THE JE LETTER

1/4/2023

expectations and purpose

The wrong expectations are why most people 'fail'.

If you go into a mission thinking it'll be quick and easy the odds that you quit rise greatly.

We must expect the journey to be challenging.

A key piece is to stop looking for quick fixes and shift toward putting in daily work for a long term vision of growth.

This involves thinking deeply, understanding that what's received quickly can also be taken quickly. Do you have an clear idea of where you want to go?

Are you rushing?

The time horizon is crucial.

You're much better off going into a situation overestimating the cost, energy and amount of time it'll take than underestimating.

When you underestimate you set yourself up for a negative state of mind full of disappointment and frustration.

We don't want that.

And to set the proper realistic time horizon you're going to need a deep reason for stepping into the journey.

I don't care what your reason is, you just need a purpose for growing.

It's fine if it begins shallow, we all must go through the stages of ego development.

As long as your purpose is changing with time you're on a solid track.

Watch out for the temptation to bring others with you, most people will not embark on this journey of creating a great life.

The masses have been programmed to live a pleasure seeking existence, adopting ideology and materialism as their core belief systems.

You know life is deeper then our culture makes it seem.

See, you determine if you create an amazing life.

It's going to be a solo mission.

Eventually you'll begin to attract the new people that you need in your life and this is important.

If you can learn to enjoy solitude this is a sign you're becoming powerful.

Investing energy

If you desire something bad enough you will use the correct systems to get that thing.

A huge lever mover is having time to your self.

You can't think deeply in a loud room of other people, maybe if you've meditated for 50,000 hours but that's not me.

My biggest period of growth has came from accepting I need solitude.

Not all day.

Just a consistent few hours to myself everyday.

This period allowed for me to identify where I don't want to go in life and who I don't want to be.

It helped me be honest with myself about my insecurities and create a system to conquer them.

It allowed me to stop deceiving myself and start making adjustments that serve my future.

I could go on.

The only thing guaranteed to be with you from birth to death is your breath.

A life changing activity is to learn how to train your awareness.

This is best done in solitude.

The act of meditating daily over a long period of time will help you raise your awareness of thoughts and feelings.

You can't fix something without first noticing it can be better...

I can't meditate for you.

Hopefully hearing how powerful it is inspires you to CREATE 5M in your day to execute on this activity.

Remember nobody will ever do for you what you must do for self.

Reading is another sort of meditation.

When I read It's tough to begin, and after 50M I'm always much calmer and more at peace thon when I started.

Tip: take a pen - pencil and follow as you read - I put the pointer about 2 lines below where I'm actually at so I'm not constantly moving the damn thing.

Discipline and commitment

There's many issues when we speak about quick fixes.

You could get scammed, manipulated, deceived, this is usually the goal of people selling magic pills.

See people often buy due to two things: Trust and Results.

The magic pill sellers seem to have results, and they don't show you the real amount of work it took for them to get there.

And even then, for them to be doing what they're doing odds are they have shallow materialistic results, not true depth of mind.

I doubt you actually trust these types of marketers.

Good things take time.

Life is not solely about materialistic things.

If you're reading this I'm sure you grasp what I mean, happiness is a fleeting feeling.

If you derive your happiness solely from the external world you're building house of cards, a mansion on a sand foundation.

What we want is a balance between physical success and spiritual depth.

This is achieved from a persistent long-term effort to grow everyday.

Certain seasons will focus on the physical and vice versa.

The core principle to all this is aiming to become the absolute best version of yourself.

This is a life long mission.

The quick fixes will only harm you in the end, from my direct experiences It has never been worth it. I chased the quick things for years...

That which you gain immorally will be taken from you and some, I promise that.

Of course it's okay to go through this phase, we all have to climb the ladder of development and we can't skip steps!

If I can bring some awareness and help you identify where you're at in your journey, it'll help no matter what.

Aim to make the shift from an entitled complaining victim to being a grateful, hard working, solution seeker.

Life is stages

Ego development can be seen in about every area of life.

And understanding the nuance between having big goals and proper expectations will require a developed ego.

We are supposed to set wild goals.

We can't have wild expectations.

For our giant goals to be achieved we need to strategically approach them.

Maybe for 4 months you take a course and study for a few practical skills, you do this in different forms throughout multiple years.

