The Big Possible

If you want to provide real value to the world, then make life fun.

Because that’s all we’re really doing is playing with pebbles in the sand.

Take the word play out of that and it’s just moving rocks, life becomes a sort of penance, Tartarus, indentured servitude and the only release is death.

So when you make the time pass with laughter and play it begins to shine with true meaning.

Like the ring of a bell in the fog, fun shatters the gloom and lets your existence be recognized instead of obscured.

Laughter is the light of life.

But regardless of that, it’s interesting. In order to be truly, really fun - not this shallow, fleeting, vaporizing kind of fun - the empty fun. You gotta be selfless.

You gotta roll with the punches in life.

You gotta let go of the tantrums, the fantasies, the demands from life.

It’s a fine line along the edge of the river styx. 

Like a dance right there on the edge. 

You have to give up your expectations and selflessly surrender with a shit eating grin on your face that says ‘come what may, this is going to be a blast!’

And when you land face first in a pile of rejection, failure and broken relationships - you gotta take it in stride. This is the stuff that will make a good laugh 3 months from now.

Get your head on your shoulders and start playing.

Float through the turbulence like it’s a wild adventure.

So your friends are all selfish douchebags who only care about their own gains in life - cool. Give them a good laugh, let them enjoy the ride alongside you.

So your brain won’t turn off thinking about the screw ups you made? 

Good. That means you get to laugh about sooner or later. That means you’re alive - you’re thinking. You’re here.

So you’re stuck in a loop of playing victim and want someone to take the blame for whatever crap you’re going through? 

It’s a game. It’s pebbles in the sand. Reach your hand out and find another pebble to play with. There are no victims as long as you can see the world as a playground.

Let go of the suffering. Let go of the indentured servitude.

Stop being afraid of getting close to the edge of the cliff.

That place, right there on the edge of what’s possible is where the fun is at.

That place, where familiarity meets surrendering to the unknown is where you’ll find the strength to give laughter in every situation.

So what?

Carry those words with you today.

So what?

When life gets hard, laugh with it.

So what? 

When the people around you are miserable, make it fun.

When your own head gets to be a ball of dark scribbles and nasty exclamation marks - laugh with it. The hilarity of the situation is the path to joy.

You are here to have fun.

You are here to play.

You are here to love.

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• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
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What you fear to lose is only loss.

So today is my birthday, I’m still processing what that means. It’s supposed to be a day of celebration, a sort of pat on the back for surviving this long, and a day for the people who are in the journey together with you to reach out and say “Congratulations brother, you’re still stuck in this shitty world together with us. Isn’t it great?“

Maybe I’m feeling pessimistic about the whole thing today. And what better day to rethink your view of the world than your day of birth? This is truly the best day possible to let go of things that no longer serve you. It becomes easy to look for validation in all the well wishes, congratulations, the happy thoughts, but where will these be tomorrow?

This morning the first thing I did after brewing coffee was I took out an old painting I no longer enjoyed looking at… It represented an older darker more angst filled view of my creative process. I then grabbed bright yellow and white paint and slowly begin covering the old dark canvas with this glistening, wet yellow paint.

The black still seeped through the first coat, and as I watched the entire picture become covered, It becomes something new no longer recognizable. The texture of the old painting was still there, but this new color made it beautiful. Wonderful. Full of a direction that is closer align to my truth in my vision for the future.

So today is like that first coat of bright yellow paint. we are taking an existing canvas, all the crap on that old picture can service texture for a new masterpiece.

I’d like to pause and think about the things that happened this last year in my life. I started last year like a kite in the wind. Panicked from being stuck inside the house during Covid, I had a lot of things internally I was escaping from.

Perhaps it was the allure of freedom perhaps it was sensation of being stuck inside whatever it was I packed up sold everything and traveled through Latin America for several months. It didn’t help me find peace, in fact, it probably agitated my growing sensation of aimlessness.

I came back to LA and the relationship I was in crash landed. It was foundational he flawed and that we both wanted it to work out, it was unraveling at the seams so that happened.

It was around this time I pushed myself very hard and I publish my book, I build a coaching business, I started a new podcast, I’ll begin painting and started my next collection, I took stock on my direction in life and cut out the shiny distractions that continuously left me feeling empty. I looked hard at the choices in my life - and I finally found the courage to stop chasing fantasies that evaporate in the winds of time. I replaced much of the fear of loss with a determination to create.

And although it has been a lonely process, I remind myself that long term happiness comes with letting go of short term pleasures. 

