Shield & Friends on X

The next today is Tuesday, August 25th, 2036. We are exactly seven days, nine hours, 51 minutes away from DDNYC exactly one week from now. We'll all be together. I believe sitting at Darktalk, having an incredible time. How's everyone doing today? Yo. You're good. Good, good. Good, good. It's Tuesday already. Man, the day's just fly on by. A lot of incredible things happening. A lot of incredible things. We got DDNYC right around the corner. It's going to be one hell of an event. We got to stay disciplined, stay consistent with our actions. Stay true to our word and do what we say we're going to do. It's very crucial to have that level of integrity. You got to be a man of your word and do the things that you promise. I think it's very easy to overpromise and underdeliver. So you have to do the reverse of that. The reverse always pays off more where you underpromise and overdeliver. It just leads people wanting more and believing that you're capable of what you say you're going to do. So I think we're at a time now where there's a lot of attention coming all at once, which means the opportunities are going to be abundance. We're in a time of abundance and prosperity. So staying focused, staying extremely focused and diligent, max engaging with all the posts that you see coming out from the main accounts from anyone in the Dogeonal Dogs. If we help lift each other, we're all going to go great distances. And I have no doubt that we have the branding and the IP and the leadership that's going to take us to incredible heights. I mean, heights that haven't been reached before. I think we're laying the groundwork now that's going to be studied for generations to come. That's going to look back as this is the way to build a community, to build a project, to build a product in Web 3. And being a part of that, you also are safeguarding the responsibilities that come with it. We each have the representatives of the brand. So we have to show up the best that we can every single day. And just striving to be that 1% better, looking for little incremental ways that you can improve. I'm not saying you have to change your entire life tomorrow. That's not what I'm saying, but focusing on the little things that you can do that you are in control of will take you a great distance. You're on white spectrum. I know. I heard my discord coming in and I'm like, well, it's going to distract me to pull down on my screen. OK, now I'm good. I got confused. I thought I was in discord. And I was like, what am I doing? I popped into the chat that he was in and it really even think I'm muted in that. OK, I'm muted in that chat. Yeah, shout out to multi-tasking. We have such an incredible community. I encourage everyone to stay really positive and know that your mindset is everything. So be supportive of these accounts, be supportive of what we're doing in the space. Stay locked in, de-list your dogs and stay really positive because opportunities around here are abundant and there are everything that you make of them. I won't. I may be sound like a broken record, but I don't think that that can be it or said enough. You know, I completely agree. I mean, that's why I picked this last song by New Radicals. You get what you give. So like that messaging is so true. You do get what you give. The world shows up for you the way you show up for the world. And especially when you're in these moments of opportunity and abundance that RC just pointed out, that's when it almost matters most because that's when the universe is in its giving mood. That's when you're going to receive the gifts of the labor that you've put in. So you have to just say diligent, you know, I probably sound like a broken record right now, but it's so crucial and staying true to all of that. You know, it's too easy to fall into bad habits. It really is. And yeah, if you need to support system, you have it within the dosional dogs. I mean, if I was ever feeling some type of way, I'd either reach out to someone personally if I didn't want it to be blasted publicly or I would just come up on a space and be like, guys, I'm having a really hard time with XYZ. And again, he I'm going to find an answer or solution or at least have another opinion that may be differing from mine that leads me to a new perspective that helps me solve said problem or issue or challenge that I'm currently facing. So it's like to be in a community with a built-in network of professionals and experts and creative thinkers really opens so many doors to a brighter future, not just for yourself but as a community as a whole when you reach out and you help someone, you have no idea what that could give back to you. You have no idea how that influence will be remembered by that person. You know, if they go on to doing credible things and they're speaking on massive stages and they have influence or audience and they remember that one moment that you helped out chances are they're going to acknowledge it and that little acknowledgement is a way to pay back in a sense, not like financially but it's a way to show that you provided value, true value at a specific pinpointed time in their lives and that's also equally as important. You know, if we just think of everything like a domino effect, pushing that one domino over that leads to something great, that's a crucial step in someone's life. You know, you have no idea what kind of influence you have over someone. You might think that you're up here on spaces just talking and having fun but you don't know who's listening and you don't know what they're going through and you don't know that what you're saying is actually landing on them and maybe it's opening them up to new possibilities or feeling a little bit better about themselves or the situation that they're in. You could be providing hope or providing education and they're going to go in and use that as a way to get themselves into a better position to hopefully be a part of the community if they're not already. So it's like, I don't know, we, I think it's crucial that we take what we have going on here seriously. And I don't mean that means you have to be a stick in the mud or like not have fun. In fact, I would actually say it's the quite the opposite. You should be having fun. You should be enjoying it because all that fun and enjoyment leads to passion and passion leads to pursuing greater things and reaching that excellence kind of echelon that I believe a lot of people