The best way to understand the range of subjects that appears in my day to day is by correlating them. It is that what makes the understanding itself fluid and more dynamic.
Also my mind works in imaginary terms: once I can have a point of view of any situation, I can start to conceptualize what I saw in my mind in a way that “makes sense” (not anytime, I can say, but the journey is worth it so far).
So, what about this 45°? How can you connect this thing with Changing Life and finding the right momentum to make things happen?
The thing is: a small but intentional angle of change that preserves inertia.
Thinking about it, I always come up with Race Cars.
Or even regular cars.
Let’s keep it with just Cars.
What about them? Cars don’t have to slow down when the curve is on the right spot.
They maintain speed and just adjust the angle.
When driving, we can feel it happening, we can feel that we can go for it without changing the speed just by following the road in the right way.
Of course we’re not talking about keep gassing the vehicle; but we certainly are talking about the productivity in making the most of the balance in between not losing so much speed and make a very beautiful curve.
I like to visualize that this speed vs curve can be translated as the 20% less which is necessary to have a “breathing calculation” in the curve itself and get back right to the “keep moving forward” movement.
Most of the times, we think transformations requires slamming the brakes… but what if the safest, fastest change is indeed the smallest angle?
You’re already enough
There’s nothing consistent in your life which will ask you a change of 180°.
Not even if you want it to happen.
There’s no way you’ll change all the things at once; you’re not gonna transform the whole spectrum of your reality in 1 jump alone.
Besides, I would risk to say that you don’t even want to change 180° of your life. If you think about it with the right perspective, this abrupt movement gives you bigger chances of falling back to the version of you that existed before the decision to change.
Seems like it’s not the right decision if you’re looking forward to evolve.
“Restart culture” can be tempting.
Be a totally new person, with no memory or even with a whole different life.
Therefore, it can be very overwhelming to try to “reinventing life” from scratch.. and to be a totally different person, I risk to say, you don’t need to get close to the extreme to do that.
Take this thought: this kind of change is the same as losing everything you’ve built so far. Taking your progress and the good things you identify with and throwing them by the window.
This desire to go with “blank pages” in life has a big external influence: society idolizes “hard pivots” and we feel the pressure of acting to be seen or to be noticed.
But, hey, society never sees the whole story.
Society only validates the surface, never the journey.
So, why act on society standards, right?
Quitting, deleting everything, moving countries: all reflects people’s thirst to experiment high emotions, at its pick.
“To feel something, the extreme is always the call” (it’s what they say).
Your feelings of moving, exploring, freeing yourself are legit, now doubt of that.
The only thing to be aware is the moment of the jump itself, with anxiety and desperation, which can be hard to administrate tho.
You cannot act towards the fear of losing momentum, you know? FOMO in essence.
The believe that small adjustments will not “be enough” cause this effect and you cannot see right the way the impact of what you’re starting with this little change of direction, with this little action (I’ll get there).
Therefore, the illusion that sometimes is easy to throw yourself out there without thinking can be stronger than just handle the self-doubt that appears around the small and subtle changes.
Either way, you’re responding to something; you’re reacting to the external world in a way that pushes yourself to show results. But what kind of results you’re measuring?
I like to perceive that the much more greater way to change reality around you and achieve your goals, is the second mechanism: little by little. One step at the time.
But it wasn’t always like that. And sometimes, I still need the jumps.
They’re little jumps now, tho. The right amount of “height” to have more clarity.
It’s my way to understand what the small steps I’ll need to be making.
That doesn’t mean that small steps are slow, you see? The hack is to understand the right speed in each tuning point.
Like in a race, you’ll have a lot of curves all over the race track. Be able to turn in a more profitable way is what I call
The Angle Adjustment.
Not abandonment. Neither just changing without seeing.
Every small step gives you more perspective and more confidence in the right speed to turn. The car inertia metaphor illustrates it in the best way and it’s the same as:
Do not focus your attention on the road…
45° turns in every curve preserves speed.
It becomes a mix of perceiving the goal and nourishing your achievement mindset, within the right adjustment over time, that will bring the most profitable energy.
Think of it as a open filed and you being the responsible for creating the best road.
So, there’s no mistake. The road is all yours. You have all the imaginable ways of getting wherever you want.
You’re in the right path all the time, and you’re acting on your purpose and dreams already. Even if it seems distant or confusing, your attention has to go in how to handle what appears in your way (curves) and not the way around.
