0:00 I think you judge yourself a little bit
0:01 too much for not starting as fast as you
0:05 think you should. You know, we live in
0:06 this culture right now where it was
0:08 needed. You know, a lot of us have been
0:10 procrastinating, maybe staging it for
0:12 too long, but it got to the point where,
0:15 hey, if you have an idea, get a do it
0:17 right now. Get going. Start jump launch
0:20 launch launch. You know, like it's a
0:22 lot. And we often forget about the
0:24 beauty of an idea brewing. The beauty of
0:28 setting an intention and being in
0:31 between chapters of idea and making that
0:33 first step. the beauty in becoming. You
0:37 understand? Like before anything begins,
0:39 there is a moment, right? It's quiet.
0:42 It's private. It's invisible to the
0:45 world. Like it's just within you. That's
0:47 why I always say, don't worry if they're
0:49 judging you. They're often just judging
0:51 you what they can see, not what is in
0:53 your heart. But that space before you
0:56 start, the space before the first word
0:58 is written, the before the first step is
1:01 taken, we don't value that space before
1:05 the first chapter even announces itself.
1:08 It's in those moments where I believe
1:10 like some of the greatest shifts are
1:12 happening within us. That is truly the
1:15 beginning. But nothing around us has yet
1:18 changed. You know, this happened for me
1:20 at a time when I was at like my low. I
1:23 was at like my lowest of my low and in
1:26 hindsight when I look back I'm like
1:27 sometimes your lowest every low is like
1:29 one of the most beautiful spaces. It is
1:30 beautiful how human beings we can
1:33 alchemize such tragedy or rough
1:35 situations and transmute them into like
1:37 powerful stories and realize we reclaim
1:40 our power and like wow I actually really
1:43 needed that. It's interesting isn't it?
1:47 But I was at the lowest of my low. And
1:48 I've told this story before, but some of
1:50 you are new here. And I was walking up
1:52 this hill just assessing and reflecting
1:55 on my whole life. And I'm just like,
1:56 what am I doing? I need a change. And
1:59 I'm listening to one of my favorites,
2:01 Bob Marley, you know, the song Rastaman
2:03 live up. And he just says in the song,
2:06 don't give up. Rastaman, live up. Don't
2:10 forget your culture. And in that moment
2:13 I realized man sometimes all you got to
2:16 do is get back to you. And in that
2:20 moment I said I am going to rapidly
2:23 change and transform. And I felt it like
2:26 it was like wo. But it took
2:29 time. I didn't know how. I didn't know
2:33 what my first step was. It's not like
2:35 everything just changed instantly. No,
2:37 it took years. It took time. But as soon
2:40 as I had that idea, that was equivalent
2:43 to taking a seed and planting it into
2:45 the soil and then having the faith that
2:48 it will grow. And we struggle with those
2:50 spaces because there's no applause.
2:52 There's no momentum. And really, there's
2:54 just a subtle feeling of I can't keep
2:57 living the way I was. I can't stay
2:59 stagnant. I want to do this. I want to
3:01 do that. But that moment right there, I
3:04 think we don't see the beauty in it
3:07 enough. The moment in becoming that we
3:10 are becoming even before you take that
3:13 physical first step even when you are in
3:16 your mind is brewing about something we
3:20 don't talk about the unseen enough the
3:22 unseen stretch from where our spirit has
3:25 moved forward but your life hasn't
3:28 really cut up yet you know what I'm
3:29 saying like you've outgrown maybe what
3:33 you were who you are but you haven't
3:36 stepped into what you are fully becoming
3:40 but you can feel it and this can cause a
3:44 confusion. It can be like waiting for a
3:47 train that's not coming and then people
3:49 are around you saying hey why haven't
3:51 you started yet? Why haven't you started
3:52 yet? And you may feel late. You may feel
3:56 lost but in fact you might
3:59 actually just be early. You might be
4:03 early. Sometimes we rush this part of
4:06 our journey. And I think it's like one
4:08 of the most beautiful parts. Sometimes
4:10 we pressure ourselves to act fast, fix
4:13 fast, and move fast. And sometimes that
4:15 is what we're supposed to do. But
4:17 sometimes we're just supposed to brew
4:19 too. Like what if the pause that you're
4:22 in and you're like, "Oh my god, I'm
4:24 stuck in procrastination." What if it
4:25 what if that's actually just part of the
4:27 preparation? If you just shift your
4:29 perspective and be like, "That's a part
4:30 of my preparation right now. What if the
4:31 silence before the song is still a part
4:34 of the music, right? What if the moment
4:38 you decide to become even without the
4:41 evidence is the moment everything truly
4:45 begins? It's like if you've been wanting
4:48 to start a YouTube channel. To me, the
4:50 YouTube channel starts when you first
4:52 are
4:53 like, I want to start a YouTube channel.
