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You know, it takes a lot of energy to stay small. To bite your tongue when you know you have more to say. To play down your wins so other people don’t feel uncomfortable. To aim lower than you’re capable of so you don’t attract attention, judgment, or responsibility. Staying small isn’t passive, it's not easy, it’s real work. It’s constant self-editing. Constant justification. Constant negotiating with the part of you that knows you could do more, build more, become more. Playing small doesn’t actually protect you, it just drains you, because that energy has to go somewhere. We both know, if it’s not being used to create, it’s being used to suppress, and if it’s not being used to build, it’s being used to manage fear, doubt, and other people’s expectations. Do you ever wake up with low-grade exhaustion? Do you go about your day with quiet frustration, and do you ever get a sense of “I should be further than this”? That’s the cost of playing small. Growth takes work, but so does being small. At some point on your journey, just the moment before you give up, you'll realize that it takes less energy to be who you actually are than to keep pretending you’re not. And in that moment you stop trying to be small, you'll become honest with yourself and with what you're truly capable of. So make today, the day you realize the only reason you're not where you want to be is because you chose to remain small, and once you do that, you'll realize that you also have the choice to play big. We only have one life to live, make it count, make it worth something, make it memorable, make it amazing, make it into a story that's going to be read for 1,000 years. - Alen

As we come to the end of the year, one of the most profound lessons in mindset I've ever discovered is that the mind only looks at reality in two ways: the loss and the gain. Loss leads to greater loss and gain leads to greater gain. Loss leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to violence, if not against others, but against ourselves and to part of ourselves. Negative self-talk, judgment, pessimism, limitations, and every other negative, harmful thing we can do to ourselves are the actual sins of the mind. Gain leads to self-love, acceptance, optimism, expansion, and every other positive thing we can do for ourselves; this is God's true love. So as the year ends, I want you to do make a little mental shift in your mind, and everything you do that's going to marshal all the creative forces in the universe to help you get what you want. Never look at anything as an ending, but rather a new beginning. Ending closes, beginning opens. Ending stops further growth, beginning creates it. Ending kills all creativity, beginning marshals all the creative forces within and without to help us get what we want. Life force is powerful in the beginning, and nonexistent in the end. That's the cycle of life and death, and yet it also works just the same in the mind. Life force is the key to creativity and manifestation. So never look at anything as an ending, but rather a new beginning. Don't look at 2025 as the ending; look at 2026 as the new beginning. Apply this to every area of your life and watch the magick it brings into your life. I hope you had a merry Christmas and wish you a happy New Year's. - Alen

Years ago, when I didn't have much, only the dream, a bit of hope and a whole lot of ambition to make it in life and get rich... ...I asked myself the single most important question , who's answer made me millions in the years that followed... ..."What do I need to know to get there?" The answer was selling, because at the end of the day, SOMEONE has to give you money, and then from that, followed copywriting, because it's the best way you can multiply sales... ...And then after I mastered copywriting, it was change work, and when I started to reach the upper echelons of change work, it was reality work... ...Because when you think about it, reality is nothing more than perception, what we see, but more so what we interpret and understand, and all that stems with the power of the word. Everything starts with a word, and everything ends with a word. Every deal begins with the word “yes” and ends with the word “done.” Every idea begins with “what if…” and ends with “let’s build it.” Every offer begins with “here’s how I can help” and ends with “I’m in.” Every conflict begins with “we have a problem” and ends with “it’s resolved.” Every transformation begins with “I want more” and ends with “I did it.” The world is always in motion, but the word determines the direction. Even God spoke reality into existence with a single command: “Let there be light.” Words have power, magic, and purpose in them; they are the keys that unlock everything in reality. Everything begins and ends with the word. Master them and you'll master reality. - Alen