Greetings from Florianópolis, Brazil. 

Made my way north to Brazil yesterday which makes this my 5th country in 9 months (Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil). 

But so far I’ve learned way more about my internal environment (aka myself) than any external one. 

Here are 3 goodies to help navigate the self.

🛋️ Stutz

I recently watched the Stutz documentary on Netflix (Jonah Hill and his therapist Phil Stutz). It was SO good. 

One highlight was Stutz explaining the three aspects of reality that no one can avoid:

• Pain 
• Uncertainty 
• Constant Work 

And how we often get caught thinking there’s a perfect “snapshot” or a future version of us that someday magically will be free from these three realities. 

Spoiler: there’s not. 

They're always there. So may as well learn ways to help navigate them. 

🤔 Decision Muscles 

Everything we have in life is a direct product of all our decisions. 

It’s stupid simple. 

But no one talks about how to actually start making decisions. 

In fact, most of the time we don’t make decisions at all. Instead, we just float down a river of indecision and get pulled by the approaching currents (current events, current issues, etc). 

So we must first CHOOSE to make decisions. Even if they’re small ones (which are great ways to warm up the decision muscles).

Okay cool so at this moment we’ve DECIDED to make more decisions now what...? 

Here’s the most important part. A real decision means a NEW ACTION. 

The giant guy from Shallow Hal (aka Tony Robbins) has a golden rule for making decisions:

“Never leave the scene of a decision without first taking a specific action toward its realization.” 

Worth reading that line again and noticing his deliberate choice of words.

Sometimes just making a personal commitment is our very first action.

For example, the last time I was at the airport I cut it a little too close for comfort. I then decided there’s no harm in arriving superrrrr early next time I have a flight. That "next time" was yesterday, and I arrived at the airport 4 hours before the flight (lol not a typo). It was an international flight, but definitely a new record for the earliest your boy has ever arrived before a flight.

Simple breakdown:

• Decision → committed to never feel rushed to catch a flight
• Action → next trip I booked a 4pm flight making early arrival easier
• Action → arrived 4 hours early
• Outcome → so boring, never doing that again (jk, it was great!)

🔪 Decision Incision

“Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.” - Gordon Graham

What clean cuts will you make this week? (hit reply let me know)

Com amor,

Mitchell aka “Neymar” 

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