The only prison is your inaction
Action beats talent. Design your life now. Listen inward before input. Focus and meaning shape experience.
November 15th, 2025 - Issue #144 - read online
👋 Welcome to Pursuit—your weekly pause for intentional living, self-discovery, and inner clarity. My name is Amir, and every week I share four carefully chosen ideas to help you design a more fulfilling life.
This week’s reflections:
🚪 The only prison is your inaction
📅 One year of going all-in on you
⛴️ Remember who’s steering the ship
🌗 The two choices that shape everything
🚪 The only prison is your inaction
The worst prison in the world is having the talent and intelligence to achieve something great but lacking the courage to go out and do it. There is someone out there living the life you want simply because they took action and you didn’t. They aren’t smarter than you. They aren’t more skilled than you. They aren’t more resourceful than you. They just acted when you didn’t. Think about that. It’s all on you. No one is coming to save you. No one will fix your problems. No one will change your mindsets. No one will hand you the things you want in life. It’s just you. It’s all on you. There’s a power in that.
Later you’ll be dead. Life is filled with laters. I’ll spend more time with my kids later. I’ll find time for my health later. I’ll have more freedom later. The brutal reality: Later is just another word for never. Most of the things you say you’ll do later won’t be possible by the time you claim you’ll do them. Your kids won’t be five years old later. Your health won’t be there later. Your life won’t suddenly be built for freedom and enjoyment later. Either design it into your life now or live with regret later.
📅 One year of going all-in on you
You may know how important your time is, yet you ignore its passage and engage in low-value activities that pull you away from the things that really matter. There is so much pressure to always strive for these big, huge things. To want more. To have the glamorous, sexy, impressive moments. To have this big life. You are told to focus on the big, but the real texture of life is found in the small. Your entire life can change in one year. Not ten. Not five. Not three. One. One year of focused, daily effort. One year of clear intentions. One year of leaving behind the things that no longer serve you. One year of going all-in on you. So, let’s get started today.
⛴️ Remember who’s steering the ship
Reading books and listening to podcasts about health gives you information. But information alone isn’t enough.
Real change comes from internal knowledge—the quiet, often overlooked ability to listen inward.
Interoception, the sense of perceiving your body’s signals, is like a hidden sixth sense. It tells you when you’re tense before you realize you’re stressed, or when you’re hungry before your mind wanders to food.
Strengthening this ability doesn’t just deepen your relationship with your body. It becomes a tool for navigating emotions like anxiety, helping you respond before overwhelm takes root.
The answers aren’t just out there. In a world constantly pulling at our attention, one practice matters more than ever: solitude.
Not isolation—just time spent with yourself, without noise, without outside input.
If the first thing you do each morning is consume—news, social media, even “good” information—you lose the chance to hear yourself.
Your body is always sending signals. But without stillness, without space, you’ll miss them.
Solitude isn’t a luxury. It’s a daily necessity—a way to remember who’s steering the ship before the world tries to grab the wheel.
🌗 The two choices that shape everything
Here’s something that caught my attention from Tony Robbins’ conversation in a recent Modern Wisdom podcast:
Sometimes the hardest moments leave behind the clearest lessons.
Every moment, two choices are being made, often without realizing it.
First: What do you focus on? There’s a million options—hunger, fear, hope, doubt. But life isn’t what happens around you; it’s what you choose to see.
Second: What meaning do you assign to it? Focus without meaning is empty. The meaning you attach shapes the emotions you feel. And the emotions you live in, define the texture of your life.
Choose wisely. Your experience of life depends on it.
🎵 Music I’m listening to
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🌒 Pano: Danceable and electronic obscure songs
🌓 Sisy: Ethnotronica and organic house
🌑 Berghain: Dark, minimal techno and tech house
🌕 Heide: Groovy soul and disco house
🌞 Sonntag: Afterhours shit
🦥 Slow rave: Sleepy techno for tired danced
🌎 World: From Latin jazz to Turkish psych
🌚 Super Slow: For your intimate moments
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