments your parents/caregivers hit you with. And it exists to keep your familiar world intact. Problem is: When you identify with it (which is what we all do until we become aware of it), you maintain the boundaries that separate your small life from the big life.</p><p>Not only that, but the superego is the inner bully that is constantly yelling at you, belittling you, rejecting you, judging you, and making your life a living hell. By listening to it, you grow heavy, withdrawn, and become stuck. This gives rise to a very shitty, dull, repetitive experience of life.</p><p>Buck the trend by becoming aware of the superego and telling it to fuck off every chance you get because your life is at stake (recommended reading on this topic: Soul Without Shame by Byron Brown).</p><p><strong>8. Working with other people in the room.</strong></p><p>Why: This might just be a me thing, but I do my best work alone. I do my worst work around other people. This is the case because not only are other people more likely to distract you and pull you out of deep flow. But even if they don&#8217;t, there is always a possibility of it happening which kind of prevents your brain from completely losing itself in the task at hand.</p><p>Avoid this by waking up earlier or staying up later than everybody else. In addition, get a physical timer and point your desk to the wall (or a beautiful view). This is all you need to do your best work.</p><p>Yes, working in cafes and new locations sounds fun in theory, but it&#8217;s pretty trash in practice. At least for me. Save the cafes for journaling sessions (this works well because changing your physical location allows you to get a more objective view of where you&#8217;re at in life which is clarity inducing for journal sessions).</p><p><strong>9. Having 1 random meeting scheduled in the afternoon.</strong></p><p>Why: Either have 0 meetings scheduled (so you can truly lose yourself in deep work waters and forget about time altogether) or stack/schedule all your meetings into 1-2 days (so you can free up the rest of your week).</p><p>Scheduling 1 or 2 meetings per day puts you in no man&#8217;s land. You cannot lose yourself in your work. Nor can you develop a healthy flow/get in the zone to crush your meetings/calls. Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.</p><p>1 random meeting a day is a huge productivity killer.</p><p><strong>10. Keeping up with the news, politics, toxic media.</strong></p><p>Why: I know it seems important, but it&#8217;s really not. In the end what truly matters is the following: Did you wake up to the truth of who and what you are and live a full, complete, satisfying human life? Or did you remain asleep at the wheel, cut off from the depths of your being, and aimlessly spend your life lost in distractions? Nothing matters, but that. Keeping up with the news, politics, and toxic media will put you in the latter category instead of the former category. Not worth it. (<em>Even though going down the latest conspiracy rabbithole is very tempting&#8230;</em>)</p><p><strong>11. Complaining/bitching/moaning.</strong></p><p>Why: Every time you complain, bitch or moan&#8230; you are arguing with God and essentially saying: You know better. But do you, really? I thought I did, lol. Turns out, I didn&#8217;t. Avoid the urge to comment on your experience. Simply allow it to unfold and trust that reality is 100% benevolent (because it is).</p><p><strong>12. Inconsistent sleep/wake times.</strong></p><p>Why: The human psyche/biology thrives off routine. By sleeping and waking sporadically, you are fucking with your hardware. And not giving it what it needs to truly thrive. Not only that, but it makes it difficult to consistently hit your deep work hours because one day you&#8217;re waking up at x time and another day you&#8217;re waking at y time.</p><p><strong>13. Drinking more than 1 cup of coffee a day.</strong></p><p>Why: Coffee/caffeine puts you in your conditioning and makes you fall victim to your subconscious programming. The more caffeine you drink, the deeper you fall into conditioning. This doesn&#8217;t have to be the case, but most of us aren&#8217;t in touch with enough presence to counteract the effects of caffeine. So if your aim is to truly wake up to your true nature, it&#8217;s best to monitor your caffeine intake. And stick to just 0-1 cups/day. (Once you&#8217;ve seen through your conditioning, then coffee will have 0 effects. But in the beginning stages, too much caffeine can delay your progress.)</p><p>Another mini-habit related to coffee that ruined my life:</p><p>Drinking black coffee on an empty stomach because it fucks up your gut.</p><p>(Always hydrate and eat prior to drinking coffee.)</p><p><strong>14. Doomscrolling.</strong></p><p>Why: You are quite literally scrolling/self soothing your life away.</p><p><strong>15. Breaking your word.</strong></p><p>Why: Every time you say you&#8217;re going to do something and you don&#8217;t do it, you are teaching yourself to not trust yourself. This creates invisible scars and undermines your confidence.</p><p><strong>16. Multi-tasking.</strong></p><p>Why: Protect, build, and direct your energy towards 1 thing at a time. When you direct your energy in multiple directions, you are spreading yourself thin. And keeping yourself from truly succeeding.</p><p><strong>17. Watching videos at 2x speed.</strong></p><p>Why: This one is controversial and I still watch videos on 2x speed myself, but I do have to admit: The courses, content, and videos that fundamentally created a change in my life were not watched on 2x speed. They were watched at normal speed and given the required space for the material to truly land. This is important because: Videos that are sped up make you feel like you&#8217;re learning faster, but I find this just makes you consume more videos over time. And apply less of what you&#8217;re consuming. The fix is to consume less and consume slowly.</p><p><strong>18. Living a cluttered life.</strong></p><p>Why: How you do 1 thing is how you do everything. If you have a messy closet, then you probably have a messy car, financial life, and dating life too. This is the bad news. The good news? If you clean up clutter in one area, then you&#8217;ll experience the benefits in other areas too. All is connected for all exists inside the same consciousness that you are.</p><p><strong>19. Taking things personally.</strong></p><p>Why: Most people are not talking to you. They are unconsciously projecting an image of their mom or dad onto you and talking to that. When you take things personally, you are hurting yourself and clinging onto that which isn&#8217;t yours. Allow people to do what they will, but don&#8217;t take their words personally. Let them arise and pass.</p><p><strong>20. Multiple communication platforms.</strong></p><p>Why: I used to have 5+ different email addresses plus active, daily communication with different peoples on Whatsapp, iMsg, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Circle. This was a nightmare and lowkey a full-time job to manage. Avoid this and centralize your communication channels into 1-2. Ditch the rest and delete your old email accounts too.</p><p><strong>21. Exposing your eyes &amp; skin to blue light after sunset.</strong></p><p>Why: It fucks up your circadian rhythm at best and creates a host of serious health problems/diseases/mental illnesses at worst.</p><p><strong>22. Having visible black screens all over your house.</strong></p><p>Why: I&#8217;m 100% unhinged with this take, but if you&#8217;re extra sensitive then you may notice that visible black screens (on iPhones, iPads, TVs, laptops/monitors, etc.) can act as portals that suck your energy, focus, vitality, and life force. With that being said, it&#8217;s best to keep these screens covered and your phone turned upside down.</p><p>(When I moved into my current home, I had no television screen for 3+ years. It was amazing and led to great conversations with friends and family. Then one day there was a big UFC event and I decided to host some friends for it, so I went out and got a TV and stuck it to the wall. That day, we had a lot of fun. But after that, I noticed just having the TV on the wall (black screen) impacted the energy in the space. And the conversations wouldn&#8217;t be as rich. Fixed this by getting rid of the TV.)</p><p><strong>23. Not feeling your feelings.</strong></p><p>Why: When you don&#8217;t feel your feelings, you suppress your feelings. By suppressing your feelings, you are giving rise to unconscious programming that will continue to impact you from the shadows. For example, let&#8217;s say I&#8217;m feeling murderous rage, but I was taught not to feel this feeling. Then I suppress it and take it out of my conscious awareness. What will happen now? I will project the contents of my unconscious onto the world and start viewing the world to be hostile/aggressive/cruel. And start to experience experiences that are in alignment with this belief which further validates it and creates more suffering. This is obviously a horrible orientation to life and it is created by not feeling your feelings. So feel your feelings to completion and realize no feeling is bigger than you.</p><p>(To feel your feelings doesn&#8217;t mean you act out your feelings or even believe your feelings. It simply means you feel your feelings internally and allow whatever is there to be felt unconditionally.)</p><p><strong>24. Running away from yourself.</strong></p><p>Why: Last year a lot was unfolding for me internally and it was quite a difficult and challenging process. I made it more difficult by running away from myself and going on benders all over the world. In the moment, I rationalized and told myself I was doing it because I wanted to explore x part of the world. But in truth, I was doing it to run away from the challenging process I was undergoing. This was fine and quite fun lol, but ultimately it did slow down my process and kept me stuck in the difficult quicksand for longer than was actually needed (because I kept circling the block instead of driving through the block once and for all).</p><p><strong>25. Using devices with bluetooth.</strong></p><p>Why: I used to throw on beats or Airpod Max&#8217;s while immersed in deep work waters and rock an Apple watch while working out. Over time, I noticed I would get headaches more often and also this weird feeling in my chest/heart area. I ditched both the headphones and the watch and the above symptoms went away. Not sure if they were the cause, but I don&#8217;t think having these devices near your body is a good idea (long term). These days, I stick to wired headphones and in terms of watches, I&#8217;ve been enjoying going back to rocking a normal watch. I&#8217;ve bought a lot of watches throughout the years (at all different price points), but here&#8217;s my 3 favorite watches:</p><ul><li><p>G-Shock GW-5000U-1JF</p></li><li><p>Longines Presence dress watch</p></li><li><p>Omega Speedmaster 3861</p></li></ul><p><strong>26. Not taking multi-forms of magnesium sooner.</strong></p><p>Why: I&#8217;ve been on health twitter for a minute (since 2018) and obviously have seen a lot of talk related to magnesium. And I have been taking magnesium since then, but kind of a pussy dose. Recently, I started taking multiple forms of magnesium (magnesium taurate &amp; malate in the AM, magnesium chloride in my drinking water, magnesium glycinate in the PM) and worked my way up to 1 gram/day and it&#8217;s been incredible.</p><p>(Not medical advice.)</p><p><strong>27. Reading mainstream self help books.</strong></p><p>Why: The self they&#8217;re trying to improve is the self that you&#8217;re unconsciously identified with that doesn&#8217;t even exist in reality. By reading self help books, you deepen your identification with it (and hold yourself captive). Instead of reading self help, read fiction, biographies, spiritual and religious texts. The former speaks to what you lack. The latter awakens powers/potential that society conditioned you to suppress.</p><p><strong>28. Always being in a rush.</strong></p><p>Why: Being in a rush is a tell tale sign that you&#8217;re living on somebody else&#8217;s terms. Ok for a season, but not ok for a lifetime.</p><p><strong>29. Holding tightly onto money.</strong></p><p>Why: In the early days of my business career, I was conditioned to hold tightly onto money (middle class immigrant parent programming&#8230; you know how it goes). This was based on good intentions, but in reality it kept me from actually using money as a tool to move the needle forward. It wasn&#8217;t until I started loosening my grip on money that I started making bigger sums of money.</p><p><strong>30. Choosing intensity over consistency.</strong></p><p>Why: It&#8217;s better to do x good thing 15 minutes/day and do it every day than it is to do x good thing 1 hour/day, but only 1x/week.</p><p><strong>31. Consuming content mindlessly.</strong></p><p>Why: The majority of the world is depressed, broke, obese, divorced, and living lives you don&#8217;t want to emulate. So when you mindlessly consume content, you are programming your brain to think like most people. This, in return, will give rise to a similar life experience. Avoid by not brainwashing yourself with content that is created for the masses and by the masses. </p><p><strong>32. Labelling things to be hard.</strong></p><p>Why: The mind sets filters that determine how you view a task. If you label it as hard (i.e. making money online is hard), then you will experience the process through the filters of challenge, obstacles, and hardship. If you view everything as easy, it will become easy. Use the mind to work for you. Not against you.