🗞 LiveTo120 Weekly Newsletter | Edition No. 005
The #1 longevity newsletter on substack for actionable insights on nutrition & wellness, physical & mental fitness + the latest trends in longevity.
Friday, March 24th, 2023
Hello Friends,
Welcome to the fifth edition of the #LiveTo120 Newsletter!
Every week, Jodii and I come together to brainstorm various ideas, topics, and anecdotes that we believe will be enlightening, educational, relatable, and occasionally humorous or deeply personal for all of you.
This week, we thought it would be engaging to interview each other using impromptu questions under each headline, with the aim of providing the best possible spontaneous answers.
We jotted down numerous questions for one another, folded them up, and then randomly picked three of them on the spot.
The activity turned out to be incredibly enjoyable and allowed us to share our views and insights across the different pillars of our newsletter in a lively and conversational manner.
📍In today’s edition we’ll be publishing part one of the two part interview series starting with Jodii’s questions for Matthew; meanwhile next week we will publish Jodii’s responses to Matt’s tough questions 😂.
We're grateful for each and every one of you. Enjoy the edition, and check your inbox next week for edition No. 006.
Sending the best of vibes,
-Jodii & Matthew
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⏳ We have about 10-15 minutes of reading ahead, but if you prefer, there's also an option to listen to this episode via audio at the top of the newsletter.
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ps. in our pre-launch edition, we outlined the structure of this weekly newsletter with the various features and subsection’s you can look forward to - it’s worth a quick read!
🥞 Nutrition & Diet
💬 The following (3) interview questions fall under the category of nutrition and diet.
Jodii 🎙️: “When we first met, you were building Lean Aesthetics with a diet philosophy based on IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros), years later you have an entirely different approach to nutrition - so I’m curious how and why did your perspectives change?”
Matthew 🎙️: A few years before I decided to build Lean Aesthetics as my own online Coaching brand, I was still a curious newbie myself to the world of nutrition and found myself somewhat studying and experimenting with different dieting methods to lose weight.
At the time (2010-2011, I think!) I was doing what I felt every other guy was doing, buying Men’s Health Magazines for those pre-designed ‘Six Pack Shred Meal Plan’ and scrounging to get an edge on the most efficient or innovative ways to get results.
It was a fun part of my process to aggregate as much information as I could and by trial and error find a style that I found engaging and that I could be consistent with for my lifestyle at the time.
I remember discovering IIFYM through the intermittent fasting online community as I was looking for ways to pack as much nutrition into a 4-6 hour eating window through just 1-3 meals daily.
💡 IIFYM, which stands for "If It Fits Your Macros," is a flexible dieting approach that focuses on tracking the macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates, and fats) in your diet rather than restricting specific foods or food groups. The idea is that as long as you hit your daily macronutrient goals, you can eat whatever foods you like within reason. This approach allows for more food flexibility and can make dieting feel less restrictive.
IIFYM had been gaining popularity on social media through various internet forums as a way to have ultimate flexibility in your food selection, and it was a ridiculous amount of fun for me building ridiculous meals that were 1000’s of calories each.
I loved being creative in the kitchen and remember making meals like stacks of pancakes with whipped cream and cookie pieces on top. I always enjoyed baking different types of calorie-dense protein cookies or homemade protein bars.
Your imagination runs wild when you have ~3000-ish calories to play with spread over three meals per day. It becomes a fireworks display of pseudo-nutritional-buffoonery.
But hey, I always hit my macros precisely.
When I wasn’t at home, I also enjoyed being able to frequent different restaurants. If they had a nutritional menu, I could easily eat whatever I wanted as I could log it in my app. Pizza, ribs and fries, wine, nachos - if I could track it, the meal was good in my books.
There was also the science side of IIFYM I enjoyed playing with different ratios of fats, proteins, and carbs.
I learned a lot about how my body responded to higher carb diets with lower fat or vice versa lower carbs and higher fat (also known as keto). I was able to determine at what intake of each macro per day my energy was optimized or on the opposite end, sluggish with poor performance.
IIFYM was a phenomenal building block of education for me as I was continuously studying labels, building a mental inventory of the backend of foods, and I contributed the practice and dieting style to my immense knowledge over food.
Being said, the Achilles heel of IIFYM that I learned years later was the minimal if not non-existent focus on food quality.
