The Angus Mindset

A Great Start to 2026

by

I set a lot of goals in the new year for 2026. The goals that I’m focused on are about becoming free from addiction.

On Jan 1 2026, I became free of smoking nicotine.

The first few weeks were difficult. At first I used patches and gum to replace the nicotine. After about 10 days, I ran out of my supply for nicotine gum and patches. I decided at this point to just go cold turkey off all nicotine.

The difficult part of quitting smoking is waiting the weeks and months for the brains dopamine system to recover. The brain will recover from the mental and physical aspects of the addiction. I have been smoke free for 45 days. I’m now feeling like the withdrawal is almost gone.

Going forward, I still plan on reducing coffee and stopping gambling. I’m drinking more decaf coffee and also feeling less urges to gamble. The year will be positive. It’s easier to accomplish goals when you have momentum, and stopping smoking has given me lots of momentum.

To your success,

Angus

Filed Under: Uncategorized

My Goals for 2026

by

The last few years of my life have been better than the years leading up. I work as a peer support worker in mental health and have been doing it for 3 and a half years.

The purpose of 2026 is to become addiction free and save as much money as possible.

Smoking and excessive coffee are both stimulants as is gambling. Gambling acts on the brain the same way a stimulant does. Ideally I can eliminate all these addictions at the same time. Manifesting multiple intentions can be done because of momentum. Each success feeds into the next success. As I write this I have about 100 smokes left. Starting tomorrow my goal is to only have one cup of coffee, the rest are rather redundant.

Coffee acts on the brain in such a way where it lowers creativity, it becomes easy to do repetitive tasks that would be C or D level tasks but the real A level tasks suffer because you don’t have the same creative capacity. Coffee is also bad for gut health, a few years ago I went off coffee for a week and in some ways I felt great. My brain was getting more clear and less foggy as the days went by.

Tomorrow it starts by only having the first one. Then I’ll notice that I won’t have brain fog in the morning. Upon waking up it will be easier to feel clear at that point.

Then on Jan 1 I will drink water the whole month. In 2012 in January I did 30 days in a row drinking nothing but water. I felt very clear minded at that point in time. My hydration was always good and I played good ball hockey back then.

The smoking is something I plan to minimize as the year comes to a close.

I was smoking an average of 30 per day for the last few years. With 100 left the goal is not to buy any more. I have a couple weeks worth of patches and gums. I’ll start by leaving the house with 3 smokes instead of a 20 pack. I’ll have the gum and the patches to fill the urges. That number will decrease by a factor of 10.

Last year I almost did it.

This year I plan to follow through completely.

The gambling addiction is one that will be harder to overcome.

My last casino trip was Dec 19. I haven’t been back since.

In the first half of 2026, I want to take a very heavy front loaded strategy of paying all my expenses for the year by the end of May. This means in June everything is paid for. The rest of the year I can save 100% of earnings. Having temptation to gamble will be easy to deal with because for the first 6 months of the year I’m paying all bills well in advance. After 6 months I will have time to remove the addiction just by not being able to afford to go.

At the end of the year, I’m smoke free, barely have coffee, and have no desire to gamble.

If I can do all of what I said 2026 will be a great year!

To your success,

Angus

Increasing Volume

by

For any profession the amount of volume you are doing is what will have the most impact on your results.

For what I’m looking to do in the new year, more volume is required.

This means looking for more speaking engagements, posting more on X and getting the message out there.

In poker you can’t realize your long term skill edge without a significant sample size. The short run is longer than you think. You can play for years and still not know how good your game actually is.

This is where I’ve been selling myself short over the last few years.

Writing an ebook that is actually good that will sell requires a certain amount of volume to complete.

Anything good requires repetition.

The best thing about volume is it separates the winners from the losers.

In the beginning I wanted to write more books and sell more.

I wasn’t playing the long game.

Maybe at first giving out a free book as a lead magnet was the way to go. I didn’t follow that advice and tried to sell right away.