4:56 I don't think anybody has said, I want
4:58 to start a YouTube channel and started
4:59 it that same day. You think about it.
5:02 You brew about it. Oh, what is it going
5:03 to be about? How do I want to express
5:06 myself? Um, oh man, are people going to
5:08 judge me? Oh, damn. Do I really want to
5:10 be seen? What if I get a million
5:11 followers and I lose privacy in my life?
5:12 Like, you're going through the motions
5:15 in the mind. And that part is beautiful.
5:17 I think we should romanticize that a
5:19 little bit more.
5:21 Romanticize the part where you're about
5:23 to start. Don't demonize yourself for it
5:26 because what happens? You feel all this
5:28 regret. you feel all this guilt and then
5:31 you avoid you avoid even exploring the
5:34 idea because you're afraid you won't
5:36 start and then you're going to feel that
5:37 pain again
5:39 instead. No, the desire having the idea
5:42 is already a part of the becoming. Like
5:46 I've had ideas I've been working on in
5:48 the back of my mind for so long and if
5:50 other people knew about these ideas they
5:52 would be like Hines you're
5:54 slacking. You're slacking but I'm like
5:57 you don't understand. Man, we are
5:58 brewing on this. It's coming into
5:59 fruition. Don't worry. Like we are
6:02 testing the seasons. We are getting
6:03 everything in alignment. And some of us
6:06 make excuses. So what I am talking about
6:08 takes intuition. It takes reflection to
6:10 make sure we're not tricking
6:12 ourselves. But in reality, every idea,
6:16 every desire you have doesn't need to be
6:19 started today. You
6:21 understand? There's timing to
6:23 everything. You know, I was uh driving
6:25 by the other day and I drive by this
6:27 house quite often and it's like an
6:31 abandoned building at this point. It's
6:32 worn out. It's faded. It's untouched.
6:34 But one day, this is probably like after
6:37 a year, I finally noticed that like, oh,
6:40 there's a sign on the house. And it's
6:41 like one of those building proposal
6:43 signs where they had to let the
6:44 neighborhood know like, hey, we want to
6:47 tear this down and build something new.
6:50 And the structure hasn't changed, but
6:53 something beneath it has. Someone has
6:56 declared this is not the final form.
7:00 Something new will emerge here. But
7:03 there's no construction workers yet. No
7:07 scaffolding, no noise, no new lumber.
7:11 But the future had already arrived
7:13 quietly in the blueprint. And a lot of
7:16 us that is where we are abandoning
7:19 ourselves right some of us may be
7:21 feeling broken or stagnant but we have
7:24 set an idea a new blueprint for ourself
7:27 but because we lack patience we regret
7:30 that we haven't brought it into full
7:32 fruition and that starts to wreak havoc
7:35 on our selfworth. We have to understand
7:38 what becoming is. Becoming is a process.