</p><p>And finally&#8230;</p><p><strong>33. Reading content or watching videos that are titled &#8220;33 mini-habits that (quietly) ruined my life&#8221;</strong></p><p>Why: It&#8217;s written for the algorithm. Not for you. Real juice is found by going deep (and within). Not broad (and out).</p><p>Thanks for reading ;-)</p><p>Your friend,</p><p>/tej</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[TDL #86: Your Reality Is An Illusion (Understanding How Reality Actually Works)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Change the way you "interact" with Reality]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/tdl-86-your-reality-is-an-illusion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/tdl-86-your-reality-is-an-illusion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:04:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/28017be4-e427-402e-ad1c-fdcd7be6376c_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>DECEMBER 2025 // Issue #86</strong></p><p>Hello, my friend! December is upon us which means the year is coming to a slow, but steady stop. Hope you&#8217;ve had a great year (and Black Friday) and the year went better than planned!</p><p>This month with the Tej Dosa Letter, we&#8217;re going to do something a little different. And that&#8217;s because in the new year:</p><p>I want to experiment with &#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live The Lie & Have Fun]]></title><description><![CDATA[Because you are the chosen one]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/live-the-lie-and-have-fun</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/live-the-lie-and-have-fun</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:01:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8625fc98-a45b-4df1-915e-92ea5255b13f_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people don&#8217;t live their dreams from a position of power.<br><br>They chase their dreams from a position of <em>anxiety</em>.<br><br>&#8220;Will I succeed or fail?&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;F, I got xyz to do today&#8230;&#8217;<br><br>&#8220;Everybody around me is winning, but what the hell am I doing? I need to work harder, cut off my friends I&#8217;ve known since childhood (come on now, really?!), and grind my face off.&#8221;<br><br>This way of life doesn&#8217;t sound very fun, does it?<br><br>If you want to build a life of success, I recommend scheming up the biggest and baddest dream you can and living it daily (F mediocrity).<br><br>But not from a position of anxiety.<br><br>(F that noise too.)<br><br>Why?<br><br>If you chase your dreams from a position of anxiety, you&#8217;re going to spend the heart of your life (the journey) always stressed, giving into negative emotions such as doubt and fear, and make the process not very enjoyable (or even likely to end in success).<br><br>You MUST live BIG dreams, but take the anxiety out of it.<br><br>But how? You ask.<br><br>Here&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve done it:<br><br>Recognize that time is an illusion. There is no such thing as the past, present, future. It&#8217;s all happening now. Everything that could ever happen or will ever happen has already happened. But you only perceive things linearly so you just haven&#8217;t experienced it yet.<br><br>In addition, another point I want to add is&#8230;<br><br>This doesn&#8217;t mean that everything is predetermined.<br><br>It simply means Infinite possibilities exist and all those possibilities are already here in the Now.<br><br>The version of you that&#8217;s rich and successful? It already exists.<br><br>The version of you that&#8217;s jacked with a six pack? It already exists.<br><br>The version of you that&#8217;s sitting on the top of the world? It already exists.<br><br>On the other hand&#8230;<br><br>The version of you that&#8217;s broke and homeless? It already exists (sorry!).<br><br>The version of you that&#8217;s obese and suffering from heart disease? It already exists (sorry!).<br><br>The version of you that&#8217;s residing at the bottom of the ocean? It already exists (sorry!).<br><br>Nothing gets created in life. Only experienced.<br><br>All possibilities exist already.<br><br>The scenes of your movie are not predetermined, but contain all possibilities and it&#8217;s you who calls what you experience forward.<br><br>But how? You ask again.<br><br><strong>Via alignment.</strong><br><br>To call forward a reality from the Conscious Field, you simply have to &#8216;align&#8217; your thoughts, words, mental images, and ACTIONS with it.<br><br>And hold it there with 100% certainty like what you want has already happened.<br><br>Once you get into alignment with your dream, then the upcoming scenes of your movie get changed and you get placed on a life track where you&#8217;ll bring the reality you seek to life.<br><br>I know this sounds like BS, but here&#8217;s two examples from my own life (I got hundreds more, but these are probably the most relatable)&#8230;<br><br>Example #1) In high school, as you may know, I was a very shitty student. Grades so shitty (and comments left by my teachers so bad - i.e. &#8220;you are my favorite student&#8230; in detention&#8221;) that I couldn&#8217;t even show my parents the real report card. Had to &#8216;alter&#8217; it a little bit every now and then lol, but keep the C+ in Math class to keep the shit believable (you know how that goes).<br><br>But in University?<br><br>I decided to change by simply aligning my thoughts, words, mental images, and actions with an A student. Once I got into alignment with that reality, no longer was it a question of &#8220;Will I get A&#8217;s or will I flunk?&#8221; &#8220;Will I score at the top of the class or fall in the middle of the bell curve?&#8221; &#8220;Will I graduate with a high GPA or a mediocre one?&#8221;<br><br>None of that shit.<br><br>Once I got into alignment, it was already DONE (zero question of what ifs which killed ALL anxiety).<br><br>I was already thinking, feeling, talking, acting like an A+ student - the only thing I had to do now was just go with the flow of life and experience the fruits of my alignment. And you know what?<br><br>That&#8217;s what I did.<br><br>At the beginning of each semester/every day, I&#8217;d write out &#8220;I, Tej Dosa got A in [Class 1], [Class 2], [Class 3]&#8221; 15x like a psycho. From that moment on, it was done. Finalized. Zero doubts. I knew it was done. No matter how hard the class. No matter how stubborn the teacher. No matter what BS people tried to feed me. IT WAS DONE.<br><br>All I had to do was go through the semester now holding onto this intention, plus keeping my thoughts, words, mental images, and actions aligned with the intention and it would come to life.<br><br>And you know what?<br><br>That&#8217;s what happened.<br><br>A. A. A.<br><br>First semester it happened, I showed my mom my grades.<br><br>She said: &#8220;WTF, who did you bribe?&#8221;<br><br>Second semester it happened, I showed my sister my grades.<br><br>&#8220;Haha good one, this can&#8217;t be real.&#8221;<br><br>Third semester I was over it and stopped showing anybody my grades because it didn&#8217;t even matter anymore. Heck, half the time I didn&#8217;t even care to check the grades because I already knew it was an A.<br><br>(This isn&#8217;t me being cocky, this is me knowing IT WAS DONE.)<br><br>And from then on, school became a breeze. I&#8217;d use this &#8216;trick&#8217; every semester and score A&#8217;s while chugging cheap (and disgusting) bottles of Absolut Vodka (F that vodka) at parties every weekend, acting a fool, and spending time building online reeches.<br><br><em>Similarly I did the same with online business&#8230;</em></p><p>But not in the beginning.</p><p>In the beginning, I failed at like 10+ businesses. </p><p>Then I aligned my thoughts, words, mental images, and actions with a successful direct response marketer. And every day, I&#8217;d write out &#8216;I, Tej Dosa made $x in [year] with complete ease.&#8217;<br><br>As soon as I&#8217;d write that, it was DONE!<br><br>No longer was I stressing, worrying, or anxiously fighting and clawing for success with thoughts of:<br><br>&#8220;Shit, did I make the right call? All my corporate friends are making bank, but here I am trying to make this BS work. Is this going to work or am I just chasing a pipe dream?&#8221;<br><br>NOPE. None of that shit.<br><br>Once I got 100% aligned, it was DONE.<br><br>And time just had to catch up (it had no choice).<br><br>And you know what?<br><br>It did catch up and I started to live the life of a successful direct response marketer. Of course by the time this happened I was already so used to living the life of a successful direct response marketer (since all my thoughts, words, mental images, actions were aligned) that I didn&#8217;t even notice any difference in my life.<br><br>Before I became a &#8216;successful&#8217; direct response marketer, I was spending money without looking at price tags (don&#8217;t tell my immigrant Momma!).<br><br>After I became a &#8216;successful direct response marketer, I was spending money without looking at price tags.<br><br>Only difference is my account wasn&#8217;t going into overdraft anymore hahaha.<br><br>So that&#8217;s the secret!<br><br>If you want to take the anxiety out of the process, then you must realize&#8230;<br><br>EVERYTHING IS ALREADY DONE.<br><br>You don&#8217;t have to &#8216;create&#8217; the life of your dreams.<br><br>It already exists.<br><br>All you have to do is get in alignment with it and stay in alignment with it (ignoring everything that causes you to slip out of alignment with it).<br><br>Once you do, all anxiety ceases to exist because now it&#8217;s no longer a matter of&#8230;<br><br>&#8220;Will I succeed?&#8221;<br><br>But a matter of:<br><br>&#8220;I&#8217;ve already succeeded. Now time just has to catch up.&#8221;<br><br>See the distinction?<br><br>You may think this is BS.<br><br>And heck, you&#8217;re probably right.<br><br>But all I know is&#8230;<br><br>If this BS works this well, then sheeeeeeeeeet&#8230;.<br><br><em><strong>I&#8217;m going to keep BSing myself for the rest of my life.</strong></em><br><br>AFTER ALL:<br><br>There&#8217;s so many more adventures to experience.<br><br>So many more thrills to be had.<br><br>So many more dreams to bring to life.<br><br>Only alignment will get me there.<br><br>I hope you join me, get into alignment, and start living out the greatest adventure ever known.<br><br>Or don&#8217;t and remain on the same trajectory.<br><br>Your call has always. Not here to give advice or talk from a pedestal. I ain&#8217;t shit and I don&#8217;t know shit.<br><br>All I can tell you is this has consistently worked for me, so I thought I&#8217;d share.<br><br>Hope you enjoyed it.<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej<br><br>P.S. On the pursuit of success, anxiety is caused by doubt &amp; belief.<br><br>You doubt making money online.<br><br>You doubt the client responding.<br><br>You doubt building a successful brand.<br><br>You doubt you made the right decision.<br><br>This, in return, causes anxiety.<br><br>I don&#8217;t doubt. I don&#8217;t believe (even belief leaves room for doubt). I know.<br><br>I knew I&#8217;ve made money online.<br><br>I knew I&#8217;ve built successful companies.<br><br>I knew I&#8217;ve made the right decision&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; LONG before it ever happened.<br><br>Zero doubts which meant no anxiety which meant not only did the dreams come to life, but I got to actually ENJOY the process. The process is your life, my friend. If you spend the entire process/journey in a state of anxiety/doubt, then what the F is the point even if you hit your targets?<br><br>F that noise.<br><br>We ain&#8217;t here just to experience BIG DREAMS.<br><br>We&#8217;re here to experience BIG DREAMS while having the time of our lives during the journey/process.<br><br>So make this shift and experience for yourself how much richer, easier, better this thing called life becomes.<br><br>Cool?</p><p>P.P.S. Probably have some new Black Friday Cyber Monday stuff to share tomorrow (so keep an eye on that if you&#8217;re interested!)</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life Is A Video Game (Play Accordingly)]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to create separation from your character]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/life-is-a-video-game-play-accordingly</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/life-is-a-video-game-play-accordingly</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:03:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1b6fdf54-8ac6-40bf-805f-80054c7446b2_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the last few years, I&#8217;ve sent out emails about:</p><ul><li><p>Making $$$</p></li><li><p>Self actualizing yourself</p></li><li><p>Forming good habits</p></li><li><p>Beating bad habits</p></li><li><p>Learning copywriting</p></li><li><p>Building successful businesses</p></li><li><p>Choosing niches</p></li><li><p>Staying disciplined</p></li><li><p>And so on and so forth...</p></li></ul><p>But if you&#8217;ve read a fair chunk of those emails (or anything related to self improvement) yet your life still remains the same, then it&#8217;s obvious that the #1 problem you&#8217;re suffering from is:<br><br><em><strong>&#8216;You know what to do, but you just can&#8217;t get yourself to do it.