Wisdom Can Be Reduced to One Simple Process
Sep 03, 2025 1:01 pm
There's a quote on my wall:
"Wisdom can ultimately be reduced to the simple process of avoiding that which makes you go weak."
Nothing else is really required. But that simple process.
How do you understand what makes you weak?
For me, something I got away from - and in my strongest season, when life felt so easy - was one habit of waking up and NOT being on technology for at least an hour or two.
Waking up and feeling like I am ahead of the day.
Up early. Not doing things I don't love to do right away.
It's this honesty about the micro actions that allows you to see the power in:
"How you do one thing is how you do everything."
I'm not saying you need to be perfect, that you can't have any weakness in your life. That turns into fake, fluffy motivation.
What I'm saying is: it's okay to have been disconnected. There's nothing to judge in terms of the time you were disconnected. You need to have compassion for yourself.
You go through these phases where you're doing your best and see that your best isn't good enough. What does that do to you?
It's either gonna lead you to stop trying to be better, OR you take that, harness it, let that seed germinate. Provide it with the environment, the fuel, everything it needs to flourish.
If you start your day and you're already like:
- "oh I gotta do this"
- "oh this person asked this of me"
- "oh look what they're doing on the news"
Where is your space for actual meaning and purpose?
It's not there.
If you start your day not fully aware that your clarity is priority, then you're not gonna have clarity. And if you don't have clarity, how can you ever be honest with yourself?
This is the revitalizing of the way we move through our lives.
Sometimes you slow down. That doesn't mean you don't do high quality work. Doesn't mean you're not focused on efficiency. Doesn't mean you don't care for your time.
It means sometimes you slow down to really appreciate the things which you don't see when you're rushing, when you're obsessed with efficiency.
Sometimes you craft your day for peak timeframes of efficiency, and then you slow down. You have a balance of:
EXECUTE → lay the foundation, practicalities, organization, order
THEN → space for spontaneity. Play, looseness, joy, laughter, humor.
Too much of either of those and you get a messed up life.
Too much order, achievement, ambition - you're done for.
Too much play, humor, laughter without the other end... it's the yin and yang, masculine, feminine, whatever you want to say.
Whatever you want to call it doesn't matter. Those are just words. The truth is the truth, and you can feel it in any single human being who has that energy, that essence, that space, that freedom running through their veins.
This honesty will sting, but it's so much better to have a short term sting than forever numbness.
Can you be honest in relationship to why you feel how you feel? What your relationships are? What your life is?
When you entertain weakness, it's not a flaw. Regret is a signal. When you regret things, it's your consciousness showing you:
What if I just didn't waste my energy on that thing? Then I wouldn't have this energy being perpetuated in terms of regret.
You'll still do things that you regret. You'll see something, you'll regret it, you'll stop doing it, you'll be in harmony. Then somehow life will get you.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. I'm not saying it has to get you. I'm just saying there's no need to judge yourself if you've been got.
But can you learn?
Don't be naive. Don't be arrogant. But can you learn?
You don't have all the answers, but you do have the power to get the answers from yourself. It's not your ego, your identity that has the answers.
It's your openness to surrender and realize you don't have the answers that will allow for you to channel the answers through.
If you resonate with this and you want to work one-on-one, we can do that.
We can get you a great physique, we can do consciousness work, understand your personal relationships, the emotional trap, the internal game, but also the simple fundamentals which keep you strong.
My only guarantee for you is that you will see the value in the work that we do. That's my only real guarantee.
I'm not gonna do the work for you. If that interests you, just shoot me an email.
Have a great day. Let's go.
Justin