I discovered acro yoga, started playing tennis more, ultimately it’s been one of the most powerful years of my life.

It hasn’t been a roller coaster, but a solo trek through a wintery mountain trail. The snow stings my face as I walk, my toes have long since lost their feeling… but the thrill of the trek is filling me with a deep, profound joy like a blazing fire burning in my heart.

And now I get to choose the color but this coming year will be painted

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Every day is a chance to start over. Yesterday I pushed myself extremely hard to get through the end of a project and spent all night looking at the screen. That blue light in high intensity had me Wideawake at night to the point where I couldn’t pass out. Then when I finally did, I woke up conflicted with thoughts of comparison in the middle of the night. Thinking about other people who seemingly have more than me.

And it took a long time of quieting these thoughts until I could settle the panic in my heart.

Was it a trick of the blue light from the screen? Or was that fear lurking in the shadows of my heart waiting for me to be half asleep until I found a boldness to try to possess my consciousness? Perhaps both.

But the trick that worked wonders for me that night, was to remove myself from the perspective that there was a competition in the first place and instead to look at it all as if there were a common mission.

You see, in this mission my power my individual power was essential to turning the tides and completing the mission. This mental shift will serve you whenever you get in a funk of comparison or envy.

Stop looking at the world as a competition where there is a winner and a loser and a timeline for completion. These thoughts will constrict the flow of your potential, like a hairball in a pipe that blocks the flow, thinking about who’s better or how come you’re so far behind will prevent you from playing your part in the greater battle.

Because there is A war happening, you are needed for this battle. You are being called forward to unblock your light and let it shine in full glory on the battlefield.

In the most important part of this, is that your life is just as brilliant as your friend who you were comparing yourself to earlier.

Stop the envy and instead think about how you can help.

Your friend who is out there on the battlefield needs you. They have plowed ahead and are surrounded, just waiting for you to stop with the hesitation and realize that you have the same power. 

Get in there and release your light on the battlefield.

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• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

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You don’t get to know how the story unfolds. You don’t get to force your narrative on the silver screen of life. Fortune will find you in its own loving, miraculous way. And when she comes knocking on your door, don’t get caught with your pants down.

Opportunity is hiding in the brush, obscured by some fog of war, waiting for you to get close enough to pick it up. How many times have you boorishly rushed past opportunity with your hands full, unable to actually stop and pick it up?

How many times have you ignored it, dissatisfied with the shape it revealed to you, only to discover later that what you saw was only the tip of the iceberg, like an opportunity to buy bitcoin in 2013.

Today is a game of faith. Faith and diligence. You are signing a contract with luck today, a simple agreement that says you will get your work done. You will show up. You will walk to the edge of the fog of war, all the while training your capacity to pick up the opportunities along the way. And in return, you trust that luck will fulfill its end of the agreement and place the opportunities you need along the path.

That is what faith is all about. But you don’t get to neglect your end of the bargain. If opportunity seems sparse then flip your thinking and realize that this is now an opportunity to increase your carrying capacity so that you can grab bigger opportunities down the road. Stop cursing your luck and instead celebrate the real opportunity you have been given.

So things aren’t going your way? Wonderful. That means you have time to prepare for a windfall of opportunity. Use the quiet spots on the journey to build more leverage, more power, more carrying capacity, and you will multiply the speed in which you can harvest opportunity in the future.

Stop whining, and have faith. Then when the time is right, respond to opportunity with confidence.

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• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

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You have a part to play in a bigger picture. When you’re alone in the world and the great vastness of possibility surrounds you, it is your old behavior to freeze and shrivel in fear.

What can you do? What can you possibly do as this small, vulnerable speck of flesh that can be annihilated in an instant?

What can you really do?

Where is your power if this is all there is?

Perhaps your mind will continue like this, running in circles, hypnotizing your willpower to stay rooted in one place, dazed by all the happenings of the world.

Paralyzed in smallness.

But what if there were more? What if there was a bigger story, a greater mind, who instead of keeping you trapped in a box like some evil stepmother, burst open the doors of your mental prison and beckons you to go on an adventure filled with greatness?

This is the bigger story, the one you are already a part of. It is Big because it is connected. It’s not the single celled organism that wanders in darkness, but a story filled with harmonious lights, colors, and projects. This is the collective mind.

This is the place where you have a part, a role to play. 

The best part is that you cannot be harmed in the story. Since you are connected to the greater cause.

