Self mastery, discipline, and alignment are the foundation of productivity and purpose. If you're feeling exhausted, burned out, or mentally drained, misalignment—not effort—may be the real problem.
Most people aren’t tired because they’re working too hard.
They’re tired because they’re chasing lives that were never meant for them.
When you spend your days trying to meet external expectations, live up to social pressure, or follow someone else’s definition of success, your energy slowly leaks away. Not all exhaustion comes from effort—some comes from misalignment.
In this episode of The Black Coffee Club™, we break down what happens when your life direction is built on comparison, pressure, and borrowed purpose.
You’ll learn how to identify the difference between productive fatigue and identity-based exhaustion—and how clarity restores your energy.
Because when your path is aligned, effort doesn’t drain you.
It fuels you.
This message isn’t about quitting.
It’s about returning to what was always yours.
In this episode, we cover:
• Why chasing external expectations creates hidden exhaustion
• The difference between hard work and misaligned effort
• How identity clarity restores energy and focus
• Why alignment—not motivation—is the real productivity multiplier
🔥 CALL TO ACTION
What’s draining your energy right now?
Be honest in the comments.
Is it effort… or misalignment?
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🕒 CHAPTER TIMELINE (45-Minute Episode)
00:00 Opening Thoughts — Why You Feel Drained
03:30 The Hidden Cost of Chasing Other People’s Dreams
08:45 Misalignment vs Hard Work
14:20 External Expectations and Identity Pressure
20:10 Signs You’re Living Someone Else’s Vision
26:40 Identity Clarity and Energy Restoration
32:30 How Alignment Changes Productivity
38:15 Real-Life Reflection — What’s Actually Draining You
42:30 Closing Thoughts — Return to Your Own Path
KEYWORDS:
self mastery
discipline mindset
alignment mindset
purpose driven life
intentional living
energy leaks
burnout recovery
mental clarity
focus improvement
identity clarity
misalignment symptoms
productivity habits
stop chasing others dreams
life alignment
external expectations
purpose alignment
personal discipline
self awareness
clarity of purpose
personal growth mindset
life direction clarity
authentic living
mindset transformation
Attatatatatas it s. Yes. MJ's total health and wellness. What's up with your family? It's a new day, old school Winston Lee, what's up with you? Homie's allude to your family? King Vonnie eighty six in a building, what's up with you? Broke? Get them shiny, give them shining, New day, new day. It's a no yes, lord, oh no new day, knew day. You said it ain't no music. Oh no, I did it again. Hey, Okay, we're gonna fix that. We're gonna fix that. We ain't starting without the anthem. We're gonna fix that. Man, My system be doing what they want to do. Me and my system gotta we gotta get together and get. Us an understanding this weekend. Hey, we gotta get an understanding this weekend. It's a new day. Then, we gotta come together and get some get some straightening. Hey, appreciate it, King Vonnie A. It's a new day. Yay. Hey hey hey hey hey, hey. Oh yeah, it's a new day. What's up with it? No day? Five? Man? We here, man, we here, and when we had a we had a ride. This week. Man, we had a ride. I've had a hell of a time. A hell of a time, man, hell of a rad. New Day, New Day. It's shut new Man, New Day, New Day. Its shut new a a new day, New Day, it shut new Man. Hey, new Day, New Day. It shut new Man, New Day, New Day. This shuck new. Man. What's up with it? Family? Shout out to the most intentional circle in the morning plank, intentional morning circle on a planet. Let me say that again. We're gonna get it right. Shout out one time for the most intentional morning circle on the planet. This is the Black Coffee Club hosted by yours truly, Junior the Truth Man. Thank you all so much. I really, truly, genuinely appreciate you all. If I had a million tongues, I couldn't tell it all. Apologies for going early, but we got a money move man. I ain't gonna lie to you, so I gotta we gotta. We gotta be fast like flash because I gotta dash. Salute to the family man. Thank y'all so much. I am a DJA host, Junior the Truth. You can follow me everywhere via social media. I can be found with the handle Junior the Truth j U N I O R T H G T R U T h and that's over all the social media platforms. Man, each and everyone. If you're really looking for me, you can come over to the hub www Dot junior truth dot com. We'll get you there. Man, it's www Dot junior truth dot com. It's there, Man and die rat welcome man. All week long. Man, we've been building something powerful. Man, We've been We've been building something building me looking at us, We've been building something powerful together. This has been the week of Juniors forty eight loss or excuse me Juniors forty eight Principles of peace and Productivity. On Monday we talked about the foundation uh that being the foundation of self mastery. Tuesday we covered order and focus. Wednesday we broke down emotional control and peace, and then yesterday we stepped into power, growth and responsibility. In the day, we closed the week man with the final section, which is legacy and self governance tifty two in the building, what's up with