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I want to talk about a mistake that I made pretty much all summer.

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So before I tell you that, let me go back to March of 2023, about nine months ago.

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And in March, that's when I discovered a book called Reality Transurfing.

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And I learned of it through a YouTube short video.

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And it was basically a fan page talking about Iman Ghaji, my bad.

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I realized that I was pronouncing it wrong for a long time.

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But pretty much that YouTube video, it was basically someone interviewing Iman and asking,

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well, the person basically said, so Iman, you've recommended all these books.

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Like Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and the guy listed some other books.

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And then, but basically these books are for beginners.

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They're really beginner level books.

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And he was asking, what Iman reads nowadays?

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What kind of books does Iman read now?

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Now that he's advanced further than the common man and he's actually become very successful.

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And Iman responded, well, I read Reality Transurfing.

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That's the book that I'm studying right now.

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And so I just saw that video and I'd never heard of Transurfing before.

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And I just saw that video and then something just clicked inside of me and I just went

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to Amazon right away and bought the book.

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And the funny thing is that I was very frugal with my money.

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I was not very frugal, but I was more frugal with my money back then than I am now.

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And it took a couple days for me to convince myself to buy a $20 book.

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That's just how I was back then.

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And the strange thing about it is I just saw this 10 second clip recommending Transurfing

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and it caused me to go to Amazon and just buy it on impulse.

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Even though it was the most expensive book I'd ever purchased in my life.

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It was like $60, which was, which is a lot for a book.

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So I bought it, it came and I read it.

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And I read, it was actually 750 pages long.

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So I read like maybe the first 300 pages and then on the surface I said I got bored.

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But in reality, I actually couldn't handle the truth.

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And so I just stopped reading it and switched to a different book.

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And then eventually I went back to reading that book and I finished it.

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And then after the second kind of after the second try reading it, I realized how valuable

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it is and how like serious and how real it is because it really explains the truth.

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So after maybe a month or two of not reading it, I just finished it and then a month or

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two passed and I re-read it.

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I re-read the whole thing, but this time I didn't just passively read it.

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I actually bought a journal specifically for this book and then wrote down all of the quotes

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that I liked, wrote down my thoughts, wrote down different things that I was thinking

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about.

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And I essentially copied, I probably wrote at least 100 quotes.

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Like I filled up an entire journal and if you're watching on YouTube, here I'll actually

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show you the size of the journal that I filled up.

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This is a different journal, but it's pretty much this big and it's fairly big.

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It's probably the width of a quarter and it's the size of like a classic like spiral notebook,

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but it's not a spiral notebook.

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It's a hardcover.

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It's basically the size of a normal standard sheet of paper, maybe a little bit bigger.

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But I filled up an entire journal full of notes.

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So I really took this seriously and this book, Transurfing, was all about, man, it's all

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about your worldview, about how you think, how you perceive things.

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It's about manifestation.

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It's about achieving your goals.

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It's about all of the things.

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And so I really got into that book and talked about it all throughout my podcast.

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There was probably a maybe 80 day period where I was just reading, Transurfing, and talking

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about it on my podcast.

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Maybe less than 80 days, but I was talking about Transurfing a lot.

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And if you go back on the podcast, Ascend Momentum, it's, and you look for the, and

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you look for the episodes that are called Transurfing Principles.

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You can listen to what I was thinking about back in the day.

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And so I've gotten this Transurfing Principle pretty much ingrained into my mind.

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It's not fully ingrained, but it's fairly ingrained.

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And back to the story of how I talked about in the beginning of this episode, how I fell

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into the trap of inaction.

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And I thought that I could just manifest my way through my thoughts to my goals.

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So basically over the summer, I really locked in on Transurfing.

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I was studying it and I was practicing it on a daily basis.

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And I remember I would go to the park every single day and I would go with my friend also.

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And he was studying Transurfing as well at the time.

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So we would both go to the park and we would just practice the Transurfing Principles.

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We would just walk around, practice staying conscious, staying present.

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And then we would also practice our visualization and we would also just strategize in general.

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All of this talk and all of this thinking, and then we would go home.

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I actually don't know what, I can't, I don't know what my friend did when he got home,

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but I would go home and I would just take action.

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And I say that with bunny ears.

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I say that with quotes because the type of action that I took was reading books and it

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was also just looking at websites or YouTube videos.

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Now that is not action.

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That's inaction.

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And that's basically what I did all summer long.