As a naive 20-year old, eating Pop Tarts and protein bars, wine and pancakes seemed like a dream approach to looking shredded and building muscle.
Our old Lean Aesthetics Instagram Account for IIFYM Recipes
But as I aged and gained wisdom through working with so many clients we’ve coached, I began understanding that macros are the tip of the iceberg of nutrition.
IIFYM was the ego of dieting, not the soul.
Nearly 15 years later, I’ve come to appreciate that the body is far more intelligent and requires more respect than simply hitting macros each day.
For example;
While fruit punch Mio water flavoring has no calories, the red dye 40 is a nightmare and toxic to our neurochemistry.
While Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups can fit in my daily intake, the gluten, processed oils, and refined sugar are a nightmare for the digestive tract and gut microbiome.
A few glasses of wine or shots downtown never needed to be thought of if they had low/no sugar for me to track, but the stress on my liver proved to be detrimental from my wild 20s as a young shredded superstar.
Okay, sorry, I got ahead of myself with the superstar part.
Quite frankly, with age and experience came wisdom and respect for my organs, my discipline, and how I now see food as medicine rather than a commodity.
Rather than seeing food as a numbers game, I now see it as an art form.
I want my nutrition as close to nature as possible, with minimal fillers and not succumbing to corporate marketing and contributing to their profit margins.
Instead of seeing food as weight loss or muscle gain, I see the food I choose each day as contributing to my own #LiveTo120 strategy.
Jodii 🎙️: “I find living with you to be hilarious at times because of your little quirks, like how routine you are with the foods you love the most. Speaking of, what IS the number one food you could eat every single day if calories didn’t count?”
Matthew 🎙️: You KNOW this!
If calories didn't matter, I would eat granola all day, every day, forever.
It’s just the variety of flavors and textures make it irresistible to me.
But it's not just the delicious taste that makes granola so appealing as my favorite food, but the underlying nutritional benefits of a well-made granola are off the charts.
A great granola can pack in the nutrients from a lot of superfoods; unique nuts, exotic seeds, organic ancient grains, the magic of raw honey or maple syrups and quality sources of proteins all perfectly balanced to meet your nutritional needs.
What's more, in 2018 I created my own small-batch brand of granola called The Lifted Co. I had planned to take it to farmers markets, but my contest prep diet got in the way.
Every ‘taste test’ became a cheat meal, and the dream had to be put on hold. 🤭
Jodii: “You were the architect behind our nutrition discovery weeks, a key piece to the foundation of how we help our clients master nutrition - if someone asked you on the street what are the steps to finding longevity in their personal diet, how would you summarize a few kew points?”
Matthew: I love this question - good one.
A few weeks ago, in one of our editions (No. 004, I think), I wrote about my ‘structure vs. content’ philosophy for a successful dieting lifestyle.
It's important to note that the word "diet" is often used interchangeably with "calorie deficit," but that couldn't be further from the truth.
Just like how we learned in Grade 3 about herbivore Dinosaurs, their "diet" was simply the plants and possibly vegetables they ate.
Your diet, whether you're human or Dinosaur, is the "how and what" of your food choices.
If a stranger on the street asked me how to master their diet, I would first want to know about their starting place in terms of habits, choices, and education.
Generally, when I start working with a client, one (or sometimes all three) of these areas is a flashing alert sign of where we need to focus to make changes.
That's why the first activity I do with all of my clients is a Discovery Week.
During this week, they document and take photos of all their meals for seven days.
This allows me to see how they think about serving sizes, meal timing, and food selection.
Throughout the week, I diagnose any compulsive cravings my clients have and identify where they may be selecting foods that are irritant triggers or ingredient nightmares for their insides - even if they're unaware of it.
It's amazing how much we can learn about our eating habits just by documenting them for a week!
Documenting is the first step.
The next step is setting a destination for where someone’s journey ought to take them; in other words, their goals.
Is it a weight loss journey, a hormone repair journey, a strategy to combat auto-immune reactions, or simply to create structure and routine in their day-to-day life?
One must set a destination to build a diet from the ground up that reflects the adequate calorie intake and food items to reach those goals.
Setting up the calorie budget and carefully selecting foods that have the superpowers your body requires for healing or performance is the second step.
Then if the first hesitation or look on ones face becomes “But where do I start on figuring out what superpowers foods have or what calories or macros they contain…” it points to me a lack of education, voila - we now have our first learning objective identified.