And when the grumbling mind, the fearful mind starts to kick in and tell you that you can’t do it, just remind yourself that you’ve already seen and experienced everything this sad story of inaction has to offer.

You’ve read, and re-read the pages. You’ve highlighted the cliche themes of failure, broken hope, and sadness. 

You’ve explored all four corners of this box of inaction, depression, fear, anxiety. Ain’t nothing new going to show up in this place. 

So, why not accept your part in the bigger story?

All it takes is putting down the story of fear and walking into the story of action.

And the greater mind beckons again,

I dare you.

Come find me. Let’s go on this adventure together.

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• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
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Be careful of guilt. Be on guard against shame. Remember, you are flawless, and the moment you start to think that you have some sickness, the truth becomes hazy, blurry… And like a hallucinatory poison it paints your senses so you stumble in the imagined darkness.

No. Call out the truth inside of you. Let the truth expand from your core like a blast from an EMP. Eliminating all signals of illusion, doubt, fear, shame. These do not serve you. You must allow yourself slack enough to indulge in active recovery.

Active recovery is the kind of stuff that sounds like work but feels so good. 

Things like slowly filling the bathtub up with cold water, making your way to the freezer, and holding back your excuses as you reach your hand in, grab the plastic bag with the ice in it. The chill frost on the plastic melts and cracks into little flakes as you grab it, carry it with you to the bathroom.

The roar of the water faucet then becomes the loudest tiger you’ve ever imagined - echoing on the walls of bathroom and removing all thought but the ridiculousness of what you’re about to do. Every fiber of your body is screaming to stop the madness as you empty the ice in the water.

It’s cold. You Turn the water off and silence greets you.

And slowly, you put one foot in. Then another. Until you’re sitting all the way in.

Guilt fear and shame will entice you to run away, to hide from the effort by numbing your mind in a screen and a pointless story. You do not need stupid time.

You do not need sex, gluttony, and carnal distractions. Instead, focus your energy on stillness, peace, quiet resolution. Move with a dogged, deliberate pace toward a goal like a locomotive in the mountains. 

Never giving up, never going home before the end.

Take pride in your power.

Sure, do you have a journey ahead of you, but there is nothing to be ashamed of traveled. Keep moving forward. Keep recovering and polishing your engines. Ignore the detours and don't chastise yourself if you happen to take a couple wrong turns. Just put your wheels back on the track take a breath, and plow ahead.

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• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

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Nothing beats knowing you're getting back on track and giving it a true push of effort.

Nothing beats making progress on your goals. It is the absolute best feeling in the world to step into the Forge and survive another blow from the hammer.

It’s another thing to willingly lock the door to the exit of the Forge, strap yourself to the anvil and ask the smith for another blow, and then another, and then another.

But that is what you have to do.

And once you have it figured out when you finally exit that Forge, all obstacles will bow before you. It is time to go into the wolf’s territory and become the king of all wolves. you can and you will.

And then you can remember that you are both the iron and the Smith. 

Create a masterpiece with the projects on your work desk. Gather the tools at your forge and create. That is all you can do. There is no need to halt production and fantasize about your neighbors hammer.

There is no need to halt the completion of the current request because you don’t have new customers waiting.

Finish the meal on your plate. finish crafting with the materials on your bench.

Do not wait to strengthen your iron. Do not wait to embrace the struggle. The hammer you got is good enough, start swinging.

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• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

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Today might be one of those days where you’ll have to pull out all the stops, and give it your all.

You’ll be asked to show up, to perform, to finish the race all the way through.

You buckle in for a long day in the zone, clocked in, on duty… doing your job.

The anticipation of the soon to arrive three hundred emails all fighting for your attention like a digital battle Royale in your pocket has got your eyes twitching.

And forget the texts, the zoom meetings, the calendar invitations and the drama you’ll have to navigate through, like some sinister Bermuda Triangle designed to keep you spinning plates until you drop something.

Yeah. One of those days. 

Your brain knows it. It tries to weasel out of it. 

But regardless of how insane the day might appear in this moment, you hear the call.

You swallow your hesitation, and you go forward. 

It’s tortuous. You grind. You slog through. You make it all the way.

And the day is done.

Exhausted, you return home. 

And in this moment of depletion, you question the why of it all.

What was it for? Where did all that effort go to?

Was that it?

You look at the days you have remaining and a desperate alarm dings in your heart.

Caught in a limbo of satisfaction for knowing you gave it your all and served your duty to the T and a gnawing sense of doubt for spending the effort on the wrong path.

