You’re going to lose sleep. You’ll doubt if it will work. Your to-do list will breed like rabbits and still not get done. You’ll wonder if you made the right call and have no clean way to know—sometimes for years. According to Alex Hormozi, that’s not a bug. That’s the path. And if you can [...]
“Winning is being better today than you were yesterday.” There’s a seductive pull in the world of creators and solopreneurs: the idea that success comes from big moments — viral launches, massive funnels, or brilliant tech stacks. But most of the time, that’s not how success happens. It comes quietly. From showing up when it’s [...]
By MC Salmon, IMMachines.com ✍️ A Note from MC Salmon I think we all feel it — that strange tension between collapse and creation.Gold and silver prices are spiking, the news looks like a late-night sci-fi rerun, and half the internet is predicting either a digital utopia or total economic meltdown before lunch. And yet… [...]
Grip the water and you sink. Relax and you float.That’s the whole lesson, hidden in plain sight. Alan Watts points to a paradox: the tighter we clutch—reputation, plans, approval—the heavier life becomes. “Not caring” isn’t apathy; it’s elegant trust. It’s loosening our fist so life can place something better in our palm. This is a [...]
There’s a quiet power that doesn’t come from charisma, cleverness, or control — it comes from presence. Alan Watts once said the way to become unforgettable is not to try to be interesting, but to stop trying at all. The moment you give up the obsession with yourself — how you look, how you sound, [...]
For Creators, Coaches, Consultants, and Solopreneurs (By IMMachines.com — Systems for Simple, Profitable, Creative Living) 1. Introduction: The Third Win We Forgot In the rush to “scale,” we’ve been trained to think business is a game of winning and losing. “I closed the sale.” “I beat the competition.” “I got the client to say yes.” [...]
For Creators, Coaches, Consultants, and Solopreneurs (By IMMachines.com — Systems for Simple, Profitable, Creative Living) 1. Introduction: The Seduction of the Big Leap Everyone wants the quantum jump.The viral post. The six-figure launch. The “finally-arrived” moment. But what if real success doesn’t come from leaps — it comes from steps? The Japanese call this philosophy [...]
For Creators, Coaches, Consultants, and Solopreneurs (By IMMachines.com — Systems for Simple, Profitable, Creative Living) 1. Introduction: The Cherry Blossoms Don’t Last Every spring, Japan blooms.Cherry blossoms — sakura — burst into color, soft petals floating in the air like snow. People gather to marvel, photograph, and celebrate them. And within a week or two, [...]
For Creators, Coaches, Consultants, and Solopreneurs (By IMMachines.com — Systems for Simple, Profitable, Creative Living) 1. Introduction: The Noise Trap Let’s be honest: the modern creator world has a noise problem.Everyone’s broadcasting something — their launch, their next “big pivot,” their future book, their soon-to-be-released course, their pre-pre-beta start-up idea. But behind the posts, not [...]
For Creators, Coaches, Consultants, and Solopreneurs (By IMMachines.com — Systems for Simple, Profitable, Creative Living) 1. Introduction: The Problem with “More” We’ve all met that person grinding out 12-hour days in a business they despise — the one who trades their freedom for “success.”And then there’s the other type: the dreamer with 100 ideas, but [...]