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I just was paralyzed into inaction and I thought that I was moving closer to my goals because

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I was visualizing every day.

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I was visualizing and I was doing all the things, but I wasn't doing the simple act

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of the work.

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And then I went down this whole kind of spiral where I was just in inaction and then eventually

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I saw a YouTube video because I actually did, I was taking action, but the action that I

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was taking was just recording podcasts.

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And so I was recording podcasts, but they weren't getting really much better after a

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while.

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And so I had to figure out something.

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And then the first kind of change, the first kind of initial spark that caused me to change

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was I went to, I actually read a book called 10X is 10X is easier than 2X.

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And in that book, it was basically just talking about like evolving as a person and evolving

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as an entrepreneur.

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And one of the concepts that I learned about in that book that I, to be honest, I believe

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that I already knew I was just kind of pushing it away.

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And I didn't really want to, I didn't really want to confront that emotion or that truth.

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And the truth was the thing that I learned in that book was that quality is better than

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quantity, but quality quantity, wait, wait, wait, it's quality is better than quantity,

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but quantity leads to quality.

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So basically what that meant to me was I was, I had recorded a podcast episode every single

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day for the past 80 days at that point.

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And on, on 65 of those days.

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So ever since episode 15, I've been recording daily one hour episodes at that point.

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So I probably had 70 hours worth of practice over 80 days.

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And that's high quantity.

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I was recording one hour, which is a lot, it's high quantity.

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But then I was also recording one hour every single day.

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So I was getting one hour of practice every single day.

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So that is quantity, but I was also posting it just raw footage.

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That's quantity right there.

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And so the reason why I didn't want to confront the truth was because I was definitely improving.

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Ever since, if you go back to my first episode and compare it to this episode or even like

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the last episode of season one, episode 104, I believe, then you'll realize that I was definitely

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improving.

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That high quantity practice helped.

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But if you compare episode 60 to episode 80, I really believe that you won't find much

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of a difference.

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And that's because after a while I was plateauing.

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Like in the beginning I was skyrocketing with growth.

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But then I was just kind of plateauing because after maybe 40 episodes or 50 episodes, I had

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done the daily one hour practice every single day and I hadn't changed anything yet.

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And so I'm on episode 80 and I haven't changed anything and I'm plateaued.

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So then I move forward and I just keep doing it because I still don't want to confront

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the truth even after learning of the truth from the book.

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So I keep doing daily one hour episodes and then eventually it got to the point where

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I saw a YouTube video and it was Alex Formosa.

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He basically said all that remains is the work to be done.

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And then he talked about the anti-routine, which is basically cutting out all the nonsense

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and just focusing on the work.

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And at that time I was already kind of realizing that I needed to transition to higher quality

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videos.

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So I realized that I needed to edit the videos.

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But then I realized that I wasn't going to grow even if I had the best videos possible

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on my podcast because there is no discoverability feature on the podcast like there is on YouTube.

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And so I realized I needed to make a transition to YouTube.

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And so now I was playing in a whole different ballpark.

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I was making YouTube videos instead of podcasts.

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So now I had to edit the imagery and learn how to make better YouTube videos.

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But this all didn't happen until months after, until months of inaction.

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I was literally just visualizing every single day for months over summer and no progress

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was made.

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But now I realized that it's the work that is actually going to get you to move forward.

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I'm reading a book by David Goggins right now called Can't Hurt Me.

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And he's basically talking about all these crazy things that he's done in his life.

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Like he ran a 100 mile race with no training.

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So imagine if you got out of your bed right now and ran not five miles, not 10 miles,

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not 20 miles, which 20 miles would be insane for most people, much less 10 miles with no

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training.

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If you got out of your bed right now and ran 100 miles, that's like three and a half marathons

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with no training.

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And his nutrition was terrible.

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And he just hit a crazy leg day the night before.

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Like imagine that he did all that.

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That's action.

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And I kind of connected the dots because he took action and achieved that feat.

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You can't get that by sitting around visualizing.

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So that's why I believe that there is no, if you don't have action, you don't have manifestation.

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Like you must have action in order to manifest stuff.

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And so I'm reading this book by David Goggins and I'm realizing that this is a man of action.

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And yes, he does visualize.

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Like he was talking about how he visualizes possible.

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He visualizes like the race track, the course of the next race that he's going to run, or

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he visualizes his past successes.

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He visualizes many different things.

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Action is a tool, but it's not the means to the goal.