you? Love? Yeah? Yeah? Legacy and self governance because at the end of the day, peace, productivity, and discipline they are not just about surviving the day. They're about the life that you want to build over time. You feel me and even more importantly than that, They're about the impact that you leave. Nobody wants to talk about that. I know people don't want to talk about it. People don't want to think about it. But what impact are you going to leave? Yeah, the stability you create, the stability that you create, the example that you said for people coming up behind you. Because the fact is, Man, self mastery isn't just about personal success. It's about self. Governance, you know, I mean the ability to rule your life with clarity, with discipline and intention. So today we're gonna close out the series Man with the final eight principles. And these are the principles that that that shape legacy. There's that word again, legacy. These are the principles that are going to help shape your legacy. Let's get it one. So I'm hustled harder than the moment. I'm a feast on these streets. Got a revolver I talked for these niggas. Try to take me off the block where I points up daily sit Dailey's out the bottle. Smoke once again, Man, one time for the most intentional, most consistent, more thing circle on the planet. Man, salute to you all. Let's get straight to it. Man Principal forty one. Dang we on forty one already, That means there were forty others that came before this point. Principal number forty one, Think generationally, think generationally. Many of us make decisions based on only the present moment, the present circumstances, the present situations. But the more I understand, the more I realize that whise people think generationally. Whise people think generationally. When I think back to on you know, my Pappaul, my nanny which is my grandmother, You know what I mean, Like the ones who were like actively there, my grandparents who were had the hand in my life, the biggest roles in my life. They thought generationally and thought generationally with regard to the homes, with the structure, with the resources that they left behind, with the land, with the skills, with the attributes, attributes, with the discipline, like they thought generationally. Wise people think generationally. What you build today can benefit people long after you're gone, Long after you're gone, businesses, assets, knowledge, wisdom, discipline. When you think generationally, your decisions become more intentional. When you think generationally, your decisions become more intentional. When you think generationally, your attentions become your decisions become more intentional. You're very intentional because you're not just building for yourself. You feel me like when you are thinking generationally, like you just sain't out here just making any old kind of decisions. You ain't just doing whatever. You're not moving haphazardly. Like everything that you do is calculating and you're taking into consideration the generations to come. That's powerful, man like that is that is that's powerful. And you're not just building for yourself. You're building for the future, and you're building for those that are coming after you. That's powerful. Number forty one is think generationally. Yeah, not sure how many people do it? Not sure how many people are currently doing it? Because I understand that the present conditions. I also understand that there has been a very strong push to move you away from your families. You understand what I'm saying. There's been a push to move us away from our families, to move us away from thinking about our families. Ab what's up with you, hommie, to keep us from thinking about our generations, thinking about our children, thinking about our children's children. Right, but if you literally make decisions based on okay, what are they going to do. What's about the generations to come? For al sniper? What's up with your hommie? So principal number forty one is think generationally. Principal forty two stand on principles, not popularity. Stand on principles not popularity. Now this one is, this one is this is this is. This is gonna sound personal because it's personal. It is personal because I have been popular and I've been principal. I've been popular and I've been principal at different points in my life. And if I really have to make a. Decision and I have to make a choice, You're gonna have to give me the principle all day, every day, twice on Tuesdays. Give me the principal life, not the popular one. I know it's. A lot of people will choose to be popular, actually in this day and age where you know, popularity is profitable in a lot of instances. I've been principled, I've been popular. Give me the principal. Popularity changes quickly, right, Popularity changes, It's subject to change. Principles endure. When you principle, you're built for endors like you're gonna endure if you build your life around approval, because Popularity is attached directly to the approval of others, And if you build your life around approval, then you will constantly be in a position where you have to shift with the crowd. You gotta shift, You gotta shift with the crowd. You feel me and in a lot of ways, in a lot of instances, you find yourself saying things just to remain popular, Like you'll