Do you feel lost but full of potential?

I know why and here's how to solve it.

James Kenneth
April 05, 2025

Change is hard, living an unfulfilled life is harder.

Let’s begin.

HERE’S THE DEAL

Self-doubt can take a few different forms:

imposter syndrome
fear of failure
fear of success
depression
anxiety

Tell me do you know this story.

You have so much ambition and big dreams to achieve great things. You’re always planning, thinking up new ideas or learning something new. You’re full of ideas but ultimately year after year your life stays relatively the same, while the people around you are getting by much better than you are because they at least stuck to the average mans plan…

You keep trying but getting nowhere, knowing you’re capable of more but seeing none of your capabilities come to life. You lay your head down at night exhausted… from thinking… All that thought has produced zero, nada, zilch, a goose egg. Not a golden goose egg, but a brown one… oh wait its not a goose egg, it’s a turd…fuck…

The internet has made this situation quite a bit worse. How? Well here’s the truth, a lot of your ideas are probably crappy but some of them aren’t (that’s how it is for all of us btw). The ideas that you dive deep into on YouTube, Google, Reddit, and Chat GPT and find those other - seemingly less intelligent than you - people who are making $20K+ a month doing whatever TF they want, wherever TF they want. You know those ones?

Yeah well, it was a good idea UNTIL the internet activated your self-doubt and now you've watched 20 Youtube videos each telling you eight things you never thought of, and 5 more things you suck at. POOF onto the next idea… pattern repeat.

that sucks, I have the solution.

THE SOLUTION

“Your doubts are traitors stealing your future before you even begin.”

There is and always will be only one way to overcome self-doubt. Everything else other than this will fit into the 80% of the 80/20 rule. Allow me to explain the 80/20 Rule (eighty twenty rule).

The 80/20 Rule in a Story

You want to become successful (whatever that means to you). Imagine that you are about to begin a race to the success finish line. From start to finish there is work to be done. The 80/20 Rule says that 20% of the things you will ultimately do will get you 80% of the way there. with me so far? But it also states that 80% of the things that you do will only get you 20% of the results you’re looking for. Now let’s clarify a bit.

Of 100% of the actions you take, 20% of those actions will get you 80% of the way to the finish line. You always want to be looking for these 20% actions.

Also, of 100% of the actions you take 80% of those actions are fucking useless and should be ignored or delegated - BECAUSE they will only take you 20% of the way.

So what this Rule is saying, is if you are going to be taking action DO THE MOST EFFECTIVE ACTIONS that you can.

BACK TO THE SOLUTION …

Combined with the 80/20 Rule, there is and always will be only one way to overcome self-doubt.

ACTION, ACTION, ACTION, ACTION, ACTION.

Self-doubt must be outworked. Period.

Get to work on the thing that you’ve been dreaming about. If it’s a business work on it. BUT work on the 20% that wins you 80% of the race. It changes as you achieve higher levels but when you’re starting out it’s simple.

DO MONEY MAKING ACTIVITIES 80% OF THE TIME.

Im sure you’re wondering what those are, so here they are:

cold calls
cold emails
cold DMs
make content and post the content (on the same day)

HERE’S THE ACTION PLAN

You need to make the following:

A simple plan for your health
A simple plan for learning a new skill (not just any skill read on)
A clear understanding of the 20% for your work

Here’s a very clear method (4 steps):

Health - choose the same one-hour a day and exercise in it
Health - focus on whole foods and drink 1-2 litres of water per day
** Use my Maxx Hydration Recipe (it’s free) if you like ginger, honey, and lemon HERE
Learn - choose the same one-hour a day and learn in it
!! IMPORTANT !! 80% of your day must be spent DOING the money making activities. The health, and learning must be done before and/or after the money making activities. NON-NEGOTIABLE. Shit is going to break and suck at times. THAT is how you will know what you need to learn and work on. Let’s repeat this a couple times in the first person.

Shit is going to break and suck at times. THAT is how I will know what I need to learn and work on.

Good job you. Repetition is the mother of success.

80% of your day only do money making activities. (discussed before).

STRATEGIES I LIKE A LOT

100 MINUTES

Alex Hormozi

This is something I collected from Alex Hormozi. Sometimes depending on where you are 100 minutes isn’t enough. However it should be looked at as a minimum.

Create Content 100 minutes DAILY - post it DAILY
Cold Call 100 minutes DAILY
Cold Email (or Cold DM) 100 Minutes DAILY

Daily means daily. Success is boring and repetitive. Welcome.

THE POWER LIST

Andy Frisella

This is something I collected from Andy Frisella. No sense is remaking things that aren’t broken. Heres the short and dirty version.

Choose 5 things you MUST complete each day in the direction of your biggest goals and dream life.
If you complete all 5 tasks each day you WIN the day
If you don't complete all 5 tasks you LOSE the day
7 days a weeks. Dreams don’t sleep. Read my newsletter for my Monday Strategy HERE
When one or more of the things on your list becomes habitual, replace them with something new. Keep doing the thing you removed. You’re becoming a better you.
When you win enough days you win the week. When you win enough weeks you win the month. When you win enough months you win the year. When you win enough years you win your life. This is how Andy explains it.

Here’s is a link to Andy’s article if you’re interested - The Power List

“mindset alone won’t make you successful but the wrong mindset will make you doubt that success is possible in the first place.” - ^_James

oh yeah as promised… the answer to why you have self-doubt in the first place… You haven’t been taking enough action to prove yourself the opposite is true. All of your actions have been ones that don't produce what you want. That’s enough of a reason to create doubt in anyone.

Change your actions and you change your self image.

I wish you strength on your new journey.

-James

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