7:41 It's not just a final result. It begins
7:45 in that inner shift. And I think we
7:47 should I think we should romanticize
7:49 that inner shift. When I made that
7:51 intention, walking up that hill,
7:52 listening to that Bob Marley song, Ra
7:54 the man, live up, never give up. Go
7:56 check it out. One of my favorite
7:58 songs. When I think about going on that
8:01 journey and I think about everything
8:03 that I did, I never actually tell many
8:06 stories about the actions I took. I
8:09 always come back and tell you about that
8:11 one moment where I set that intention in
8:13 my spirit in my mind listening to that
8:16 song and I'm like I'm going to
8:18 transform. Why do I do that? Because
8:20 that was the most important part. That
8:22 is when I truly changed. I took action
8:25 after but the action still took time.
8:28 Had to figure it out. But that is
8:31 becoming and you are becoming. It's
8:33 beautiful. You understand? You are
8:35 becoming and I love it. Like you should
8:37 love that for yourself. It begins in
8:40 that inner shift. Some of us are walking
8:43 around like that house right now that I
8:44 saw. Same on the outside. But deeply
8:48 deep within ourselves, we are different.
8:50 We may look the same. People may
8:52 perceive our situation to be the same,
8:54 but everything is changing within
8:56 us. You have submitted a proposal to
9:00 life. You're ready for something new.
9:03 But nothing outside has moved yet. And
9:06 that's okay. The only times we feel like
9:08 it's not okay is because we're comparing
9:10 ourselves and we think people are
9:11 judging us and we want to we want to
9:13 show and prove and that makes sense. We
9:14 want to have our together. I get
9:16 it. But becoming starts before becoming
9:20 is visible. Romanticize that space a
9:23 little bit more cuz that is where you're
9:25 going to conjure up some joy and
9:28 motivation. That is a sacred space. You
9:31 understand? And sometimes it's slow, but
9:33 it's reshaping you. And again, you may
9:37 not be behind. You may not be
9:40 failing. You're in the blueprint phase.
9:43 And that blueprint phase is beautiful.
9:46 You understand? You're thinking, you're
9:48 designing a new life for yourself.
9:50 You're brewing on it. You're making sure
9:52 that it feels
9:53 right. The world doesn't celebrate that
9:56 part. Especially the internet. Just
9:57 start. Just start. Just do it. Just do
9:58 it right now.
9:59 And again that is necessary as well in
10:02 some seasons. Some of us need to just
10:03 start. Some of us need to jump or
10:05 launch. But some of us we don't need a
10:06 jump or launch right now. Some of us we
10:08 are brewing and we understand that
10:10 certain things blossom in certain
10:12 seasons and we are preparing and we are
10:14 getting into season. And even if we are
10:16 been even if we have been in our mind a
10:18 little bit too much that is a pro that
10:21 is the process in becoming. Every
10:24 creative does it every business person
10:27 does it. Every entrepreneur does it.
10:28 Everybody does it. We pause. We reflect.
10:32 We
10:33 listen. Some of us, we just need to
10:36 honor that quiet movement within
10:38 ourselves, right? Honor it. Oh my god,
10:41 I'm in this season of where I'm not
10:44 quite where I was. I'm definitely not
10:46 where I want to be, but I'm cool with
10:49 this. You understand? I'm cool with
10:51 exploring with what's going on within
10:53 me. I've set the intention. Now I have
10:56 the faith and the knowing. I believe in
10:59 tell yourself I believe in myself. I
11:02 believe in myself to bring this to life.
11:05 I can't doesn't mean I won't. You might
11:08 not be able to do something right now in
11:10 this season. Why? Your hands are a
11:12 little bit tied. You know, I want I was
11:14 going to launch a different thing on
11:16 April 1st, another product. And then
11:18 something changed. Ended up moving. I'm
11:20 moving right now. I'm packing. My
11:22 grandmother died. I also got to fly to
11:24 Jamaica. I can't doesn't mean I won't.
