Creator’s Note One of the biggest breakthroughs I’ve seen among Act As If Engine users is when they stop chasing outcomes and start embodying inevitability.It's called “the Goldilocks zone” — that balance between strong desire and complete detachment.This post will help you operate from that zone: calm, clear, certain… and wildly effective. The Paradox of [...]
Creator’s Note When I built the Act As If Engine GPT, I realised that acting from your future self only works when you stop over-identifying with your current stress.It’s a mental reset button for creators and solopreneurs — a way to zoom out from the noise, drop the pressure, and operate from calm, focused power. [...]
Introduction: The Invisible Advantage There’s a quiet revolution happening in online business — and it’s not about the AI tools you can see. It’s about the AI you can’t. Tony Shepherd’s How to Profit from Invisible AI is a sharp, funny, and practical guide to using artificial intelligence behind the scenes — in ways that [...]
Five Japanese Ways to Reframe Any Idea with Purpose, Presence & Flow 🌅 A New Kind of Creative Intelligence Every creator hits the same wall sooner or later. You’ve read the books. You’ve built the systems.You’ve watched every “how to grow faster” video under the sun. And yet… there’s still noise. Because true creation doesn’t [...]
“The work reveals itself as you go.” — Rick Rubin Every creator knows that feeling. You’re staring at the screen, waiting for something to arrive — an idea, a phrase, a spark. But creativity doesn’t respond to waiting. It responds to motion. And that’s exactly what today’s launch is about: getting you moving again — [...]
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, [...]
By Mark Salmon | IMMachines.com The Creator’s Paradox You want to move faster, but you’re tired of forcing it.You want clarity, but your mind’s loud.You want progress, but you’re drowning in possibility. Most solopreneurs think the answer lies in doing more.But what if the next level of creativity isn’t about acceleration — it’s about alignment? [...]
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.” [...]
