From the Founder, Brian Mazza 12/7
It’s Their Capacity That’s Letting You Down
Ninety five percent of people will let you down in life.
That is not negativity. That is human nature.
And it has nothing to do with your worth.
It has everything to do with their capacity.
Most people are only equipped with the tools they currently possess.
Limited discipline.
Limited self awareness.
Limited consistency.
Limited emotional maturity.
You cannot expect a masterpiece from someone who has not learned how to hold a brush.
But the real breakdown does not happen when they let you down.
It happens when you let yourself down.
That is the double punch combo no one talks about.
Tyson body shot.
Tyson uppercut.
One blow from the world and one blow from your own neglect.
That is the knockout that keeps people stuck for years.
And the remedy is not padding.
It is not protection.
It is not avoiding people.
The remedy is asking why you keep ignoring yourself and committing to becoming your own medicine.
When I studied in Florence, on the days I actually showed up to class, one of my professors in the art program said something that never left me. We were studying the masters, the greats who created beauty while living through chaos and pain. And he told us in Italian
Tu sei la tua medicina
You are your own medicine.
Those artists understood one thing most people never learn.
No one was coming to rescue them.
No one was coming to hand them discipline, clarity, strength, or identity.
They built it. They sculpted it. They carved meaning out of their own suffering.
And you must do the same.
Fix your body.
Fix your mind.
Fix your soul.
Fix what you consume.
Fix who you allow into your orbit.
Fix how you present yourself to the world every single day.
This is how you stop abandoning yourself.
This is how you become the medicine you need.
Five Rules to Become Your Own Medicine
Rule 1
Stop outsourcing your healing.
No one is coming to save you. The sooner you accept that, the faster you take ownership of your life.
Rule 2
Hold yourself to the standard you expect from others.
If you demand loyalty, discipline, and consistency from people around you, you must embody it first.
Rule 3
Audit your inputs relentlessly.
Food, information, relationships, environments, and habits all have a biochemical effect on your life.
Rule 4
Treat your body, mind, and soul as one integrated system.
You cannot fix one and ignore the others. High performance requires whole system alignment.
Rule 5
Show up for yourself even when you do not feel like it.
Feelings are temporary. Standards are forever. Medicine only works if you take it daily.
Five Tools to Become Your Own Medicine
Tool 1
Daily self check in
Ask yourself every morning
What do I need physically
What do I need emotionally
What do I need to stop avoiding
Write it down. Do not lie.
Tool 2
One hour of personal investment
Thirty minutes of training
Fifteen minutes of reading
Fifteen minutes of solitude
This is your internal health insurance.
Tool 3
Toxicity removal protocol
Identify one thing each week that drains you
A person
A behavior
A habit
A food
Remove it or reduce it by fifty percent.
Tool 4
High performance diet of mind and body
Eat real food
Consume honest information
Fuel with purpose
Anything that makes you foggy, sluggish, or chaotic is not medicine, it is poison.
Tool 5
Identity mirror work
Stand in front of the mirror once a day and ask
Who am I becoming
Would the highest version of me be proud
Identity drives behavior. Behavior builds healing.
