about 11 hours ago • 1 min read
Anime Mindset Captain's Log — Issue 012 This isn't a motivation problem. You know what needs to happen. You've known for a while. The next step is obvious. And you still haven't done anything. The brain treats an unstarted task differently from an impossible one. An impossible task gets filed away. An unstarted task sits in active memory — taking up space, generating low-grade stress, making everything else feel heavier than it is. The longer it sits unstarted the more weight it accumulates....
7 days ago • 1 min read
Anime Mindset Captain's Log — Issue 011 Nobody recruits for Luffy. He doesn't pitch people on joining his crew. He doesn't tell them what they'll get out of it. He just shows up fully as himself. And people keep choosing him anyway. Zoro. Nami. Usopp. Sanji. Every one of them chose him. Because being around him made them feel like the best version of themselves. Luffy doesn't create loyalty by chasing it. He creates it by not needing it. I've been thinking about this while building Anime...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Anime Mindset Captain's Log — Issue 010 My regular job has been pulling hard lately. By the time I get through the day there's not much left. And the thing I'm trying to build this channel, this community, this newsletter keeps getting pushed to whatever's left over. This week what was left over was about 25 minutes on a Tuesday night. That's when I wrote this. Its pretty late normally, I wouldn't choose this time. But I decided to move and make it happen. Someone that moves is better than...
21 days ago • 1 min read
Anime Mindset Captain's Log — Issue 009 I've been working on something new for about three weeks now. I thought it would be ready by now. It's not. Life has a way of getting in the middle of things and honestly this one is taking a bit longer than I expected. I'm not going to rush it. When it's ready you'll be the first to know. But while I was sitting with that I kept coming back to Blackbeard. Because he had the same problem except he turned the waiting into the weapon. Most people fight to...
28 days ago • 1 min read
Anime Mindset Captain's Log — Issue 008 I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Eight issues in and I still get a little surprised when I see the number of people that read these. It isn't because the numbers are huge because they're not. But because I know the people opening these aren't casual. You're someone who feels the gap between who you are and who you could be. And instead of scrolling past it you're actually doing something about it. Even if that something is just opening an...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Anime Mindset Captain's Log — Issue 007 Someone said it to you at some point. Maybe directly. Maybe it was just the look on their face. Maybe it was a room that went quiet when you said what you wanted. And it stuck. I think about Killua a lot when I think about this. Trained from birth to be an assassin. Every person around him had already decided what and who he was. And for a long time he just accepted it was who he was and never questioned who installed it. The moment his story shifts...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Anime Mindset Captain's Log — Issue 005 You know that feeling midweek where everyone else seems further along than you? I felt it this week too. Someone in the space I'm building in hit a milestone I haven't hit yet. And for a minute I sat with that. Wondered if I was moving too slow. Wondered if the approach was wrong. Then I thought about something. Vegeta wasn't winning at the midpoint. Neither was Rock Lee. Neither was Levi. Every character that actually hits — they were behind when the...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read