say things, you'll do things, You'll go with different trends just to remain popular, even if you don't agree with them yourself. You understand what I'm saying. You will constantly have to shift with the crowd if you build your life around approval. But if you build your life around principles, then you maintain stability even under pressure, even under pressure. And the fact of the matter is is that your principles and and respect are going to last way longer than any sets of applause that you can get. Your principles and your respect are going to last longer than any applause. You have to stand on your principles. Stand on your principles. That's principal number forty two. Stand on principles, not popularity. I feel like I ain't done with that one. But I gotta be done with it because we got to move along. As I take a sip of my coffee that's not black, I'm an impost stand those principles man, not popularity. I've been I've been popular, and I've been principal. Give me the principles all day, every day, all right. Principal forty three. Keep your word, keep your word. You gotta view view your word as if your word is your reputation. Okay, you want to keep your reputation clean. You want to keep your word clean clean, keep your word and your reputation clean. In a world full of broken promises, reliability becomes powerful. Think about that. Think about all the broken promises. Think about your life. Think about all the pro the broken promises that you've encountered, all the broken promises. Think about all the broken promises that you've that you've done. Think about all the promises you've broken. Yeah, in the world full of broken promises, reliability becomes powerful when people know that you you follow through. When people know that you follow through, then trust is built. You understand what I'm saying, and watch this. When you know that you will follow through, you build trust with yourself and I'm telling you, man, in this world, if you can trust your I'm about to start yelling and screaming. If you can trust yourself, man, if you can, if you can trust yourself, I'm trying not to cuss. If you can trust yourself, Mancuz, come on, bron If you can trust yourself, They go that damn poem again. They go that poem again. If by Rudyo Kipling. There's a stanza in it. He says, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. But I trust myself like I'm lipped, man, keep your word, keep your word. When people know that that you follow through, then the trust is built and that trust is gonna open doors. You feel me like it'd be a whole lot of people talking about loyalty. Loyalty is another one of those words that's vastly becoming misrepresented and overutilized in the culture. You know, similar to Hayten. You feel me ops all this stuff that people say. Loyalty is another one of those words, and people use it but they have absolutely no idea that don't have the foundational understanding of loyalty and I'm gonna tell you the foundational space for loyalty is keeping your word. Loyalty starts with keeping your word. Keep your word. That's principal forty three. All right, y'all not talking for it. Ain't nobody saying nothing about ten minutes? Are y'all? All right? Let me Paul. Shout out to everybody catching the show, catching the live stream, Salute. To everybody to men lives, Salute to you all. Shout out to everybody catching the replay, replay gang and full effect. Boy, y'all be in there jumping on the replay. Salute to the replay gang Man, shout out and salute to everybody that's catching this podcast. Salute to the podcast family. Me lie familiar salute to you all. Thank you all so much, man, I really truly genuinely appreciate it. Podcast family hashtag Junior Mafi. I don't think I said that salute to you all though, Man, thank you, thank you. I'm just making sure. Maybe it's too early on my own early, Maybe it's too early, maybe something going on, but y'a, ain't nobody saying nothing about ten minutes. A couple of y'all ran out the back door. Because I called you out. Amen. King Vonney said he listening and reflecting and playing my man? Okay for out said I'm driving. We hear though, Okaya, bet just make a show. Just make a show. Keep your word, man, Principal forty three, by hook or crook, man, keep that word. If it come out your mouth, you got to stand on the shade. Girl, what's up with you? Love? Salute to you. If it come out your mouth, you got to stand on it, all right, excuse me? Principal forty four, Stay dangerous, stay disciplined, Stay dangerous, stay disciplined. Strength without discipline creates chaos, all right, Strength without discipline creates chaos. Salute the Winson Lee said, I'm in traffic, okay, But discipline without strength creates weakness. Did y'all see what I just did there? Like, listen to me. Strength without discipline creates chaos? Like that is the recipe for chaos. Strength without discipline creates chaos. However, discipline without strength creates weakness. So the goal is to have balance, have balance, stay capable, stay prepared, stay strong, but always always, always, always control your strength with discipline. Control your strength with discipline. I really want that to sink you here in like a disciplined person with strength creates stability, and you create stability for yourself and the people that love you