Eventually you come out of this full of skills and wisdom.

You start connecting dots, with more direct experience you can begin to recognize a lot about life is similar on the structural level, it's the content of the structure that's different.

If I'm referring to the structure of the ego, it would be that usually our egos are self centered and quite selfish.

Of course a developed ego is getting away from that.

And the content of our ego would be that we seek pleasure, due to the structure of being self centered.

And that's not the case for all egos.

A developed ego will understand how seeking pleasure is a act of sabotage and rather chooses to delay gratification with heathy activities.

We must work at being able to switch from the short term view to the big picture and balance that well.

Life comes down to the idea of balance often, stray to any extreme and things usually get bad. Expect to grow and learn everyday and that's a great foundation to build on.

I love to remind myself that all I know Is that I don't know.

If you expect to learn each day you're opening your mind to learning situations and opportunities. This is where the idea of the subconscious becomes intriguing.

All that you think, hear, read and say is effecting who you become.

See, the subconscious mind is ALWAYS listening, so we can't ignore that Truth.

I don't want you to set expectations that everything will be hard, that's not good.

Simply expect that you will consistently have to seek solutions, that is the best way I can phrase it. Be a committed solution seeker.

A strong reason

I'm going to be talking about reason, meaning and purpose until it's obvious to me that our entire world is filled with it.

HAHA, so forever.

An abundant amount of humans lack the core pillars to a great life.

Without a strong purpose we can't persist.

If we don't persist we never become great at anything.

I don't think anyone has ever been great at a thing by accident.

If you do, please re-think... How many 1,000s of hours people invest into their crafts.

It's fine for your initial reason to start shallow, because this reason is determined by our egos.

And we have to climb the ladder of ego development.

As your ego grows in a healthy way, you'll be capable of tying your purpose in life to something meaningful.

It takes time to realize what's most important in life, so a shallow purpose is much better than no purpose.

No purpose and you poison yourself and kill your mind, when we eat horrible food and consume toxic substances like alcohol we directly alter of state of consciousness.

The altered state is a low frequency and you frequency is what you'll frequently see.

Low consciousness does not care for purpose.

It craves instant pleasure.

You can tell you're operating at a low state when pleasures all that you're thinking about.

Of course this taxes MEGA awareness to be able to recognize in the moment, as low consciousness is a naturally UNAWARE state.

And if you can at least admit to yourself that the activity is not serving you after the fact, that's a step in the correct direction.

It took me a long time to understand how altered states of consciousness work and to be able to recognize the differences in each state.

Baby steps are the way.

A few signs you're in a low consciousness state:

blaming others, judging, needing external approval, seeking pleasure, shallow thinking, negative inner dialogue, lacking responsibility, etc.

The nature of these acts represents low consciousness.

High consciousness is quite different.

It's: open-minded, curious, observant, kind, intentional, accountable, nuanced, understanding, thinking bigger picture and so on.

High consciousness chooses to be strategic in how their energy is invested.

If you want to raise your level of consciousness; I am excited to announce my course is finished.

It covers what you need to know about developing your mind and body.

Reply to this email if you're intrigued!

Test this out for a week:

With proper expectations and a powerful purpose in tact you are going to grow.

Humans are meant to evolve, I don't know how anyone could disagree with that.

When we are not improving we don't feel good.

This is at least how I view the world, I'm sure someone out there has a great rebuttal to that but this is my letter so It's coming through my specific lens.

Here are some tips to putting what I spoke about

into action:

-Start with a materialistic purpose, and adjust that as you grow

-Expect to put in years of effort to get where you desire

-Consistently ask every week: What am I doing that I know I shouldn't be doing?

-Seriously and playfully contemplate that question (with a journal or speak aloud to self)

-Consistently ask every week: Why am I doing what I'm doing?

-Answer: Now why am I doing that? -> keep asking until you get down to the core!

Questions are the root to growth, along with education.

If you consume great content from a multitude of sources you're unstoppable.

You want to diversify who you learn from, this will give you many different perspectives and you can cherry pick according to what applies to your direct experience.  

If you're interested in the course, get back to me either with a DM saying "INTERESTED"

OR reply to this email.

Thank You for reading my friends.

-JE