Finding your passion

Hey, It's Ramon —

Little bit of mist over L.A. this morning, and Dulce (my dog) is in a full throated howl.

So while I’m being serenaded by her, let me tell you about my friend Jacob.

He came to me a couple years ago wanting to learn tennis.

Had never picked up a racket in his life.

He's also one of those guys who's done very well for himself — and when this guy gets into something, he goes ALL the way in.

So he got into tennis.

And I mean obsessed.

In about a year and a half, he clawed his way into the top 10% of competitive amateur players in the world.

From zero.

We were sitting around yesterday talking about passion, and I asked him — what's the thing that lights you up most in life?

Without missing a beat: "Tennis."

(He's getting married next month. The wedding came in second. I did not tell his fiancée.)

Then he starts telling me about his country club.

Turns out the 8 and 9am court times are gold. Everybody wants 'em.

And the booking portal opens at some ungodly hour — like 3am on a Wednesday — and if you're not sitting there refreshing, you're out of luck.

He got tired of losing those slots.

So you know what this man did?

He opened up his AI and basically said: "Hey — take over my computer and go book me the 8am court."

And the AI said… no.

Not because it couldn't click around in there.

But because of that little "prove you're not a robot" test — you know the one, where you gotta pick out all the squares with a bicycle in 'em before it lets you through.

Most people would've shrugged and gone back to fighting for scraps at 3am.

Not him.

He found some service where you buy a thousand little tokens for almost nothing — and a real human on the other end sits there solving the bicycle puzzles for him, so the whole thing runs on autopilot while he sleeps.

Now he just… shows up.

8am court on Saturday, every week.

And the other guys at the club are losing their minds. "How do you ALWAYS get this slot?"

He smiles and tells me, "I haven't let that secret out yet."

I'm telling you all this because of what it says about passion.

When you're truly lit up by something — you will stop at nothing to do that thing.

It's the thing you can't not do.

For me, it's this.

It's getting this message to you. Coaching people. Making the programs, the videos, the stuff I hope lands in front of you at exactly the right moment.

Watching that guy so on fire, so in love with his life — I just want that for you.

So I'll ask you what I asked him:

What's your passion?

I actually want to know.

And listen — if you're reading this thinking, "Ramon, there is nothing on this earth I'd wake up at 3am and hire a stranger to solve puzzles for"…

I want to talk to you for a second.

Because I don't think you're broken.

I don't think you're passionless, or lazy, or that you somehow missed the line when they were handing passion out.

Most of us just got trained out of it.

We got told to be practical. To be responsible. To quit daydreaming and get serious.

(We all catch a big ol' dose of that programming before we're 7.)

So the body learned that wanting things — really wanting them — wasn't safe.

Basically, your nervous system got taught to keep its head down.

Here’s the good news:

You don't have to go find your “GRAND LIFE PURPOSE” by tomorrow.

You just do this:

In any given moment, out of all the things you could do…

pick the one with even a little more juice in it. A little more curiosity. A little more "ooh, that one."

And go do that thing. As well as you possibly can.

Then follow the thread.

Because it grows.

One slightly-more-exciting choice leads to the next, and the next — and one day you look up and you're the guy hiring people to solve puzzles at 3am so you can chase the thing you love. lol

Live today with passion, guys.

Talk soon,
Ramon

P.S. If you're ready to stop keeping your head down and start following that thread — with a room full of people who'll actually cheer you on for it instead of telling you to be practical — that's exactly what we do inside The Inner Circle. It's where the old "get serious" programming finally gets to come off. → [Come see what it's about]