11:26 Just because you can't do something
11:28 doesn't mean that you won't. It means
11:31 that you realign and you realize some
11:33 goals shift a little bit, some plans
11:36 shift a little bit, but you are still
11:39 becoming. The thing is we lose patience
11:43 when we lose knowing. What is patience?
11:45 Patience is knowing. When you know
11:48 something is for you, when you know
11:50 something is happening, when you know
11:52 something will be, you can be patient.
11:55 You know your time is coming. If you
11:58 know in your mind that you are a strong
12:00 person, you are resilient, that you have
12:02 been through things in your life and you
12:04 have proved to yourself, you know how to
12:05 pick yourself back up and get going and
12:07 you're versatile and you can pivot when
12:10 need be, you know, you're like, you know
12:12 what, I'm going to be successful. the
12:14 things I want in my life, I know they're
12:17 going to happen. That is when patience
12:20 comes into your spirit because you are
12:23 in knowing. You know what's going to
12:25 happen. But when you are uncertain, when
12:27 you doubt yourself, when you're like,
12:29 "Oh my god, like I don't know." Like you
12:30 don't believe in your abilities, that is
12:33 when you lack patient and you need
12:34 proof. You want to see it in your life.
12:37 So you don't need patience. You just
12:38 want it to happen right now because
12:40 you're uncomfortable in the becoming.
12:43 you're uncomfortable in those between
12:45 stages when in
12:47 reality I think we should romanticize it
12:49 a little bit more. You know, like I've
12:51 been thinking about certain things I've
12:52 been working on that nobody knows about
12:54 and I'm just like I'm so excited about
12:57 them and I'm so excited that even some
12:59 of them some of them have actually just
13:00 been in my mind for like a year
13:03 exploring them in the mind obviously in
13:05 my notes and you know whatever but like
13:08 we really just been brewing on it and
13:09 now I'm like oh we're in the season
13:11 where those things are now coming into
13:13 life. You understand? Taking that
13:16 action, the physical action on it now.
13:18 Now imagine if I just judged myself,
13:20 told myself, "Man, you can't do nothing.
13:22 You just procrastinate. You're just too
13:24 stagnant." And dig the hole. This is
13:25 what we do. We dig a hole so deep and we
13:27 bury ourselves into the ground. So, not
13:30 only do we have to figure out how we're
13:32 going to take action on that idea, we
13:34 have to pick our self-worth up off the
13:36 ground as well, making extremely hard
13:39 for ourselves. Some of us are some of us
13:42 terrorize
13:43 ourselves a little bit too much and we
13:47 need to give that grace for ourselves.
13:48 We can still be accountable but give
13:51 ourselves that grace as well. We live in
13:53 a time where stillness is misjudged. If
13:56 you're not producing, you're
13:58 procrastinating. If you're not acting,
14:00 you're avoiding. But that's not true.
14:03 It's just not true. You understand? It's
14:04 not true. And you know that deep within
14:06 your spirit. Not every silence is fear.
14:10 Some silences are full of faith. You
14:12 understand? Some seasons of silence are
14:15 the soil doing its work beneath the
14:19 surface. Imagine putting a seed into the
14:21 ground and then judging and then the
14:23 other trees judging it like, "Haha,
14:25 where's your fruit?" You're literally
14:27 becoming. You understand? You're in a
14:29 season of becoming. You're beneath the
14:31 soil and that's beautiful. You may be in
14:34 a season where you don't need to rush
14:35 your process right now. You just need to
14:37 honor it. You don't need to dig up the
14:40 seed just to see if it's growing. Are
14:41 you growing it? No. You trust what you
14:44 have planted with your intention. You
14:46 water it with your attention and you let
14:49 it unfold. You
14:51 understand? And this is a part of your
14:54 life. This not yet
14:57 moment. It's not a mistake. It's a
15:01 message, right? It's like a reminder
15:03 that your inner world often shifts long
15:07 before your outer world reflects it. It
15:10 starts in here and you're the one that's
15:14 going to need to be able to honor that
15:15 because the world is not going to
15:17 celebrate that. The world is not going
15:19 to be like, "Oh, you have an idea you've
15:21 been sitting you've been sitting on for
15:22 5 months, loser. You're not acting. your
15:27 procra. That's some things you're gonna
15:29 have to keep to yourself because some
15:30 people ain't going to understand your
15:32 timelines or your rhythm. A lot of
15:33 people don't understand my rhythms.
