You're 6 months away from completely changing your life.

The problem is most people think 6 months is too long.

They're so used to quick fixes that they don't realize that change takes time.

Change takes intentional effort. Conscious decision making. And the consistency to do it every day until it becomes their new identity.

6 months is nothing compared to 30 years.

Like I said, most people are looking for quick fixes.

Their search history says it all:

• “How to lose 15 pounds in a week.”

• “The easiest way to make passive income.”

• “How to run a business without learning any skills.”

There's nothing wrong with wanting to get into good shape or making money. The problem is wanting it to be easy. To want all the upside without the downside.

Ancient Chinese thinkers figured this out thousands of years ago when they came up with the concept of Yin and Yang.

To be want to be in good shape, it requires you to give up junk food and to work out to build muscle.

To build passive income, you'll need to build a profitable business, invest, and nurture your investments.

To run a business requires you to learn skills — even though AI can do most of the work with design, writing, marketing, ideation, you'll still need to develop the skill to ask it the right questions and give it the right instructions.

Back when I was in undergrad, every weekend, I would always drive 2 hours from my house to my dorms, and then another 2-hour drive back when I finished for the week.

So I had nothing to do in those drives but to think and reflect about my life and the people around me.

And I'll never forget this moment.

It was 2021, in the middle of the night and I was driving back to my dorms from my house. And as I was reflecting, I came to a radical realization:

Everyone in my life, my family, friends, teachers, and mentors, always preached about how you needed to get good grades so you can get a better job that pays you more.

At first glance, there' nothing wrong with their advice. But subconsciously, they all preached how you should be working for someone else.

They all thought of themselves as "less than" or not as good enough to make it on their own so they always felt the need to resort to working for someone else.

Society's Programming

If you don't know what you want to do, society will tell you what to do.

- Robert Greene

There is a default path that everyone gets put on.

It's the path of the mindless people who don't want to wake up.

School, college, job, promotions, mortgage, marriage, kids, retire, and when you're on your deathbed bed you realize that you've spent the majority of your life living someone else's life, not yours.

I don't know about you, but to me that's my worst nightmare.

The problem is most people are living this way and they don't know it.

They go about their days not questioning their actions. Mindless actions. Numbing their minds with cheap dopamine because facing reality is too painful.

Society is a ruthless place. It doesn't have space for waste.

If you don't know what you want to do, you'll be told what to do.

If you don't create your own goals, you'll be assigned goals.

If you don't create a routine, you'll be assigned a routine.

The problem with society's programming is it conditions you to expect linear results and so whenever you start something new, learning a skill, going to the gym, or building a business and you stop seeing linear results — which is inevitable — you immediately think that you've failed, you stop. and go back to your default's programming.

The problem with society's program is they train you into thinking life is linear.

You pass your exams, so you move up to the next grade.

If you fail your exams, you stay where you are and keep trying until you do pass.

It's a binary system.

But the real-world isn't as simple as that.

You can have a great product or a business idea and still fail and it's fine.

It's normal.

Because the real world isn't binary. There are no guarantees or assurances.

Once you understand that, you'll become aware of society's programming and how monotone everyone lives' are.

They're living mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts — generally somebody else's mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, and mechanical reactions.

They relive the same 6 months for the rest of their lives. That's not living. That's hell.

The way you break free from this programming starts by asking a question most people never want to ask themselves:

Who are you when you strip away everything society told you to become?

Understanding The Self

"Who am I?"

This is a question I've been asking myself a lot recently.

Because if you don't understand the problem — yourself — you can't solve it. You can't become something else unless you understand what you are now.

So "Who am I?"

Am I an engineer, a writer, a graduate student, a researcher, a bodybuilder, a runner, depressed, or happy?

Which one is me?

Wait…

Did you see what just happened?

The "I" referred to "me".

That means "I" is aware of "me", but "me" isn't aware of "I".

You can visualize this by seeing yourself in third-person view. You get to see your physical body from someone else's point of view. You get to observe yourself.

So the question now becomes, which one is you?

Which one is "I"?

Are you the observer or the physical body?

The "me" can't be you because it wasn't aware of itself. So what are not?

• You are not the thoughts that you think — thoughts come and go.

• You are not the emotion you feel — emotions are temporary waves that normalize with time.

• You are not your body — your body regenerates millions of cells every minute and millions of cells die every minute.

• You are not your profession — you can always change your job and the "I" is unaffected.

• You are not your name — you can change your name, but the "I" is unaffected.

So that means you're the observer. Because the observer is detached from all feelings, thoughts, emotions, beliefs, body, physical, and labels that you can put on it.

