Big changes are coming.

In one afternoon, I spoke to tech collaborations for two major shoe brands… to a million dollar ethereum mining facility… to huge new metaverse developments… to innovative education tech… to interviews for a bunch of exciting new hires…

Opportunity is everywhere. Even during global pandemics.

There’s always space in the market for something different, something special, something great.

There’s space for your ideas to thrive.

What are you waiting for?

What’s the path? Is there one?

It’s the same path as for everything else… remembering what’s in our control and what isn’t.

And all that’s truly in our control is our ability to choose.

The market can do all kinds of crazy stuff. So can employees, strategic partners, investors, industry trends, economies…

…requiring a certain customer response is the path to anxiety. As is requiring a certain employee to stay, or an industry to bend in your favour.

Requiring nothing of anything outside of your continued ability to make reasoned choices is the path to serenity.

Keep choosing rationally. Never mind the rest.

Just go.

You have the idea, the ability and the resolve.

You could research more, deliberate more, ponder more, wait for the perfect moment more. Or you could Go.

Execution is the secret sauce people are looking for in their research notes. You only find it by taking action.

What are you waiting for?

Why did our upcoming personal development brand decide to be web3-native?

Here’s the thing.

While the NFT market is crazy at the moment, and everyone has an opinion on whether they’re great or terrible… NFTs are here to stay.

Why they’re here to stay

It’s tricky to see it clearly in January 2022… But if you really look, you’ll see how they can be instrumental in powering the future of rich experiences more complex and elaborate than what was possible before a fully decentralised and immutable technology like this existed.

Web3 tech reveals an API for a person to record their interests and experiences, and use that info to create even more experiences, all without big tech’s walled gardens enforcing false ceilings on potential.

A new era of creativity and innovation is coming.

We need to be upgrade our think

Our personal development journey needs to make us resilient in the face of new challenges to avoid finding ourselves in Iracus’ shoes.

Most web3 technology was born of the financial world and, for many, this carries the same anxieties and stresses typically found in active market traders.

The technology is both brilliant and unhealthy to be exposed to for long periods of time.

The upside carries a downside.

Big tech recommends tracking screen time. Influencers recommend taking a break.

What if there was a vaccine to the downside?

We think there is.

And so that’s where we’ll start.

I’ll leave you with this quote from the Tao Te Ching:

There is opportunity everywhere, friends. The more you look, the more you see.

What’s a ‘worthy valve’?

I just made it up - the concept I want to share with you has no name, so I gave it a name (despite not being very good at naming things!)

This is a one-way valve. It flows one of these two ways:

#1 Toward our work. In this case, we ask ourselves, “Am I worthy of this project or undertaking?” Here, we’re intimidated by the work and wonder whether or not we fit the assignment.

#2 Toward ourselves. In this case, we ask ourselves, “Is this project or undertaking worthy of me?” Here, we’re intimidated by the finite amount of time available on Earth, and want to spend that time only on things we deem truly worth our time.

I find that most ambitious people choose option #1. They wonder if a certain business, project, follower count or financial milestone is possible for them.

But I find that option #2 is the healthier choice. Here we remember that all of those achievements mean nothing to us when we’re gone, and fade with our passing.

Consider making option #2 your default setting.

Time is precious.

Popularity can only be controlled to a degree.

The market decides, and it doesn’t decide rationally.

POGs — small circular plastic discs with pictures on them — were popular in the 90s when kids had access to comics, virtual pets, video games, all sorts of things. Yet we enjoyed POGs so much that schools started banning them due to how disruptive they were.

Select NFT projects — ones that came out of nowhere with no roadmap or proof of work — explode in popularity when other projects have been hard at work for months for a fraction of their market valuation. Despite proof of work, consistent delivery of promises, and better utility.

Things that will be in vogue this year in 2022 — some won’t seem to make any sense. Something will explode in popularity and leave you wondering how it makes any sense when compared to the hard work you’re putting into your endeavours.

It doesn’t have to make sense.

The market decides, and it doesn’t decide rationally.

Nevermind the swells and trends. Focus on doing the best work of your life. Your time will come.

Got a great project you’re working on?

Daring to make is great. But it might be scary to share.

Perhaps because you don’t know if you can pull it off. Perhaps because you don’t know if others will think it’s crazy.

Daring to share is important too, it’s the first step toward shipping.

If you’re lucky, you won’t know if you can pull it off – that’s because you’re stretching yourself and doing work that will make you better.

And if you’re lucky, others will think you’re crazy – that’s because you’re trying to change the culture and make things better.

Dare to make. Dare to share. We need people like you to be brave.