15:35 They're like, "Bro, what are you doing
15:36 right now? Why aren't you doing this?
15:41 Why becoming?" You understand? What is
15:45 patience? Patience is knowing. Start to
15:48 step into knowing. Sometimes all you got
15:49 to do is get back to you. Start to
15:51 believe in your abilities again. Start
15:54 to believe in your visions. If you had
15:56 the vision, you have it for a reason.
15:58 You see it now, you feel it, so you go
16:01 and you achieve it. There's also like
16:04 fear in this season, in this part. And
16:06 for some of us, it's not the fear of
16:07 failure, but it is the fear of being
16:11 seen while still becoming, right? What
16:14 if I'm not ready? What if I'm not good
16:16 enough yet? What if people can't see or
16:19 understand what I'm
16:21 doing? But fear is a part of the
16:23 becoming as well. It's just like a an
16:25 ingredient, a tiny ingredient. You
16:27 understand? Every voice you admire,
16:30 every individual you look up to question
16:34 whatever they are doing before they did
16:36 it. You understand? Every YouTuber
16:39 question themsself before they did it.
16:41 That is a part of the that is a part of
16:43 becoming. Even doubting yourself a
16:45 little bit, having a little bit of
16:46 doubt, questioning, oh is that's a part
16:49 of becoming. Now, you don't live in
16:51 doubt. You don't let the doubt override
16:54 belief. The doubt is just resistance,
16:56 right? So you doubt and then you affirm
16:58 to yourself, no, no, no, we can do this.
17:01 And then you raise your confidence, you
17:03 raise your belief and you are becoming
17:05 and now things are in but it's already
17:08 in motion, right? Some of us again, you
17:11 demonize yourself a little bit too much.
17:13 Yeah, you didn't start. That's okay.
17:15 Guess what? You did start. You started
17:17 in the mind. You're in the mind. You're
17:19 brewing on the idea. You're exploring.
17:21 you're learning. Don't worry about it.
17:23 Have faith in your abilities that you
17:25 are
17:26 becoming. We need to start to create
17:29 more of a joyful, playful, excitement
17:33 attitude versus this attitude of if I
17:37 don't do this, I'll be a failure or oh,
17:39 what if I you like we have this like
17:41 frantic anxiety attitude to like
17:44 creating a life. We get to create a
17:45 life. How beautiful is that? How
17:47 beautiful is it to create a life? have
17:50 excitement about that. How beautiful is
17:53 it to explore and ah fail a little bit,
17:57 feed that failure as a necessary
17:59 nutrient for your foundation, pick
18:02 yourself back up, go again. You know,
18:05 it's it's a joyful
18:07 experience. You don't need to be
18:09 fearless to begin. You just need to be
18:13 willing, right? We know that. You don't
18:15 need to be fearless. You just need to be
18:18 willing. You don't need a perfect plan.