My friend, what you just discovered is called awareness, and there are 3 levels to it:

• Awareness of things (spatial)

• Awareness of thoughts ("me")

• Awareness of the thinker ("I")

The thinker — the observer — is the "I".

That's the real you, but you'll almost never come to understand the real you, because once you do, you'll start putting labels, and the "I" is detached from labels.

Labels belong to "me". The "me" is always changing. But the "I" stays the same. It's constant.

Niagara Falls' water keeps changing, but it stays the same. It doesn't matter even if you change its name. It's gonna stay the same. Because the "I" isn't dependent on the name either.

The power of "I" is you becoming detached from everything.

That means you're not the story that you told yourself. You are not your past. You are not the hardships that have happened to you.

You can always change your story.

How To Reinvent Yourself — Waking Up

You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free.

- Anthony De Mello

You don't "find" yourself.

You already have it.

So the goal isn't to gain something, but rather to drop everything so you're only left with the real you.

By doing dropping everything that you've been programmed by society, you begin to chip away at all the fat and only be left with the essence.

This is extremely hard to understand and conceptualize if you haven't done any form of meditation or read any philosophy or spirituality.

But once you understand that you are whole — in the sense that you have everything you need to build the life you want — you begin to realize that searching and becoming becomes stupid. Because you can't become something you already have.

The real you is already there, it's just been buried under all the decades of subconscious programming that has been done to you by society.

The key is to let go of that programming to allow the Self to prop up.

Nobody can tell you how to change. Nobody can tell you a method or a technique on how to do it. The moment you pick up a technique, you're programmed again.

People can only help challenge your ideas — those ideas lead to change. But you have to think for yourself and come to your own conclusions.

What I'm about to give you are general frameworks. You'll have to go through each step and experiment with it yourself. The answers I found and have worked for me will be completely different from what you'll find.

This process takes months, sometimes even years to happen. But it doesn’t matter how long it takes because living life on your terms is the greatest gift you can ever have.

Step 1 — Awareness

The first step to reinventing your life is awareness.

You must become aware of your actions, thoughts, beliefs, ideas, and everything in between.

Are you aware of your reactions as you're reading this letter?

If you aren't you'll be brainwashed by everyone. You'll be influenced by forces within you that you don't even know they exist.

The goal is to observe.

It sounds counterintuitive but if you want change, you can't interfere.

Just like a scientist trying to understand how animals behave, he does not interfere until he understands what they're doing and why they're doing it.

At this stage, you just need to become aware of your thoughts, the conditioning and programming that has been done to you.

You'll start to realize you have thoughts that were never yours.

As I am writing this, I am getting the urge to check my phone. I am not fighting against myself by saying, "You can't check your phone until you finish writing this section". If anything, I simply acknowledge the fact that I have this urge. If I do pick up my phone, then it's fine, I haven't "failed".

Don't judge yourself. Don't try to change. Simply observe.

It is important that you don't judge your actions. Because once you start judging, you start shaming, and shame is the worst way to drive change.

Which is why I think self-help books are a complete scam. They make you feel like you're "less than" and that there is something wrong with you — which is why you need to read self-help books.

But the reality is, you just need to observe your action and not judge.

Like we said, the "I" is detached from the physical realm. It has no feelings, no emotions, no judgment.

It simply observes. Observation alone is enough to change the trajectory of your life. Observation is awareness. Through awareness you find yourself.

Once you become aware of your actions, you become aware of what not to do — this leads to a vision.

Step 2 — Create A Vision

The vision guides your thoughts and actions.

A vision moves in the right direction. It creates its own discipline. Similar to how a river as it moves towards the sea — it creates its own banks that contain it. You don't need to have all of the vision figured out. You just need something to work towards.

4 weeks ago, my friends and I were laughing about hosting an in-person Creator Economy Conference in 2026 in Vancouver, Canada.

But 2 weeks later, we've got the venue sorted, main speakers booked, tickets, marketing, and landing page all planned.

There was a small problem with all of this — currently I'm making $4,000-$5,000 per month — that means for me to travel from Dubai to Canada it's gonna cost me $4,000-$5,000 — a full month's of work.

I even wrote in our group chat: "This got me hyped, I need to get to $30k/month"

I said it as a joke.

I didn't have any idea on how I'll reach there. But just having a vision in place will kick your subconscious mind into play. And your subconscious mind is more powerful than you'd think.

All of a sudden, I launched a group coaching program — 4 people joined — and as time goes on, more and more people will join. Next week, I'll start promoting the 30-Day Writer.

And 5 days ago, I got the idea of starting a ghostwriting agency — I know many ghostwriters, my friend has the leads, and teaming up just sounded like a no-brainer.