&#8217;</strong></em><br><br>Maybe you can get yourself to do it for a day, week, month...<br><br>&#8230; but not consistently for the long haul.<br><br><em>And you&#8217;re starting to realize this too, aren&#8217;t you?</em><br><br>You&#8217;ve set goals, started building habits, eating right, sleeping better, working smarter&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; but then you fall off.<br><br>Is this how life is supposed to be?<br><br>Are we destined to get on the wagon, fall off the wagon, get on the wagon, fall off the wagon until we grow old with wrinkles and lines of defeat?<br><br>Maybe some people are. But not you, my friend.<br><br>Not you.<br><br>Why?<br><br>Because I&#8217;m going to let you in on a little-known secret that the world doesn&#8217;t want you to know for the world can only profit off you if you remain limited and powerless.<br><br>What&#8217;s the secret, Tej?<br><br>I&#8217;ll explain in just a moment, but first a quick mental exercise&#8230;<br><br>Imagine right now that you were the main character inside Grand Theft Auto and living fully in the GTA world (or any video game for that matter).<br><br>And now imagine you had BIG GOALS to build biz, lose weight/gain muscle, bring your dreams to life, overcome obstacles, take daily consistent action on your intentions, and so on and so forth.<br><br>Could you do it?<br><br>Maybe for a day, week, a couple of months&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; but what would soon happen?<br><br><em><strong>Your preferences, resistance, past, thoughts, labels, stories and emotions would soon start coming to life and interfering with your ability to do what you needed to do day in and day out.</strong></em><br><br>Instead of waking up early to build your dreams on day 39, the sound of the alarm clock would trigger thoughts of: &#8220;Hmm I didn&#8217;t get enough sleep last night, so let&#8217;s just hit snooze and sleep a little bit more&#8230;&#8221;<br><br>Instead of continuing in the face of rejection of day 72, moments of adversity would make you second guess yourself and lose faith.<br><br>Instead of putting on your running shoes and hitting the pavement on day 7, bad weather would make you &#8220;not feel like it&#8221; and skip your workout.<br><br>And on and on and on you would go.<br><br>Wanting x, but letting your thoughts, preferences, and resistance keep you from doing what is required to make x happen.<br><br>Following me so far?<br><br>Good.<br><br>Now imagine a <em>glitch</em> occurred in the video game and your character grew conscious of the fact that the character he was in the video game wasn&#8217;t all there was to him. He was also connected to a deeper, realer, and truer part of himself that was OUTSIDE the video game.<br><br>Who was this deeper part?<br><br><em>The one who held the video game controller and could push buttons to make the character do what he/she wanted him to do.</em><br><br>Imagine your character waking up to this and <em><strong>shifting his identity</strong></em> from being the character to the presence he was OUTSIDE the video game, the one holding the video game controller.<br><br>Now imagine your character having the same BIG goals of building a biz, losing weight/gaining muscle, bringing your dreams to life, overcoming obstacles, taking daily consistent action on your intentions.<br><br>AND ALSO:<br><br>The same limiting thoughts, preferences, resistance, labels, stories running through his/her head.<br><br>What would happen now? Would he still fall victim to the limitations?<br><br>Well let&#8217;s use your real life experience to answer that question.<br><br>Have you ever played a video game where you had to control the character to fulfill some type of mission inside the video game?<br><br>&#8220;Yeah&#8221;<br><br>And has the video game character ever been tired, frustrated, angry, low on sleep, powerless?<br><br>&#8220;Yeah&#8221;<br><br>Were you <em>still</em> able to get the video game character to take the right actions that were in his best interest to fulfill the mission?<br><br>&#8220;Yeah&#8221;<br><br>How?<br><br>&#8220;By pushing buttons on the video game controller.&#8221;<br><br>Okay, but how come the thoughts, preferences, resistance of your character didn&#8217;t get in the way and stop you from pushing the necessary buttons?<br><br>&#8220;Because although I could experience the thoughts, emotions, resistance, preferences of my character, I knew that wasn&#8217;t who I was. I was the one holding the video game controller so I could still hit x on the controller and make the character do what was in his/her best interests.&#8221;<br><br>Interesting, but why?<br><br>&#8220;I knew I (the one holding the controller) was immune to the preferences, resistance, labels, limitations running through the character&#8217;s mind. I was free from it and nothing could harm me.&#8221;<br><br>What power did this give you?<br><br>&#8220;The power to push my character to become all that he/she could be.&#8221;<br><br>Good shit.<br><br>&#8220;But what does this have to do with real life?&#8221; you say.<br><br>After all, you&#8217;re not in the GTA world. You&#8217;re in the &#8216;real&#8217; world (or so you&#8217;ve been told lol).<br><br>And you&#8217;re right. You are.<br><br>But the thing is...<br><br>You&#8217;re treating Earth the same way the GTA character treats the GTA world. You think the character you&#8217;re playing is all that there is to you and so you&#8217;re extremely close to your character&#8217;s thoughts, resistance, preference, labels, and stories and letting them run your life.<br><br>In other words, you&#8217;re operating from the first person.<br><br>As a result:<br><br>If your character feels good, you take action on your dreams.<br><br>But the moment your character doesn&#8217;t feel good, you avoid taking action on your dreams and fall off the wagon.<br><br>This in return prevents you from fulfilling the missions you&#8217;ve set for yourself because it&#8217;s only a matter of time before your thoughts, emotions, preferences, resistance sabotage you.<br><br>Do you see this? This is why it&#8217;s SO hard for you to consistently put in the work and actually make strong progress.<br><br>So the question becomes&#8230;<br><br>How do you actually get yourself to do what you need to do?<br><br>Answer: The same way we illustrated in the GTA world.<br><br>Instead of being so attached and close to your character, create separation.<br><br>And start viewing yourself in the third person.<br><br><em><strong>When you start viewing yourself in the third person, the you that you see in the mirror will start looking like a real life video game character.</strong></em><br><br>And from that moment on&#8230;<br><br>You&#8217;ll still experience his thoughts, emotions, preferences and resistance, but you&#8217;ll also realize that you are beyond it since you&#8217;re operating from the third person (aka from presence).<br><br>Once you realize this, you&#8217;ll also realize that you have the full power to push the buttons on your character to get him to take action even if he doesn&#8217;t feel it&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; because you&#8217;re no longer a slave to his emotions, resistance, preferences, doubts, and fears. Instead, you recognize them for what they are and keep it pushing because you know they&#8217;re not you.<br><br>This, in return, gives you FULL freedom and power.<br><br>So to recap:<br><br>The reason you can&#8217;t get yourself to do what you need to do is because you&#8217;re operating from the <em>limited</em> first person.<br><br>To get yourself to consistently take action, you must start living from the third person and start viewing yourself like an independent 3rd party.<br><br>This way you&#8217;ll create separation between you and your character and stop taking the inner dialogue of your character personally. Instead, you&#8217;ll start &#8216;pushing his/her buttons&#8217; like you do with a video game character and that&#8217;s when you&#8217;ll start flying higher than you ever thought possible.<br><br>Until you shift your identity from character to presence, you&#8217;ll never get here and will always remain victim to the thoughts, labels, emotions, preferences of your character.<br><br>Is that what you want?<br><br>If so, cool and keep at it (no judgments) :-)<br><br>But if not, take a deep breath, drop all your character&#8217;s BS stories and labels for 2-5 seconds, and get in touch with the presence that is you.<br><br>Now stay here and from this place mold and control your character like a video game character. After 60 minutes or so, you&#8217;ll slip up again and start identifying with your character again. It&#8217;s okay. Take another deep breath, drop all your character&#8217;s BS stories and labels, and repeat the process. Then do it again and again and again until you&#8217;ve created a permanent shift.<br><br>Once this happens, the world that you call Earth will become the greatest video game you&#8217;ve ever played&#8230;<br><br><em><strong>&#8230; and making $$$ will become as easy as it is in the GTA world.</strong></em><br><br>Sounds like a stretch?<br><br>I&#8217;ll let you experience the magic for yourself! :-)<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej<a href="https://wtpola.lt.acemlna.com/Prod/link-tracker?redirectUrl=aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZhcHBseS5jbGlja3NhbmRjb3B5LmNvbSUyRm1lbnRvcnNoaXA=&amp;sig=5dVTy1AgCbNW8wyDUnDwPqo1BDJdpkdG4qSD7gs5QZED&amp;iat=1655985683&amp;a=%7C%7C25412270%7C%7C&amp;account=wtpola%2Eactivehosted%2Ecom&amp;email=1n3vzjHLjUdctdouuKZkMBwUnRnlmwiuCIJkd9A7F3A%3D&amp;s=2d06e3a4896f86c6bc0a6c0481da42d8&amp;i=949A972A1A2751"><br></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Daily Schedule]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apply this to laugh your way to the top of the world]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/my-daily-schedule</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/my-daily-schedule</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:03:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3339a923-99ea-49c7-85db-0daf54efdbce_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t just want to reach the top of the world.&#8221; I told her.<br><br>&#8220;I want to reach the top of the world <em><strong>on my terms</strong></em>. So that&#8217;s why I cannot do what pretty much everyone else is doing because I&#8217;ve done that and I know how that story ends.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;How does it end?&#8221; she asked with the innocence and curiosity that makes up the female form.<br><br>&#8220;Well, for me&#8230; it ended bruised and bloody with the walls of time caging in on me as I was screaming out with pain and turmoil over the realization that I had spent my entire life lost in the past/future and had missed the entire point of life.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;What was the point?&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Presence &#8211; the only thing that&#8217;s real.&#8221;<br><br>&#8211;<br><br>Life is funny.<br><br>At 16, I got alcohol poisoning and was puking out blood on some random girls bathroom floor while I was floating in and out of consciousness.<br><br>I thought I was dying.<br><br>So I did what most dying men do and tried holding onto life.<br><br>&#8220;Ah God, I messed up. Give me another chance. Please. I spent my entire life doing bullshit. I have so many dreams and goals I want to actualize before it&#8217;s all over.&#8221;<br><br>(You know how that story goes.)<br><br>And guess what?<br><br>I got that second chance (thanks God) and I made sure not to waste it.<br><br>Instead, I ripped out the pages from my journal full of intentions (at the time) and painted reality with it.<br><br>You know&#8230;<br><br>The actualization of goals and desires.<br><br>Make this, go there.<br><br>And between me and you, life became quite good and I thought I had it all figured out.<br><br>After all:<br><br>I was making some people&#8217;s yearly salary in a day.<br><br>I was living where I wanted to live.<br><br>I was dating who I wanted to date.<br><br>I was eating where I wanted to eat.<br><br>I was traveling where I wanted to travel.<br><br>And I was living as I wanted to live.<br><br>So I thought shit was all good.<br><br>And if/when death were to greet me, no longer would I be kicking and screaming and suffering in pain over a life not lived.<br><br>(Like I did at 16).<br><br>But guess what?<br><br>Death came knocking again at 25.<br><br>And this time?<br><br>I was left even more fucked up than I was at 16 haha (so fucked up in fact that I lowkey had PTSD for a year straight after this experience).<br><br>How come, you ask?<br><br>Well, I was operating under the belief that the only reason a man goes out kicking and screaming at the time of death is because he didn&#8217;t fulfill his dreams (I read hundreds of self help books from 14 to 20, so that&#8217;s what I got brainwashed with).<br><br>So with that logic, I concluded:<br><br>The more dreams I tick off, the less regret I&#8217;d have at death.<br><br>So that&#8217;s what I did.<br><br>Only to open the door to death at 25 and realize my logic was false and that actually isn&#8217;t what ended up happening&#8230;<br><br>What ended up happening (at least to me) was my conditioned reality (full of the good life) started to unravel like a dream and it started to give rise to a deeper reality.