[#033] My First Billion: The Jesus Edition

Writing this one barefoot, in my backyard, feet in the dewy grass.

It's not even 9am and it's already one of the clearest mornings I've had in a while.

I've been doing this thing called grounding... earthing, some people call it.

It’s just you putting your bare feet on the ground. Grass, dirt, sand. That's it.

Here's what it's doing to your body while you're just standing there:

The Earth carries a natural electrical charge. And your body, especially after hours of stress, screens, and running at full speed, builds up what basically amounts to electrical debt.

The moment your skin touches the ground, electrons transfer from the earth into your body and start neutralizing the damage.

Inflammation drops, cortisol (the stress hormone) regulates and your nervous system system shifts out of fight-or-flight and into rest.

This is referred to as being in a parasympathetic state.

The benefits are better sleep, less pain, clearer thinking and a calm you can feel but almost can't explain.

It’s similar to when I go do floatation therapy.

I used to think this was, “woowoo”.

MJ came out yesterday while I was doing it, and said, "That's some hippie stuff, Dad."

I tried it earlier this year, liked the results, and then stopped. Why do we do that? lol

I made a post on Facebook where I nerd out on this a bit more and talk about my biggest goal this year. I’ll link up to it in the P.S.

I've been doing it again for the past 3-4 days as part of wrapping up my morning routine...

Reading my goals, going through my vision doc, barefoot in the moist grass, and I can feel it.

Like electricity moving through my body.

Clarity, ideas, and a settledness I didn't know I was missing.

This morning I was listening to birds, watching a squirrel jump from tree to tree, looking at a yellow jacket on a blade of grass...

...and writing this newsletter.

Which feels very on brand for the Jesus Edition.

Because this is #033.

33 is the age Jesus completed His assignment.

I don't think that's an accident.

And I'm not saying I'm Jesus lol.

I'm saying this edition feels like a marker.

Because this first part of the year has been a lot of recalibration for me.

13 years on paper building this company. 15 if you count the years before the paperwork.

And for the first time in a long time, I've been sitting with…

"what does the NEXT chapter actually look like?"

Not the next launch, offer or million…

The next era.

In Spain, I was honest with God.

I told Him I felt a stuckness.

Shared the same with my business partner Drae the other day.

A lot of stuff I tested this year didn't go the way I wanted.

Some things got results, some didn't. It’s the nature of the beast.

And I'd been pulling away from some old ways of doing things... which is necessary, but it creates this weird in-between feeling.

Like you've let go of what was but haven't fully grabbed what's next.

A Somatic Coach I’ve worked with put words to this for me the other day.

It’s called the liminal space.

"Limen" is Latin for threshold.

So liminal space is that in-between place. You've left where you were but haven't fully arrived where you're going yet.

The doorway between two rooms.

It's a really rich concept. Feels like:

→ The space between who you were and who you're becoming.

→Not lost, but not landed yet.

→ Uncomfortable but necessary

Richard Rohr would say it's where transformation actually happens.

You can't rush through it, you have to be in it.

And IN IT, I’ve been and the feeling has been real.

But this week, something shifted.

I felt more in flow than I have been in a while.

We had our content day yesterday.
Knocked it all out.

Finally finished the VSL for our two-day in-person workshop. Something I’ve been toying with rolling out for a few months.

I love intimate, in-person implementation events.

12 people. Two days.

You leave with your ads live. Some people will have leads coming in and calls booked before they get home.

No upsell at the end. No "now go home and figure it out”...

Because you get Six months of support on the back end.

We finally got the VSL and funnel done and I'm very excited to open that up.

Check it out here if you want to join us.

Also started taking personal enrollment calls again this week.

Which, to be honest, I had massive resistance around.

I'd gotten so far from it... building out sales teams and phoneless enrollment systems…

But one of my guys talked me through it.

And I got back on the phone with a few solid entrepreneurs this week.

And it was actually fun.

Jeff Bezos still jumps in and takes customer support calls.

Elon gets in the trenches to fix bottlenecks.

If you're rolling out something new and you want to understand your market... sometimes you just have to get back on the front line.

Just a reminder that nobody’s bigger than the program.

Also got back in the boxing gym.

Me, MJ, Ro, and RyPie.

Two days this week, committing to three.

I was exhausted.

Going to bed worn out every night.

Which means it's working.

Oh... and somehow I was so locked in and in flow this week that I lost track of the days…

Thought yesterday was Wednesday and missed my morning session with my health coach.

That's never happened before lol.

But I think that's the point.

When you're in a real creative flow... time collapses.

The work stops feeling like work and you tap into the quantum realm where time as we know it, doesn’t exist.

That's where I am right now.

And the clarity I have coming into this season is the clearest it's been in a long time.

Not because everything figured itself out…

But because I finally stopped fighting the recalibration.

Let it do its thing.

And came out the other side with a lot of things stripped away... and a lot more focus on what matters.

13 years in and it feels like I'm just getting started.

Kinda, like when I first started and was just in it for the love of the game and not watching the scorecard or addicted to achievement.

That's a good feeling.

Tell those you love that you love them.

Marquel

P.S. Here’s the Facebook post I mentioned.