18:22 You just need a promise to yourself. I
18:26 won't abandon this version of me. I
18:29 won't abandon myself. While you're in
18:32 that space, while you are still forming,
18:34 you are still becoming, you may still be
18:37 in the mind with that you might feel an
18:38 urge to build something. I remember for
18:41 me, I sold my camera. I made that
18:44 intention that I wanted to transform
18:46 while I was walking up that hill
18:47 listening to that song Rest to Man live
18:49 up. Made an intention I want to
18:50 transform. I sold my camera and a few
18:54 years later just naturally living
18:56 brewing in the mind becoming I just felt
18:59 like I had so much energy. I was like I
19:00 got to do something with it. It wasn't
19:02 forced like I was just like I have to do
19:04 something with this energy. I got to
19:06 build something. I have to create
19:08 something. It wasn't like, "Oh my god, I
19:10 need to build a personal brand and oh my
19:12 god, I got to." No, it's like I have to
19:14 because there's so much into
19:16 me,
19:18 right? That's what happens when you are
19:21 brewing. You're creating the energy to
19:23 pour into yourself, to pour into that
19:26 very thing. And I love that space
19:30 because you will feel the urge to build
19:32 something not just for the world, for
19:35 yourself, you know, a space to begin
19:38 again, right? A new a new environment, a
19:41 new quiet home for the new ideas growing
19:44 within you. They would naturally proud
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20:00 before I even knew what they would
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20:10 business ideas or like creative
20:11 endeavors I want to do and just made the
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21:41 myth that you're late. Let go of the
21:43 pressure to bloom before your roots are
21:45 ready. You're not
21:47 lost. You're just early. You're early.
21:50 You're early. You're in here. It's a new
21:53 place. It's a new phase. It's an unpaved
21:55 road. Early to the peace you've been
21:58 preparing for. Early to the new place of
22:00 the position you're stepping into. Early
22:02 to the version of you who no longer
22:04 lives by survival, but by your soul.
22:08 You're ready to
22:09 thrive. And when it's time to move, you
22:12 will know. You will know. The time to
22:15 move isn't always every single day. I'm
22:17 telling you, right? The advice of just
22:20 start every single day. Just start. Just
22:21 start. Idea. Do it now. It's like,
22:23 listen, sometimes you're brewing on
22:24 things and that's cool. When it's time
22:26 to build, you will rise without the
22:28 force. You'll have the energy and you'll
22:30 get into it because the foundation is
22:32 already there because you've been
22:34 preparing in silence. You've been
22:36 brewing on it because you've honored
22:38 your blueprint and your own timeline.
22:40 You understand? And you've been
22:42 reflecting. So, you know when it's time
22:44 to start. You know if you've been truly
22:46 procrastinating and you know when to
22:48 give yourself grace that yeah, I've
22:50 already started in here. Just because
22:52 it's not visible for other people to
22:53 see. It doesn't mean it's not real. I
22:56 can see it. I'm starting to feel it. So,
22:58 guess what? Now, we're going to achieve
23:00 it. So wherever you are right now, if
23:04 nothing is happening yet, but everything
23:06 is stirring inside of you, that is a
23:09 beautiful place to be. If you can feel
23:12 it but can't explain it, that's the
23:16 moment before the moment. The moment and
23:20 I I love that space. That's the
23:22 beginning before the beginning, right?
23:25 before what other people would deem to
23:27 be the beginning. You've already had
23:30 your beginning, right? And it's in here
23:31 and it's beautiful. You're not late.
23:35 You're on time for a version of you that
23:39 takes time, right? For a version of you
23:42 that takes time. So breathe deep. Move
23:45 with intention. Move with intention.
23:48 Don't be in this rat race.
23:51 Don't be judging yourself, beating
23:52 yourself into the ground, comparing your
23:54 timeline to everybody else. Understand
23:56 what your life is, what you want for
23:58 your life. Brew on that. Explore that.
24:01 Experiment. You understand? Take action,
24:04 fail, fall back, go again. But have joy
24:07 with it. And walk like you remember who
24:11 you are. Because sometimes all you got
24:13 to do is get back to you. And if you're
24:15 in a season where you feel like you're
24:18 in the in between or you're in the
24:20 moment before the moment, there's
24:22 nothing wrong with that. That's a
24:24 beautiful space to be. You are becoming.
24:30 You are becoming. It's a process. It's a
24:35 journey. Let's honor it. Let's honor it.
24:38 And you don't know in hindsight every
24:41 thing is going to be more than all
24:42 right.
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