Episode 158 – This Technique Will Make You Unstoppable

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Note: This blog post serves as an accompaniment to the corresponding podcast episode of A Changed Mind, where we’ll distill down the core ideas of this week’s theme, along with additional distinctions and insights. If you haven’t listened to the episode yet, you can go here to do so.  Enjoy.

The concepts of energy and being often get dismissed as vague spiritual fluff, but in reality, they are the very keys to success. Nobody’s telling you to sit on a rock and manifest millions without effort—you still have to do the work. But here’s the truth: the doing only works when it’s aligned with the right internal state. If you’ve been hustling, grinding, implementing strategies, and still wondering why it’s not clicking, this is the missing piece. Once you understand it, you stop spinning and start creating the outcomes you’ve always wanted.

When Doing Isn’t Enough

I was recently on a coaching call with a husband-and-wife team who run an eight-figure insurance company. They had just lost one of their carriers, and it was shaking their entire business. Policies were dropping, payroll was tight, and their stress was skyrocketing. The husband said to me, “I know you tell us to stay in a powerful state of being and trust that the problem will resolve if we don’t get caught up in the fear. But don’t we actually need to do something? Isn’t this whole ‘being’ idea a little woo-woo?”

That’s the misunderstanding so many people have. They think being means passivity, or worse, denial. They imagine the stereotypical hippie vegan saying, “Just be, man. Just chill and vibe.” And honestly, I get it. I used to roll my eyes at that too. Especially when the same people preaching “just be” couldn’t pay their bills. But dismissing the idea of being is throwing away the very foundation of success. Because while doing creates results, the state you’re being in determines what those results actually are.

The Other Extreme: Hustle and Grind

On the flip side, many of us fall into the trap of all doing, no being. Hustle harder. Wake up at 5:00 AM. Outwork the competition. There’s no shortage of content online promoting this mindset, and I’ll be honest—I used to resonate with it. I believed if I just outworked everyone else, I’d win. But here’s what happens: people grind themselves into the ground. Their nervous systems get wrecked, their health crumbles, their relationships suffer, and even if they hit their financial goals, they feel empty. I’ve coached countless “successful” hustlers whose lives behind the scenes were falling apart.

Doing without being is unsustainable. Being without doing is ineffective. The magic is in the integration of the two.

Why Energy Matters

Let’s step out of the woo-woo for a moment and look at science. Everything is energy. Tesla said it. Einstein said it. Your seventh-grade science teacher said it when she explained that an atom is mostly empty space, held together by vibrating waves of energy. You and I are shimmering fields of energy, constantly broadcasting a frequency through our thoughts, emotions, and nervous systems. That broadcast shapes our reality by creating coincidences, opportunities, and encounters that match the signal we’re sending.

This is why your inner state matters so much. Who you’re being is not invisible—it’s a frequency you’re constantly transmitting. That frequency influences not only how you act, but also what shows up in your life.

Being Creates Doing

Here’s the critical insight: what you do, and how you do it, flows directly from who you’re being. Being is the root cause. Doing is the effect. That’s why two people can execute the exact same business strategy and get completely different results. One person implements it from fear, doubt, and desperation, and they sabotage themselves. Another person implements it from confidence, clarity, and peace, and the strategy works beautifully. The external action might look identical, but the internal state behind it changes everything.

This is why Gandhi famously said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Gandhi wasn’t passive. He led a revolution, liberated a nation, and changed history. But he understood that the power of his actions came from the state of being he cultivated first. He even said, “I have so much to do today, I must meditate for two hours instead of one.” That’s not laziness—that’s wisdom. He knew that organizing his mind was the most productive thing he could do.

Powerful States vs. Primal States

At the core, there are only two categories of being: powerful states and primal states. Powerful states are emotions like joy, curiosity, passion, calm, gratitude, empathy. They feel good. They activate your parasympathetic nervous system—the rest, digest, and creative part of your biology. From powerful states, you naturally take intelligent, productive action.

Primal states are the opposite. Stress, fear, overwhelm, anger, jealousy, boredom—these feel bad and activate the sympathetic nervous system, the fight-flight-freeze response. From primal states, you tend to react impulsively, make poor decisions, or self-sabotage. The same action taken from a primal state will produce very different results than if it’s taken from a powerful state.

Think about it: when you’re calm and clear, you send that email differently than when you’re panicked and resentful. When you’re grateful, you approach your spouse differently than when you’re anxious and irritable. Who you’re being drives what you’re doing—and that determines what you create.

Who Is Doing the Doing?

So the real question isn’t, “What should I do?” but “Who is doing the doing?” When my insurance clients freaked out about losing their carrier, the temptation was to scramble, cut corners, and make decisions from fear. But when they slowed down, shifted back into a powerful state, and then chose their actions, the whole energy of the situation changed. They weren’t just reacting; they were responding intelligently. And that difference changes everything—from the conversations you have, to the solutions you see, to the opportunities that open up.

Integrating Being and Doing

This is the sweet spot: powerful being integrated with effective doing. It’s not one or the other—it’s both. The person who learns to master this balance becomes unstoppable. They can work hard without burning out. They can stay peaceful while taking bold action. They can lead with love while creating massive impact. Think of Jesus turning over the tables of the money changers—intensity and power flowing from a state of deep love and forgiveness. That’s the model.

Practical Steps to Shift Your Being

So how do you actually shift from primal states into powerful states? It starts with awareness. Notice your triggers. When you feel stress, anger, or fear, pause. Ask yourself, “What state am I in right now?” Then take time to reset—whether that’s through meditation, breathwork, journaling, or simply stepping away and breathing deeply. Organize your mind before you act. That one shift will multiply the effectiveness of everything you do.

Transforming limiting beliefs and healing old traumas is also essential. Those are the roots of the primal states that keep us stuck. As you release them, you expand your capacity to stay in powerful states more consistently. And from there, your actions naturally elevate.

The Unstoppable Force of Being and Doing

Being and doing together form an unstoppable force. Being sets the frequency. Doing amplifies it into the world. If you’ve been grinding without results, it’s time to look deeper—not at your strategy, but at your state. If you’ve been floating in “just be” mode without progress, it’s time to integrate action. The union of the two is where the real magic happens.

So let me leave you with this: stop asking only, “What should I do?” Start asking, “Who am I being while I do it?” Because when you get that right, everything else falls into place. Success becomes not just possible—it becomes inevitable.