I always try to expose either a dysfunctional habit, an unconscious choice or education gaps that point someone towards a moment of insight.
The last step combines allowing enough time to work on building the habits of consistency on a meal plan which provides feedback loops through trial and error of what feels best for your body, structural consistency for your lifestyle, and yielding results over time through repetition.
I’ll summarize these;
Document to Discover
Build A Diet Strategy
Reformat Habits
Eliminate Unconscious Behaviour
Seek Knowledge
Find Pride in Discipline
Trial and Error
Adjust Structure and Content from Feedback Loops
Consistency Over Time Yields Guaranteed Results
🏋🏼 Movement & Fitness
💬 The following (3) interview questions fall under the category of Movement & Fitness
Jodii 🎙️: “While a lot of athletic guys started going to the gym in their teens, you were in your mid twenties before weight lifting was a regular part of your life, what was your trigger moment that started your fitness journey and how did your training routine look back then vs. now?”
Matthew 🎙️: As cliché as it may sound, the end of a multi-year relationship was the trigger moment that inspired me to make changes.
My self-confidence took a hit, and I looked at myself in the mirror, literally, and wanted to be better.
In our twenties, we're still discovering who we are as individuals and in relationships. At the time, my partner was seeking attention outside of the relationship, and it made me realize that I needed to make changes moving forward.
Although I was a multi-sport athlete growing up, resistance training, such as weights or 'the gym,' was never a part of my training.
As a newbie in my early twenties, I was foreign to the idea of being under a barbell or even knowing what to do with dumbbells.
My go-to source for 'how to lose belly fat' fast was Men's Health magazine. In my first year, I primarily went to the gym to jump on the spin bike, listen to techno music, and push myself to near death, assuming more sweat and energy meant better results.
Well, it did work, and I lost about 40lbs in the process before even venturing over to the area of the gym where the muscle dudes lived with their weight things.
It's worth repeating that I literally spent a full year just doing cardio at the gym while listening to techno music and finishing my sessions with a sauna. I didn't even know what the dumbbells did or why there were so many machines and benches.
It was all as alien to me as anything, and I didn't stick around long enough to ask. Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to the fact that I was also depleting myself of all muscle in the process of burning fat, which was a big mistake. Now, I coach my clients on what not to do and how to avoid this mistake.
*circa 2011 as I began to focus on weight training vs. cardio
But there was a defining moment that changed everything for me when a friend of mine (Karan N, if you read this thank you!), a university classmate, asked me one day after classes to hit the student gym for an 'arm workout' (whatever that was), and without missing a beat, I said, "I'll be there!".
I'm ashamed to share any details over how bad my arms hurt after that single workout. I truly couldn't extend my elbow for a week, but the defining moment actually came from a 5-minute video that Karan shared with me featuring a fitness model named Greg Plitt, who would become a role model and lifelong inspiration for me to this day.
*Greg Plitt tragically passed away a few years ago, but his legend and spirit will never escape my memory. Rest in peace.
From that moment on, I became obsessed with resistance training and became a near disciple of his. I subscribed to his website at the time, watched every single instructional video, followed every workout, and felt like in some strange energetic way that he was meant to cross my path in life.
It was because of Greg Plitt that I gained the confidence to launch Lean Aesthetics to express and share my excitement and passion for fitness with those who were on the sidelines like I once felt.
For the next ten years my fitness routine would consist of weight training 5-6 days a week with sufficient cardio to keep my body fat levels consistently low. My workouts were longer, and my life truly revolved around optimizing my body from an aesthetic, muscular, and conditioning standpoint*.
My 10-year Transformation - see photo below.
Now in my mid-thirties, I've found a sweet spot or balance among it all.
I keep weight training in my life 3-4 days a week, ensuring I challenge my full body to stay strong while maintaining a look and condition that I'm proud of.
After years invested in the practice, I've gained a tremendous ability for mind-muscle connection and the art of bodybuilding, which is a gift. I can train with higher intensity now without needing 'more weight,' and I know what's truly effective to maximize results versus a trendy waste of time.
The biggest difference between the younger me and me now is the wisdom of experience and consistency.
This wisdom yields the ability to know how to be effective in reaching any physical goal without needing too much trial and error by following trendy, time-wasting gimmicks.
