You might think I’m about to talk about your LIMITLESS POTENTIAL or your UNTAPPED POWER. About the glory that awaits you once you DO THE THING or BUY THE PRODUCT.

But that would be backwards.

Your potential refers to your future. The real story of who you are begins in the past.

For tens of millions of years, our primate ancestors lived in the forests. We formed clans among the trees, fighting every day to drive off predatory birds, cats, spiders, snakes and each other.

It was a rough and violent life. Perfectly in harmony with nature, but short, beautiful and cruel.

Then the forests died.

Our ancestors had to learn to walk upright, then to run. They had to endure the crucible of the savannah without trees for food or comfort. They had to survive against and even hunt the biggest, meanest creatures of the time.

Those humble apes not only survived but thrived. They spread to every landmass, then built civilisations. Folks toiled for tens of thousands of years while empires exploded in the background.

Now that’s glory.

It all built to the modern world – humanity’s crowning achievement. It’s a world with greater health, comfort, safety, opportunity and potential than any that came before it. Whatever glory it contains comes from the suffering and sacrifices of billions, all dreaming of a life like this.

And here you are, staring slackly with a concerned expression as it rots in front of you.

Of course you’re frustrated. You inherited something flawed, sure, but unprecedented in its majesty. Without a civilisation like this, you’d do anything – pay any price – to have it. You didn’t have to. You were born into an unparalleled golden age, earning it before your first breath.

Throughout all of history, few people could say the same.

And what are you doing with all your genius, energy, potential and opportunities?

You know you should be doing something grander than this, but what?

In your darker moments, you sometimes wish for a war. At least then you’d have a clear purpose and an enemy to fight. At least that would bring some meaning to your life.

You crave glory. You look around and see a world so sterilised that there’s no room for you in it. There’s nothing to defeat and nothing worth protecting.

Well, guess what?

We are at war, whether you know it or not.

There’s a mighty foe besieging the gates of civilisation. It may not be a clear enemy – that part of your fantasy will go unfulfilled – but you are at war. The Enemy wants nothing short of the total destruction of your world.

Who is this Enemy?

Does it matter? They want to reduce to you misery and slavery, and you want to know their name?

Look, the Enemy could be Satan rallying his demonic armies against the inheritors of Christiandom.

The Enemy could be the Illuminati, working behind the shadows to undermine freedom, justice and democracy.

The Enemy could be those people you don’t like, those scoundrels. Biden said MAGA Republicans are the Enemy of Civilisation. Others say the same about him and his supporters. 

The Enemy could be nothing more than entropy and complacency, the same force that laws every mighty empire low eventually. No one says the Enemy has to be alive or even intelligent. Gravity is neither but you should fear its power. Likewise, there seems to be a law of psychology that says no civilisation can endure forever. That law, and how it manifests, is a formidable Enemy indeed.

It could be all of these or something else. It doesn’t matter! Either way, you fight this evil in the same way.

Step 1: Know the Enemy’s favourite weapons

The Enemy of Civilisation doesn’t destroy with an army. By the time barbarians sacked Rome, Rome had already fallen. You can’t destroy a healthy civilisation with bombs – the people will endure, fight back and rebuild even stronger.

No, the Enemy uses subtler weapons.

Weapons like…

Your anger

Your anger is the Enemy’s weapon. Uncontrolled, it turns you into a gibbering moron.

It’s right to look at the flaws of the world and get angry at them. That anger is supposed to get you to roll up your sleeves and do the work to make things better.

If you turn to your neighbour and shriek at them instead, you’re not helping anything. You’re wasting your energy, you’re degrading the social fabric and you’re making the problem worse.

But at least you can feel self-righteous for a moment!

Even a casual look at history shows how anger can turn a crowd into a mob and a mob into pure destruction. Take that weapon out of the Enemy’s hands.

Your fear

Civilisation provides safety. It frees us from fighting off wolves to focus on serving each other.

