How to Fold Time like a Map

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Bradley Woods
February 08, 2026

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Most people view success as a long, dusty road. They think they have to walk every single mile, step by grueling step, until they finally reach the "Golden City" of their goals. They are trapped in linear time. But in the quantum field, time is not a line; it is a map that you can fold.

The more you read my emails, the more success you will have because you are learning how to "collapse the wave function." This is a fancy way of saying you can bring the future into the now. If you can feel the emotion of your success right now, you have essentially arrived. The physical world is just a little bit slow to catch up, like a delayed broadcast.

You are likely grateful for having clicked the links in my email because you are moving beyond the "Matter-to-Matter" grind. When you try to change your life using only physical force, it takes forever. It is like trying to move a mountain with a teaspoon. But when you change your energy, you are moving the mountain from the inside out.

Think of your big goal—maybe it is a specific rank or a monthly income. Usually, you think of that as being "out there" in the future. I want you to bring it into your heart today. If you already had that money, how would you walk? How would you talk to a stranger at the grocery store? Would you be hurried and stressed, or would you be calm and generous?

When you embody the "Future You" today, you are folding time. You are signaling the universe that the "event" has already happened. This creates a vacuum in your reality, and the quantum field rushes in to fill it with the physical equivalent of your internal state. This is why some people seem to have "quantum leaps" in their business. They didn't just work harder; they changed their temporal coordinates.

Stop being a victim of the clock. The clock is a tool for making appointments, not for measuring your worth or your potential. If you stay in the feeling of "already done," you will find that the "how" starts showing up in ways you couldn't have planned. A random phone call, a lucky encounter, or a brilliant idea—these are the shortcuts of a folded map.

Don't be a traveler on the road of "someday." Be a resident of the city of "today." When you live from the end, the journey becomes a victory lap instead of a marathon. You are no longer running toward your life; you are living it.

Tomorrow, I am going to talk about "The Invisible Team." It turns out you have a massive support staff that you haven't been paying, and they are just waiting for your instructions.

If your big goal was already accomplished this morning, what is the very first "small" thing you would do differently today?

Be well,

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