Jodii 🎙️: “We both were athletic kids and played a variety of pretty competitive sports growing up. I know that being an athlete played a huge role in how I developed into an adult, what about you did sports teach your any lifelong lessons?”
Matthew 🎙️: I wish I had been involved in more individual sports like you were.
Most of the sports I played were team sports like softball, basketball, soccer, and baseball.
During high school, I missed 83 days of classes by getting off the school bus and walking 30 minutes to the local university stadium, where I could buy a day pass and play basketball until the school bus returned at 3 pm and I could hitch a ride back home. The countless repetitions of shooting the basketball and imagining fictional opponents or game situations was so therapeutic for me.
When I was even younger, around 10 or 11 years old, I would walk to a nearby woods on the outskirts of my neighborhood and find a 2x4 piece of wood to bat rocks with while imagining myself in fantasy situations from the big leagues.
Now, in my thirties, before every rep at the gym, I close my eyes, fast forward my life up until this point, and use the fuel from any obstacles I’ve encountered to put unlimited energy into my next movement.
Playing sports for most may have inspired social characteristics they may later apply to working as a team or fuelling a competitive spirit - but for me, sports allowed me to discover what was buried deep inside. Allowed me to spend time with myself and build a connection to my deeper being.
Maybe I took that one in a different direction that you meant, but it’s my truth.
Jodii 🎙️: “We all have our favorite muscle groups to train and our least favorite - it’s time to share yours.”
Matthew 🎙️: How cliché of a question, Jo! Haha.
Well, as a natural ectomorph with long arms and small wrists, I was never destined to have Arnold Schwarzenegger's popping muscle bellies in my chest and biceps, but certainly not due to any shortage of frequency training those body parts - just simply not in my genetics.
However, I’ve always had gifted legs, perhaps from the amount of jumping I did as a basketball player for 20 years. When I started resistance training, I found myself able to progress much faster in my leg training than any other body part.
Furthermore, the same ‘burn’ when training my shoulders, arms, and chest almost ‘stops’ me from pushing past that feeling or nearing failure, whereas in my leg training, that feeling of lactic acid buildup was something I was able to become one with and let it last.
From quad extensions to leg press, I never fear pushing my boundaries to failure as it doesn’t trigger the same 'uh-oh' alert that I’m going to hurt myself.
On the polar contrary to legs are my biceps. While I’d love to look like Popeye, I’ve never had a great mind-muscle connection to my arms and never thoroughly enjoy training them, to be honest.
So yeah, legs are my favorite, and biceps are my arch-nemesis.
🧬 Supplementation & Alternative Medicine
💬 The following (3) interview questions fall under the category of Supplementation & Alternative Medicine
Jodii 🎙️: “Think about your daily supplement routine, if you had to choose one that makes the biggest difference for you, what would it be and why do you love it?”
Matthew 🎙️: I refuse to answer with just one, but only because my ego rides on a special ingredient in my famous longevity smoothie - thus I’m giving you two 😎
The first is Ashwagandha.
Ashwagandha is an herb commonly used in Ayurvedic medicine. It is known for its ability to reduce stress and anxiety, improve brain function, and increase energy levels.
I've been using Ashwagandha for over five years now, and it has become a staple in both my own diet and the diets of my clients.
It's one of those supplements that becomes a daily ritual, helping to balance my energy levels.
If I'm in a period of high energy output, whether it be work-focused or during anxious states, Ashwagandha helps level me out.
On the other hand, if I'm feeling a little low on energy, I find Ashwagandha helps bring me back up.
It's like my little helpful companion that keeps me stoic.
The second supplement is one that you introduced to our home two years ago, the Ningxia Red packs.
I'm a huge advocate for antioxidants as a key pillar of #LiveTo120, and I've never had a supplement that feels like it's cleansing my entire body and rejuvenating my cells daily.
Even during the 4-5 day gaps we await a new order, I don't feel like myself.
Starting every morning with a frozen Ningxia pack in my elixir is by far the biggest luxury in my life at the moment. No Cap.
Jodii 🎙️: “We both see a lot of young guys in the gym who envy fitness influencers and bodybuilders for their crazy physiques and many of them want to rush the process of looking like their idols by using performance enhancing drugs (steroids) - as a former competitor who has experience (in that side of the industry) what advice would you give them?”
Matthew 🎙️: This is a sensitive subject for me to discuss publicly on social media, as I never want my message to be misinterpreted.
