How to Build the Life You Keep Talking About

Babe wake up it's a new month, your daily prayer, Iran, and the art of making a decision

Mar 02, 2026

Good MORNING AND HAPPY MARCH. ♡

Your Daily Prayer

Good morning Holy Spirit, thank you for another day. thank you that your mercies are new every morning. Thank you for all that you’ve set before me today.

You spoke to the prophets long ago, at different times and in different ways, Lord by your Spirit speak to me today. I open my spirit to receive your guidance, your wisdom, and direction. Thank you for this new season, may it be a blessing to everyone around me.

I plead the blood of Jesus over my mind, my thoughts, and my heart. Lord please turn my heart towards you this day. Thank you for hearing me, and that you always hear me, in Jesus name I pray,

Amen.

NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS

the US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran Saturday. the operation hit targets in 24 of Iran’s 31 provinces. Israel deployed 200 fighter jets — the largest sortie in the history of the Israeli Air Force. the US codenamed it Operation Epic Fury
- I feel like this should go without saying, but I want to say it anyway. When I used to read or watch the news, my first response was usually reaction. But the closer I’ve gotten to the Holy Spirit, the less reactive I’ve become. Now, my first response is prayer.
- We are in a very important prophetic time. Conflict is not new. Our job is to pray for the innocent people affected by it. I made this video at the beginning of 2025, and it covers what God showed me about 2026 to 2030.
- Also, I’m just a girl who has the Holy Spirit. I don’t know everything. I don’t see everything. I never will. Only God knows everything, and that is what makes Him God.
Cutie Jack Schlossberg (JFK’s grandson, 33) is running for Congress in New York’s 12th District. a Kennedy back in politics is always a headline
a total lunar eclipse is happening Tuesday morning (March 3) — visible across the US, Canada, and Mexico. the moon will turn deep orange-red. set your alarm
Charles Leclerc and Alexandra Saint Mleux quietly got married in Monaco on Saturday. they drove off in a $9 million vintage 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. she changed her Instagram name to Alexandra Leclerc. their dachshund Leo wore a tag that said “Dad wants to marry you” during the engagement. the whole thing is disgustingly romantic

How Build the Life You Keep Talking About we know you’re locked in, but to what?

Here’s something about “locking in” that nobody really explains.

You’re already doing it. You’ve been doing it. The question was never whether you’d lock in. It was always what you’d lock into. And if we’re being honest, a lot of us have been locking into the wrong things for a while now. The scroll. The overthinking. That familiar loop of “I’ll get serious soon” that’s been playing since January.

Every day, what you do and what you skip is building something. A version of your life. Maybe the one you want, maybe not. If it’s not, that’s what we’re gonna sort out today.

I don’t want to talk about this in a vague, theoretical way. I want to talk about what actually has to change in how you think and what you do, starting this week, not “someday.”

“Ready” is not coming for you

If you’ve been waiting to feel ready, that feeling you’re waiting for might just... not arrive. And you could spend a really long time in that waiting room.

There’s a reason it doesn’t come. Your nervous system is designed to keep things the same. Familiar equals safe, as far as your brain is concerned. So that pull to stay put, to wait for better timing, to whisper “not yet” to yourself? That’s your body doing exactly what it’s built to do. It’s not insight. It’s a reflex.

But you can make a decision anyway. You don’t have to feel ready first. You just have to choose. And choosing is available to you right now, today, no matter how unprepared you feel.

I think about the people I know who’ve made real shifts in their lives. None of them waited until the conditions were perfect. They just... stopped going back and forth. And once they stopped negotiating with themselves, things started opening up. Slowly at first, then faster.

What feels ready to you is completely made up, by the way. Someone else might look at your situation and think you’re way overdue. Another person might think you’re crazy. There’s no bar. There’s no test you pass. You just stop telling yourself you can’t yet.

Wanting it is not the same thing

This is where I think most of us get stuck, honestly.

You can want something so badly. You can think about it constantly. But wanting is passive. It sits in your chest and doesn’t actually go anywhere. Deciding is different. Deciding sounds like, “This is who I am now.” Not “I hope to be” or “I’m working toward.” Just... this is it.

Like with health. You can want to feel better in your body for years and stay in that wanting place. Or you can wake up one morning and be like, I’m a person who takes care of herself. Period. And then the fridge opens and you make a different choice, almost without thinking about it, because the old choice doesn’t match your decision anymore.

Same with money. Same with how you show up in relationships. Same with your faith. When you attach something to your identity instead of your Someday Wish List, your actions start following without all the internal negotiation.

And look, being halfway in is its own kind of commitment. If you’re telling yourself “I want this, but...” you’re committing to the “but.” You’re investing in the hesitation.

Which is fine if you’re aware of it, but most of us aren’t. We think we’re being careful. We’re actually just splitting our own energy in half and wondering why nothing moves.

The boring part is the whole thing

The life you want will probably be built on a day that looks completely unremarkable. A Tuesday. A random Wednesday where you just... did the thing again.

I think that’s where a lot of people stop, and I get it. The beginning is fun. New planner, new routine, that clean-slate energy. But three weeks in, when the novelty wears off and it’s just you doing the same thing again with no applause? That’s where it gets quiet. And quiet is where most people exit. That is also exactly why I recommend everyone who starts their Good Fruit Journey, to make sure they also use the journal alongside it.

Repetition makes it real.

The workout when you’re tired. Reviewing your budget when you’d honestly rather not know the number. Praying on a morning when it feels like nothing is landing. That stuff isn’t glamorous. But it’s the stuff that actually builds things. Slowly, in a way you can’t see, and then all at once.

Something I keep thinking about is how there’s no actual endpoint. You finish school, cool. Now figure out a career. You figure out the career, now you want the relationship. You get the relationship, now you’re navigating a whole new set of challenges. It never resolves into this clean, finished state where you just get to sit in the result. You’re always in the middle of something. So shouldn’t you just hang? Relax? Have fun?

Which means if you can’t find a way to be okay with the middle, you’re going to be uncomfortable for the rest of your life.

I don’t say that to be dramatic. It’s just how it works. But the flip side is that once you stop resisting the in-between, things feel lighter. The repetition stops being something you push through and starts being something you just... do. Like brushing your teeth. You don’t dread it. You barely think about it. That’s the goal.

Close a door behind you

If you’re serious about a shift, do something you can’t take back.

I mean that. Most of us keep ourselves in limbo because every door we walk through is a two-way door. We try the thing, but we leave ourselves an out. And as long as the out exists, it’s really hard not to take it when things get uncomfortable.

But when you pay a non-refundable deposit on something? When you tell people what you’re doing before you’ve done it? When you book the flight, sign the contract, throw away the clothes that don’t feel like you anymore? You’ve removed the exit. And now the only direction is through.

Some of the biggest shifts in my own life came after I closed a door I’d been keeping cracked open. Sometimes it was big, like leaving a job. Sometimes it was small, like finally investing in something I’d been telling myself I’d do “when I was ready.” Either way, once the option to go back was gone, I figured it out. Because I had to! No choice!

If you keep leaving yourself a way out, you will take it.

Time doesn’t care if you’re ready

The next month is coming. So is the next year. That part’s already decided.

What isn’t decided is what you’ll be doing when it arrives. Whether you’ll still be in the same loop, or whether you’ll have actually moved.

You know what you want. You know the next step. I really believe that. I think the gap between where you are and where you want to be is usually not information. It’s a decision you keep putting off.

So whatever that decision is for you, make it. And if you’re scared, good. Close a door behind you anyway.

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