But it’s ultimately an illusion. The streets of Sydney might be safer than the Congo, but you still have to take care of yourself.

If someone threatens your safety and then offers you a solution to that fear, beware. You don’t need me to tell you this. You don’t even need to look at history – the last few years have shown us just how willing most folks are to give into fear.

Whether you bought into the narrative or not, you still have fears. The Enemy can use them to destroy more than just your life.

Your greed

When the Enemy wins, there’ll be no one around to bury you.

If there were, though, then most tombstones of those who escorted the Enemy into their homes would read:

“I was just doing my job”

You have bills to pay. That means making compromises. You’d rather not market plastic crap to folks who don’t want it and can’t afford it, but you have to put a roof over your head.

Then, at some point, it stops being about survival. You need the money, if only to numb yourself to the horror of how you earned it. You sold your glory for trinkets.

No wonder you sometimes crave an apocalypse, to free you from all this. Good news – you’re probably helping to usher it in every day you go to work.

Your pride

I’m sure someone reading this will call me a-ist or a –phobe of some sort. Never mind that, except for the Illuminati, I haven’t even made reference to the concept of groups of people. I haven’t even implied that races exist so far, so if you think I mean that the Enemy is a specific subgroup of humans then that’s your hallucination.

No, the Enemy works through all of us. No collection of people is above that.

Case in point: accusations can serve the Enemy. You want folks to see you as smart, resourceful, cultured, wise and tolerant.

But did you know only idiots question the Enemy’s narrative???

Did you know that fighting the Enemy means you’re weak and corrupt???

Please.

Your pride is a weapon of the Enemy because it can shut you down with a single sentence.

Your confusion

Nothing is certain, everything is relative and all rules are arbitrary.

This line of thinking helps shake a stagnant society out of its rut. It invites new ideas in.

But not every new idea is a good one.

They say a decent plan done today is better than a perfect plan done tomorrow. You used to have a decent plan but now you’re not so sure. You’re confused about what’s good and evil, what your purpose in life is, and what you should do to grow stronger.

The result is that you hesitate and you never fully commit.

Maintaining civilisation requires your conviction, but you’re too busy questioning whether life is even moral.

Get to work, soldier! You’ll figure out the bigger stuff as you go. Stop waiting for perfect clarity and follow the plan you know will work well enough!

Your hopelessness

“Why should I even try to maintain civilisation? It’s doomed anyway. Rising sea levels will drown us. Even if they don’t, our leaders are so corrupt that it’s not worth saving.”

Hmm, gee, does the Enemy of Civilisation quake when you say that? Or does it salivate, saliva dripping from its fangs down the back of your neck?

You’re alive, aren’t you? You’re smart and capable, aren’t you? If you want to roll over and die, wait until after you’ve saved civilisation and built a legacy. Never before.

Your loneliness

Your differences make you a freak. If you don’t conform, your boss will never promote you and girls will never fuck you.

Again, does that sound like a reasonable thought or the voice of the Enemy?

You’re lonely, so you go on social media or find some adult entertainment to ease the pain. So you think, anyway. But try spending a day away from screens and you’ll learn just how lonely they make you feel.

Don’t be so desperate for human connection that the Enemy can make you do anything for validation.

Your selfishness

If you don’t want to serve other people, then life will be hard and miserable for you.

Those moments where you put your needs ahead of the collective’s undermine civilisation. No one should martyr themselves to their neighbours, no one should be completely selfless, but service comes first.

If not?

There’s a term for this – the tragedy of the commons. It’s one of the Enemy’s favourite tools for misery and destruction.

Your blindness

Look around the world right now.

What sort of people are happy, thriving and fulfilled?

Which states are doing well while others are crumbling?

What nations prosper and rise while others slide into misery and chaos?

The answers are around you. If you want to be happy, do what happy people do. If you want to be rich, think like a rich person. Emulate success.