and need you and the people that are around. Stay dangerous, but stay disciplined. Just because you can set it off, don't mean you have to. You understand what I'm saying. Just because. Man, I'm trying that to curse, just because you really a motherfucker, you ain't. Really you don't have to be that. You understand what I'm saying. Stay dangerous like people know they can't come and play with you. But at the same time, you don't have to lead with threat. You stay dangerous, but you control that strength, control that danger with discipline. So you stay dangerous and you stay disciplined. You understand what I'm saying. Every argument don't have to result in you threatening physical violence or end in physical violence. Every disagreement doesn't have to reach a point where you're pulling your blade out. You understand what I'm saying. Every encounter that is not of the friendly variety does not have to result in physical altercations. You stay dangerous, but you stay disciplined. Stay dangerous, but you stay disciplined. I really need y'all to get Principal forty four. You stay dangerous, but stay disciplined. You feel me. So, if you're dangerous. But not necessarily disciplined, I need you to go get you some discipline to go with your dangerous because that makes you a creature of chaos. Now, if you're disciplined but you don't really have that danger, I need you to go get you some danger because if you're disciplined with no danger, then that makes you weak. That makes you weak, That creates weakness. That is a condition for weakness. So it needs you go get you some danger to go with your discipline. I really hope y'all understand what I'm saying, because the goal is to reach balance. Stay dangerous, stay disciplined, but you always control that danger with discipline. A disciplined person with danger creates stability for them, says else and those around them. Principal forty four. Stay dangerous, state disciplined. Principal Principal forty five. Move quietly with strategy. Not every plan needs an announcement. You understand what I'm saying. Not every move needs an audience. In fact, the majority of the time, and I'm speaking for myself. The most powerful moves that I've made have happened quietly. I just popped up with it. It was quiet. Who was that? That was? Let's quote the the the great. Contemporary American philosopher Jay Z. He was on the song with his partner Memphis Bleak, and he said, he said, you let your shit bubble quietly. And Memphis Bleak said, he yelled out, and then you blow. Jay Z said, Hey, keep you cool. You let your shit bubble quietly, Hey, then you blow it? Keep you cool? He keep you cool. The most powerful moves happened quietly. Yeah, strategy like your strategy? Here go o K underscore with his shit chest, not checkers. Your strategy works best when it's not constantly interrupted by outside opinions. How do you keep the outside opinions out of your strategy? You let your shit bubble quietly? Hey, keep you cool? You talk less, build more, talk less, build more, talk less, build more, talk less, build more, and then you let your results make the noise. Then you let your results make the noise. Boxing the barbecue. What's up with you, bro? Yeah? Principal forty six, We almost do because I gotta go. Principal forty six. James Brown said it best. But you gotta accept the cost of greatness. Got to accept the cost of greatness. Excellent requires sacrifice. Excellence requires sacrifice. I think that's I'm gonna make that my I think that's gonna be my motivational quote for today. I ain't finna play no games with people no more. Excellent require sacrifice. And if you're not willing to sacrifice, then you're not. You can achieve some things, Excellence is not gonna be one of them. Excellence requires sacrifice. You have to sacrifice time, effort, focus, discipline. Excellence require sacrifice. Many people want the rewards of greatness, but not the responsibility. You understand what I'm saying. I got this saying because I'm in this space where a lot of people think that they can do what I do. Right. People see what I. Do, and especially people that know me, and they look like cal doing that I can do it, So people try to emulate the shit that I do. You feel a lot of people, a lot of people. The Internet and the world Wide Web, the YouTube streets, it's full of it. You feel me like it's full of people who. See me do stuff and think that they can emulate it in my personal life. See people do they see me do stuff and they say, oh, Cale do that, I can do that, Junior, do that I can do that. So you got podcasts and blogs and social media and people wanting to be personalities and people wanting to talk sports, and you see a whole lot of it. You feel me. But I am the. Person that I'm very mindful of people who want to do what I do without doing what I did. You understand what I'm saying. They want to do what I do without doing what I did. Excellence require sacrifice, you feel me. So I've sacrificed time, I've sacrificed resources, I've I've sacrificed humility. You understand like I've I've sacrificed Did I say money, I've sacrificed money. I've sacrificed a lot in order to be able to do what I what I've what I've done, Like if you, if you, if we go over here and you look around, look at this, this is my this is my new studio that I implemented. You