Jacob's Brain

The Maker Letter ·

Your wealth meter

Hey Friend,

Your body has a number it likes.

You lose a bit of weight. You gain a bit back. 6 months later the scales say what they said last year.

Your nervous system does the same thing with money.

It marked one number as safe, and it's been quietly steering you back to it ever since.

Good month...
You'll find things to buy. The house needs something. You'll spend until the balance looks familiar again.

Bad month...
Overdrive. DMs, calls, offers, whatever it takes, until you claw your way back to the same average.

Both feel like effort. Neither one is growth.

I spent a long time blaming the wrong things for that. The offer. The funnel. Every time I felt stuck I went looking for a mechanical fix, because a mechanical fix is something you can Google at 11pm.

The mechanics were fine. My nervous system was doing its job, protecting me from a number it had never met.

It's why people strike gold and lose it. Nobody handed them a bigger meter to go with the money.

You can set standards. You can swing past them for a season. Then the meter pulls you home.

So the work is boring and hard at the same time. Get okay with holding bigger numbers before you go earn them.

Money lands in your account, don't celebrate like a maniac. Money leaves, don't panic. Every big reaction tells your nervous system the number is unfamiliar, and unfamiliar reads as unsafe.

Decide on the number, then behave like it's already boring.

Your nervous system adjusts to whatever you keep showing it.

Nobody does this bit for you. Not me, not a better funnel.

Creation is in your hands. Take ownership of it.

Your biggest fan,
Jacob 'bathroom scales' Pegs

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