Today No One Called Me. I Wasn’t Required.

Once you start building your company’s systems, you realize the universe starts responding to you.

One of the first things you need to sit with is this: Where is it that you want to be required? And where are you required right now? Are they the same place? If your answer is yes, you shouldn’t be reading this post. If your answer is no, or maybe — read on.

One of the most important parts of our lives is the life we live before and after we leave for work. The life when you don’t go in. The life where you decide to take some time for yourself and truly can. And believe me — I have seen this — that life is not a gift handed to you by God. It is something you build with your own hands.

Over the past weeks and months I’ve been learning how an entrepreneur at my scale can truly free himself from the vagaries of daily operations — turn toward strategy, toward the joy of doing business, toward loving the time I spend at work rather than resenting it. And this one simple thing brought me to a day I thought I should have been at work, and no one called me. I wasn’t required.

When does that happen? It happens when you decide that what you’re doing is not what you’re supposed to be doing — that something needs to change. And that something is the way you’re living your life, not the life itself. When you decide to change the flow of the day, the day actually changes. It’s the difference between giving your time to a problem and finally giving it your attention — between cribbing about it and doing something about it. You take the harder decisions. You fight the harder battles. That’s what it costs for where-you-are and where-you-should-be to converge into the same place.

These days the first two hours of my morning belong entirely to me. The last six hours of the day belong to me and my family. In between, if I choose to spend a little time here and there, no one calls me, because I’m not required. Because I’ve been building strong systems inside my organization — with learning, with willpower, and with the grace of my gurus — so the team is capable, the systems hold, people run on their own, and results come whether I’m there or not. I’m learning to work on the business instead of in it. And I’ve already started living that life.

The past ten-odd months have changed how I work, how I live, how I see time, and how things will unfold. And I declare it’s going to be beautiful — because it already is. I’m not waiting for something. I’ve already arrived.

And behind the “I” is the grace of the gurus and of God, choosing to flow through me as my spiritual life opens up. I’m being guided toward higher pastures, away from grazing on the lower ones. Slowly my time and attention turn toward my spiritual life, my body — and toward seeing that my social life is not me, my job is not me.

There are a lot of I’s and me’s in this entry. And yet, even as I write them, I don’t feel the need to be the same “I” — or whether there’s even as much of an “I” as there used to be. It may sound like a riddle, but it’s true. I’ve become a medium for grace and energy to flow through, and that is what’s happening in my life.

Many of you think it isn’t easy to change — that it’s hard to go against the grain of the world, hard to do anything other than be capable and able, make more money, win more acceptance. But in the end, much of that falls short of the true expectation: happiness within. So what I urge you is to rethink your life. See whether where you are is where you should be. Ask what needs to change. Sometimes the awareness alone is the job half done. Then take some time in your day to reflect on what’s real.

Lately, reflection has been my biggest superpower. It helps me focus. It helps me live the life I should have been living, because it turns me from the future or the past to the present — even as I write entries like this one through my AI, where the voice is clearly mine and the context is as pure as mine. And I’m so free while doing it that the next one never feels like a chore. It just flows.

God bless you.