<br><br>This deeper reality (you could call it the spiritual, but I don&#8217;t like that word because it can be perceived as if it&#8217;s something separate from normal life) exposed itself to be the truth of reality and it filled my heart with the deepest level of fulfillment, awe, love, peace, gratitude, strength, and wonder that I&#8217;ve ever known and in return brought me to my knees (literally) with the painful realization that:<br><br>I could&#8217;ve been in touch with this throughout my life, but I hadn&#8217;t because I was lost entirely in the dream of life (thus missing out on the entire point of life).<br><br>As a result:<br><br><strong>A real life I never lived for a real life is only lived when you&#8217;re in touch with real reality.</strong><br><br><em><strong>Not only that, but my conditioned reality exposed itself to be as important as a grain of sand in comparison to this deeper reality.</strong></em><br><br>So with that noted, you can imagine how much pain, suffering, agony, and turmoil I was in.<br><br>For here I was thinking the more distance I put in between where I started the video game of life and where I ended (externally), the better off I&#8217;d be at the time of death.<br><br>But that&#8217;s not what ended up happening.<br><br>For what ended up happening was conditioned reality exposed itself to be almost dream like and opened up to the deeper reality (you could call the deeper reality heaven) and it was better than you could ever fucking imagine&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; and I was left with the sobering realization that I had never been in touch with this during my life and <em>thus had spent my entire life living in hell.</em><br><br>Imagine the pain of that.<br><br>So with that all understood, I found myself bruised and bloody, screaming out in regret <em>again</em> at 25.<br><br>This time I wasn&#8217;t pleading for more time inside the video game of life so I could achieve more goals and dreams (that&#8217;s important, but it&#8217;s not the most important). <strong>I was pleading for more time, so I could get in touch with the entire point of life (Presence) and live my life as that.</strong><br><br>And guess what?<br><br>I got that third chance (thanks God) and I made sure not to waste it.<br><br>Instead, I made Presence the focal point of my life (which isn&#8217;t as simple as just saying that, but doing real work on your consciousness) and started to be more:<br><br><strong>In the world, but not </strong><em><strong>of</strong></em><strong> it.</strong><br><br>Such is why, I told the girl with the face of innocence many years later:<br><br><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t just want to reach the top of the world. I want to reach the top of the world on my terms.&#8221;</em><br><br>And such is why when she asked:<br><br>&#8220;What does it mean to live life on your own terms?&#8221;<br><br>I replied with:<br><br>&#8220;To laugh my way to the top of the world. In other words, to maximize the video game of life (contents) while at the same time being free from the video game of life (in touch with the deeper reality of Presence).&#8221;<br><br>&#8211;<br><br>With that ALL understood, this is what brings me to the daily schedule I use to laugh my way to the top of the world (for this schedule isn&#8217;t just created at random, but as a result of tasting the aroma of death twice and going back to the drawing board both times).<br><br>But before I disclose it, a quick note&#8230;<br><br>A daily schedule is important because time is an illusion and the Now is all there is.<br><br>How you live in the now is how you spend your life.<br><br>Fastest way to change your life is by changing your daily schedule.<br><br>I&#8217;ve experimented with a lot of different schedules throughout the years and there&#8217;s always one that I come back to.<br><br>This schedule allows me to maximize both the visible (contents) and the invisible (Presence).<br><br><em>So without further ado, here it is:</em><br><br><strong>6 am - 12 pm: Structured (Man Of The World)</strong><br><br>I spend the first six hours of the day in the same old way.<br><br>Meaning, these hours are structured intentionally and I do the exact same things day in and day out (more or less).<br><br>This is important because to maximize the life of the man of the world you need discipline, structure, and routine.<br><br>Without this, it&#8217;s hard to win.<br><br>Success, after all, comes down to nothing more than identifying the right levers and pulling them day in and day out.<br><br>So to make that happen, here&#8217;s how I personally structure the first six hours of the day:<br><br>6 am - 7 am: Wake up, meditate, walk.<br><br>7 am - 11 am: Deep work (knocking out 1-3 most important levers for the day with pure focus. No checking phone, texts, emails, nada. Relentless focus)<br><br>11 am - 12 pm: Exercise (Gym or Walk)<br><br>&#8211;<br><br>Come 12 pm, the day is pretty much won from a worldly standpoint for if you spend 365 days knocking out the 1-3 most important levers day in and day out, then your life is going to radically change in the best way possible&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; and you&#8217;ll be able to experience pretty much everything you&#8217;ve wanted to experience inside the video game of life.<br><br>Now it&#8217;s time for the next phase of the day&#8230;<br><br><strong>12 pm - 6 pm: Unstructured (Man Of Spirit)</strong><br><br>This stretch of time is unstructured &#8211; meaning there is nothing on the calendar, but blank space that can be filled up however you please on any given day.<br><br>I spend this <em>unstructured</em> time in many different ways&#8230;<br><br>Everything from doing creative work to working with private teachers (on the inner path) to sitting on park benches mid day as I watch the world move by me to running free-flowing conversations (both recorded/unrecorded) with amazing people with no purpose, but to explore what arises freshly in the moment to learning/studying whatever I&#8217;m curious about to talking with the homeless to laughing with loved ones to doing nothing to going on adventures to jumping on calls (both biz/personal) to doing more work (if I&#8217;m in the midst of a project and in deep focus/work mode).<br></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nrit!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87d598aa-8578-4c4b-9d8f-7074d7835b84_1186x950.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>But regardless of what I&#8217;m doing or where I&#8217;m at, the most important thing is to bring as much Presence as possible to the moment before me.<br><br></strong>This means:<strong><br><br></strong>To continuously sense my arms and legs.<strong><br><br></strong>To continuously feel my feet on the floor.<strong><br><br></strong>To continuously surrender to the beat of my heart.<strong><br><br></strong>To continuously serve the moment before me (without trying to serve the moment before me).<strong><br><br></strong>What this results in is:<strong><br><br></strong>My surface level reality (conditioned life) opening up to the deeper level of reality (unconditioned life) until the lines blur completely and I find myself ecstatically lost in the magic of life and can no longer tell you if I&#8217;m in the spiritual or the physical, working or playing, being or doing, surrendering or creating.<strong><br><br></strong>More &#8220;time&#8221; I spend in this &#8220;timeless&#8221; space, the more my consciousness bathes in the awe, wonder, love, mystery, peace, joy of real reality which I then bring with me the following morning and use to touch my day&#8217;s deep work sessions with (leading to greater results and much higher enjoyment).<strong><br><br></strong>And this, my friend&#8230;<strong><br><br></strong>Is what it means to live &#8220;the good life.&#8221;<strong><br><br>To be in the world, but not </strong><em><strong>of</strong></em><strong> it.<br><br></strong>But is this <em>really</em> the &#8220;good life&#8221;?<strong><br><br></strong>I guess we&#8217;ll find out the next time death knocks on my door ;-)<strong><br><br></strong>Until then&#8230;<strong><br><br>I&#8217;ll keep laughing my way to the top of the world.<br><br></strong>&#8211;<strong><br><br></strong>Thanks for reading!<strong><br><br></strong>Your friend inside and outside the video game of life,<strong><br><br></strong>/tej<strong><br><br></strong>p.s. The above was my personal reasoning for why I structure my days the way I do. But even from a performance standpoint, I find that structured and unstructured time is very important.<strong><br><br></strong>During the structured time, you put a dent in the universe.<strong><br><br></strong>During the unstructured time, you expose yourself to new ideas, breakthroughs, and skills that allow you to keep pace with where the world is heading.<strong><br><br></strong>Both are <em><strong>equally</strong></em> important.<br><br>p.s.s. If I was to encompass this entire email in a single rap lyric, I&#8217;d go with the following: &#8220;We want it all, half was never the agreement.&#8221; ~ Drake<br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[8 Journaling Prompts I Use To Get *Unstuck*]]></title><description><![CDATA[Free the mind]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/8-journaling-prompts-i-use-to-get</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/8-journaling-prompts-i-use-to-get</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:03:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/42e20825-5cca-40e6-be15-41d69b920cc1_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the easiest ways to increase your output?<br><br>Ask yourself better questions (inputs).<br><br>I&#8217;m not too focused on journaling these days, but whenever I get stuck at a current level of life&#8230;<br><br>I like to hit the &#8220;pause&#8221; button on the video game of life, take out a pen and pad, and run through the following 8 questions:<br><br><strong>1/ &#8220;If I was injected with a needle that made me 10x more fearless/bolder, how would that change how I live my life?&#8221;</strong><br><br>Most of the time I know what I need to do. I&#8217;m just scared to play at that level because it&#8217;s uncomfortable.<br><br>By asking myself this question, I make a list of 10 actions I would take to quickly move the needle forward&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; and then get busy implementing.<br><br><strong>2/ &#8220;If I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that everything is rigged in my favor and all that I&#8217;ve gone through was needed to take me where I want to go, how would that change how I view my past?&#8221;</strong><br><br>You cannot move forward if you&#8217;re constantly looking back.<br><br>Some of us don&#8217;t even know we&#8217;re doing it.<br><br>But we&#8217;re still being run by the unconscious from the past.<br><br>In order to liberate yourself from the F ups from the past, I like to view reality as an unwinding staircase that is rigged 100% in my favor.<br><br>Is this objectively true?<br><br>YES, but even if you think it isn&#8217;t&#8230;<br><br>It puts the past in the proper perspective.<br><br><strong>3/ &#8220;Who would I become 365 days from now if I always kept my word?&#8221;</strong><br><br>Whenever I get stuck at a level, it&#8217;s usually because I&#8217;ve stopped living out the truth that I know and have deviated into falsehood.<br><br>To get back on track, I define the truths that I already know (starting small) and commit to keeping my word in these areas.<br><br><strong>4/ &#8220;What are the 20% of my daily habits that are driving 80% of my results and what consequences (if any) do I experience if I stop doing the habits that fall into the 80% bucket?</strong><br><br>Most habits are a waste of time&#8230; including positive habits.<br><br>If I stop doing a positive habit and my life doesn&#8217;t get worse in any way, then that&#8217;s a habit that I don&#8217;t need. Dead weight. So, I get rid of it. And free up more space to double down on the 20% of habits/actions that are producing 80% of the results.<br><br><strong>5/ &#8220;If all mighty God was placed in my body with these current circumstances and problems, how would he approach it?&#8221;</strong><br><br>Opens up new perspectives, breakthroughs, and quantum insights for better navigating through the current season/level.<br><br>Usually I realize:<br><br>I wouldn&#8217;t move with such dread and heaviness, but ease and delight and playfulness.<br><br>For the problems aren&#8217;t bigger than me.<br><br><strong>6/ &#8220;Where am I meeting this moment from?&#8221;</strong><br><br>From the freshness of now or past conditioning (through outdated identities)?<br><br>If it&#8217;s the latter, then how can I expect something new to arise when I&#8217;m constantly using the outdated ingredients of yesterday to cook today&#8217;s meal?<br><br><strong>7/ &#8220;If I had to achieve my 12 month goal in the next 30 days, how would I go about it and why aren&#8217;t I doing that now?&#8221;</strong><br><br>Sometimes it&#8217;s not practical to make 12 months of progress in 30 days for you may make too many mistakes that cost you everything.<br><br>But sometimes it is practical and stepping your foot on the gas pedal is exactly what you need to do to unlock greater fortune.<br><br><strong>8/ &#8220;How would I live my life if this was it and nothing was ever going to change (for the better)?