see lights, you see to wrap around green screen. You feel me, I ain't gonna turn this so you can see it. But there's a there's a sound, will back here growing with's? So, what's up with you? Hummy? Sing you on? Wise? You're a cop? Jay read you thought I won't gonna give it to you? Bro? Is you a cop? Yeah? You might play a partner in the a, But is you a cop? Jay Reid? What's up with the family? This is sacrifice. This is a sacrifice. I went and built what I needed. This is a sacrifice. It's Mike, monitor this sound. This is sacrifice, you understand. Yeah. So, I'm always mindful, and I'm very I'm very I'm very skeptical of people who. Want to do what I do without doing what I did. That's it, that's it. Excellence requires sacrifice, you understand what I'm saying. And people want the rewards of greatness but not the responsibilities. But mastery always has a price, And the sooner you accept that price, the sooner you begin to grow. Accept the cost of greatness, like, accept it, openly, accept the cost of greatness. Yeah. Yeah. Principal forty seven of the forty eight Principles of Peace and Productivity forty seven never stop redefining yourself, never ever, ever, ever, stop redefining yourself. Never self mastery is not a destination. It's not a destination. It's a life long continue with process. Every year brings new lesson. It's not even year like every damn near. Every day brings a new lesson, new challenges, new opportunities for growth and the discipline. Individual never stops refining, they're thinking. They never stop refining their habits. You understand what I'm saying. They never stop refining their character. You can refine your character. Sleup to my sister. She heartstat She said, I think for number forty seven is my favorite. You can refine your habits. Growth does not end. The evolution does not end. Growth doesn't end, it evolves. You understand what I'm saying. Be about a farm saying he just sacrificed the little sleep last night, the level up working on this site. Let's get to it. Never stop refining yourself always. You can put some polish here, you know what I mean, Put a little wax right here. Nah, never ever, ever, ever stop refining yourself. Don't do it always always, always always People say, ah, man, you changed, Yes, you know why, because I'm not ever gonna stop refining myself. I'm gonna change again soon. You feel me. I'm gonna change again soon. Polished. I'm gonna polish this. I'm gonna polish that. Never. Never. It's crazy, and I'm a person. I'm always kind of a forward. I'm always It's almost like, well, I was raised by them people, so I'm I got that old shit in me. I got an old soul. You feel me, and so as I age. It's funny because it's kind of like, you know, my age is catching up with my soul because I've been there. But I remember running around in my early twenties smoking cigars. You feel me, and people like, oh that stink ay, and now you can't. Everywhere you go you see people smoking cigars and engulfing themselves in the cigar culture. You understand on what I'm saying. And now I've been more intensible, I'm in more intensible. I smoke more intentional. I smoke my pipe more than I smoked my cigars because my pipe is a little bit more spiritual than me. You feel me when I'm offering my tobacco man to the ancestors and my spirit guys. You feel me, and I'm blowing it, and I'm blowing my smoke. I'm finna go get on my van and blow my pipe right now. Nah, man, never stop refining yourself. So people be thinking I'm stupid because I pop up and I gotta pipe. In my mouth. She hearts that they didn't go crazy because I pop up and I gotta pipe in my mouth. And they're like, man, motherfucker's smoking a pipe. What is wrong with you? What is wrong with him? What? Never stop refining yourself ever, ever, ever, ever. So it's just funny because like I said, I'm not ever gonna stop and people think I'm I changed, or you know, I'm ar again, or I'm whatever you know you want to call it. I'm never gonna stop refining myself. I'm never ever, ever, ever gonna stop refining myself. She hearts that said that pipe hit different, man, Like it's it's just it's just what it is. We were on when we were on she High on the mountain, you know what I mean, everybody's you know, rolling up blunts and so on and so forth, and I'm smoking my pipe, putting that, putting that in it, and I'm and I'm telling you, she heartstat like that moment that time like literally changed. My life. That was the experience that changed my life. That's a whole another conversation though, But nah, it's it's and it's so funny because a lot of my friends and whatnot are in the cigars and stuff now and they talking to me about stuff. And then they one of them just said the other day like, bro, like, I just think about it. Bro, you've been smoking cigars since we was kids. Like, man, I was raised. I was raised by them, dudes. I was raised by them, guys. Yeah. Never stop refining yourself. