I always obey The Rules, lead by example, and guide the uninitiated.

It is all about the Resistance. I am in a race for my life. I must run as hard as I can for as long as I can. I only believe in hard work and hustle. Leisure exhausts me.

I trust the Process. I believe in the power of radical focus. I compete to win.

Every day in every way, I am becoming better and better.

Why else would I even want to be alive but to do things as well as I can?

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. Believing there is no opportunity is the most terrible of sins. I hold supreme contempt for failure. I never lose - either I win or I learn - because I am solely responsible for my actions.

I value living an integrated life. I have systems that allow me to move towards my desired outcomes.

I strive for simplicity. I believe that less is more and always seek to do more of less. I have no need for the unnecessary.

I am a Professional who always moves towards the Resistance. I find settling unsettling. I am always moving away from my comfort zone into growth opportunities. Why would I ever slow down?

I believe in Pareto distributions. I always ask myself if something will multiply, not merely add, results. I constantly seek locally concave, globally convex opportunities. Where there is peace, there is linear opportunity. Where there is peace by force, there is logarithmic opportunity. Where there is conflict, there is exponential opportunity.

Finem respice. I expect anything worthwhile to take a long time. I take a long-term perspective. When making decisions, I consider second- and third-order effects. I realize that it is long-term compounding that leads to results. I play long ball. I realize that wisdom and passion are the result of experience. They are acquired by individuals who do the work day in and day out.

I do not know; therefore, I must continuously cultivate the capacity for negative ability. I study to increase my skills. I recognize that steady reading, contemplation, and writing are vital to personal development.

I seek first to understand then to be understood. I think from the counterparty’s point of view before my own. I listen actively and empathetically when counterparties talk. Humility is an act of courtesy.

I respect the time and opinions of counterparties and myself. I am timely and deliberate in my actions.

I focus all my energy within my circle of influence. I do not concern myself or worry about things over which I have no control.

I choose to react proactively to events beyond my control. I take 100% ownership. I recognize that problems are gifts that inspire me to action. A problem prompts the act of creating or improving a system or procedure. Problems are wake-up calls to take system-improvement action to prevent the setback from happening again.

When I truly believe in something, I do not quit. Life is too short to be little. I recognize the value of consistency, commitment, and grit to accomplishing challenging goals.

I do it now. I do not delay an action if it can be done immediately. I touch it once. I implement immediately. I ship.

I prioritize sleep. I recognize the importance of pockets of stillness in my life to making great decisions and producing quality work. If I am tired, I rest, and then attack the problem when I am fresh. Depriving myself of doing so is a profound failure of self-respect and of priorities.

Once I am 85% complete, I start obsessively focusing on it. The mind will play all sorts of tricks on me if I let it, trying to seduce me into doing something unrelated or new. I never give in to that. No matter what I am doing, time does not stop. No matter how bad it hurts, no matter how bad it sucks, it is going to come to an end. I can either push through it, and realize that it is going to come to an end, and still be here at the back end of it, or I can quit, and then live with that for the rest of my life. I am hungry and focused. I finish.

I constantly harden the fuck up. I do not complain or whine. I do not blow off steam by talking about problems; I execute and I am proud of my work.

I recognize that I am what I do today. If I do not do it now, I will never do it. Every action is not an event but the laying down of a new neural pathway for habit creation.

Everything I do, I do because it serves a bigger vision I have for myself and the world. I recognize that past physics, reality is entirely negotiable. There never was a moment, and never will be, when I am without the power to alter my destiny. I choose to create the reality that I want to exist.

I believe that I can extract all I want out of life by suspending my ego and taking a no-excuses approach to achieving my goals with open-mindedness, determination, courage, and by relying on the help of others who are strong where I am weak.

I operate with urgency. I understand that my time is limited and every second has an opportunity cost. I live as if I were living already for the second time and as if I had acted the first time as wrongly as I am about to act now.

I value integrity, meaningful relationships, and legacy above other currencies. I am a steadfast friend and a terrifying enemy.

I am courageous. I am willing to sacrifice my own well-being for the sake of the survival of a layer higher than me.

I am unnaturally resourceful.