&#8221;</strong><br><br>I notice we have a tendency to constantly hope for a better tomorrow which keeps us stuck in the future (and disconnected from our true power which can only exist now). Whenever I ask myself: &#8220;What if nothing changes?&#8221; I experience a weird sense of peace overtaking me and greater grounding in reality which changes where I&#8217;m meeting the moment from and ultimately the results I generate.<br><br>So there you have it.<br><br>Those are the 8 questions I use to get unstuck and move up levels in the video game of life.<br><br>If you vibed with this email, drop me a reply with your favorite journaling prompt. </p><p>Cheers and have a great Monday!<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Manual: How To Become The Strongest Version Of Yourself]]></title><description><![CDATA[The enemies: bad programming & unfinished projects]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/a-manual-how-to-become-the-strongest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/a-manual-how-to-become-the-strongest</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:03:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cecc3c7e-f1c2-473c-a8c3-6fd97f2e112e_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Close your eyes and visualize the strongest version of yourself.<br><br>How he looks. How he speaks. How he acts.<br><br>Where he lives. What he drives. Who he spends life with.<br><br>Achievements, milestones, breakthroughs.<br><br>All of it.<br><br>Now open your eyes and realize:<br><br>The only two things standing in between you and the strongest version of yourself is:<br><br><strong>1/ Bad programming</strong><br><br><strong>2/ </strong><em><strong>Unfinished</strong></em><strong> projects</strong><br><br>Bad programming is anything that makes you act in alignment with a version of yourself that is not the strongest. (When you fall from King to peasant, your programming is to blame. In other words, you&#8217;re believing something false that is giving rise to you going through life without your superhero powers)<br><br>Unfinished projects include anything you failed to complete that would&#8217;ve actualized the strongest version of yourself. (Could be anything from a 12-month workout program to 75 HARD to 100 days of outreach to cold approach 100 strangers to build a marketing VSL funnel to write a book to ship 100 podcasts to learn x skill to build a SAAS to graduate University to find a high quality woman to everything in between)<br><br>With that noted, it&#8217;s important to realize:<br><br>These two have a strong positive correlation.<br><br><em><strong>The higher the bad programming, the higher the # of unfinished projects on your list.</strong></em><br><br>Even worse:<br><br>This gives rise to a vicious cycle.<br><br>Bad programming leads to unfinished projects which chips away at your confidence and creates more bad programming which leads to more unfinished projects and so on and so forth.<br><br><em>So this begs the question&#8230;</em><br><br><strong>What can you do to stop this cycle?</strong><br><br>Two things.<br><br>You can either take the &#8216;internal to external&#8217; approach which involves you fixing your programming.<br><br>Or you can take the &#8216;external to internal&#8217; approach which involves you becoming a finisher.<br><br>Either action will break this cycle.<br><br><em>When you fix your programming, you start seeing an increase in the number of projects you complete.</em><br><br><em>When you become a finisher, you start experiencing a change in your psyche and your programming changes from victim to winner.</em><br><br>What&#8217;s the right approach for you?<br><br>The opposite of what you normally do.<br><br>If you normally try to actualize the strongest version of yourself through external changes, choose the internal road instead. It will produce more fruits for you.<br><br>If you normally try to actualize the strongest version of yourself through internal changes, choose the external road instead. It will produce more fruits for you.<br><br><strong>How does this look in practicality?</strong><br><br><strong>1/ The Internal To External Approach</strong> &#8211; Mission is to increase the # of projects you complete that allow you to actualize the strongest version of yourself. We do this by upgrading our programming from ineffective to effective.<br><br><strong>Here&#8217;s how</strong>: By disidentifying from the child inside you.<br><br>If you&#8217;re honest with yourself, you&#8217;ll realize that your entire life has been characterized with being in the womb or trying to get back in the womb.<br><br>This is the case because you&#8217;re still <em>unconsciously</em> identified with being a child.<br><br>Don&#8217;t believe me?<br><br>Here&#8217;s how a child acts (perfectly normal at this age):</p><ul><li><p>Seeks comfort</p></li><li><p>Wants mommy&#8217;s milk</p></li><li><p>Expects other people to take care of him &amp; meet his needs</p></li><li><p>Emotional when things don&#8217;t go his way</p></li><li><p>Wants to play and have fun (not work)</p></li><li><p>Seeks pleasure, avoids pain</p></li><li><p>Runs a muck, jumping from one thing to another</p></li><li><p>Relies on external guidance</p></li><li><p>Wants to eat cookies all day</p></li></ul><p>Here&#8217;s how most adults act (abnormal and limiting behavior):</p><ul><li><p>Lives in comfort: Dull job, dull routine, dull lifestyle</p></li><li><p>Wants to soothe himself through alcohol and drugs and porn</p></li><li><p>Looks to others to plug his umbilical cord into</p></li><li><p>Gets sad, angry, worried when things don&#8217;t go his way</p></li><li><p>Wants to party on Yachts (but not put in the deep work)</p></li><li><p>Seeks objects of affection (i.e. IG thots), avoids challenges of growth (i.e. 75 HARD)</p></li><li><p>Afflicted with shiny object syndrome</p></li><li><p>Relies on external coaches &amp; courses</p></li><li><p>Wants to engage in bad habits all day</p></li></ul><p>See the parallel?<br><br>It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, or 90 &#8211; most people are unconsciously filtering the experience of life through the eyes of a small, deficient, incapable child.<br><br>This, in return, is what gives rise to the &#8216;bad&#8217; programming that fucks up your performance because you&#8217;re trying to do an adults job (i.e. build a business) through the eyes of a child.<br><br>Not likely to work.<br><br>So how can you buck this trend?<br><br>Most people will tell you it&#8217;s as simple as saying: &#8220;I&#8217;m done being a child and I&#8217;m not going to be a child anymore and from now on I&#8217;m going to act like an adult&#8221; but if you think about it&#8230; that&#8217;s a very childish approach haha. Nor does it work.<br><br>In order to actually disidentify from the child inside you, you have to liberate your consciousness from experiencing life through the eyes of a child to experiencing life through the eyes of an adult.<br><br>This separation is required.<br><br>How can you do it?<br><br>Many different modalities you can use:</p><ul><li><p>Internal Family Systems</p></li><li><p>Letting Go Practices</p></li><li><p>Ideal Parent Protocol</p></li><li><p>Bioenergetics</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.mindskool.com/clean">Clean Your Inner World</a></p></li></ul><p>Whatever.<br><br>Pick what resonates, apply yourself, and free yourself.<br><br>This will indirectly lead to an increase in performance (#s of projects completed) because you&#8217;re now finally doing an adult&#8217;s job through the eyes of an adult.<br><br>Such is way one.<br><br>Let&#8217;s now cover way two.<br><br><strong>2/ The External To Internal Approach</strong> &#8211; Mission is to transform our programming from NPC to main character. We do this by building proof of work via setting projects in the real world and rising to the occasion.<br><br><strong>Here&#8217;s how</strong>: By buying a small, pocket size notebook.<br><br>And labeling it &#8220;Proof&#8221;<br><br>Then filling out <em><strong>one line at a time</strong></em> with a project you want to complete (could be health, business, social, spiritual related, whatever) and then finishing it and crossing it out.<br><br>Once crossed out, writing the next project.<br><br>And repeating (again&#8230; one project at a time).<br><br>By the time you get to page 3, you&#8217;ll be brimming with newfound confidence in yourself.<br><br>By the time you get through half of the notebook, you&#8217;ll be brimming with a newfound identity.<br><br>By the time you finish the notebook, you&#8217;ll be brimming with a newfound life.<br><br>Such is way two. You&#8217;re &#8216;indirectly&#8217; changing your programming through action.<br><br>&#8211;<br><br>When you apply the above approaches, you cannot help, but transform into the strongest version of yourself.<br><br>This, in return, gives rise to a very healthy cycle:<br><br>Stronger your sense of self, the more projects you complete to move your life forward. The more projects you complete, the more you experience an increase in your sense of self.<br><br>Only thing you have to watch out for at this point of the game is:<br><br><strong>Overcommitting to too many projects (simultaneously) and breaking your word.</strong><br><br>This will stop the healthy cycle.<br><br>So once you get momentum working in your favor, pay extra attention to keeping your word (handling business) and not putting too much on your plate (stay diligent).<br><br>This will give you the best chance of reaching the top of the world in whatever field you aspire to achieve excellence in.<br><br>It&#8217;s really as simple as that and 100% within your control.<br><br>So if this resonates, give it a go and see how life unfolds for you.<br><br>Thanks for reading.<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A message for the youngin's itchin' to stack loot]]></title><description><![CDATA[gimme the loot (biggie voice)]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/a-message-for-the-youngins-itchin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/a-message-for-the-youngins-itchin</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:03:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/667887e6-8697-4d95-a8fd-4bfbbc6e5dfb_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My first copywriting client paid $50 a week for 10 hours of work.<br><br>Do the math. Not pretty.<br><br>But I didn&#8217;t care. I was grateful just to be able to get paid to learn a high value skill.<br><br>But these days?<br><br>Social media has blinded the young.<br><br>18-year old millionaires...<br><br>High school and college dropouts taking photos with lambos...<br><br>Posts with planes, exotic trips, bottles and pretty girls...<br><br>All blinding the youth.<br><br><em>&#8220;This guy is my age and he&#8217;s driving a Lamborghini and making the prettiest of pennies, I need to get on his level. And I need to do it NOW.&#8221;</em><br><br>This is dangerous thinking.<br><br>I&#8217;m only telling you because I fell victim to this thinking once upon a time too. Very F&#8217;d up time.<br><br>And here&#8217;s why&#8230;<br><br>When you get into the habit of wanting to make it now - especially when you&#8217;re young and penniless, you develop a Fd up view of success. You think success comes from something you do. So you&#8217;re always searching for trends. Looking for waves to ride. Maybe it&#8217;s dropshipping. Maybe it&#8217;s Bitcoin. Maybe it&#8217;s trading.<br><br>It doesn&#8217;t matter.<br><br>You see some dude who got lucky doing x because x is hot at the time and so you jump on the same boat. And try to ride the waves, thinking if you just do x you&#8217;ll succeed.<br><br>But that&#8217;s a lie.<br><br>Sure, you may succeed temporarily&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; but in the long run you&#8217;re screwing yourself over nicely.<br><br>And here&#8217;s why&#8230;<br><br><strong>Long term success does not come from what you do.</strong><br><br><strong>It comes from </strong><em><strong>who you are.</strong></em><br><br>If you spend your foundational years of online business (or just business in general) chasing trends, pursuing one biz model after the next, prioritizing making money over everything else, and taking shortcuts&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; you&#8217;re only sabotaging yourself.<br><br>Because in the long run? You&#8217;re going to be screwed.<br><br>When x dries up, you&#8217;re going to suffer.<br><br>And you&#8217;ll grow older with age but will lack the foundation required for long term success (not where you want to be in your late 20s/early 30s).<br><br>That&#8217;s because&#8230;<br><br>Success doesn&#8217;t just come from what you do (we all know the biz models, we all know the tactics, we all know the strategies).<br><br>It comes from who you are.<br><br>(Memorize that.)<br><br>One of the greatest things I did in online biz as a newbie was saying, &#8220;F you&#8221; to making short-term &#8220;arbitrage&#8221; money&#8230;<br><br><strong>&#8230; and doubling down on building real skills in the trenches and mastering time management.</strong><br> <br>For that laid the foundation for all the big dollars to come.<br><br>If I had just jumped from biz model to biz model&#8230; but never developed myself&#8230; I would probably be working a 9-5 right now trying to make balance sheets, balance.<br><br>No BS.