in this community are striving for. I don't think I've ever heard anyone express anything that reminisces of mediocrity or complacency. It's everyone is after something and I think that ambition that drive is so contagious and it awakens the potential and ambition that someone else might have even if they're not currently acting on it. You know, when I hear about what other people are working on, it makes me want to work harder on the things that I have going on. It gets me reinspired even though it could be something completely opposite of what I'm doing. It's like, oh, damn, they're really locked in right now. They're grinding for chasing that bag or chasing that opportunity or trying to get that raise or promotion or whatever it may be. And in turn, that gets me so inspired. So we're now, you know, the hoover pointed it out in his space. He like when it's a discord and he could see because I'm in a chat with order that we have been sitting in there for like 14 hours. And it's like, really, you guys are doing that. And it's like, yes, we are doing that. And on top of it, the only time we ever stop or mute ourselves is when we have another call or a space to go up on. Like in fact, we're both sitting in that chat right now. We're both muted because we're here. We're being present in this moment because you can stretch yourself too thin. And you can multitasking is a great thing, but there's a limit to what you can do when you multitask. So whenever there's a space, I'm stepping away from the computer or at least I'm turning off that screen and I'm dialed in completely to be present in this moment, to be grounded in what's happening because who knows what someone's going to come off the mic and say that that leads to us like, I mean, like, oh, wait, well, what if we thought about this scene this way, like it could be something completely opposite of what we're even working on, but it could lead to a thought that leads us to elevating what we're currently working on. Like I heard something last night and we're kind of stuck in this transitional part because we're like, well, how do we get from this scene to this scene without it feeling like choppy? And it was something someone said that made me think, like, well, what if we did like a little flashback or what if we did like an episode where we're not like a fool on episode, but what if we did a scene where he feels like he's talking to this dead person. And I got that idea from listening to spaces of someone encountering an experience that they had that wasn't like directly in line with what we were working on, but it just led me to daydream about something that helped me solve a little challenge that we ran into. But what's up, Bart? I appreciate the hand raise, actually, I really do. What's going on? Up or so I just wanted to be support. I can't be on the stages every day. It's like I'm active in a lot of spaces. So just trying to find balance, but I'm really grateful for this community and I'm just really excited for the steps everyone's taking moving forward and the opportunities we get to create together. I say that a lot because there's now one person doing this all by themselves. There's people leading it and there's people, there's participants and community members that are almost equally a part of some of these things that we do on this platform and the things we get to build together moving forward. And I just wanted to add to what you were saying by saying like there's definitely a domino or a butterfly effect is someone's progress inspires. What we do, what we say on these stages inspire the people that listen and the dogs to the left and to the right of us. And you don't even have to like them, but you do need to show up and be respectful and be supportive. And that speaks volumes and that opens doors that you wouldn't even imagine. You don't have to agree. You don't even have to get along. You don't have to be blism buddies, but you can collaborate and you can create success. And you can help build momentum and support with the teams viewing here in the absolute best ways with the best attitudes. So staying positive, staying active, de-listing your dogs. That's like one of the first things everyone can do is make sure that we're supporting the floor and that we get to sort of build the floor price. We can control that together and as like moving as a pack alone, you can go fast together. You go far. And the strength of the pack is the dog and the strength of the dog is the pack. Those are quotes we repeat around here for a reason. And I just wanted to add that I felt like it was, it just was kind of in line with what you were sharing. I love it. I really do. I think, you know, I love being a dog. I've always loved dogs growing up, but I've also like dogs are descendants of woods. And I really like how they operate as a pack. Like if you watch how they like move in nature, what they do with the old and the young and how they provide safety and security for them, it's like, it's really indicative on how a good community can form and go the distance. Like they can travel hundreds of miles collectively and almost never lose a member. Usually it's only the really, really old ones who are like, you know, they're sacrificing themselves. So that's a little different. You know, it's like falling on the sword to save the community. And in that regard, it's very respectful. But I don't necessarily know how that part relates. But, you know, I think there's something to be said about the dedication that people that wolves have to the pack. Like there's no ego among it. Obviously, there's that alpha or the leader. But typically like they're not challenged. Like they don't get challenged. They're not challenging other people. It's literally like this. That's your point. That's your lead. I'm going to use garnering this trail that we're going on this journey and taking us to whatever distance or whatever destination that they're approaching. But I just see order with this hand up. Sorry. I didn't mean to blow past. No, you're fine, bro. This is going back to what Argy said before she said, you don't have to like somebody, I think, that picked up. But yo, I really like what Grant said yesterday. You don't have to like people. But you can figure out what you can take from them. And that might get taken out of context by some people. But the people that need to hear it that way will hear it that way. It will land. Yo, listen to what they're doing.