However, I will speak the only truth I have experienced on the topic.
As young men (people), many of us want to stand next to the best physiques in the industry, and my ambition was no different.
Entering my my first competition, I was introduced to steroids by the coach* I had hired to help me get in my best shape for the stage.
My coach was an incredible mentor and someone I respect to this day. However, he was an old school bodybuilder who probably expected me to know what I was getting into. In hindsight, I really didn't, and that was my own fault.
At the time, the warnings and whispers about the dangers of steroids fell on deaf ears.
There's an internal confidence lever that gets throttled to the max, and you are driven by a testosterone-fueled euphoria that fears no limits.
Your body changes so rapidly, far faster than your intelligence and knowledge can keep up with your ego. The problem is that the mirror doesn't show what the organs are feeling, and once you start down that path, you can procrastinate ever stopping.
The thought of having to "lose your gains" and feel empty for months after coming off the cycle is a nightmare that most ignore until it's too late. Especially these days with the prevalence and pressures of showing up daily on social media.
During the years of competing, I admit I found this out the hard way as every few months when I’d get my bloodwork taken the results began deteriorating, and the lectures I’d receive from my doctor were embarrassing to sit through.
That sat on my consciousness for years, and it became heavier and heavier as time passed.
See, I spent years training for show after show without truly respecting the ebb and flow of using PEDs, and before I knew it, I too began procrastinating the inevitable day the ride would end.
Well, it’s now been years since that part of my life ended, and I won’t sugarcoat how emotionally and physically taxing the process was for me. It was a miserable transition.
But on the other side, I carry the mantra that when you seek lessons from hardships, you gain wisdom. Had it not been for those years I invested in my ego and feeling the lows when my health wasn't reflective of what the mirror or my selfies showed, I wouldn’t be who I am today.
Nor would I have the appreciation for longevity that I show up every week speaking to you all about. As I believe that had my choices remained poor, maybe I’d be writing about #LiveTo50.
Thus, I’m torn on how to give true advice on this topic. Life has a funny way of teaching you lessons you need to learn. Perhaps, without travelling the path I chose to travel, I wouldn’t be who I am today. I wouldn't have the wisdom or appreciation for the internal workings of my body, and later on in life, I might have found a vice that would overtake me when my will wouldn't be as strong to make the changes needed.
So, my only advice is for those embarking on that journey, to know that the devil sits on your shoulder the day you take your first step, and he will come to collect interest payments in some way, shape, or form.
I paid mine and cleared my debt from that life, and my credit score of health is better than ever. But maybe I'm counting my blessings too soon - only time will tell.
Jodii 🎙️: “It’s well known that we share a love for alternative forms of medicine and therapy - what’s a profound experience you’ve had that impacted your life?”
Matthew 🎙️: This question takes me back to a transformative time in my life, around 2016-2017.
It was a period of deep self-exploration and spiritual work, where I was working through my ego (identity) and shedding the extroverted mask I had worn for so many years that didn’t serve me any longer.
During that time, I was drawn to alternative forms of healing that would realign my energy body, as I felt out of balance both physically and spiritually.
That's when I stumbled upon this little acupuncture clinic in Halifax that felt like Mother Nature’s cottage. The owner, a warm and wise woman, took the time to explain the history and principles of acupuncture and how she had studied under masters in Asia prior to returning home to Canada.
I remember being so emotional during my first appointment with her, feeling uncontrollable tears well up as I shared my story. But in her presence, I felt a sense of lightness and connection that was truly transformative.
Certainly, sharing such a vulnerable point in my life is not easy, but that moment was truly powerful for me.
For a whole year, I would visit that acupuncture clinic and lay down with needles placed precisely around my body.
As I listened to calming sounds of nature she would leave playing in the room, I would be one with my thoughts, and it felt like the most meditative experience I’ve ever had.
These acupuncture sessions not only helped heal my physical and energetic body, but they also gave me the time to work through the maze of mental obstacles that have helped shape me into who I am today.
🧠 Personal Growth & Mental Health
💬 The following (3) interview questions fall under the category of Personal Growth & Mental Health
Jodii 🎙️: “We have conversations almost weekly about how mental health is becoming a pandemic in itself with anxiety and overstimulation overwhelming the minds of the public, yet you seem to have mastered being a stoic - what is your secret?”
