Butterflies

Athletes at the highest level are calm in game. They are present point to point. Trying to do their job and make things easier for the team to covert. Or challenging themselves to compete at the highest level by just playing for the love of the game. Even the Wimbledon final becomes a practice session.

Buttierflies are a signal to an upcoming chance to get better.

Discipline feels good.

When you step into the ring, you want to make sure there is no doubt that you have done everything possible to perform at your highest. Even in that moment, you are fighting to get better.

It took me 5 years to become all city.

Now I gotta be all world.

My achilles injury happened 3.5 years ago and now, I’m finally working to repair the lost muscle. Through the process, I’m reminded how hard it is to accomplish. It takes daily attention and care. It’s much more about small wins everyday that accumulate over time. There’s some pain involved, but that’s the process to strengthen muscle.

It took 5 years for me to get from sucking at hoops to starting varsity. I didn’t make it to college and never had an MBA career. I came to a fork in the road and choose to pursue my education. I ran out of time. I also never figured out how to play the game my way. I wish I had. But I did not figur eout a way to make that dream come true.

Now with Phlote and baby girl on the way, I’m feeling pressure. I know I can figure this out and make it work. I have to play this game my way or it will not work again. How do I score? What weapons do I have? How can I make this work?

What’s better than cool? Being ICE Cold

This year is about discipline and attention to detail. I’m energized, focused, and full of faith

Harmony

Beautiful blends.

You work with the universe and it works with you back. I judge the strength of my instincts by how easy things are made to appear. There have been too many odd coincidences. That’s how it feels to me.

I have 100% faith in the thirty that things work out if your intentions are pure. If you are really playing by the rules, it will let you know. You’ll feel ot.

We should always be approaching beauty and harmony. Right now we are fucking up the party. We are playing out of tune. Harmony is an abiding principle that our universe works towards. I want to always do the same. And creating harmony at scale.

Everything blends together beautifully when we merge as one.

I think there’s a huge economic incentive to believing this. This is how I’d like to play capitalism. And believe it works. Assets should flow to those that create value. No one creates more value in this world than artists.  No one is more underpaid/indervalued.

One way to fix is to make more creators. Golf was better with Tiger. Music will be better run by us. It takes one to know one. If you really love it, you try doing it. People who make it do the thing value it more than those that don’t. Those are the super fans.  We grow them.  We make creating as easy as walking into a Phlote session. Your presence blends beautifully with  your surroundings. You complement. That is a superpower. I can do that at the highest level. My superpower is working with others. So I want to use this at the highest power level to work with the most ambitious and committed work that would lead to the most positive radical change. That’s who I speak to. People who take life seriously. Understand it should be fun. Lives with passion. And appreciated. Universal appreciation is a foundation of my belief system. I hope this becomes obvious one day because right now it’s not. Neither are these other beliefs around harmony. Togetherness. And collaboration. People don’t see it as an economic advantage. Individual get beats by team. Team gets best by league. League gets beat by army. The bigger the team the better. Niirvana is when we’re one team. All going up together. We are invested in this planet. We need to be invested in this mindset and idea that we are here to live in harmony with each other and this earth. Angels spirits sing through us when we live harmoniously, we move to heaven. Or at least bring it to earth.

This is not a common belief in culture. I feel like I’m stuck reporting live from a strange time. The world has a Ben Simmons. There’s a way it can be obviously better but isn’t. But all low hanging fruit.

Obvious changes can be made that would have a huge impact. That’s how I see the music industry. Anything that considers itself a global industry can do so much more for the world. Again. These are non obvious statement I can make about the culture I live in right now.

What else is non obvious. DJs/producers  are the apex predators is music. Music as the foundation of a media brand. Brand as a way to make people. Usefulness as a topic within the art world is not big right now. People don’t widely understand that artists lead the way. People still consuming algorithmic feeds mostly. There’s growing awareness of their risks.  And a trend away

This year we go from A to B. I’m doing everything with high intention. If I also do it at my highest potential. This is out of here. Map it out. See it clearly. Find a way to get it done.

Discipline and attention to detail are present with love. This year is about developing them. I believe these two will have the most positive impact on my life and who I attract.

It also feels good to think that I’m reporting love from a time when it feels like many things are changing for the better. I do think there’s growing awareness of separation and distance causes problems. We’re better when we work together. Again, one day this will be duh, bot it is not the case right now. We’re creating the space for people to understand the power of working together and experience it first hand. The experience.

Being easy to work with is a huge competitive advantage right now. Being trusted and dependable makes you an outlier in the world in general, but especially in the world of music

To Black Excellence

Is there a weight to being black that slows us down, but also makes us stronger, more resilient, and more resourceful ?

Does this give us an advantage. Does going against odds breed confidence?

We are not insecure about our innate abilities and potential. We know what would happen if the playing field were even. We would thrive. The world would be more colorful. That why our mission is not to even the playing field, but to beat the odds

For that, we are grateful and thankful. We are in the power position. 🥂

Make a decision and go.

Looking back or 2nd guessing does nothing but slow you down. Take as long as necessary to make a decision, and write it down if you have to to remember why, but once you decidE, don’t look back!

Commit all the way. Watch what happens. Something to do different.