By that, changing your life is not something as going thought a memory erase, lobotomy or trade your own body for another.
It is, in my perspective, just a 45° turn from what you’re already doing. Being very intentional about that, of course.
Open road and finding the way in the best speed possible: smells like Momentum.
Momentum
We can talk about what are Dimensional Shifts now.
To be very simple: Dimensional Shifts is changing or jumping to a different reality that seems very alike the one you are.
Every time to time we all have what I call the presence lapse, or simply the moment when you can perceive yourself more clearly, with presence.
Those are portals for Dimensional shifts.
So, understanding how you function by perceiving momentum and your ability to apply the right angle can lead you to a totally different reality very close to the one you’re living right in this moment.
This is very cool, actually.
Let’s explore how momentum + angle creates dimensional shifts.
By this Presence Lapse, there’s some main characteristics to help you in perceiving it:
- Everything seems possible (trust)
- No doubt at all of what you have to do (decision)
- Present—Future connection in a clear vision (perspective)
A hell of a moment, right? This is The momentum.
Very powerful to bring you to Presence.
In this moment, everything seems right on the spot the be easily achievable and manifested. It’s true indeed, you know? And I have an even stronger believe that those are divine moments.
On the other hand, “knowing” with this depth can be freezing. After all, everything is possible and can be overwhelming.
You try to understand how to act and what’s the best approach to materialize everything you’re seeing in the speed of snapping fingers.
But those moments are the tuning moments: they serve you to make the first step towards what you can visualize.
They give you the opportunity to cross the portal that’s opening right “before your eyes”.
But, even with all the alignment, it’s just the first step which is necessary.
Cause, you have to test and act forward in what you’re tuning.
The secret is to understand the minimum adjustment possible.
The angle.
People usually believe that every change is a case of “life & death”.
This naturally is gonna happen, the difference is about what moves the change and how the decision in that direction can slowly takes place and making space to the new manifest.
The hard thing to understand is, after this kind of Portal opens, it’s not just the first step what will get you there. You stepped into a whole new Dimension; you chose to take this path.
You have to maintain the decision to accept the new frequency.
How so? Little steps with the right angle.
In this way, the flow you perceive is: every time I can change my entire reality with just one step.
That one step is going to be the only thing you need to understand to get wherever you want.
Waking through layers. Swimming through The Grid.
Burn out
In this sense, it’s very important to be asking: do you know your own particular point of burn out?
If you ask around, there’s an intrinsic fear attached to this expression: burn out.
Half of people don’t even think about understanding this point
Seems like some kind of villain or the “prohibited spot”, am I right?
The true is, the better you know your own point of burn out, the better you can live with it and rhythm yourself.
It’ll dictates the right amount of change/load/action you can take to maintain Dimensional Shift.
Although this is not the point you’ve should been working on, by the edge.
But, you have to know it, to understand where/when it sits in your continuous effort.
Why?
Friction sometimes is good: the fire, the motivation, the “conquering the world” feeling.
But is not sustainable.
And guess what? Making 90º turns often gives you a lot of friction.
The image in my head is indeed like when a child sees fire for the first time: They try to touch it to understand what it is, cause is beautiful and shines a lot. Therefore, as soon as they understand it burns, they start to experiment the right distance to be warm without hurting those little fat fingers they have.
(maybe that’s why they call it burn out, right?)
They’re necessary to teach, but it’s not where you want to be.
Chasing this kind of proximity gives you the worst outcome when you’re in this position: hard resets.
Imagine, every that in every time you want to get warm, you have to burn yourself out and, after that, be healing yourself of the scalds.
Doesn’t work like that.
Most of the times, getting back from a burnmakes you lose all the productivity you farmed. It’s a fake spot of achievement.
That’s why I’m visualizing 45º as the answer to a healthy, fast and precise self-development; and in every area of your life.
Keeping the fire for long is better than waste the entire firewood at once.
45º shift keeps the fire (flow) alive instead of breaking it.
The 3 friends of 45º Action
A small but intentional angle of change that preserves inertia.
That’s what we’re after.
That’s what makes really sense. Although we keep talking about the speed issue, the state of flow is even more important.
It’s literally searching and aligning yourself with a gracious movement which, at the same time that gives you momentum, makes you learn in the most effective way.
1st Friend
- Sense the deviation early (Mental Awareness)
You don’t wait until the car is off the road to turn the wheel.
It’s not what happen when you’re driven. It’s not what happen when you want to grow.
That’s the 90º turn with all the friction, the burnout.