But the Enemy hates success. That’s why there’s all this advice out there – health advice from sick people, financial advice from broke people, relationship advice from the chronically lonely.

It all sounds good, but it doesn’t work.

And following it only serves the Enemy.

Don’t just look – see. Avoid what doesn’t and has never worked. Embrace what has.

Your lack of clarity

The Enemy isn’t other people.

The problem isn’t when others arm the Enemy with their weapons.

That belief is a weapon of the Enemy! Looking for someone to blame is the problem.

You want glory? You want to win a war and safe civilisation? Then stop arming the Enemy with your weaknesses and stupidity. If you’re not ready for the superhuman effort of saving millions, at least stop making the Enemy stronger.

That’s not nothing. If everyone mastered their anger and fear, that alone would propel us into a Golden Age like the world’s never seen.

But you can’t settle for that in yourself. You have to do what you can to overcome all these weaknesses in yourself. Not some of them. Not in other people. All, in you.

You’ll likely fail. No one can be perfect all the time. But an army doesn’t need perfect soldiers – just soldiers with the courage and conviction to engage the Enemy.

So engage the Enemy. Stop making excuses. Stop embarrassing yourself with sloth and folly. It’s time to fight and it’s time to live.

Your inaction

If you read this and think “fuck yeah!” but then do nothing about it, then you’re arming the Enemy.

It’s time to stop.

Draw a line here and commit to depriving the Enemy of its only weapons.

But how, you ask?

Knowing what the weapons are can only help so much. The real results come from overcoming them.

So keep reading.

Step 2: Disarming the Enemy’s weapons

This isn’t about other people.

This is about you.

Stop empowering the Enemy of Civilisation with your weakness. It’s time to take back control and redirect your energy from corroding society.

Overcoming your anger

Anger is a funny one. It’s a useful emotion in the right context, like when someone gets in your space and threatens you. How often is your anger thanks to that, though? It’s more often from someone saying something stupid.

So what? Stupidity is infinite. You think your tiny squirts of neurotransmitters are gonna make a difference? You think clenching your fists and writing something sarcastic is going to turn back the tide of ignorance?

Uncontrolled anger is hot, intense and capable of driving you to make mistakes. All because of something you could easily ignore. Before social media, the classic anger case study was getting cut off in traffic. So someone slows you down by a fraction of a second – then you decide to rage against them? To spend the rest of the day seething?

It’s the same online. Do you really want to let one tweet lead you to “engage with the content” at the expense of your own peace? How’s that working out for you? What is getting angry over the little stuff achieving?

Again, anger has its place. In the hands of a man, it can dismantle present threats. In the hands of a boy, though, it leaves you throwing a tantrum and getting bitter on social media.

Surely your sanity and energy have better uses than this. Getting angry like this only serves the Enemy – and the owners of the social media platforms, assuming there’s a difference. Why not let idiots be idiots? Why not walk away?

Yeah, yeah, those idiots are dangerous and need to be stopped. Is getting angry helping? Isn’t that making the problem worse – after all, you’ve never changed your mind because a stranger got angry at you.

Think about the people who rely on you. Does this anger do them any favours? Aren’t you poisoning your relationship with them and teaching them bad habits?

Maybe throwing these tantrums brings you joy. There’s no other benefit to it. I just hope you can find a better hobby than spewing bile online.

The goal is to channel your anger, not suppress it. There’s no shame in feeling it, but that doesn’t mean you should wallow in it, seek it out, act on it or amplify it.

To avoid wallowing in it, remember to relax and breathe deeply. If any part of you feels tense, hot or heavy, imagine all that energy is circulating through and out your body.

Stop seeking out things that make you angry. Avoid social media – especially avoid it when you’re bored or in a bad mood.

Never make decisions while angry. Take time and let a cooler head assess the situation.

If you feel the anger building, don’t stoke the flames. Don’t get into debates in your mind, fantasising about destroying the other person. Don’t bring to mind every other fault, insult and folly they’ve done. Focus your attention elsewhere.

