Coffee – The worst productive high.

The thing is we’ve become accustomed in society, to drink coffee. It’s one of those things which no one really questions. Though its a trap, and it has profound implications on your well-being.

We get accustomed to the high coffee produces, because it stresses the nervous system. And so, we get into the habit of associating coffee to a ‘pick me up’ to ensure ability to produce. Mainly this is a fundamental error. When you’re tired, you need to rest or recover. Using cafein to force results is the best way to get strained results. And the most beneficial way of obtaining incredible energy is to gradually grow our energy to the point where we have the surplus of energy readily available for when we need it. Not by creating an artificial stressor in order to produce an outcome because we need to jump through a hoop to do something we dislike in order to achieve a result.

In order to be soul driven, we must stay away from coffee, because it creates a forceful mechanism for our energy. It produces forced output over a period of time, rather than from our emotional and spiritual highs through hard work, inspiration, curiosity, creativty, and so on. When we experience a high from accumulated quality input (such as reading…) the output of that is High natural value.

When we experience a high from a forced ouptut, the output is strained, our body is strained, our nervous system is strained. It’s not a natural way of producing energy. So when you drink coffee, on a habitual basis, you are creating the habit of

1) Needing to depend on external stimulus.

2) Percieving the world froma strained dependant perception.

3) Shaping your mindset from the pattern of using forced stimulus to force create a state in order to produce output.

When in actuliaty, you want natural, unstrained, creative flow, in proportion to a lifestyle that creates daily joy. And the highs you get, come from natural enjoyment. And your lifestyle, relationships, health, mindset, work, become based on what you enjoy doing, rather than focussed on the forced productive results you are Squeezing out of yourself with the coffee stimulus.


Here’s a trick I discovered a long while ago. When I was younger, I used to play soccer. Fine enough, everyone else did. Though, for some reason I played soccer and I was good at it, and I had explosive energy, I had explosive output and here’s what I did and didn’t do:

What I didn’ t do:

  • I did NOT drink coffee.
  • I did NOT abuse my sex life
  • I did NOT reside in anger
  • I didn’t listen to other people

What I did do:

  • I drank a ton of water every day
  • I would listen to my energetic high’s and lows
  • I would wait until my body had recovered to exercise
  • I found fun in my exercise
  • I sprinted a lot
  • I would eat raw Carrots daily
  • I wasn’t controlled by my emotions
  • I was mentally in control by listening to what ‘Felt right’
  • I listened to myself

The importance of your personal rythme.

“Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It’s the one that makes the sweetest sound.” —Simon Sinek

The reason we get into burnout is two fold. Our future is taken away from us, or turned transformed into something limiting. Or we push so much we don’t recover. Eitherway, we end up in burnout. While I’m not going to talk about the future here. I will talk about an energetically sustainable path to riches.

While the whole world fights for scraps of attention or money. I can’t help but ponder.

We’ve essentially removed ourselves from the phyiscal ratrace to put ourselves in a never ending mental ratrace, which is worse because at least when we were working 9-5’s we could disconnect at the end of the day or on the weekend. Now, we’re plugged in 24/7 365.

We’re no longer in a ratrace, we’re in a consensual human pods, just like in the matrix. We consent to spending all our time in front of our screens as we’ve been sold on the idea that working to get financial freedom is okay so long as we give up our mental space and every second of our time to empower social media platforms with our creative genius.

Now, don’t get me wrong, these platforms are great. And if we have the right systems in place, to remove ourselves from the equation so we can experience freedom, these platforms are amazing. BUT, and I say this with emphasis, if we don’t have our own specific systems in place, we’re stepping away from jumping through hoops for a boss, and volontarily jumping through hoops to have financial freedom while empowering social media platforms, no code websites, and so on.

Whats the solution then? Well it’s pretty much in the title isn’t it.. Being self governed by our higher self. Pursuing our northstar, not our goals, but pursuing ‘the thing’ / ‘the state’ in which we shine. You know the one where we become hyper attractive. When we become so magnetic with our presence that the whole world turns to see who’s walking by.

No, I mean, that state of pure internal bliss which comes from following what makes sense to us and empowers us.

A while back, I talked about how our imposter syndrome came from doing what we actually didn’t want to do, but were doing because we were selling ourselves for the money. Well, here’s the thing, as much as money is all nice and good, the great state we pursue isn’t money. It isn’t even what money can offer. It’s purely an outcome we can achieve from anywhere in the world, even in a damp cave if we put in enough effort…

And I believe the recipe, for reaching that higher state of being, the high we get from flow, the feeling of alignment we get from deep work, the high we get from ideation… I believe the framework, is Going at our own speed, abiding to the beat of our own drum, Doing what fulfils us while we advance towards our horizon, and having a clear positive horizon to go towards. I believe that if we have The fuel (what fulfills us), we have the vehicle (what we pour our fuel into. A canvas, Social media, art, music, code…), the speed to maintain quality output without deterioration (going at our own speed/ following our own rythme), and a clear positive horizon to go towards (the desired destination from the accumulation/compounding of our output) then, without a shadow of a doubt, we will have Bliss of journey, bliss of being, bliss of gift to others, and blissful destination.

Fuel x Vehicle x Speed x Destination. = Successful outcome

Our burnout and stress, comes from jumping through hoops to please others, or to abide to market conditions, or to do things for clients without having any personal boundaries, or simply being a slave to money. But the solution, I don’t think, lies in externalities dictating what works and what doesn’t. I believe we have to optain that inner centeredness, our inner compass before striving for anything. Because, its our inner compass which will direct us in the direction of feels best to compound.

For now,
All the best,
Cherokee Goldberg