If you asked me 6 months ago if I'll ever start a ghostwriting agency, my answer would've been no. I'm still not sure if this is something that I'll enjoy doing long-term. But you'll only know this through experience.

So if everything goes to plan, I'll reach the $30k/month faster than I would ever expect (probably in the next 4-6 months).

The important part is this:

You don't need to have all the answers when you create your vision. Pick a general direction you want to go and start moving in that direction — the path will reveal itself as you walk.

Humans are a goal-driven species. We interpret and view the world based on our vision. Your vision shapes your reality.

Create a vision. It doesn't need to be perfect and start moving towards it.

Your vision is the filter for your reality.

Step 3 — Install New Programming

If the vision is the filter, then your programming is the focus.

Your programming shapes what you pick up on and what you miss.

A bodybuilder who goes to a gym will get the idea of how he can buy better equipment and create a food stand for other bodybuilders in the gym.

Someone who's into business will go to the same gym and spot the opportunity of how he can market the gym better and get more people to sign up.

Both are in the same gym, at the same time, two completely different ideas.

The reason this happens is because of their programming. One cares about building more muscle, the other cares about making money.

A vision kicks you into action and your programming keeps you on track.

Just like how society gave you the vision of becoming successful — by their absurd definition of success — they installed a program with it. Go to school, get a job. Chase an imaginary corporate ladder for 40 years. Always work for someone else for 8-10 hours a day for 5 days a week. Ask no questions.

The same thing you need to do to yourself if you want to reinvent your life. You need to install a new program.

Here's how to do it:

1) Change your circle.

Stop talking to friends who keep you stuck in life. If your friends are happy seeing you fall into your old self-destructive habits, they're not your friends. If they make fun of you for trying to improve your life, they're not your friends.

My advice: cut them off.

They're with you because you make them feel good. They feel good because they feel superior to you — and seeing you improving your life is painful for them because they can't handle the fact that you're better than them and they'll leave you when their social status is threatened by you.

2) Consume new information.

Stop following the news. Stop watching brain rot content. Stop following drama.

Follow creators and writers who force you to challenge your thoughts, see new perspectives, and propel you towards a life that you want.

Social media isn't toxic. Social media isn't just for entertainment. Social media is a reflection of your consumption habits.

For me, social media is extremely healthy. Every time I open an app I get filled with ideas and inspiration for what I want to write about.

Read new books.

Don't tell me "but I like to read AI summaries because it's all value and there's no fluff — you need to understand is books were never meant to be about learning or being actionable. You have courses and YouTube tutorials for that.

Books are meant for programming. You get to develop the sense of seeing a new perspective and question your current perspective. Reading AI summaries is mental masturbation. You're still running on old programming of getting cheap dopamine hits to avoid the pain of being woken up to reality.

I've had a really good education. It's taken me years to get over it. When I did get over it, I realized something:

Success isn't about learning more. Success is about unlearning most of what you've been taught by society and learning through self-experimentation and through real-world feedback.

3) Listen to podcasts that help you get closer to what you want to achieve.

I know a friend who listens to Naval Ravikant every day, multiple times a day.

When I started writing online, I watched hundreds of YouTube videos about the philosophy behind running a writing business. Through self-experimentation and trial and error, I came to the conclusion that a micro business is the best business to have.

4) Write about your vision.

Every day, write about what you want to achieve and why other people should do it. You're actively training your subconscious mind to spot opportunities and rewire your brain to success.

If you're not actively programming yourself to success, you're actively programming yourself to failure.

5) Learn new skills

Learn new skills that will help you take on new interesting challenges.

As you get better, the harder the challenges become which exposes you to different perspectives. You don't become one-dimensional in your thinking.

Step 4 — Obsess Every Day Until It Becomes Second Nature

The most successful people I know don't think about what they want to do.

A bodybuilder doesn't think to eat healthy, he does it on autopilot.

An investor doesn't need to think about checking the stock market, it's part of his daily routine.

A writer doesn't need to think to write, he writes because it's part of what he does.

I've obsessed over writing and running my creator business for the past 2 years. Now I no longer need to think of what I need to do or write about.

I've also been working out for the past 2 years. Now I don't need to think about going to the gym or going for a run. I do them because I want to. It's more painful for me to not write, not to go lift weights, not to go for a run.

If you've done all the previous steps correctly, becoming obsessed should feel relatively easy. You should feel like you want to write, to build your business, to launch products, to go to the gym, to read books. Because the pain of not doing it is more painful than doing it.

That's all for today.

Thank you for reading.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

- Hussain

P.S.

This is the first time I've written about spirituality/self-improvement in a long time.

Let me know what you think about it.

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