Anger means you think there’s a problem in your life or in the world. If so, take action to make things better. It doesn’t have to be big, but it should be progress. Set firmer boundaries. Weaken the threat to your wellbeing.

Avoid Failures of Sentience. If you understand their virtues and your mistakes – even if you’re right and they’re wrong – you’ll loosen your anger.

This requires practice and discipline. Anger can sometimes pose as a logical reaction to farce. Be wary of it controlling you. When it controls your actions, you work for the Enemy.

Overcoming your fear

Fear demands speed.

If a snake lunges out of the bushes or boss says they’re thinking about firing you, you need to act fast.

With the snake, any movement is better than standing still. Flailing about randomly might scare it off, dodge its lunge or wallop it in the head.

With your boss, saying something is better than standing there, quaking and pissing yourself.

That’s why a jolt of adrenaline makes it hard to stand still. All that energy bubbles up because you need to do something.

But…

It’s obviously better to do something smart than something random.

Fear makes you trade intelligence for speed. It demands action now rather than a thoughtful assessment of the situation. That’s a feature, not a bug. The battlefield is no place for reflection and analysis.

And that’s how the Enemy helps you make mistakes.

Sometimes fear can paralyse you. That’s usually anxiety, though. When you think about taking a risk to follow your dreams, any gnawing feeling in your gut is anxiety over what can go wrong.

Overcome that, sure. Take calculated risks, experiment and make incremental changes.

But you really want to learn how to overcome fear.

When you’re scared, it’s easy to fall into binary thinking. The rich, infinitely complex world boils down to simple choices. You have to think simply because you have to think fast.

If there’s no rush, this is a mistake.

Think this doesn’t happen? How could you doubt it when that’s all we’ve seen over the past few years? “Either you give up your freedoms, adhere to random biosecurity theatre and don’t question anything… or you and everyone you know will die, gasping for air!”

There were thousands of ways we could have responded to the virus that cannot be named.

We were given one option and told it was the only choice.

No one would have believed them if most folks weren’t terrified.

The antidote to fear isn’t to take action regardless. That comes later. First, you need to think through your options. There are never

ever

only two choices in life. Never. If you only see two, then you haven’t taken the time to think. Get creative. Force yourself to find better alternatives. Break outside the box. Stop restricting your thinking and really open up the possibilities.

When you’ve found an option better than both of the original choices, then – and only then – do you take action.

This technique can stop wars and save lives. Whenever anyone says “it’s the lesser of two evils!” or “I had no choice!”, then either they’re lying or they’ve let fear destroy them.

It’s pathetic. You can do better than this. There’s no glory in being so stupid, close-minded and easily manipulated.

Interlude

Hold up a minute.

Are you just reading this article? Or are you actually taking action and following the advice?

Yeah, I know it’s not done yet. That’s fine. By taking your fear and anger out of the Enemy’s hands, you’ve won a huge victory. So have you won yet? If not, why not? You have tools to get started.

Note that I said tools. And I said to get started. Try the exercises I provided. Whether they work perfectly or they still leave some work for you do to, ask what you need to do now. How can you take this further?

You’ve heard plenty of advice on how to manage fear and anger. How much of it is good? How much of it have you tried?

Don’t keep blindly reading. Begin to improve now.

Yes, now! Not later – this moment! Take a breath and do something to diminish your fear and anger. Not suppress, deny or ignore them – genuinely transcend them.

Do what I say and do what it takes.

Overcoming your greed

Why do we admire artists who lose themselves in their work in endless throes of creative explosions, neglecting everything else as they bring their vision to life?

And the soldier who pushes past their fear and pain to save their people?

They suffer, which is part of it. Seeing folks endure difficult things inspires us. It reminds us that we can do the same – that we, too, have the strength to face however the Enemy appears to us.

But suffering alone isn’t enough.