<br><br>So my message to the youngin&#8217;s looking to stack loot is simple:<br><br>Stop taking the easy route. Focus on developing who you are before you start fussing about what to do. Put in the reps. And do challenging and uncomfortable tasks to<strong> </strong>build up your<em><strong> </strong>intrinsic value</em>. This will set you up for life and make you rich beyond belief whether you realize it (at the time) or not.<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej<br><br>p.s. View yourself like a company. Turn yourself into a balance sheet with your assets (strengths) and liabilities (weaknesses). Would I invest in this company right now? What about over the course of a lifetime? What&#8217;s the return looking like? </p><p>Be objective.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Yearly Birthday Ritual]]></title><description><![CDATA[I do this every year on November 19]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/my-yearly-birthday-ritual</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/my-yearly-birthday-ritual</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:01:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0b7ff282-6258-47da-83e3-fe322f863d6a_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The email below is one I send out every year. It includes my yearly birthday ritual. Sharing it once again because a lot of people have implemented it on their own birthdays. And enjoyed the magic it opened up. So apply it if it resonates and disregard if it doesn&#8217;t. Cheers and see you tomorrow!</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>Every birthday I sit down and write a letter to myself. </p><p>This letter documents where I&#8217;m at, the last 12 months gone by, what life looks like, what&#8217;s going right, what&#8217;s going wrong, and so on.<br><br>Then I conclude the letter by writing out the story of the UPCOMING 12 months in crystal clear detail&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; as if it&#8217;s already done (covering every area of life/including BIG intentions and dreams all written in the past/present tense).<br><br>Then I toss the letter into an envelope, date it, and never look at it again...<br><br>&#8230; until 12 months later (next birthday)<br><br><em><strong>During this birthday, I open the previous year&#8217;s letter, read it and see how close (or how far) I&#8217;ve come to creating a reality that matches the &#8216;script&#8217; I wrote out a year ago.</strong></em><br><br>Not everything I write comes to fruition within a year (sometimes it takes a couple of years), but so much magic occurs as a result of running this simple exercise (and it usually happens in the most unexpected of ways).<br><br>PLUS:<br><br>I stay motivated throughout the year because I know the next birthday will soon arrive and I&#8217;ll have to open and read the &#8216;script&#8217; from the prior year and I want to make sure I make myself proud.<br><br>So urgency is built into this system. (Nothing worse than opening up a letter on your birthday and realizing none of the shit you wrote down came to life because you failed to stay consistent. I&#8217;ve definitely had years like that and it wasn&#8217;t pretty. But at least I got a wake up call as my birthday present lol which may actually be the best gift one could ever get).<br><br>In addition, you&#8217;re also in a way writing out your autobiography because you&#8217;re documenting each year&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; and all the highs and lows that it brought.<br><br>Nothing better than having a documented record of exactly how you spent your years, what you did, what you learned, how you grew, and what magic you brought into the world.<br><br>So if this activity speaks to you, then I highly recommend that you give it a go whenever your birthday is and turn it into a lifelong habit.<br><br>If you do, I <em>know for a fact that</em> you&#8217;re going to be absolutely amazed at the magic it brings into your life!<br><br>Well, that&#8217;s all for me today.<br><br>I&#8217;m off to opening up the envelope from 12 months ago and seeing what delight (or horror) awaits me haha.<br><br>Thanks for reading!<br><br>Appreciate you more than you&#8217;ll ever know.<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej<br><br>P.S. Best birthday gift you could ever give yourself is to read the script/letter you wrote 12 months ago and think:<br><br>&#8220;Fack! This is exactly my life now!&#8221;<br><br>Or<br><br>&#8220;Holy! My life is even CRAZIER and better than what I had scripted!&#8221; (this happens a lot!)<br><br>Both those thoughts and the feelings that come with them are the best gifts you could ever give yourself, so get to scripting and acting, my friend because like I Tweeted in the past:<br></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png" width="964" height="688" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:688,&quot;width&quot;:964,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Smnp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9739aa-6b61-4b1c-8170-894c0a45a83f_964x688.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Ditch the old roles and invent a new one on each birthday to make your life the greatest movie ever made! :-)</p><p>P.P.S. I think I originally got the idea for this exercise from the copywriter John Carlton. So shout out him!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become Who You're Scared To Be]]></title><description><![CDATA[All growth lives in the shadows]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/become-who-youre-scared-to-be</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/become-who-youre-scared-to-be</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:02:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/637b7119-5fae-4398-822d-bcdc91188024_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I was a kid, I had <em>a lot</em> of rage. </p><p>One day my mom looked at me with concern and said: </p><p><em>&#8220;Tej&#8230; you&#8217;re so angry, I think you can kill somebody.&#8221;</em><br><br>After that day, I didn&#8217;t show my rage anymore. </p><p>I bit my tongue, caged the fire, and let it burn slowly inside&#8230; to the point that it went completely underground until I lost all contact.<br><br>Then I grew up and got <em>bigger</em> dreams.<br><br>But with these dreams came tasks&#8230; not ordinary tasks that kept me hidden inside the walls of my comfort zone. But extraordinary tasks that required me to stretch <em>beyond</em> my self image.<br><br>Only issue?<br><br>I couldn&#8217;t do it because to stretch would mean to expand and to expand would mean to come alive and to come alive would mean to make contact with my rage and to make contact with my rage would mean to retrigger the same old painful wound.<br><br>So instead of doing that and becoming who I was scared to become, I remained the same (aka asleep).<br><br>Consequences of this?<br><br>Life fucking sucked. Not sucked in the &#8220;oh this tea is a little too lukewarm, but it&#8217;s not so bad&#8221; type of way. But in the &#8220;I cannot stand living another day in the same old way!!!&#8221; type of way.<br><br>Yet be that as it may&#8230;<br><br>Without (sustained) rage, you cannot really change.<br><br>Or at least, I couldn&#8217;t.<br><br>So instead of changing and stepping into my true glory, I pretty much became the physical embodiment of the quote <em>&#8220;most men live lives of quiet desperation&#8221;</em> (ouch).<br><br>In other words: <strong>I opened my eyes in the morning just to count how many hours on the clock remained until I could go to sleep again.</strong><br><br>And between me and you&#8230;<br><br>This way of life (obviously) sucked because you&#8217;re not really living, but <em>drifting</em> in between the waking and sleep state (side note: Read the book &#8216;Outwitting The Devil Within&#8217; by Napoleon Hill if you catch yourself drifting too).<br><br>Meaning: Yes you put up an effort, but you&#8217;re not really playing to win (that would require you to be in touch with the fire in your heart).<br><br>Instead:<br><br>You&#8217;re &#8220;efforting&#8221; just enough to get by aka to keep the stitching on the inner wounds intact, so they don&#8217;t open up&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; and make you bleed out to death.<br><br>(Maintaining current shitty life &gt; Taking the necessary risks to birth the life you actually want to live)<br><br>Again, a horrible way to live. But a way I unconsciously clung onto for far too long. Until I didn&#8217;t.<br><br>So, what changed?<br><br>Many things, but the most important was:<br><br><strong>I stopped running away from myself (not because I wanted to, but because I realized it just doesn&#8217;t work). Instead, I started leaning into myself by ignoring the fire alarms of the mind (that kept my familiar world intact) and asking myself:</strong><br><br><strong>Who am I scared to become and what actually happens when I become who I&#8217;m scared to be?</strong><br><br>This question was the beginning of the end because now I couldn&#8217;t pretend anymore. I couldn&#8217;t hide anymore. I couldn&#8217;t live with bandages anymore.<br><br>No.<br><br>I was forced to leave behind the life of quiet desperation (the land of the known) and actually take a step into my real life (the land of the unknown).<br><br>By doing so:<br><br>I learned something quite funny.<br><br>What did I learn?<br><br>I spent my entire life being scared to become x, but nothing in my life changed until I became x&#8230;<br><br>&#8230; and actually <em>experienced</em> what happened as a result.<br><br>Because what happened was completely different than what my mind told me would happen.<br><br>What my mind told me would happen: The world would end. Everything would fall apart. Unbearable pain would ensue. And all that I love would leave me.<br><br>What actually happened: I came alive.<br><br>And with the liberation of this life force, I started to awaken in the morning with a vigor I had never known before. And through the channeling of this vigor, I went from efforting to maintain to playing to win. And this in return started to (and continues to) change everything.<br><br>Not just internally, but externally (with my business building/copywriting career).<br><br>So with all that noted, maybe just maybe the same applies to you?<br><br>In other words:<br><br>Maybe the direct path from point A (where you are now) to point B (where you want to be) isn&#8217;t about doing more of the same, but waking up and meeting parts of yourself that you&#8217;re scared to meet let alone become?<br><br>I don&#8217;t know, but that was true for me.<br><br>To determine if it&#8217;s true for you, ask yourself the following:<br><br><strong>Who am I scared to become and what </strong><em><strong>actually</strong></em><strong> happens when I become who I&#8217;m scared to be?</strong><br><br>Note #1: The second question is answered through life experiences and not by the mind.<br><br>Note #2: To make it more powerful, you can apply this question to different areas of your life (that need growth):<br><br>Who am I scared to become in business and what actually happens financially when I become who I&#8217;m scared to be?<br><br>Who am I scared to become in my relationship and what actually happens romantically when I become who I&#8217;m scared to be?<br><br>Who am I scared to become in my daily life and what actually happens internally when I become who I&#8217;m scared to be?<br><br>Chances are you may find these questions give you the answers you need to complete the puzzle of growth and unleash a whole new level of development and transformation.<br><br>Or maybe not.<br><br>I don&#8217;t know.<br><br>But give it a shot and allow your life experiences to be the answer?<br><br>That&#8217;s all for me today.<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How To "Manipulate" Energy For Fun & Profit]]></title><description><![CDATA[6 unconventional steps (apply in order for best results)]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/how-to-manipulate-energy-for-fun</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/how-to-manipulate-energy-for-fun</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:03:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7dd465f6-3e50-47ad-9960-d0b5258ec655_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to get stuck in the sorrows of life, think in <em>matter</em>. If you want to free the creative dynamism of life, think in <em>energy</em>.<br><br>That&#8217;s the hundit million dollar secret that I wish somebody told me at the start of the video game of life.<br><br>But they didn&#8217;t.<br><br>They told me the opposite.<br><br>So I adopted the thinking of the time and started thinking in matter just like everybody else.<br><br>In other words:<br><br>What I <em>saw </em>is what I thought was actually there.<br><br>But it really wasn&#8217;t (reality is much spookier than that). What I saw was just free-flowing <strong>concentrated energy</strong> (inputs) in the form of matter (outputs), but by only seeing the physical matter&#8230;<br><br>Not only was I unable to influence or manipulate the underlying energy to create real change, but the physical matter was sticky to the touch and kept my current situation glued in place.<br><br>To make matters worse (pun intended):<br><br>By operating solely on the physical plane, I struggled to create real transformation in my life because not only was I working on the symptoms instead of the root cause, but the physical plane is also the hardest plane to create change on.