Matthew 🎙️: I find a particular quote from Tony Robbins really inspiring, where he says that it's not that he doesn't experience negative emotions, but he's worked on the skill of getting out of them almost immediately.
This resonates with me on a deep level.
I truly believe that self-awareness is a skill that takes years to master and the problem is you cannot master it by ‘thinking’ about it as that’s part of the problem.
Most are so identified with their thoughts that they truly become one with them and their bodies react emotionally to the thoughts they think.
At any given moment if you just sit in silence your mind will think of some crazy things. One moment you’re just driving down the road, the next moment your brain wonders what a pink elephant would look like and how awkward it would be if they could fly.
The brain is like a stream of noise that you must learn to selectively tune in and out of only when needed to problem solve.
Yet most live their day-to-day lives tuned 100% into the words and thoughts popping up in their minds, which leads most to living in endless imaginative fear of "what ifs" about the future and "why did this happen to me" from the past.
They lack any ability to sit with themselves in the present moment, clear of thought, which is how one becomes more stoic and, in my opinion, experiences joy.
While I’m not perfect either, I’ve mastered the structural understanding of how the mind works. I’ve installed mental "apps" or concepts in my mind that help me step behind thoughts when they overwhelm me, and I have a really profound understanding of human history from a spiritual and scientific standpoint.
This allows me to somewhat patronize how serious we all take life when in reality, we’re here on a floating rock orbiting a ball of fire, and all 8 billion of us have no idea what’s going on and why we’re here.
When you have that perspective, it’s easy to snap out of a bad mindset fairly quickly.
Jodii 🎙️:“You made me share a story earlier, so I want you to share the story on how you created the concept of a mental ZenMoji.”
Matthew 🎙️: This is such a funny follow-up to the previous question, what are the chances.
The concept of ZenMoji is a mental ‘app’ that I have installed to help me overcome moments of high energy states such as doubt, fear, anxiety, and depression.
It's like a real life emoji version of the perfect me that exists in my mind that I’ve carved with exceptional detail over time.
Instead of the typical devil and angel on your shoulder, I tap into various perspectives from my ZenMoji who is already living the life I want to live.
He represents the ideal version of myself who dresses how I want to dress, speaks how I want to speak, lives where I dream of living, and is surrounded by the people I wish to surround myself with. He has a stoic outlook on life and doesn't react emotionally to the volatility of insignificant events.
It’s like a dream-board, except a dream character.
Whenever I need guidance or reassurance, I close my eyes and visualize going to him.
It's similar to how some people seek guidance from a deity or higher power.
The concept works effectively because if you believe and have faith that the universe holds a place for you somewhere wonderful ahead, you allow yourself to accept any circumstances that occur as simply part of the path.
This is a concept deep in philosophical practice, but has really been a remarkable practice for me in my life.
Jodii 🎙️:“We’re all a work in progress, what chapter of your personal growth journey are you currently working on?”
Matthew 🎙️: The last question of the day and such a great one - I almost need a moment to think about this.
I may be 34 years old, but I still feel so young at heart.
There truly is a difference between your age in time vs biological age - many should study this principle if they are unaware.
In fact, I have a strong belief and desire to #LiveTo120 - that’s not some sort of hyperbole and I am determined to play the long game when it comes to life.
This means I need to override the conventional wisdom that so many people have about what the future holds, and instead, embrace a new vision of what's possible.
Rather than thinking about retirement or playing the game of life like the "adults" in the room have taught us, I see this experience in a different light.
I believe that technology will extend our lives beyond what we can currently forecast, and I'm excited to see how new advancements in AI and biological engineering will maximize the conscious experience and help it escape the boundaries of the physical body.
We're entering a new digital world that will change everything - from our financial system and political ideologies to our daily joys, jobs, and cultural norms.
We're going through a transformational period, and the world on the other side is unimaginable.
It's up to us to adapt to these changes and create new opportunities for ourselves.
To prepare for this future, I'm focusing on mastering the wisdom required to be of value and service, observing and studying the patterns unfolding in the world that have repeated throughout history.
I'm being patient with the game of life, taking the time to slow down and ensure that my body and mind are ready for the journey ahead.
Ultimately, I believe that by opening my mind to new opportunities and possibilities, I can create abundance in my life and make the most of this incredible journey.
Good questions today Jo.
👋🏼 Hey!
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