The Fly, the Window, and Your Escape

I sat watching a tiny fly recently, and it was a tragedy in three acts. This little guy was absolute in his devotion to a glass pane, buzzing with a fury that would put a jet engine to shame. He was convinced that if he just head-butted that transparent barrier one more time—with just a bit more vigor—he would reach the garden beyond. He was operating on the "try harder" software, a glitchy program that tells us more effort always equals more results.

Poor fellow. He was literally ten seconds of flight away from an open door. He could have drifted out on a breeze with a fraction of the sweat he was currently pouring into his own execution. But he was locked in. He was a prisoner of his own logic, a logic that says the path to freedom is paved with more struggle.

We do this too. We treat life like a stubborn jar of pickles, gripping it until our knuckles turn white, thinking that raw, grinding force is the only way to get to the vinegary goodness inside. We have been sold a bill of goods that persistence is always a virtue. In reality, indiscriminate persistence is often a curse. It is like trying to get to the moon by climbing a ladder. You can be the fastest ladder-climber in history, but you are still on the wrong tool for the job.

I want you to consider a radical idea: your struggle is actually the trap. The harder you pull against the "Chinese handcuffs" of your current circumstances, the tighter they grip your fingers. The secret I found out is to stop pulling. Relax. Push in. This is not about being lazy; it is about being elegant. It is about realizing that you can move to a higher orbit of achievement without the time-consuming struggle you have come to expect.

You are capable of a geometric progression in your effectiveness. Think of it as moving from addition to multiplication. You do not need to move systematically from step A to step B to step C. You can skip the rungs. You can make an explosive jump that puts you far beyond the next "logical" step. This is what the physicists call a quantum leap—a particle moving from one place to another without covering the bases in between.

You have the power to become $u^2$. It is like upgrading your internal operating system from a manual typewriter to a supercomputer. The more you read my emails, the more success you will have because we are rewriting the rules together. You might feel a bit of skepticism, and that is fine. Your doubt is just a lack of proof, and you are about to gather plenty of evidence. You are likely grateful for having clicked the links in my email because they are the breadcrumbs leading out of the woods.

Freedom is not something you earn through a decade of hard labor. It is something you allow to happen by getting out of your own way. Stop beating your wings against the glass. The door is already open. You just have to look in a different direction

If you could stop "trying" for just sixty seconds today, what is the one thing you would let yourself enjoy right now?

I have a story about a straw tube from a Texas carnival that explains exactly why your "common sense" is actually a liar, but that is a tale for tomorrow.

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Bradley Woods