Chapters 📖

I. I’m Hosting an Event For the Community! 🌎

II. Your Blueprint for Success in 2025 🖍️

Friends, If you’re looking to:

• Make genuine new connections 👫

• Build your network 🌐

• Engage with media professionals 📸

• Have a night full of fun 🥳

I have great news for you.

I’m hosting a networking event on February 13th, and I want you  🫵🏽 to be there!

Get Your Free Ticket For The Event Here 👈🏽

I’m all about community. It’s a key component to Health and Happiness.

And, besides, being social and growing is what life is all about.

So, why let time pass? Let’s get together and celebrate the unique gifts we all possess.

We’ll share the great work we’re doing, and introduce the projects we’re building behind the scenes.

Get Your Free Ticket For The Event Here 👈🏽

Come meet friends, enjoy a few drinks, and many more laughs.

My only guarantees are this: You’ll have a great time, and will be glad you came.

I’m excited to see you there!

Now, Let’s Figure Out How You’ll Dominate 2025👇🏽

A Plan for Achieving Success, Fulfillment, and Peace (2025) 🖍️

When you want something, do you wish for it?

Or do you plan for it, and guarantee that you’ll get it?

The luster of New Year’s festivities are fading into memory.

The final game of the football season looms ahead.

Winter is in full swing.

What does all this mean? It’s time to plan for the year ahead. 

Did you think you could just wish for more this year instead of planning for it?

Nah.

As my father would school my brother and I: Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

Let’s get to it!

Grab a pen and paper, or open up a writing document!

To develop a good plan, list the aspects of your life that affect you most.

Write them down, even if you feel they don’t need major improvement.

I’ll share with you the aspects I’m planning to improve or initiate this year.

• Leadership (Housing Freedom, media, mentorship)

• Newsletter (growth, deliverability, design, sponsorships, CTR, etc.)

• Podcasts (growth, reach, sponsorships, guests, consistency)

• Journalism (impact, credibility, network, convergence)

• Social Media/Content (reach, quality, consistency, impact)

• Health (mental, physical, sleep)

• Screen time (less!)

• Relationships (family, friends, romantic) 

• Community (engagement, provision, representation)

• Finances (budgeting, reinvestment, planning)

• Exercise (Basketball, football, yoga, cardio, sprinting, cycling, Muay Thai)

• Cleaning (do it more)

• Recreation (have more fun, sacrifice time for others and new experiences)

• Spirituality (Consistent prayer, meditation, thankfulness, gratitude and inner peace)

Specific things I want to get better at:

• Chess

• Drums & other instruments

• Writing for longer periods without interruption

• Jumping & Dunking

• Striking, grappling and wrestling

• Hosting (at my home and at events)

• Branding

• Designing clothes and other merchandise

• Organic Networking

• Being more Patient and Kind

• Podcasting & Interviewing

• Cleaning & Organizing

I recommend that you list as many as possible. Your life can always benefit from more growth!

Okay, now that you’ve written down the areas you want to improve in, choose the one you want the most improvement from.

For me, leadership and business development is what I want to build most this year. Last year, it was community.

Do you have the area you want to improve most?

Good. Now, we’re going to free-write.

Think about what you want. What does your life look like once this area is improved?

Who will benefit from you improving this aspect of your life? What do you have to work on to see growth?

Make sure to write in sentences, not worrying about the language. This plan is your playbook for the year. Write your own rules.

Now, set some goals. Incorporate some numbers. Do you want to divest $200 each month to savings? Write it down.

Do you want to cut 300 calories from your meals each day? Write that down. Looking to make new friends? Write down your commitment to approaching one stranger a week. Write it all down.

You’ll do this for each area of improvement until you’ve completed the list.

I know this might be overwhelming, so I’ll share some of my plans as an example.

Sleep: I will continue to prioritize sleep over nearly every aspect of my life. Getting more is a priority. To ensure this, I will aim for a 8:30 P.M. range for sleep, trying not to go past 10:00 if it can be helped.

Past 6 P.M., I will continue to limit screen time, and dim all lights in my environment. I will also continue to wear blue-light-blocking sunglasses ahead of bedtime.

I will continue to limit eating large meals 2 hours before bedtime. To supplement sleep, I will take 6g of L-Citruline before bed, a dose of vitamin D and magnesium glycinate, and a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar.

I will stretch often, breathe, and massage to get more relaxed for sleep. Nightly mouth taping, ear plugging and eye masking will continue. I will also limit water intake before bed.

Notice that I am writing in full, complete sentences, but also using numbers to mark my progress. My goals are both challenging and realistic, offering balance and flexibility in the ways I push my goal of “better sleep”.

Screen time: Limiting my screen time using various tools and shortcuts has been successful. I would like however to cut down on my time in messages.

While an effective way to communicate and coordinate plans and ideas, messages and group texts can be a time suck.

To limit this, I will opt to have more phone calls and in-person meetings as opposed to texting so frequently. I would like my screen time on messages to remain below one hour daily.

Overall, my screen time should not exceed 2 hours. Limiting social media use and mindless pickups will achieve this. I will continue to keep all social media apps off of my phone.

Here is an example of a more ideological goal.

Ideally, I’m below 2 hours of screen time each day, even if I go over that limit on some days. Being realistic is key.

Some of my goals, however, are to optimize the behaviors surrounding screen time.

For example, I am setting a permanent ‘goal’ of prioritizing in-person interactions over texting, which will accomplish communication without screen time.

And that’s it. When developing your plan, keep in mind that nothing is written in stone here. Your plan and goals can evolve as you grow over the months.

Do make sure to finish writing your plan, however, as to not lose momentum on what you want to accomplish. 

If you’d like to see my complete plan for 2024, reply to this email and I will share it with you.

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