Break Free from “Work Porn”, Free Your Soul & Unlock Creativity

I share my journey from being caught in work addiction to finding true fulfillment through spiritual practices. Despite building a successful business with $150,000 monthly revenue and traveling the world, I discovered that external achievements couldn't provide lasting happiness.

• My spiritual search led me to "Autobiography of a Yogi," Steve Jobs' favorite book that transformed my understanding
• I unexpectedly moved next to Yogananda's headquarters in Los Angeles and spent a year learning from monks
• The key insight: meditation should be practiced to honor God, not as a productivity tool
• Work addiction keeps us in reactive mode, creating more stress and perpetuating unhappiness
• Starting each day connecting with the divine creates a foundation of peace that transforms everything
• Michael Singer's "The Surrender Experiment" shows how spiritual alignment can coexist with business success
• Our 8AM brotherhood connects entrepreneurs focused on God-alignment and original creation

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Chapters

• 1:40 The Question About Work Porn
• 2:22 My Spiritual Journey After Success
• 3:32 Brotherhood for Creative Entrepreneurs
• 4:52 True Purpose of Meditation
• 6:35 The Surrender Experiment Philosophy
• 9:37 Community Invitation and Closing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:50

Alright, guys. So we got a question the other day from someone within it Am World and the question was something along the lines of how do you not fall into the trap of work porn and instead focus on living a God-aligned lifestyle or God-aligned life overall? So, very first thing, I'm going to tell you guys a bit of my story Around 20. I would say 2019 to 2022, I definitely was someone that fell into this like work for work sake, uh, glorifying like 17, 18 hour days there's nothing wrong with this but it kind of became like the main focus of my identity and, um, you know, I I scaled my business pretty successfully. I wasn't doing million dollar months, I was doing $150,000 months, um, vast majority profit. Traveling the world, attracted you know the girl that I wanted in my life, but at the bottom of it all, the end of it all, I was still unhappy. So, uh, this led me down like a pretty long sort of spiritual path.

Speaker 1: 1:51

I was rereading the Bible, the Quran, learning you know Hinduism um, judaism, and just talking to different people who. I was rereading the Bible, the Quran, learning you know Hinduism, judaism, and just talking to different people who I thought might have the answer to overall overarching fulfillment and really none of it answered any of the questions that I had until I picked up a book called the Autobiography of a Yogi. This was Steve Jobs' favorite book. It was George Harrison from the Beatles big fan of it. It was the only book Steve Jobs had on his iPad and copies of it were given out at his funeral. So I had read the book back in 2017, decided to reread it. I pick it up and I just realized that everything that all these major religions are saying about the world not being able to provide you fulfillment and you know different spiritual practices the author of this book, yogananda, takes it all and just makes it all make sense in a very succinct sort of life autobiography story. This led me to unbeknowingly moving into a new apartment in Los Angeles which, within the first week I found out was next door to one of Yogananda's headquarters in Los Angeles. I lived there for a year. I started attending these lectures that the monks that live on the property host. It just totally transformed my life. This, so this basically brings me to the next point of daily meditation.

Speaker 1: 3:19

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Speaker 1: 3:59

All right, so daily meditation is what I found the answer. But the thing is it's not the Calm app, it's not the Headspace app, and I love Eckhart Tolle. I saw him live in person at a retreat. Eckhart Tolle definitely gets it, but unfortunately, if you just read Eckhart Tolle and you just practice Eckhart Tolle, I've found it doesn't really bring lasting fulfillment. So what I've found is that if you actually have a special practice of meditation, where you use meditation not as a means to an end but as the means itself, that's the key difference.

Speaker 1: 4:31

So what I mean by that is that most entrepreneurs especially guys who get caught in like work porn and just focusing on and making more money and thinking that'll fulfill them. What happens is they view meditation as a tool. They view it as something that they do so that they can focus more, make more money and then they'll be happy, whereas the shift that helped me kind of ascend to the next level was realizing that meditation is essentially it's a bit more of a reverential thing. You're humbling yourself at the essence of the creative force that's controlling or emanating the entire universe, which many of, pretty much every religion, calls God, calls God. So that's what meditation is. It's not to get more productive, it's to honor God. That's it. So when you shift every start of your day to honoring God in like a 15, 20, 30 minute meditation, it takes on a whole different energy and your entire life starts to shift from oh, I need to make more money to feel peace to realizing that peace is something that emanates from the soul, which is a piece of God that's in you and that's where peace comes from. From that state, everything else about your life can transform In work porn mode. Everything you do is reactive. In mode, everything you do is reactive. You are essentially paving a path to hell because you're waking up, checking your notifications from your team, waking up, thinking about, oh my God, I have this to do, that to do, that to do, and you're just in this frenetic energy and when you let that operate your life moving forward, it creates more of that. So you create what you focus on, and if you're focusing on stress and all these people you have to respond to, you're just gonna create more of that. So what I do is I wake up and I focus on the soul, the kingdom of heaven within.

Speaker 1: 6:34

There's another really amazing book called the Surrender Experiment, which was very transformational in this journey and it's written by a guy named michael singer who eventually, on this very spiritual path, became a billionaire, and that's why I recommend it to entrepreneurs, because it's like all right, well, I can listen to a spiritual book by a guy who made billions of dollars. Right, it's a bit more relatable than like this, this Indian Yogi who came here in the 1920s and, uh, although he did build like a successful organization, um, it's. I think it's pretty interesting for entrepreneurs to to hear about a perspective of a very spiritual person who ended up making billions of dollars in a, in a merger, and he actually sold his company, essentially to WebMD for like $6 billion. So anyway, this book is a very interesting story.

Speaker 1: 7:23

The author, michael Singer, also wrote the Untethered Soul, which you may have heard of. That's like his most famous book, but the Surrender Experiment is his autobiography, and so, long story short. One day he was in college he realized that there was this annoying thinking mind that just kept thinking thoughts and he couldn't get the thoughts to stop. So he went on this spiritual path, tried meditating every single day to start his day, trying to just shut up the mind, and what he found eventually was that if he just ignored what the mind was telling him and instead responded to how his like kind of soul was, uh, expressing itself from within that's a bit vague, I'll kind of get into that. A bit more potent and more uh, easier to understand is if you just look at how life is organizing itself around you, the people that it brings into your life, the circumstances that seem to happen without your control at all. You respond to those and you let those kinds of situations kind of guide you. That's like the hand of God, as opposed to your mind telling you you need to hit X revenue to do the next step in the next step, and so I would just recommend reading this book.

Speaker 1: 8:43

I can kind of go more into synopsis, but I'm going to skip that. Keep this video short and sweet. Again, if you resonate with these topics and these videos, I highly encourage you to click the link in the description 8amappcom. We have like a 400 person waiting list and we're looking for entrepreneurs that want to align under God, create things originally not be replaced by AI and travel, meet other successful entrepreneurs and grow together. So that's it for this video. See you, guys, in the next one. Peace.