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What’s your relationship with uncertainty? How does it make you feel? What’s your initial reaction whenever something doesn’t go as expected? How much of your daily life do you operate with a sense of certainty? Many of us have been conditioned to believe that uncertainty will lead to failure, suffering, pain, etc. Therefore, we must have a plan for everything and control most of it. This conditio...

Why are you ambitious or not ambitious? What drives your ambition? How strong is it? On the surface, ambition is generally considered a positive and attractive trait. However, it can also be an automatic way to overcompensate for disempowering beliefs about lack or not enoughness. Practicing a focus on constant personal growth rather than outcomes can lead us deeper towards revealing our disempowe...

What’s your relationship to the terms hustle and hustle culture? The glorified messaging of hustle culture may be misleading you towards depletion and exhaustion. Without well-being, balance, fulfillment, and alignment as foundational priorities, working hard just for the sake of a material goal or achievement is short-sighted. Work ethic is important. Effort is important. But is it worth the expe...

O.F.G. means opportunities for growth. Every situation we experience presents a seemingly infinite number of growth opportunities towards becoming the highest version of ourselves. However, it is up to us to train our minds to identify the opportunities and to integrate our hearts in the process. In this series of episodes, Jeff and Tatsu share their thought processes and struggles when triggered...

What’s your relationship to synchronicities? How often do you notice them? What wisdom are you extracting from each one? If synchronicities are part of your belief system, it is up to you to notice and apply personal meaning to them. This requires an open and curious mind. Synchronicities may be guiding you to grow in ways that your logical mind cannot fully understand in the moment. Synchronicity...

What’s the driving force for your motivation? What’s your relationship to contentment? And what’s the relationship between motivation and contentment for you? Without deep and honest reflection, we will default to our automatic ways of being, which are generally driven by fear. As we know, a life generally driven by fear impacts health and relationships in an unsustainable way.  What’s the dr...

Self-worth and self-esteem are not interchangeable. Many people are unaware of the distinction, which causes a lot of confusion and misunderstanding internally and with others. Much of Western society fosters an attachment to self-esteem rather than cultivates a strong foundation of self-worth. With constant advertising, marketing, and propaganda everywhere, we are at a major disadvantage in culti...

O.F.G. means opportunities for growth. Every situation we experience presents a seemingly infinite number of growth opportunities towards becoming the highest version of ourselves. However, it is up to us to train our minds to identify the opportunities and to integrate our hearts in the process. In this series of episodes, Jeff and Tatsu share their thought processes and struggles when triggered...

Why do we chase the idea of security? Where does the belief in a lack of security come from? Are we addressing the root consciously or the symptoms unconsciously? In our need for security, we dance the fine line between control and responsibility. Oftentimes, we try to over-control and mask it as responsibility. Whether the security we want is financial, health-related, or in relationships, ultima...

What are you nostalgic about? Is nostalgia simply a remembrance of the past? Maybe it is pointing to something missing in your current life. Are you living in a way that your future self will deem nostalgic? Are you feeling deeply every day? Deep emotions make memories nostalgic. Your nostalgic memories can be an access point to life transformation. Identifying the emotional value you received apa...

Reflecting on alignment in any area of our lives is a complex practice. First, it requires self-alignment, being grounded in our intuition while exploring ideas in our minds (the ego’s playground). Then, we can reflect on our alignment with the people and objects in the external world. Furthermore, we can reflect on divine alignment, the acknowledgement and acceptance of our current circumstances....

O.F.G. means opportunities for growth. Every situation we experience presents a seemingly infinite number of growth opportunities towards becoming the highest version of ourselves. However, it is up to us to train our minds to identify the opportunities and to integrate our hearts in the process. In this series of episodes, Jeff and Tatsu share their thought processes and struggles when triggered...