If it were, you’d coo over all the purple-haired enbies shrieking about how patriarchal the word trigger is, which is what they are right now. They, too, suffer – but there’s no glory in that.

That’s why I’m not going to tell you to spend less and save more.

You probably should. Giving up the things you think you need but don’t even want will save you a lot of money.

That, in turn, will lessen your dependence on industries that serve the Enemy. It’ll also free up resources for better uses, like charity and investing.

Indulging in your vices less can be a struggle. It could be how you choose to struggle against the Enemy today.

But spend less is reactive advice. That’s playing on the defensive.

A better idea?

Find something you’d love to do – something that would help save civilisation. For me, part of that is by offering coaching. Every man I help be saner, stronger and braver is one combatant flipped from the Enemy’s team to the good side.

Yours could involve cleaning up the environment, fighting corruption, spreading justice, educating others, making people happier or healthier…

There are endless ways to repair civilisation and get paid for it.

Pick one that you love and spend an hour every day working towards that.

This will help lessen your need on expensive vices, as there’s no rush like creating something that genuinely helps people. It also helps free you from drudgery and tragedies of the commons.

Doing this doesn’t stop your greed – instead, it puts it to good use. In fact, the greedier you are, the better. It means you’ll work harder.

Overcoming your pride

Would you rather be liked or be worthy of being liked?

Would you rather people came to you for advice or to be wise?

Given the choice between being popular and being right, which would you choose?

This isn’t so easy a choice. Popularity doesn’t just appeal to the ego – it can get you more dates or a better job.

But those are just material things.

Don’t be afraid to be reviled. Don’t be afraid to be wrong. Be afraid of doing the wrong thing or doing nothing.

If you want to be stronger, wiser and more successful, then pride can only get you so far. Oh, it’s useful at keeping you away from anything shameful. But pride leaves you vulnerable to what you think a strong, smart person is like.

We saw that recently. “Oh, only idiots question vaccination. You’re not an idiot, are you?”

Yes. It’s better to be seen as an idiot than to surrender your freedoms at the first sign of danger.

It’s an old trick in marketing, too. Buy this product – if you don’t, people will laugh at you. You’ll be left behind. The world will bury you.

Good. Let it.

Be a worm, live in dirt and be unworthy of praise from anyone. If you do that and do what’s right, then you’re a person of character.

If you follow the masses, people will praise your lie to yourself. Your compliance will reassure them that their compliance was the right choice. Is that really something to be proud of – the easy, dishonest choice?

Don’t let the masses flatter you. Seek praise only from those worthy of giving it.

Overcoming your confusion

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

Voltaire

It’s natural to be confused by the world. It was always complex, baffling and surreal – now, it’s changing faster than ever.

Maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe we can call that progress.

Even so, it places weapons into the hands of the Enemy.

If you’re confused about the big things, then you’ll struggle to take action. If you do take action, it might not be the right action. How does throwing soup on a painting help polar bears? It doesn’t, yet eco protesters have done exactly that for exactly that reason.

That stunt raises awareness. It also pisses people off. They would have been better off figuring out what they wanted and how to get it. Planting trees would have taken less effort and gotten better results.

That’s confusion at work.

Take stock of everything society is trying to confuse you about. They’re muddling your sense of place in the world – history is a lie, race is a construct, families don’t matter. They want you confused about your gender, your sexuality, your morals – right down to your cells.

Everything is relative – which means you don’t really know anything. They tell you to question everything except the need to question everything. So what do you know? If you listen to them, nothing.

Which paralyses you. How could you possibly take action when any action is neither good nor bad?

And it leaves you desperate for certainty. A drowning man will grab whatever solid thing is in reach. It could be a ball of razors or a red-hot iron – he’ll still grab it.

Are you confused how so many folks knew for certain the government was right about COVID? Even though they’d happily tell you how governments have lied before? And how little real evidence backed up these claims?

Because, for many folks, that was the only certainty they’d tasted in a while.

Uncertainty is mental imbalance. It leaves you easy to be led.

