I have been using SC products for a full year now! I started with a GLM and Primal Romance combo and was experimenting with switching the third every cycle or so. This lasted for a good 9 months or so, building the foundations of a more mature man. My main focus areas were to improve my discipline, mental health, boundaries, communication, capacity for intimacy and in general just learning to stand better on my own two feet. During this time, I ran an international startup as an executive through lots of hardships and mistakes and got deeper into my relationship with a soulmate which has been the most profound experience of my whole life - we ended up engaged in the summer. I have faced so many of my insecurities and have learned to become much more detached and independent while also learning to face and accept and even show my more vulnerable and feminine sides. The difficulties are far from over (except my relationship that has been so stable for a while) and I have learned new acceptance and will to overcome all the storms of the high seas. I am learning to enjoy the difficult and not escaping into bullshit to feel better, and that is empowering.
Now, for the last 5 months my stack has been ASBR, E:CC and WDB. I chose these to double-down on my capacity for building and leveraging systems (technical, organizational, wealth, political) to become the foundations for my empire, while also deepening my empathy, love and intimacy with my fiancee. She is the queen of my heart and I want to provide the whole world for her.
Next week I intend to have a break and after that switch WDB to Emperor Reforged. The reason being that my relationship is doing well and I don’t feel there is a reason the extra invest in this domain when more fundamental parts are lacking. I wish to let go of all people-pleasing, leaking my energy, low standards for myself and others, insecurities or letting other people manipulate my insecurities. I am in a leadership position in 3 different organizations (1 is just a board seat) so I am constantly embedded in politics, ego clashes, difficult decisions and so on - and I especially clash with older men who too easily think I am head-in-the-clouds or too soft. And I see where they are coming from, yet also feel they are incapable and fearful of change. I am in my early 30’s and feel I have identified what my ideal version for myself is like, and that might be different from the old boys club. I want to believe in visions, believe in care and empathy - yet at the same time being strategically ruthless when need to be. I wish to uncover my truest, deepest values and principles and align them into virtues of character.
Part of this is going to be keeping a journal, and I wish to share my journey with you. From now on, I will write about my days in a 3rd. person to detach even more and let myself become transparent.