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Be about a farm said I metamorph Never stop refining yourself. Don't ever. Growth does not end, it just evolves. Never stop refining yourself. Principal forty eight. Man, this is the last one, and so get get out of here. Man, I gotta go get some work. Got a money more. You see me in my uniform, You feel me, y'all see me, y'all see me logoing of in my uniform. Ready to go, get ready to go, get busy. Principal forty eight. Govern your own life. Govern your own life. It's the final principle. It's the forty eighth principle of Junior's forty eight principles of peace and productivity. Govern your own life. It's the most important one. It's the final one because it's the most important. It's the most important. Govern your own life. A person who governs themselves is really truly free. If you think about the words, and you you words are too powerful. Man, Like I just realized in life that words are too powerful. Like words are powerful, words are powerful. I already started adding principles, so just got two more. I'm an ad, but I'm gonna say this. Words are too powerful, So you gotta literally start. Don't just talk, you feel me. Don't just talk. Choose your words wisely, and you also be intentional with the words that you allow people to use when they speak to you. Words are too powerful. And a person who governs themselves, it's free. You understand what I'm saying. You govern yourself. When you govern yourself, you're free from emotional manipulation. Motherfucker can't manipulate your emotions when you govern yourself. You understand what I'm saying. You can't tell me what to feel because I govern myself. You can't make me. You can't make me react to how you want to react, because I govern myself. Boxing and barbecue. It can be brustate. Is that the same as man your business. It can be partially, it can be partially, But the main thing is you literally govern yourself. You feel me, you worry about you and minding your own business. When I said, that is a part of it, but it's more than that too. You gotta literally govern yourself. And when you govern yourself, you're free from emotional manipulation. You'll free yourself from distractions because you have to actively govern yourself, you'll find yourself free from chaos. Like you can't really pull me into a whole bunch of bullshit because I've governed myself. Understand what I'm saying, and I've decided and i made the conscientious decision that I'm not not I will not be pulled. I will not be pulled into foolishness. Because I govern myself, I'm free from chaos. And self governance is the highest level of discipline. In my opinion, your ability to govern yourself. Self governance is the highest. I'm talking about the highest, the absolute highest level of discipline. I govern myself pretty much, go where I want to go, I do what I want to do. I'm I'm intentional with governing myself. I am one hundred percent in complete control of my mind. And when you control your mind and you govern yourself, you're going to make other people uncomfortable. You feel me, there's a it's a it's not even a it's not even a difference boxing and barbecue. It is a they're one, they're they're they're part of one another. So part of governing yourself is really truly minding your business. Right, But for me, this is how, this is how I am right. I look at myself first, you feel me, So before I do anything, I am intentional about myself, right. I am intentional about governing myself. I am intentional about being sure that I am preoccupied with myself, with what I'm doing, how I'm doing it, Where I am. I have these these principles and values that I use to govern myself, and I govern myself against my values and principles, which is something that you won't see because people will say that they are all about manhood and uh manhood and responsibilities and so on and so forth. You feel me, but then their conversation will be different. You see what I'm saying, So like, yes, I'm all about manhood and and this, that and the other. But then your conversation will be different. You see what I'm saying. So, like. I'm very intentional about self mastery. You understand what I'm saying. So the thing that you don't get from me when you come in here is I'm not telling you to focus on anything other than yourself. And even when we have conversations that go off of the go off of the rails, and we didn't jump down a rabbit hole somewhere, we always find a way to coming back to ourselves and really truly focusing on us. How does that tie into boxing and barbecue? How does that tie into King Vonnie in his journey? How does that tie into she heartstat in her journey? How does that tie into Junior in his journey? You see what I'm saying. How does that tie into be about at Farms. And his journey? Yeah, so we govern ourselves. So now if you came in here and I'm in here and I'm talking about celebrity gossip and I don't know what people talking about now fifty and Ti and I think ray J and you know what I'm saying, And I'm talking about all this other shit then you will know that I'm not governing myself. You feel me. Junior has stopped governing himself because he has these values and he has these principles, and this shit here is way far away from the values and the principles that he discusses. Govern yourself, and you govern yourself against your values and your principles. You can't say that you value your family, and then your family is last on your list, you feel me. You can't say that. You can't say that, you know you value your relationship with your kids, but then work comes first. Can't say that. So you have to govern yourself. And governing yourself is the highest level of discipline period. And