But if I put more volume into my writing, I would have succeeded a lot faster.

Putting in hours a day is needed in the early stages of being a content creator.

It’s not something you can just do once in a while and expect to see success.

In the new year and the rest of this year I plan to do more so I can accomplish more.

The later stages of the game involve doing less to accomplish more.

Early game demands more, you have to be willing to create more and more great content in the beginning. The payoff might not come for 5 years, but once the work is done it’s done forever.

To your success,

Angus

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Life as a Lucid Dream

by

Lately I have been playing with the mindset that life is a lucid dream. I think this identity and mindset is liberating and makes life more magical.

I have gone in and out of lucidity in the last 15 or so years.

The average person operates from a materialist paradigm.

I find this very disempowering.

Life is not physical, it’s a mental projection.

Seeing myself as the consciousness that invented everything in the universe makes more sense. This is because I’m using my direct experience as the standard for knowing.

It’s hard to learn a second language, but the first language was learned rather easily by me when I was younger. I happen to think from a dreamers perspective that the things I learned as a kid were imagined and invented. Life isn’t objective, it’s a dream that my imagination made up as it went along.

As a kid life felt magical.

Getting older makes reality seem more objective.

We assume that people are conscious and that we share an objective reality.

What if this assumption is wrong?

I decided long ago to question reality.

In my late teens I discovered the law of attraction.

This is a law that your dominant thoughts and fundamental beliefs program your reality.

With objective reality, there’s an idea of other and this limits your ability to create your own reality. Reality doesn’t belong to you in the materialistic paradigm.

In subjective reality, your true identity is the dreamer experiencing the dream. This means that brains and bodies are not conscious. Only consciousness is conscious.

Soon after discovering the law of attraction, I decided to intend outcomes that I wanted. I took this seriously. As an Ottawa Senators fan, I experimented by intending to go into the reality where they had won instead of lost. That 2012 season, they made the playoffs and exceeded expectations. My pregame meditations seemed to help them win from a subjective perspective.

In subjective reality, you are the primary creator. All other creators are in your creation. One consciousness is all there is. Thinking you share this reality with other consciousnesses is a delusion that most people act on. In a dream world, the other dream characters are in on the cover-up. They make it so you believe in others. In fact, there are no others.

You have the whole universe to yourself.

As a God playing the role of one human being, you have fooled yourself into thinking you are a person with a brain that was born and that will die someday. When death of the body occurs, the dream continues, you will still be you. Possibly you will exist on a higher plane of reality. Objective reality is still convincing no matter what dimension you are in. In a lucid dream the characters will still act like the dream is real. It takes a lot of concentration and affirmation to actually see this reality as the same lucid dream.

If other people aren’t real, then why not just be a jerk?

This would be assuming solipsism. I’m not advocating for solipsism. This belief is the idea that only your ego is real. I’m not saying your ego is the only thing that’s real. I’m saying your consciousness is the only thing that is real. Taking subjective reality the wrong way would be denying unity.

Everyone is equally you.

Even though your perspective is seen through an avatar, you would see all the projections as part of you. This includes your avatar or any other avatar. When you harm another, you harm yourself. Everyone is actually you. The whole universe is your body, a part of you. All aspects of the universe are equally you.

The dream gets better the more you treat everyone as a part of you. Being good brings more good back to you. This dream can turn into hell if you act like a devil. Being able to step back and embody a dream mindset is a true test of your character. If you can be loving to others and yourself which are both projections, then you truly have good character. Caring for other people’s suffering even though there’s only one consciousness is truly remarkable. Immaturity would be giving yourself permission to be a devil just because everything is a projection.

What you do to or for others is also towards yourself.

I like the mindset of being in a lucid dream because it’s more fun to enjoy an illusion. Objective reality is too serious and it makes you think of limitation rather than being in God mode.