The first step is a quiet, internal game.
It is the Mental Awareness to feel when the straight line is no longer serving you. It’s that subtle feeling in your gut that says, “The wind has changed.” Most people ignore this. They wait for the crash to realize they needed to turn.
But the 45º practitioner is attuned.
You are scanning the horizon with curiosity not with anxiety. Because of that, you notice the deviation before it becomes a problem.
You acknowledge that the current path needs a slight adjustment.
The territory has changed, and you change with it.
2nd Friend
- Choose the smallest possible angle (The Meta Pattern)
Once you see the curve, the instinct is to overcorrect.
To quit the job, to end the relationship, to move to a cabin in the woods.
Don’t.
We are looking for the Meta Pattern: the underlying structure of efficiency.
We want the smallest possible movement that still guarantees a change in direction. Think about it: If you change your trajectory by just 45º—max— (or even 1º) and you keep moving for a year, you will end up in a completely different destination than if you had stayed straight.
But you didn’t have to destroy your life to get there.
This is the strategic choice. It is asking yourself:
“What is the minimum effective dose of change I need right now?”
It’s not about being lazy. It’s about being “smart physics” yourself.
3rd Friend
- Execute to protect momentum (Material Embodiment)
This is where the magic happens!
This is the Material Embodiment of the concept, you see?
You. Take. Action.
Therefore you prioritize speed and flow over the drama of the change, when a race car driver takes a curve, they don’t slam the brakes to zero.
They press the throttle just a little, as if touched with a feather.
They keep the engine singing.
In your life, this means integrating the new habit into the old routine seamlessly. It means pivoting your business without shutting it down. It means evolving your personality without rejecting who you were yesterday.
You protect your momentum because that energy is what carries you through the doubt.
If you stop completely to change, you have to overcome the inertia of being still.
That is heavy. That is hard.
But if you turn while moving? You are already halfway there.
Butterflies in the Stomach
Each day is a battle itself.
Trying to change all at once is defeat at the corner… it’s not maintainable.
You can see the results right the way, but they will drag you down in the moment you can no longer feed them with what I call fake gap.
= seems like you’re changing, that you’re totally different from before; but it’s very easy to get back to the old version.
Remember, 90º makes you use a lot of strength to turn but, at the end, you are almost stopping.
On the other hand, you have the angled pivot.
Just to say it makes me free a smile in my face. What a comfortable discomfort decision.
It’s like a playground for your own self-development.
And you can test… a lot!
You’re able to choose with clarity your own direction and experiment if it’s bring you closer to the result you were expecting. If it’s not, you change a little bit again.
You’re able to breathe the change and to manage the benefits (or not) of what you’ve decided to do from now on.
And the best part is that you can still keep part of the old reality close, so you accept the change, let go of the past and adapt to the new.
“The real courage is not in abandoning everything, but in adjusting just enough.”
— Me myself
Enjoy it
Follow this and always be aware, okay?
Take your time, but be intentional and active.
It’s like entering the flow: once you got it and understand it, it’s like letting the current help you to navigate.
By that, you can keep your speed, maintain your pace and be really true to your own change.
The (almost) invisible reward is that you’ll naturally diminish the caos.
Caos will be there, but much more like a traveling partner than something that takes off your focus and attention.
Meanwhile, it’s really possible to visualize the evolution of your path without the self-destruction we usually relate with the act of changing.
We constatly connect butterflies in the stomach with fall in love with someone.
But we totally forget that ridding a roller coaster also gives that feeling: and that’s exactly why we engage in this game.
(although if you notice, there’s almost none 90º angles in roller coasters)
Chasing emotion without breaking yourself to the void.
The trustful line inside it all
To reming yourself the core of this system.
Changing like that is an ability you can definitely teach yourself.
A way that gives you the tools to not leap out of reality, but build on top of it.
It’s taking the old bubble and changing it layer by layer.
Using the system you have to build a totally different reality and shard your reactivon in daily attitudes.
To finish I’ll drop here an imaginary frame for your reflective homework:
Imagine that changing in 45º is like going upward, in a very geometric perspective where you refine the amount of force you have to use by rounding and rounding every time going up layer by layer, and in each time being more productive to find momentum in this spiral trajectory to evolve your being.
ufff… so, remember:
The best curves aren’t dangerous, they’re delicious.
Try one 45º change over this week (after you read this)
Write it down: how it went for your reality and the emotional click you took from it.
See you soon.
