What does Stack Sats, Stay Humble mean to me? Being humble is having gratitude & contentment with what you have and what you are. Bitcoin is inevitable, working harder for your future than your worrying about the present. Work on your mindset to be happy with what you have so you can be ready for what Bitcoin will bring you. The future will never exist, the past isn’t real - now is all there is. If you aren’t content and happy NOW with a cup of coffee or a moment with a loved one, nothing about “the future” will bring you happiness. If you’ve been on a journey of betterment and change, often you hit resistance from people around you. “I would be happy, but my partner is not on board with my goals, how do I get them to support me?” One of my mindset coaches Dan Martell says it best: “Nobody has to change for you to win.” Blaming your spouse for your lack of sovereignty of mind and body is not the bitcoin way. Take sincere responsibility for your actions, mindset and harness the concept of proof of work in your personal life. Just like how in Bitcoin you can’t have a valid output without the proper inputs, it works the same with your mind. Practice coin control with your life not just your UTXOs. Bitcoin does the heavy lifting for your future, you need to do the heavy lifting for your present. Scrolling twitter? Bad input. Constantly watching the macro and following every economic news item? Bad input. Bad inputs lead to bad outputs (worrying, trolling, arguing.) Start controlling your inputs by building a citadel mind and body to handle the citadel wealth that will come to you from your Bitcoin conviction. What is a citadel mind? Take the problems you have right now and amplify them by 10X. Could you handle them? Bitcoin brings abundance through scarcity, but if you have a scarcity mindset you’ll have an abundance of problems. It’s easy to START cultivating a humble mindset. It takes work to stay humble. Wake up earlier and read a book or watch a video on mindset development. Learn how to become a better leader. Learn how to become a better wife/husband/parent. Learn how to set goals. Practice gratitude for what you have. Tick tock next block applies to your life, however unlike in bitcoin consistency compounds over time to REDUCE the difficulty. Your willpower is like blockspace, it’s a limited resource that renews after a time. Do you want to use all your willpower on the equivalent of spam transactions? “Should I wake up or sleep in? Should I go on my phone to check notifications while having my morning coffee? Should I avoid this muffin at the drive thru? Should I troll this dumb post about Bitcoin? Should I hit the gym today?” These micro decisions use your willpower & clog up your ability operate efficiently and have valid outputs. The more you control your inputs, set goals and show up to do the work, the consistency replaces the need to use willpower and the difficulty reduces and it gets easier to solve the puzzles. Consistency is to willpower like the lightning network is to the mempool. DCA towards staying humble and achieving your goals. Daily Consistent Action. Consistency & a clear vision bypasses the need to spend willpower bringing the cost to achieve your goals and solve your problems down to 0 sats/vbyte. If you do this, as Bitcoin marches towards inevitability and brings you abundance - you can take on the greater and greater challenges that come with greater wealth & power. If you need some resources that have helped me, feel free to ask. If you have some resources that have helped you, please share.

Are you friends with your anger? I struggled with suppressing my anger for years. I still struggle with it. Buddhists believe all emotions are from One Energy, and that you need to befriend all of your emotions. From experience, I observed that suppressing anger and avoiding my emotions actually caused me to feel less happiness & love. Obsessing over shitcoins, spending the majority of my time on Clubhouse and listening to podcasts & audiobooks was a way to distract me from my emotions. It wasn’t until I started prioritizing my mind & body through making commitments to myself and keeping them that I eventually found my emotions again. The advice from the book is to acknowledge your anger, recognize it and observe it - only then can you do something about it. If you are feeling or experiencing anything in this list, you might want to acknowledge you have repressed anger and find one thing in your life you can change to befriend all of your emotions. Is it wake up earlier, meditate more, read more books on mindset / self, exercise more, spend more time with loved ones, have more fun? For me it’s all of the above + continuing to find new good habits.

Your reaction is your reflection. AKA your triggers are mirrors. AKA the world will show you where you’re not free. AKA your truth will show others where they’ve been living a lie. Pissed off about what someone said on Twitter? Getting enraged about someone’s reaction to <INSERT SUBJECT>? Feeling angry and frustrated about XYZ? These are all clues to help you identify what you need to fix about yourself. You can’t control what other people do, you can only control your reaction to what happens - and when you are triggered it’s a reflection of what’s going on inside of you, not what that person said or did. For me, usual the solution is to level up and stop playing small. Free time is a mindfuck. When you create too much free time and don’t fill it with something meaningful, it creates dullness - you are ceding territory. Notice what you get triggered about and ask yourself what you need to change about yourself in order to not be reacting to that anymore. Likely it’s wake up earlier, go to the gym, be more creative, learn a new skill, be more structured & mindful about time with the people you love, or read more to work on yourself. Bitcoin is inevitable, so your problems are only going to get bigger as Bitcoin grows. Your main job is to level up alongside Bitcoin, to become a better leader - because eventually a lot of people will look up to you and rely on you. Stack skills alongside sats.