<br><br>And this isn&#8217;t something you have to take my word for either. We can prove it with a simple thought experiment:<br><br>How long would it take you to fill a bathtub with $10,000,000?<br><br>Quite long, right?<br><br>For sure.<br><br>Now imagine yourself in your mind&#8217;s eye filling a bathtub with $10,000,000.<br><br>How long did that take?<br><br>Pretty fast, right?<br><br>For sure.<br><br>This is the case because it&#8217;s easier to turn nothing into something aka change the invisible (i.e. energy) than it is to turn something into something aka change the visible (i.e. matter).<br><br>But that&#8217;s not the point of this email (besides you knew that already).<br><br>Point of this email is that the entire world tricked you.<br><br>They tricked you into believing your eyes and taking what you see (matter) to be the only thing that actually exists.<br><br>As a result:<br><br>You only really experience one half aka the &#8216;face&#8217; of life.<br><br>In other words:<br><br>You only see the outputs/visible (matter), but you don&#8217;t see the inputs aka invisible hand of God at play (energy).<br><br>This, in return, keeps you stuck and limited because the only tools you have access to are tools that fall into the physical domain.<br><br>So you tie your forehead in knots, wrinkle your brow, and work your life away to fill up the bathtub with $10,000,000.<br><br>Maybe you&#8217;ll do it one day.<br><br>Maybe you won&#8217;t.<br><br>It doesn&#8217;t really matter.<br><br>What matters is even if you do, you&#8217;ll still be trapped because you&#8217;re not seeing the FULL picture.<br><br>Only half the picture.<br><br>And this, my friend, is no way to live.<br><br>So that&#8217;s what brings us to this email:<br><br>With this email, I&#8217;m going to (hopefully) open your eyes to a new way of living and working.<br><br>But I don&#8217;t want you to put your blind trust in this new way.<br><br>I want you to split test it with your current way of life and see what generates more results.<br><br>If it works better for you, then continue using it.<br><br>If it doesn&#8217;t, scrap it altogether.<br><br>Cool?<br><br>There&#8217;s nothing to believe here.<br><br>Only an invitation to experiment.<br><br><em>So if you&#8217;re down with that, then here is my 6-step process for manipulating energy for fun and profit.</em><br><br><strong>The Process</strong></p><p>Below I reveal the process. Then I&#8217;ll walk you through each step of the process in detail. And finally I&#8217;ll wrap up with some concluding thots.<br><br>Cool?<br><br>Let&#8217;s go! :-)<br><br><strong>Here&#8217;s the process:</strong><br><br><strong>Step 1 </strong>&#8211; Become energy<br><strong>Step 2</strong> &#8211; Protect energy<br><strong>Step 3</strong> &#8211; Build energy<br><strong>Step 4</strong> &#8211; Amplify energy<br><strong>Step 5</strong> &#8211; Direct energy<br><strong>Step 6</strong> &#8211; Renew energy<br><br>(Repeat steps 2-6 every single day for the rest of your life)<br><br>I admit, this doesn&#8217;t sound like much (besides new age pie in the sky airy fairy bullshit).<br><br>But the <em>glory</em> is in the details.<br><br>So let&#8217;s now undress the details step-by-step.<br><br><strong>Step 1. Become Energy</strong><br><br>In the conventional view, you are taught that you are a person. This, in return, creates a fence around your body and separates you from the rest of the Universe.<br><br>Consequence of this?<br><br>You become limited to the world of matter because who you are is what you see and what you see is what gives rise to what you experience.<br><br>Meaning:<br><br>You become a physical person living in a physical universe (that is perceived to be outside and separate from you).<br><br>With the unconventional view, on the other hand, you realize that yes you are this person on the physical plane, but once you break this person down to his/her building blocks&#8230; you realize that the person is made up of energy.<br><br>Moreover:<br><br>The energy that makes up the person is no different than the energy that makes up the entire Universe.<br><br>So put another way:<br><br>There is no separation in Objective Reality.<br><br>Only ONE free-flowing Energy.<br><br>(I&#8217;m using the word &#8216;energy&#8217; here even though I dislike that word since it&#8217;s become too woo-woo, but you can easily swap it out for consciousness or presence or reality or space or whatever.)<br><br>This is the first and most important thing to realize because it frees you from just operating on the physical plane and opens you up to the underlying world of energy.<br><br>Question now becomes:<br><br>How do you become energy?<br><br>Here&#8217;s how:<br><br>Sit down, close your eyes, and sense your body.<br><br>Feel it from the inside out.<br><br>Now expand your sensing and sense the space that is in the room. Now expand your sensing even more and sense the space that is in the entirety of your house. Now expand your sensing even more and sense the space that is in your neighborhood. Now expand your sensing even more and sense the space that is in your city. Now expand your sensing even more and sense the space that is in your country. Now expand your sensing even more and sense the space that is in the entire world. Now expand your sensing even more and sense the space that is in the entire Universe.<br><br>You can do it to some degree, can&#8217;t you?<br><br>Of course.<br><br>If a person was all that you were, your sensing would start and stop with your physical body.<br><br>But it doesn&#8217;t.<br><br><em><strong>Because what you actually are is a self-aware energy/space in which the totality of the world is housed in (including your body).</strong></em><br><br>So you can actually sense the entire thing because<em> you are it.</em><br><br>[This is why you can sense when somebody across the room is thinking or speaking about you because it&#8217;s all existing inside the field of energy/consciousness that you are.]<br><br>Ok, now onto the next step.<br><br><strong>Step 2. Protect Energy</strong><br><br>Now that you know energy is all there is and you are it, you&#8217;re probably wondering to yourself:<br><br>&#8220;What&#8217;s the practical significance of this?&#8221;<br><br>And the significance is:<br><br>Energy eventually turns into matter (through identification).<br><br>So what you expose energy to is what you end up becoming.<br><br>If you expose energy to doom and gloom, then you become doom and gloom.<br><br>On the contrary:<br><br>If you expose energy to abundance and winning, then you become abundant and a winner.<br><br>With that noted, it&#8217;s extremely important that you learn to protect the energy that you are because the world is competing for your energy. Not only that, but the world wants to turn your energy into matter that serves them instead of you.<br><br>It&#8217;s for this reason that the majority of the world ends up divorced, obese, diabetic, depressed, and broke.<br><br>If that&#8217;s not what you want (who does?), then it&#8217;s extremely important to accept responsibility for everything that enters your consciousness/space and protect your energy.<br><br>Question is: How do you protect your energy?<br><br>Here&#8217;s how:</p><ul><li><p>Avoid complainers</p></li><li><p>Avoid gossipers</p></li><li><p>Avoid doomscroming</p></li><li><p>Avoid porn</p></li><li><p>Avoid drugs</p></li><li><p>Avoid alcohol</p></li><li><p>Avoid sugar</p></li><li><p>Avoid toxic media</p></li><li><p>Avoid politics</p></li><li><p>Avoid news</p></li><li><p>Avoid current events</p></li><li><p>Avoid blue light</p></li><li><p>Avoid processed foods</p></li></ul><p>All these suck your energy dry and turn you into a shadow of a shadow of yourself.<br><br>So avoid or drastically cut down.<br><br>Now onto the next step.<br><br><strong>Step 3. Build Energy</strong><br><br>Okay at this point of the game you&#8217;ve unraveled the physical person and recognized yourself and the entire universe to be made up of energy. Moreover, you&#8217;ve learned to accept responsibility for this energy and stop prostituting it out without care.<br><br>Now what?<br><br>Now it&#8217;s time to actually strengthen your individual energy field by building energy instead of leaking energy.<br><br>Question thus becomes:<br><br>How do you build energy?<br><br>Here&#8217;s how:</p><ul><li><p>Sleep 8-9 hours</p></li><li><p>Get sunlight at sunrise for 10-30 minutes</p></li><li><p>Eat a clean diet</p></li><li><p>Drink high quality spring water</p></li><li><p>Exercise/move for 30-60 minutes daily</p></li></ul><p>These actions, in return, will kick start the process of building your personal energy field. The more you do these actions, the more powerful your energetic field will become.<br><br>But that&#8217;s not all.<br><br>In addition to these simple actions, you also want to amplify your energy by connecting it to high quality power sources.<br><br>So let&#8217;s get into that now. <br><br><strong>Step 4. Amplify Energy</strong><br><br>You amplify your energy by plugging into powerful sources of energy that allow you to break free from linear thinking (programming of the time) and open up to quantum thinking (nonlinear breakthroughs).<br><br>What are the most powerful energy sources?<br><br>God, nature, meditation, visualization.<br><br>By embracing these raw sources of energy, you plug your individual consciousness/energy into the most powerful energy sources known to man.<br><br>So, how exactly do you do it?<br><br>Here&#8217;s how (or at least&#8230; enough to get you going!):</p><ul><li><p>God &#8211; If you want to increase your belief in God, study your religion. If you want to experience God, study the mystics of your religion. Don&#8217;t settle for belief when you can know. </p></li><li><p>Nature &#8211; Sunrise, walks all day, sunset. No phone or podcasts or technology. Just you melting your boundaries in the presence of nature. Forests, woods, beaches, parks, grass fields. Touch grass. Daily and often.</p></li><li><p>Meditation<strong> </strong>&#8211; Sit down (back straight), close your eyes, and follow your breath for 15-20 minutes with zero expectations. Do this daily and ideally first thing in the morning.</p></li><li><p>Visualization &#8211; See the version of yourself that exists x time from now. The one that achieved everything you set out to do. See it clearly. Now take that version and &#8216;infuse&#8217; it into your current body with your current circumstances. Now play the game from his/her eyes.</p></li></ul><p>Ok. At this point, you have learned to become energy AND protect, build, and amplify.<br><br>Now onto the last two steps.<br><br><strong>Step 5. Direct Energy</strong><br><br>This is the most important step.<br><br>Reason why is: The entire point of thinking in energy is it allows you to accumulate MORE power and then direct THAT power towards pulling your ideal future into the here and now.<br><br>(Reread that a few times.)<br><br>This is exactly what we&#8217;ve done with the prior steps.<br><br>Now:<br><br>We can take all that built up energy and convert it into physical matter and generate the results you seek.<br><br>Question now becomes:<br><br>How exactly do you direct your energy?<br><br>Here&#8217;s how:</p><ul><li><p>Come up with ONE intention that you want to actualize in your life and write it in the past or present tense 10-15x daily like a mad man on a mission (example: I am [Name] and I easily make $1,000,000+/month)</p></li><li><p>Pin point 1-3 daily levers aka tasks that will allow you to actualize the intention that you set forth</p></li><li><p>Invest 4-6 hours of deep work daily towards the actualization of your intention by pulling the 1-3 daily levers w/ FOCUS</p></li></ul><p>Nothing less. Nothing more.<br><br>By doing the above, you <em>laser</em> all the power you&#8217;ve built towards your ONE main intention with maximum force. And you do it daily. So it has no choice, but to turn into physical matter.<br><br>In other words:<br><br>Energy = Matter<br><br>[Bigger the dream, the bigger the energy is needed.]<br><br>Such is the way to make the impossible possible.<br><br>But it&#8217;s not the only step.<br><br>One more step remains so let&#8217;s cover that now.<br><br><strong>Step 6. Renew Energy</strong><br><br>Once you take all the energy you built through steps 1-4 and you direct it towards your main intention via step 5 with 4-6 hours of deep work, then you&#8217;re going to be feeling similar to how you feel after you orgasm during sex.<br><br>Meaning:<br><br>You&#8217;re going to be drained of energy. And need to relax, rest, and rejuvenate so you can wake up the next day and have the required power levels to consistently execute against your 1-3 daily levers in 4-6 hours.<br><br>This, in return, brings us to the importance of renewing your energy on a daily basis (just like you take a physical shower to cleanse yourself&#8230; it&#8217;s important to renew your energy daily too).<br><br>So again, how do you renew your energy?<br><br>Here&#8217;s how:</p><ul><li><p>Laughter</p></li><li><p>Long walks</p></li><li><p>Grounding in nature</p></li><li><p>Taking a nap</p></li><li><p>Ice plunge</p></li><li><p>Sauna</p></li><li><p>Massage</p></li><li><p>Red light therapy</p></li><li><p>Spending quality time with loved ones</p></li><li><p>Stretching</p></li><li><p>Shooting the shit with friends</p></li><li><p>Travel/vacation/adventure</p></li></ul><p>Pick 1-2 things and do them daily.<br><br>You can always run through the list and pick whatever floats your boat on any given day.<br><br>But the important thing is that you actually renew your energy.