I need you to take your power seriously (but remain silly)

just a mini one today

You are scary powerful.

Part of you knows this. The way you casually drop ideas that could restructure entire industries over brunch like you're just asking someone to pass the hot sauce? It’s terrifying. To you, and especially to anyone invested in keeping you locked in your lane.¹

So, you protect yourself with strategic incompetence. You announce you're starting a "revolutionary podcast" but conveniently forget to buy a microphone. You declare this is your "healing era" while actively booking yourself into cosmic burnout. It's spiritual edging — getting right up to the point of greatness before deliberately pulling back, leaving yourself perpetually unfulfilled but technically "still in the game."

This creates the perfect escape hatch: "Well, if I was actually trying, I would've succeeded. I wasn't really going full Beyoncé on this one, but I totally could've…"

Bro.² The Universe is begging you to stop hovering in the doorway of your own potential like you're at a party where you don't know anyone. She (the Universe) and I need you to take your power seriously.

Taking your power seriously means treating it like the limited-edition resource it is. If you’re not, it’s like using your ability to shoot laser beams out of your eyes exclusively to heat up leftover Domino’s.

But — critical distinction! — you can't take yourself too seriously.

When you do, you spiral in the opposite direction. You over-plan. You metaphorically pace around your mental apartment like you're waiting for baaaaaaad news. You become a Google Doc with so many tracked changes that the original text has disappeared beneath a sea of red underlines.

The sweet spot is taking your power seriously while taking yourself lightly.

IMHO, when it comes to taking the first step towards a new idea—writing a book! launching a tarot card business! starting a dog psychic network! creating a dating app exclusively for people who own air fryers! developing a cryptocurrency based on how many times “waiting for the invitation” has ruined your life!—that looks like taking enough time to plan your moves wisely without perseverating over it.

Before you jump into a new project, ask:

• Why? Be ruthlessly honest. If you're writing that novel because your fifth-grade teacher said you'd amount to nothing, embrace it. Spite has fueled approximately 83% of great literature.

• How? What's the most elegant path? Where's the flow? What traps should you avoid? (Like buying seventeen productivity apps instead of producing anything).

• What? Just the high-level steps. Not a color-coded spreadsheet with contingency plans for Venus retrograde — just enough structure to keep from walking in circles.

Your potential isn't theoretical. It's a live wire waiting for you to grab hold and light up the grid. The world doesn't need more almost-launched dreams gathering digital dust. It needs full-voltage you — the one who doesn't just think about creating, but actually does it with the perfectly imperfect blend of serious intention and devil-may-care execution.

Your power deserves respect. Your process deserves joy. And the rest of us deserve to see what happens when you decide to go all in.

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1. Imagine how terrifying your potential is to people who benefit from you playing small... like how Louis XIV banned lace cuffs wider than four inches for non-royals because heaven forbid the peasants look too fabulous. True loser behavior on his part.

2. Non-gendered, natch!