you control your mind, you control your habits, you control your reactions, you control your direction, and you become difficult for the world to control. And that is what makes people uncomfortable. That's what makes people uncomfortable. But when you know, for me, the more people get uncomfortable around me with their bullshit, the more peaceful my life is because peace follows naturally when you self governing and you govern yourself appropriately, peace follows naturally. I don't have to go everywhere, I don't have to be everywhere some of that stuff. I'm just not gonna do some places I'm at. Like I told you, I was at my cousin's fiftieth birthday party a couple weeks ago, and we in there kicking it and chilling and so on and so forth. Then my cousin, who was DJing, started playing some music, and then motherfucker started hiking their dresses up and start tworking. I got up out of there. You feel me because I'm governing it myself, and I'm not finna be in here with a whole bunch of people dressed like oh old folks tworking, No, thank you, I'm in here with my kids. You feel me like, yeah, I'm not. I'm not in a place where i'm gonna have my family. I'm not finna have my family in a place where motherfuckers is cocking up they dress, bending their ass over and throwing the ass in a circle. I have to govern myself, govern your life. You be the governor of your life. You be the lawmaker. You you beat it, you be the You be the law enforcement, You be the judge, the jury, the executioner in your own life. And I'm telling you, man, peace will flow naturally. Man, I gotta get out of here. So we just walked through forty eight principles of peace and productivity over this week. Man, forty eight principles that's built from experience, discipline, reflection. And if you don't take nothing else from this week, remember this, like pieces, your peace has to be protected, like peace is paramount. Piece is paramount. Piece is paramount. Focus. You got to train your focus, like focus has to be trained, and your discipline is practiced, like you have to practice a discipline. And the fact of the matter is self mastery has to be pursued daily. But it starts with the choice, like you have to get up and you choose it every day. You have to get up and choose it every day. Now, my, they're not about perfection, like the principles that I share with you all, they're not about perfection. They're just merely about direction, and they're about building a life that is governed by your intention instead of reaction. Your life is governed by what you value instead of what the world tells you you should value. Yeah. So anyway, man, as we close this week, I'm gonna ask you something. If you reflect and some of you can't remember, so you might have to go back, so you might have to respond in the in the comment section once you go back and review them. But which which principle hits you the hardest? Which one hit you the hardest? Yeah? And which one do you need to apply immediately? I know y'all been sharing with the week, but sum it up on this video for me. Sum it up like I said, if you got to go back through it, then come back and then hit me in the hit me in the comment section. Those of you all that listening to the podcast to replace same thing, hit me in the I'm in section. Because the fact. Of the matter is, the real power of knowledge comes from application. As you know, and I've shared you all with you all as an educator. I'm a practical application educator. You feel me. If it's not something you can practically apply to your life, I don't have no use for it and I'm not gonna give it to you because if. You can't. Practically apply it to your life, then it's bullshit. And I mean practically apply it today. And the fact of the matter is, in my opinion, if you apply just a few of these principles, you're gonna see real changes in your peace and your productivity and your self discipline. Salute to my sister Angie Wise in the building. She says she's gonna review the list. It's their peace and profit system. Yes, indeed. Salute to the Black Coffee Club Man, the most consistent, boring a circle on the planet. Man around here, we don't drift, man, we don't drift. Were working on governing ourselves daily. Salute to you all, Thank you. Shout out to everybody that shows love to the Black Gentleman Groom Company. Man. This show is brought to you by the Black Gentleman Grooming Company. We do have a line of all natural handcraft the grooming products specifically with you in mind. So we sure to come check us out www dot the Black Gint dot com. That's www dot the Blackgin dot com. And this is Junior the Truth. Thanking you man, Thank you, thank you, thank you. I really truly genuinely appreciate you all. I appreciate your patience with me. I appreciate y'all allow me to work you feel me, and to work my way through these things that are. In my head. Being a soundboard man and will in vessels and what it is that we're doing in this journey itself mastering man, I really, truly, genuinely appreciate you all. I appreciate your intention, I appreciate your consistency. I appreciate your love, I appreciate your support. I love you, man, and it ain't shit you can do about it. Yeah, this is Junior the Truth signing off, giving your daily reminded of you. 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