To embody this mindset it takes time to affirm that your real identity is consciousness. You are so used to thinking objectively that it will take a long time to break that conditioning. Your beliefs create your reality and seeing it as any other way will bring about a lack of power. Your power is only limited by what you can believe.

Subjective reality can mesh with objectivity. You would just be putting objective reality on a relative level of truth that would help you function in the world. You still need to play the illusion according to the rules of the illusion. The illusion is still physical with laws, and you would want those laws in place.

One perspective is like seeing and another like hearing. You need both to be able to function. If you just live from subjectivity without being grounded in objectivity, you would experience some chaos and delusion. The dream perspective is very fun and magical, but you also need to be in line with day to day life.

That dream bus can still run over your dream body if you aren’t careful.

The empowering thing about subjectivity is that you discover more creative power than you had before. You see others who don’t know anything about subjective reality just following an unconscious script. But now you have the ability to see through the matrix. You are the one consciousness, and nothing exists outside of the present moment. The whole universe is imagined. This means 100% responsibility is needed. You are the whole universe, and no part of it is apart from you.

To your success,

Angus

Identity

by

I have had a great last few days.

Over the last few years, I have noticed that my spiritual self has regressed instead of progressed.

I have done more meditation and contemplation over the last week.

The good news is I’m regaining my identity that I once had.

Subjective reality is a perspective that I’m beginning to re-embody.

This means that I’m not focused on my egoic self, or my body as much.

Things like how much money I have or the past and future are mattering less.

When I’m at my best I’m very much connected to the present moment. My identity is with the present moment. I’m identifying with my conscious experience. I’m releasing my identity with the body and seeing myself as the consciousness that experiences my body and the rest of the universe.

In meditation I reminded myself to be with the moment. I wasn’t thinking about getting into a better state in the near future. Thinking that you will be in a better state after the meditation is still striving.

The goal is not to strive.

It’s about being in the present moment free of past or future.

The feeling of presence in the now gave me a feeling of a dreamlike state. I realized that I’m the dreamer having the dream.

The egoic consciousness would have you identifying as the dream character.

Now I see each person as a part of myself. Not apart from.

To embody a subjective identity, you are essentially practicing oneness.

Oneness is connection with the present moment.

I feel connected with everything in my experience. I become curious and less serious about everything during my day.

Thinking about past and future is less important.

Less judgment and more allowing is also a part of this change.

Subjective reality demands 100% responsibility.

You are the universe in this state of mind. The universe is the totality of the present moment.

Nothing exists outside of this moment.

Life is a dream. It’s no different than a nighttime dream. You will live infinitely and have an infinite number of lifetimes.

There’s no need to accomplish anything, no need to do anything or have anything.

Pure being is the sweet spot.

Takes work to get there, but mindfulness is one way to get here.

Realistically there’s nowhere to go, it’s just a matter of no longer striving to get anywhere.

When in a dream state life becomes fun, you no longer need to take life so seriously. There are still actions and reactions, rewards and setbacks. But you don’t actually need to feel suffering from what happens in the dream. No rushing to get somewhere. You are already where you need to be.

Circumstances change for the better with presence.

The feeling of alignment is a flow state.

Being in the flow state allows manifestations to improve.

Using more general language with manifestation allows the universe to fill in the blanks with how’s.

Instead of wishing for external gratification, you simply focus on being. Money and things no longer matter as much. These are things that exist within the dream.

Being the dreamer makes every day seem more magical.

And the feeling of a magical life makes life more fun and is far better than any thing or object in the dream world could give you.

Everything changes when you shift from the ego of the character to the conscious container where it all takes place.

Everything is imagined.

You are living in your imagination.

Nothing is real except for the extent where you make it real.

Opening the mind up to subjectivity is what makes you empowered to influence the dream.

You are everything and everyone equally.

To do good for someone else is to do good to yourself.

The golden rule works because everyone is you.

It’s all within consciousness.

To your success,

Angus