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Some weeks ago, a friend called me before one of the biggest moments of his career.

He'd spent hours preparing. Days, actually. Rehearsing. Planning. Staying up late because he couldn't sleep — the fear of failing kept his mind running scenarios at 2am.

A week later, he called again. I could see it before he said anything. The smile. The relief. He'd crushed it. One of the strongest pieces of work he'd ever done.

I felt his energy through the screen. That rare moment when everything clicks and you finally prove — to yourself, to everyone — that you're as good as you hoped you were.

Two weeks later, it all collapsed.

Not because of him. His team made decisions that undid everything he'd built. The work was gone.

That night, he couldn't sleep again. But this time it wasn't anticipation. It was a different kind of hell — the mental loop of analyzing, replaying, searching for some way out of the maze.

I felt for him. I really did.

But here's what hit me as I sat with his situation: this pattern isn't unusual. It's everywhere.

The Maze Most Entrepreneurs Never Escape

I've watched this play out dozens of times. Talented people stuck in cycles they can't break.

Something external happens — a setback, a betrayal, a failure. And instead of processing it and moving on, they spiral. Overthinking. Forcing. Working longer hours. Sleeping less. Trying to strategize their way out.

It rarely works. And when it does work temporarily, the same pattern shows up again a few months later wearing different clothes.

After years of watching this — and living it myself — I started to notice something.

The problem isn't external. It's never been external.

What if the real issue isn't the situation at all? What if it's something much older?

Maybe it's the version of you from twenty years ago. The one who never got the attention he needed. The one who learned early that love and worth were conditional — that you had to prove something to deserve them.

So now, decades later, you're still proving. Still chasing. Still afraid that if this project fails, if this launch flops, if this deal falls through — people will finally see what you've always feared: that you're not enough.

That pressure creates fear. And fear creates thoughts:

Sound familiar?

Here's the difficult truth: until you fix this from the inside out, the pattern will keep repeating. Different situations. Same loop. Same exhaustion.

The Lens You Don't Know You're Wearing

Everything you experience — business, relationships, setbacks, wins — passes through a filter before you perceive it.

This filter is made of old conditioning. Things that happened years ago. Situations you lived through. Words you heard. Beliefs you formed before you were old enough to question them.

Two people can look at the same situation and see completely different things. One sees opportunity. One sees threat. The difference isn't the situation — it's the lens.

When a challenge appears in your business, it doesn't arrive neutral. Your lens immediately assigns meaning. Labels it. Threat. Failure. Proof that you're not good enough. And then you react to the label, not the reality.

This is why working harder doesn't help. Why learning more strategies doesn't help. Why you can change your approach, double your effort, hire better people — and still end up in the same emotional place.

The strategy changes. The lens doesn't.

You're trying to solve an internal problem with external tools. It's like trying to fix your reflection by adjusting the mirror.

The Pond

Imagine a still pond.

When the water is calm, you see a perfect reflection. Yourself. The trees. Birds overhead. Everything clear.

Now throw a stone in.

Ripples. The reflection distorts. You can't see clearly anymore.

Most people, when they see the distorted reflection, try to fix the ripples. They reach into the water, trying to smooth the surface. But that only creates more ripples. More distortion. More chaos.

Working from the outside in is like trying to fix ripples.

Working from the inside out means letting the water settle.

When the body calms, the mind follows. When the mind settles, the ripples dissolve on their own. The reflection becomes clear again — not because you forced it, but because you stopped disturbing it.

There are many paths to settling the water. Movement. Breathwork. Meditation. Journaling. These all help.

But there's one factor almost everyone overlooks. The most fundamental one.

What you feed your body.

The Fuel Problem

Think about what you ate yesterday.

Now imagine putting that — all of it — into a blender. The morning coffee with whatever you added. The lunch you grabbed between calls. The snack you barely registered. The dinner. The thing you ate at 10pm because you were still wired.

Blend it. Pour it into a glass.

That sludge is what your brain is running on right now.

You can meditate for an hour every morning. But if you're feeding your system fuel that creates inflammation, you're meditating on top of chaos. You're trying to find stillness while your biology screams.

In the old yoga traditions, they understood something we've forgotten. There are two parts to the path.

First, you clean the house. You remove what doesn't belong — the toxins, the inflammation, the interference. You create the conditions for clarity.

Then, you can stay in the house. You can be present. You can access the stillness that was always there, underneath the noise.

But you can't skip the first step.

You can't "presence" your way through a body that's on fire.

Most people try to meditate their way to clarity while eating foods that guarantee chaos.

You're fighting biology with psychology.

Biology wins.

What This Means For You

If you've read this far, something resonated.

Maybe you've felt the loop. The mental noise that won't stop. The decisions that feel harder than they should. The crashes that come out of nowhere.

Maybe you've tried things. Supplements. Apps. Therapy. Productivity systems.

And maybe you've made progress — but the fundamental pattern remains. The water never really settles.

Here's what I've learned, both from my own eight years of inner work and from watching others: you can't think your way out of a body problem.

When your nervous system is constantly triggered by what you're eating, no amount of mindset work will give you lasting peace.

But when you remove the interference — when you clean up what you're feeding your system — something shifts. The noise quiets. Not because you forced it. Because you removed what was causing it.

Most people feel this shift within the first 7-10 days. By day 30, they report something that surprises them: they feel like themselves again. Present. Clear. Able to handle stress without spiraling.

If you're tired of managing symptoms and ready to address the source, I'm running a 30-day reset. Daily check-ins. Direct guidance. A clear protocol to clean up the fuel and let your system settle.

No complexity. No willpower battles. Just remove the interference and see what happens.

​Join the 30-Day Mental Reset.​

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My friend? He's still in the maze.

Still trying to fix the ripples.

I hope he finds his way out. But I know now — you can't show someone the door until they're ready to see it.

You're still reading.

Maybe you're ready.

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All Love,

Tomas