<br><br>By doing so:<br><br>You officially complete the circular process and will start to actualize whatever intention you set (in due time).<br><br>In other words:<br><br>You will become an &#8216;energy manipulator&#8217; and start manipulating energy for fun and profit (or whatever else you want).<br><br>With that all noted, let&#8217;s now wrap up this newsletter with some quick and dirty concluding thots.<br><br><strong>Concluding Thots</strong><br><br>I only have 2 concluding thots.<br><br>The first thot may scare you, but the second thot will liberate you.<br><br>Here&#8217;s the first:<br><br><strong>Thot #1) </strong>The battle for your soul is really a battle for your energy. If they take your energy, they take your soul.<br><br>And here&#8217;s the second:<br><br><strong>Thot #2)</strong> When you think in matter, you break your life into areas:</p><ul><li><p>Financial</p></li><li><p>Relationships</p></li><li><p>Health</p></li><li><p>Spirituality</p></li><li><p>Hobbies</p></li><li><p>Adventures</p></li></ul><p>This, in return, <em>contracts</em> your power because you&#8217;re shooting in all different directions.<br><br>Plus:<br><br>It stresses you out because it&#8217;s difficult to manage the entirety of your life. One area <em>upgrading</em> often means another is <em>downgrading</em>.<br><br>But when you think in energy, something <em>different</em> happens.<br><br>Life goes from being separated into different buckets to becoming <strong>one flow</strong> and the way you approach your finances to your relationships to your health to your spirituality to your hobbies to your adventures becomes more similar than different.<br><br>In other words:<br><br>You don&#8217;t apply x &#8216;strategy&#8217; to grow your finances and y strategy to grow your relationship.<br><br>Nope.<br><br>You apply the same strategy which is the 6-step process (but simply add new intentions during step 5 to cover those areas of your life).<br><br>The better you get at applying this, the more everything <em>upgrades</em> in your life as a result (because it&#8217;s all just the same play of free-flowing energy and power).<br><br>With that noted:<br><br>The highest skill to master inside the video game of life is energy manipulation and you now know how to do it.<br><br>Or at least&#8230;<br><br>Enough to get you started.<br><br>So get started and allow the matter to speak for itself?<br><br>Thanks for reading.<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej<br><br>P.S. 90% of people struggle to get what they want out of the video game of life because they do the <em>opposite</em> of the 6-step process.<br><br>Instead of becoming free flowing energy (with no boundaries), they become a person (giving rise to separation/contraction/fear/isolation/anxiety/worry/stress).<br><br>Instead of building energy, they lose energy by having shit sleep, poor diet, lousy exercise habits.<br><br>Instead of amplifying energy, they deplete energy through porn, drugs, and alcohol.<br><br>Instead of directing energy, they work without focus and are easily distracted by social media and technology.<br><br>Instead of renewing energy, they further wreak havoc on their energy by watching blue light aka television.<br><br>All this, in return, turns them into a shadow of a shadow of their energetic potential and leads to a lousy existence.<br><br>If that&#8217;s what you want, then that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll get.<br><br>But if you want to move past the current way of living and evolve to a newer and funner way, then I invite you to apply the 6-steps consciously and with the mind of a scientist.<br><br>In other words:<br><br>Run the <em>split test</em> &amp; see what happens to matter :-)</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing Yourself]]></title><description><![CDATA[My philosophy for life (attached)]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/reinventing-yourself</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/reinventing-yourself</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:03:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9a3c9ab-3332-4ced-871d-5aec6a6f9456_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I tossed my philosophy for life into the ocean like a child throws pennies into a fountain.<strong><br><br></strong>The sky shifted to overcast.<br><br>A grin formed on my face.<br><br>Rain fell from the sky.<strong><br><br></strong>I put on my hoodie and walked home with no purpose in mind.<br><br>One foot moving only to beat out the next foot.<br><br>It wasn&#8217;t a race against time.<br><br>I had nowhere to go and nothing on my to-do list.<br><br>It was a race with no finish line.<br><br>And I hated it.<strong><br><br></strong>Yet I walked fast for a man that had nowhere to be.<br><br>I wasn&#8217;t the only one.<strong><br><br></strong>We were all running in circles, thinking our lives were headed somewhere, someplace, anyplace.<br><br>We just wanted to get away and escape.<br><br>Escape from what?<br><br>Idk.<br><br>Maybe our jobs, our town, the thoughts stuck in our brains&#8230; or maybe we just wanted to escape from the distance that stood between where we stood today and where we wanted to stand next year.<strong><br><br></strong>I couldn&#8217;t call it. I could only live it.<br><br>And live it, I did.<br><br>Or at least, I tried.<strong><br><br></strong>But eventually the burden grew too heavy...<br><br>So I tossed my philosophy for life into the ocean. And slowed my step. I stopped living so fast. It felt good to take a break. For I had lived my entire life with my foot on the gas. Now I could hit the pause button on life. And I did.<strong><br><br></strong>I stopped working, writing, building.<strong><br><br></strong>Instead, I smelled the roses. Took walks in nature. Partied in new cities. Read on subway trains heading nowhere. Jumped out of blue skies.<br><br>But I still wasn&#8217;t content. I was happy (always have been, always will be). But I wasn&#8217;t content.<br><br>Why?<br><br>Because I had turned my back on the one philosophy that had got me everything I wanted. And then some.<strong><br><br>Top of the world or bottom of the ocean. Don&#8217;t live in the middle.<br><br></strong>I went all in. I got the world.<br><br>I went all out. I got lazy.<br><br>I dabbled, nothing happened.<strong><br><br></strong>It was time to rediscover my philosophy for life.<strong><br><br></strong>So I woke early one morning -- put on my clothes and running shoes and travelled via cars and trains to reach the spot.<br><br>It looked different from when I had last seen it.<strong><br></strong><br>But as soon as I saw it, the voice inside my brain silenced to a whisper.<br><br>I felt internal silence. Looked up at the sky - saw the clouds forming, heard the birds singing, and felt the feeling inside me saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s time.&#8221;<strong><br><br></strong>So I jumped into the ocean, sunk to the bottom, and let out my final breath.<strong><br><br></strong>Just before night shifted to day, life shifted to death, and the old me shifted to the new me - I saw my philosophy for life discarded underneath a pile of half chipped rocks:<strong><br><br></strong><em>&#8220;Call me crazy, but I&#8217;ll die for what I stand for because I refuse to choose the safe life. Break me, tear me apart, punch me in the face, let me be beaten, challenged, and altered by life. Let my life be touched and let me touch as many lives as I can for I will always be human, for there is no reason on earth to be scared of yourself. After all, life&#8217;s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skin in sideways totally worn out while shouting, &#8220;Holy fuck, what an experience!&#8221;</em><strong><br><br></strong>I felt the water overtaking my lungs. The old me let out his final breath -- choked and died. The new me sprang from the bottom of the ocean and back up to dry land.<strong><br><br></strong>He let out a roar.<strong><br><br></strong>The sky shifted to sunlight. A smile formed on my face. Life radiated from my pores.<strong><br><br></strong>I took off my hoodie and walked home with purpose in mind.<strong><br><br></strong>One foot moving to beat out the next foot.<strong><br><br></strong>It was a race against time.<br><br>I had places to go, businesses to create, and people to help.<br><br>It was a race with a finish line.<br><br>And I loved it.<br><br>-<br><br>I said all that to say this:<br><br>When the current you stops serving you, change. You hold the keys to your jail cell. Just because you were &#8220;one way&#8221; for xx years, doesn&#8217;t mean you have to stay that way for the next xx years.<br><br>Quiet the mind. Open the heart. Find the real in you.<br><br>Then?<br><br>Start living in accordance with what you know to be true.<br><br>Day in. Day out.<br><br>Before you know it, you&#8217;ll look into the mirror...<br><br>And won&#8217;t find the old you staring back.<br><br>But the true you.<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life’s A B*tch And Then You Die (How To Change Your Destiny In 1 Hour/Day)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Get a physical timer and start today]]></description><link>https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/lifes-a-btch-and-then-you-die-how</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.tejdosa.com/p/lifes-a-btch-and-then-you-die-how</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tej Dosa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:02:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1f123e78-1a81-46fe-848b-879d79778160_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Life&#8217;s a b*tch and then you die.<br><br>Or at least&#8230; they say.<br><br>But I think they say wrong.<br><br>And here&#8217;s why:<br><br>If you can gather enough conscious awareness to wake up inside the video game of life (even ever so slightly), then you can set a timer for 60 minutes (daily) and during that time block&#8230;<br><br>You can start to change your character&#8217;s destiny.<br><br>Question is:<br><br>How?<br><br>I don&#8217;t know what will work best for you, but I&#8217;d personally implement: &#8220;The Rule Of One&#8221;<br><br>Here&#8217;s how it works:<br><br>ONE MISSION &#8594; ONE PROJECT &#8594; ONE THING &#8594; ONE HOUR<br>&#8594; ONE DAY (AT A TIME)<br><br>Let&#8217;s briefly break each down:<br><strong><br>ONE MISSION</strong><br><br>With no mission, man becomes a shadow of a shadow of himself.<br><br>With a conditioned mission, man acts out the programming of his time and lives a cookie cutter existence.<br><br>With a conscious mission, man gathers enough conscious awareness to chart a new course.<br><br>So with that stated:<br><br>Start your new life by defining your new mission.<br><br>What are you aiming to do?<br><br>Why are you getting out of bed in the morning?<br><br>What&#8217;s the reason for your existence?<br><br>Make this big and bold.<br><br>With your mission in mind, it&#8217;s time to move onto the next step.<br><br><strong>ONE PROJECT</strong><br><br>The day brings empty space and you can fill this space however you please. Most fill it aimlessly. But a man on a mission must fill it consciously, so the next question becomes:<br><br>How do you fill the blank space before you with conscious intent?<br><br>And the answer is simple:<br><br>By asking yourself the following question:<br><br><em>What project, if achieved, would move the needle the most when it comes to fulfilling my mission?</em><br><br>Pick one (the most important one based on your current skill sets, needs, and motivations).<br><br>Then move onto the next step:<br><br><strong>ONE THING</strong><br><br>A project is a series of tasks.<br><br>So when you come up with your project, you want to break it down into all the small tasks that need to be completed in order to finish the project. Then you want to rank them in order of importance from number one to number whatever.<br><br>After you do:<br><br>Look at what you&#8217;ve written down beside #1 and this becomes your ONE THING aka the most important lever.<br><br>Once you have this, move onto the next step.<br><br><strong>ONE HOUR</strong><br><br>With your ONE THING in mind:<br><br>Open up your laptop, set a timer for ONE HOUR, and work on your ONE THING with complete focus.<br><br>When you&#8217;re done, move onto the next step.<br><br><strong>ONE DAY (AT A TIME)</strong><br><br>After you&#8217;ve completed your ONE HOUR, you have successfully finished Day 1 of constructing your new life.<br><br>Now your job becomes to take it ONE DAY AT A TIME by repeating steps 2-4 so you can finish your project and walk towards actualizing your mission.<br><br>Once you finish the project, you take inventory on where you are and then move onto the next most important project.<br><br>Stacking at least one brick a day.<br><br>&#8211;<br><br>If you do the above, then you start to change the path your character is walking down.<br><br>On Day 1, the change in direction is slight and unperceivable to the naked eye.<br><br>But come Day 180, you&#8217;ve left enough footprints in fresh sand to kick start your new life.<br><br>And by Day 1000, you&#8217;re officially living in your new life.<br><br>When this happens, you&#8217;ve officially completed the mission and changed your character&#8217;s destiny.<br><br>Life then no longer is a b*tch.<br><br>But whatever you make/made it to be.<br><br>Thanks for reading.<br><br>Your friend,<br><br>/tej</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>