Untouchable - Good Shift
Some Good Shift by Dr. JC Doornick "The Dragon"
This is some good shift.
Hmmm?… One of the most powerful moments in life is when you finally realize that peace is not found by controlling the world around you, but by learning what deserves your participation and what does not. Because the noise of life will always show up. Criticism. Chaos. Opinions. Fear. Uncertainty. Emotionally, people try to hand you their bad weather as if it were yours. Thoughts will appear. Triggers will surface.
Here’s the shift: none of it needs your permission to arrive, but it requires your participation to stay.
The moment you truly understand that, something changes. You stop trying to control what was never yours to control. You stop over-caring about every passing thought, every opinion, every emotional hook thrown in your direction. You begin choosing your energy instead of leaking it out. And slowly, you become untouchable. Not because life stopped testing you. Not because people stopped pushing their shit onto you, and not because the world around you changed. But because you finally did. You realized what matters most, and what doesn’t. And in that clarity, the noise didn’t disappear, but it lost its grip on you.
So maybe becoming untouchable isn’t about building thicker walls; maybe it’s about becoming wise enough to stop caring about shit that hasn’t earned caring?
Make sense?
Love,
JC “Dragon” 🐉
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That resonates with me, Dragon.
This week so far I feel like the kids in wizard school in Harry Potter where they’re learning they have powers and not yet adjusted to using.
I have told a couple of people to go fuck themselves and have been unavailable for more of their mindfucks. I also refused to let a doctor who was a half hour late Monday morning and slammed perform a seemingly unnecessary painful invasive exam that typically causes bleeding the AI the clinic she is in uses had indicated and will go to a doctor who practices medicine and doesn’t load my PII into AI without my permission then place notes in the file that are not correct about how the visit went. It all kicked off when she was late to the appointment which was fine for me and then she starts in that she is a doctor and I am a lawyer but in that context she is a doctor and I am a patient. She ends up saying a lot of crazy shit and my insurer will probably be puzzled by the tab. But had I not said no to the doctor she would have injured me physically I am pretty sure because she was late and distracted and only is given a few minutes to spend with patients or else has to explain why the appointment took longer. I’ll get the testing done elsewhere because it seems only god knows if it’s necessary or helpful.
And if people want to know what major hospital chain in NYC feeds their personally identifiable information (PII) into AI without permission then gives results that are contra Google AI that seem to always be for more testing for the hospital to perform at exorbitant rates let me know. Maybe we can bring a class action and make this STOP.
I bet you know what happens when you tell people to go fuck themselves - your vibe attracts your tribe and into your life come people you would love to collaborate with and you don’t reach out to them. They find you and reach out to you.
I’m amazed. I heard from a talented editor who can also design and redesign websites and is a wiz, a person who has spent many years solely dedicated to one venture who came on the market and contacted me to let me know open to work. I suggested sources for some full time positions but if the person is open to not being an employee I would be so happy to collaborate.
I think the noise levels had to at least go down a little in volume for that to happen.
Now what? Breathe I guess. It’s a great morning, nice out, bright and sunny.