In what ways are you misaligned internally? In what areas of your life do you notice misalignments? Misalignments start internally and project outward to impact all areas of life. What conditioning do you need to break free from? What else in your life needs to shift? The longer your misalignments continue, the more difficult life will appear to become. Get real with yourself and have the necessar...

What’s your story? How do you feel when you share it with others? What are the pivotal moments in your life and why? Living purposefully involves deeply embracing your past, being grateful for it, and seeing how it all shapes the current and future versions of you. The way you piece together your story is critical to how it unfolds in the future. And the meaning we give to all of our experiences i...

Our regrets reveal the way we see the world. Regrets are a personal judgment of our decision-making. If left unresolved, the source of our regrets can take a toll on our well-being through emotional disempowerment. However, if we identify and take action on the source of our regrets, we have an opportunity to heal our wounds at the source. What’s something you will regret if you do not take action...

O.F.G. means opportunities for growth. Every situation we experience presents a seemingly infinite number of growth opportunities towards becoming the highest version of ourselves. However, it is up to us to train our minds to identify the opportunities and to integrate our hearts in the process. In this series of episodes, Jeff and Tatsu share their thought processes and struggles when triggered...

Fear is a foundational driver of shutting down curiosity. It is natural for our human minds to inquire about the unknown. Why am I feeling this way? Why are they reacting that way? Such basic questions often lead to some form of action, such as asking the person one more deep question. We tend to stop engaging when things get uncomfortable. Others also attempt to stop our engagement because they a...

The money game is built on a foundational belief in scarcity, a zero-sum game. Disempowerment is a natural byproduct of this game, whether the player has a lot of money or a little, because a scarcity mindset leaks into all areas of life. The money game is compelling and unavoidable, fortunately or unfortunately. How much control does money have over you? What does it feel like? What’s your relati...

Most of us have multiple examples in our lives of when we “talked the talk” but did not “walk the walk”. This exhibits hypocrisy, lack of integrity, and a deep internal conflict. For those who value modeling and leading by example, closing the gap of our internal conflict is a confronting and beautiful journey. How do you want to be witnessed in this life? What are the core values that drive you t...

O.F.G. means opportunities for growth. Every situation we experience presents a seemingly infinite number of growth opportunities towards becoming the highest version of ourselves. However, it is up to us to train our minds to identify the opportunities and to integrate our hearts in the process. In this series of episodes, Jeff and Tatsu share their thought processes and struggles when triggered...

There are many positives and negatives to following the status quo. To some extent, we all rock the boat. However, are we rocking the boat too much or not enough? Most of us probably don’t rock the boat enough. This is a deeply personal journey that requires listening to our intuition and having the courage to act. Without the curiosity to question everything and seek alignment in all areas of our...

The purity of curiosity leads us into the realm of possibility and connection. With curiosity comes an inherent humility and a willingness to change our perspectives. Unfortunately, much of our curiosity is stifled at a young age by pressure to get it right rather than being encouraged to make mistakes. This plays right into the hands of the fearful ego by making assumptions and creating labels fo...

Suffering generally has a disempowering tone. In the middle of disappointment or displeasure, doubt and other disempowering thoughts tend to appear more often. It does not feel good when we are in the middle of suffering and pain. So, we try to avoid it with a myriad of coping mechanisms. Obviously, we are just perpetuating the suffering and the coping mechanisms. However, we can shift our relatio...

O.F.G. means opportunities for growth. Every situation we experience presents a seemingly infinite number of growth opportunities towards becoming the highest version of ourselves. However, it is up to us to train our minds to identify the opportunities and to integrate our hearts in the process. In this series of episodes, Jeff and Tatsu illustrate their thought processes when triggered by people...

When was the last time you reinvented yourself? And what drove that reinvention? What area(s) in your life did you reinvent? Reinvention is far more than a change. It is a transformation. We often consider a reinvention only when our usual strategies and tactics stop working. It is a reactionary, almost desperate, attempt to salvage something. Our decision to reinvent is usually a delayed choice,...