It is here in this moment where you’re given the ultimate choice

You have the choice to Choose one side of the coin toss - feeling like crap for spending an entire day working towards a meaningless existence, or ignoring the doubt and celebrating your effort, regardless of the meaning.

Or you can make the choice to go beyond the choice and recognize that it isn’t what you get out of the struggle but the struggle itself that is the purpose.

In the work you exist. In the work you build strength. In the swinging of the hammer day in day out you build familiarity and momentum. It is this that makes the journey what it is.

And so you step through the exhaustion. You step through the doubt. You step through the angry voice that shakes a fist to the heavens demanding compensation for all the suffering.

In that moment strength finds you. The tank that was seemingly empty is now connected to a shining, limitless reserve. 

You suddenly have the strength to give it one more swing.

You have the strength to now give love with the rest of the day you have remaining.

You look at the smiles on the faces of the ones who support you.

You look inward at the soul.

And you smile.

This is gratitude for a day well spent.

This is the moment that all the effort carries meaning.

This realization is what we are made for.

It is not the awards, the claps from the audience or a seductive wink in your direction that connect you with that unlimited power deep inside.

It is not hustle or grit or pride.

It is love.

Love for the swing of the hammer.

Love for the act of showing up.

Love for running towards life, towards the hard

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• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.

Part of the game we play in learning to fly is to let go of the weights that hold us down. 

How long does it take to heal completely from a past trauma?

I’m reminded of a story today, of an infection I had that was particularly persistent and wouldn’t heal no matter what medication the doctor gave me. My insides were wrecked from all the antibiotics, like some nuclear bomb destroyed all life inside of me, but that infection on my back was still thriving.

I was in Belize at this time, in the intense humidity of the jungle. And looking back, that humidity is exactly what prevented the wound from healing. Sweat would get in the wound, feeding the infection. And finally my travels found me at a quaint hostel by a lake in Guatemala. For the first time in two weeks I had working air-conditioning. And in just two short nights of sleeping in the air conditioning without sweating at night the infection was cleared and the wound recovered.

This is the challenge with wounds of the heart or of the mind. Although we know the trauma is hurting us, we continue to think about it, like an infection that festers deep inside of us. What you ought to do is remove yourself completely of the thoughts of trauma so you can finally heal. Doing that might seem a lot like finding air-conditioning in the jungle, but it’s actually a lot easier than that. Remember you have one purpose here and that is to be happy. Happiness is available by letting go of the small, useless dreams and illusions. Happiness is available by sensing them now. Sensing with mind, body, spirit the current spot in time and space like the ring of a bell in silence. That chime, that vibration through it all is what you are looking for.

Claim that point on the map. Claim that moment for your thoughts, that present moment is indeed the air conditioner for your soul.

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.

Delays are inevitable. Yet, the delays in the snags in the path are truly inconsequential. When we look at the world from a greater perspective, a small respite to massage your ass before jumping in the saddle does a little to the pace of the entire journey. Sure the end path may be of a slightly slower completion rate, but like the stroke of a brush across a canvas, paint will be left behind whether it was done quickly, or slowly. 

What matters is that the momentum continues.

So yesterday wore your spirit down. OK. So yesterday your friends friends said something and put you in a mental funk. OK. So yesterday you didn't finish what you said you would do. OK.

Today you can get back in the saddle and move forward again. You do not need to be punished for having a bad day. This is an adventure. This is a game. When you drop the ball, you pick it up. Today you will approach all before you like this great adventure. Use the projects in front of you like training opportunities.

You can and you will improve with every new swing of the back. You can and you will make progress every time you show up. So go forward today, whether you are bruised or broken, whether you are hurt or ashamed, whether you are tired or defeated, get back in the saddle and let the  Wind find your hair, let the horizon call you, and pull you towards your rebirth. Go a little further than you think possible today. Just a little.

And let that extra momentum be something to celebrate. Take pride in the fact that you got back up and as you're blazing forward today, pay attention to the scenery, to the details. The journey is a gift to you. Let yourself be filled with wonder, and you will forget the fatigue. 

Surrender to the momentum and resistance will vanish.

Links and Info:

• For more insights and resources, visit The Big Possible.
• Hosted by Noah Scott and Luke Baumbach, cofounders of The Big Possible Creative Agency.
• Have a big idea or need help creating video content? Reach out to us at thebigpossible.com.

Ready to elevate your podcast with stunning video content? Visit thebigpossible.com to learn how we can help bring your vision to life.