Position Is Small. Presence Is Immense

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Friend, what did you think of Sunday’s issue? Too good? Are you stacking your miracles? Reshaping your reality?

That’s why we show up here together. That’s why I created Invisible World. To transcend the illusions, to chip off the blocks, to do the work, and reveal your real identity. Is it possible?

One tag up to the Sunday Teddy issue → So fascinating how President Theordore Roosevelt was not elected to be president, and yet ended up with a 60 ft. engraving on Mt. Rushmore. Hmm.

Not only was he not elected to be president, he also had minimal prior executive and political experience.

He was New York City police commissioner and governor for 1 year, so uh, I guess there’s that.

Doesn’t matter though. Because he was more focused on his invisible world. On his internalities, not the externalities. Are you?

Focused on who he was, not what he does.

He was busy polishing his internal resume, not the one we pass around to show people. The invisible one, not the paper one.

100? I lose sight of that.

Instead I scan the horizon for the big role, the big position, the big validation, the big impact, the big 60 ft. stone engraving of Jeremy Jonz. Could you imagine?

My favorite Roosevelt quote is:

"Success - the real success - does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position." 

If that’s true, then maybe it doesn’t matter if you’ve never taken a company public before, first time huh?

Doesn’t matter if you don’t have the position you want, doesn’t matter if your business card says first time podcaster, first time parent, first one in the family to break the addiction, attend college, or it might read: Inexperienced politician who wasn’t even voted into office, the other guy died, you’re just a back up!

Maybe it doesn’t matter if you weren’t expecting the child, doesn’t matter if you never started a charity before, built a company before, or launch a career after 20 years of being a homemaker.

Maybe it doesn’t matter if you didn’t get that property of your dreams, if someone else paid more for the acquisition you wanted, or you didn’t get that new key employee you wanted.

It’s not your position that matters, but how you carry yourself. 

Maybe your role as “husband” or “wife” doesn’t matter. Could there be a more powerful love, a high frequency ability, or in Roosevelt’s words, ‘how you carry yourself’?

Do we need a formal position and the government to sign off that we will be there for someone through thick and thin? That we’ll love them for who they are, that we’ll show up to be present alongside them, not possess them as ‘mine only’.

I’m here with you today, and that’s enough. Can we do that? Sorry. I mean, can we be that?

What if we have a frequency of love that demonstrates to people we trust: I want you to be happy even if you don’t choose me. That I’ll still share my heart my money and my resources no matter our positions?

Is that possible?

The other day I returned a few extra bags of mulch to Home Depot. I told the cashier I was happy to restock them, since I was headed out to the nursery anyway.

It was late. No one was there. I tossed the mulch bags on the pallet. One landed upside down, the other upright. I walked off.

But then I knew I was going to email you today. So I kicked my boot against the shopping cart. I was tired. Been a (very) long day. After all, I didn’t even work here, I have my own job. It wasn’t my . . . my what? Not my position.

I gripped the cart out there in the nursery in the dusk closing hours. Is that it Jonz? That’s all you have to give? You just focused on positions and cultural conditioning and what’s fair?

Or, is there something larger in you? Something burning? Is this how you carry yourself?

Do you carry something larger than a position?

So . . . I restacked my mulch bags, facing up, organized, like it was my store, my mulch for sale.

If today’s issue spoke to you, consider joining Invisible World for complete access to all of our identify shifting work.

Restack your mulch bags today.

Take your company public, love people you care about because that’s who you are, not a position you signed up for.

After all, Roosevelt wasn’t elected to be president, didn’t sign up for it.

Good luck this week, me too right? And remember the world needs who you were meant to be, so be it.

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Mind 🌞 

Rooselvelt created the modern conservation movement, establishing national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges.

More than 230 million acres of land were protected under his leadership — a legacy that still shapes America’s relationship with nature.

While we celebrate it now, at the time it was controversial. It made many business folks and real estate developers furious.

Soul ⚡️ 

I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could've been any clearer
If they wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change

I've been a victim of a selfish kind of love
It's time that I realize
That there are some with no home
Not a nickel to loan
Could it be really me pretending that they're not alone?

— Man in the Mirror, song, by Michael Jackson

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