But the opposite of that can’t be a good idea. Being stubborn about everything is the same as being dead. If you never change your mind, then your brain is surplus.

So what do you do?

Take the antifragile approach, which is this:

For the questions we’ve wrestled with for millennia – the meaning of life, how to be a good man, what is glory and how to pursue it – older answers tend to thrash newer ones.

Sure, sometimes progress helps. But if you turn to ancient wisdom for the big questions, you’ll win more often than you lose.

If some wisdom has survived for that long, it must be timeless. If an answer has survived across generations, over oceans and through cultural revolutions, then it has to be somehow useful.

An excellent foundation for your life’s philosophy is stoicism.

“What, you mean ignore my emotions and act like a robot?” See, they have you confused about stoicism, too. The Enemy has done a great job at tarnishing one of the best weapons against it.

None of the ancient stoics denied emotion. They all felt. They didn’t let their feelings control or overwhelm them, though.

Stoicism doesn’t deny your feelings. In fact, it’s the best way to authentically express them. Dwelling on some minor inconvenience isn’t honouring your emotions – that’s as deceptive and destructive as suppressing it.

Ask yourself often:

What’s the stoic answer to this conundrum?

Stoicism either spread to or arose independently in every culture. It’s the heart of every major religion.

It provides both spiritual peace and practical benefits.

Stoicism will tell you to work hard towards meaningful goals. It will teach you to respect your time and your boundaries.

Take responsibility, serve others, keep an optimistic demeanour, practice gratitude, be generous…

Stoicism thrives in churches and boardrooms. It flourished in ancient India, medieval China and modern Africa. It underpins the teachings of Jesus and what a self-actualised person in Maslow’s hierarchy is.

Stoicism helps soldier fight and patients heal.

It’s true by any reasonable measure. And the more you study Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, the stronger you become.

So you want something to be certain about?

Be certain that stoicism leads to better living – no matter what that means to you.

Interlude

Don’t fight the Enemy so publicly.

This is good advice, even if I’m not following it. Don’t talk about how the Enemy works – simply work against it. Don’t talk about how you wish men were better – be a better man.

There’s little to gain from shouting from the rooftops how you’re striving to preserve civilisation. Simply preserve it. Your example is more persuasive than your words.

Crow about your achievements and all you’ll do is set folks against you – those who said you did the wrong thing or you could have done more. Division is a tool of the Enemy. Don’t let it use your good works to advance its agenda.

Working in secret is like operating behind enemy lines. You’ll strike a mighty blow but only by not drawing attention to yourself.

Being a public figure is costly – and it’s not just you who pays the price. Beware the true cost of fame. Presenting as a normal, typical person while keeping the light of civilisation alive in your heart is a truly noble calling.

Overcoming your hopelessness

Does the cause seem hopeless, given how deeply the Enemy is entrenched in our systems, our culture and our hearts?

That hopelessness sort of makes sense. The fact that you feel hopeless means the Enemy has a grip on you.

It’s one of its great weapons. A people in despair won’t fight to maintain their legacy. It’ll erode just as fast from neglect as from attack.

But so what?

Yes, the Enemy is formidable.

Yes, the Enemy can never truly be defeated.

That just means there’s all the more glory in the fight. Fighting a weak foe is dishonourable, especially if they don’t really threaten you. The Enemy is strong and it threatens everything.

Embrace the resistance.

Find your glory in the fight.

A sense of hopelessness is a fixation on the future. What if you instead focused on the present? What if you did what you can do now, today, here, to make the future brighter?

When that future comes, will you be able to say you did everything you could? Despite the steep odds? If so, you might find that the struggle wasn’t as hopeless as you first thought.

We’ve built incredible civilisations before. We’ve achieved phenomenal deeds in justice, art, science and ethics. Working together, we’ve cured disease, spread joy and brought peace to troubled lands.

Not always, but we’ve done it.

That means we can do it again.

All we need to do is to do our best. That’s worked for us before. It’ll work again.

Overcoming your loneliness

An isolated person is weak, neurotic and ineffectual.

That’s why they isolated us for two years. And look what happened since. Is life in the 2020s saner, wiser and richer than it was in 2019? Not generally, no.

That’s why it’s your duty to overcome loneliness.

Loneliness isn’t just about not being around people. I’m sure you’ve felt lonely in crowds before. No, loneliness is a lack of contact and connection.

Connection comes when you can let yourself be vulnerable with someone. That doesn’t mean tearing open your heart and dumping emotional bile all over them, but it does mean sometimes letting your guard down.

It doesn’t have to be with the big things. Sometimes, taking a risk and being authentic over something tiny. A little connection can go a long way.

If you have someone like that in your life, treasure them and nourish that relationship.

If you don’t, then find someone.

You can always pay for that experience. Folks pay me to share their vulnerable sides with me. That doesn’t make the connection any less real. If you do the same, it’ll help keep the loneliness away for both of us.

Also, get off social media and get out into the world. Social media is like junk food – it fills you up without nourishing you.

Overcoming your selfishness

The trick to this is to be more selfish.

If you work to make life better for others, you’ll be happier. And healthier. And more energetic. Oh, and you’ll overcome challenges easier. You’ll have people in your life happy to help you through problems or just provide some company.

Not everyone will return your efforts like this. Not everyone deserves your service.

But most do. Most will make your life better simply by you doing that for them.

There’s no hedonic thrill quite like being valuable to someone.

Overcoming your blindness

Read, reread and apply Your Story Isn’t About You.

Reduce your Failures of Sentience and you’ll be amazed at what you can see.

Begin here: https://christianhypnotism.com/ysiay

Interlude

For some of you, what I’m talking about here will change your life.

For others, these are little more than platitudes.

Understand that there’s only so much I can cover in an article like this. Speaking a word imbues it with more meaning than writing it does. Writing for general audiences means glossing over certain details.

There’s a lot more to this than what I’ve covered here.

A lot more.

If you want to know how to take the fight against the Enemy of Civilisation to the next level, then reach out to me. If you don’t know how to contact me, then you definitely aren’t ready for what I have to say.

Overcoming your lack of clarity

Are you being a perfectionist here?

If a lack of clarity is your problem, I’d say that’s likely. If you were to sit down and think about what you could do to help society, you’d come up with a decent list.

Some of those things would feel right.

And some of the ones that feel right would make sense when you give them a quick reality check.

Will it be the perfect and ultimate way to defeat the Enemy? No, but you’ll learn more as you do what you can. Develop a plan and get started now. Help the world, then pay attention to see how the world responded.

It’ll teach you how to help it.

Feedback from reality is sometimes subtle, sometimes overwhelming. It’s always the best teacher there is.

And through that, you’ll see your own failings more clearly.

Meditate, reflect and/or prayer on those failings.

Strive to overcome them.

Celebrate your progress.

This isn’t anything wild, revolutionary or edgy. You already know all this. Now, though, I’m giving you an order.  Do it – the world needs you to learn yourself from it.

Overcoming your inaction

… are you serious?

What do you need to read here? What could I write that would possibly tell you something new?

If your problem is inaction, then act.

Yeah, you’ll be imperfect and make mistakes. If you make an honest attempt to do right by people, though, then you’ll inch closer to where you need to be. You’ll see it clearer, and be stronger and wiser for the part.

Stop making excuses – simply make.

Step 3: Maintain and Enhance Civilisation

Get to work on disarming the Enemy.

If we all did that, we’d save civilisation and leave the Enemy as a blubbering, pathetic mess.

Step 2 is enough – more than enough.

That said, there’s more we can do.

If you want to learn how to go from disarming the Enemy to actively repelling it, reach out to me. I’ll let you know when I publish the next step. Otherwise, bookmark this page and check back later.