Jet’s Journal - #115
January 6, 2025
Hi All!
Happy New Year! Here is your weekly round up of what I’m pondering and exploring. Feel free to forward along to a friend if you think they might enjoy.
2026, The Year of Movement
I just got home from the city and am currently sitting here at my laptop eating a bowl of Greek yogurt, blueberries and strawberries drizzled in golden honey—It’s been a great day. I did a calisthenics session in the morning with the Helios Athletica boys, hit my first muscle-up, got an iced-matcha with Max, planned some of our projects for the year, and spent the rest of the day chaotically running around the city. I am already loving the energy of 2026 so much—it has this feeling of movement and action. I can’t wait to see how the year unfolds and am wishing everyone the best over the next twelve months.
Good Things
On the first day of this year I started a fun side project inspired by an Instagram series called Stuff That Rules. My version is called 365 Good Things—it’s a very simple concept where I write one thing from my day that I’m grateful for and draw a little sketch to accompany it. The first four days so far have included:
001 - Staying inside on a rainy day and watching one of your favourite movies.
002 - A sausage on fresh bread with American mustard and spicy red for lunch.
003 - An honest conversation even if it’s uncomfortable.
004 - Writing in your journal by candlelight.
Hopefully by the end of the year I’ll have a huge list of micro moments of gratitude that would’ve been completely forgotten if I didn’t write them down.
Fear of Goals
In the past I would set super ambitious goals and beat myself up when I didn’t achieve them. What this led to was me having a resentment towards setting goals in the first place, and instead going into the world rudderless, too afraid to dock.
Fast forward to 2026 and I’ve never been so certain of what I want and where I want to go. I genuinely feel like I’ve found direction and instead of getting overwhelmed at how far the destination may seem, I’m finally taking it step by step with trust that I can take the next step when I get there.
This day-by-day mentality is what I learned from writing my first book, and I hope to continue to apply this to multiple areas of my life.
Bad Ideas
I loved the short TED Talk below featuring Gabe Whaley, the founder of MSCHF (the team behind the viral big red boots from 2025).
We Used to Build Cathedrals
On my way to work today I looked up at the ‘Redfern Suicide Towers,’ and down at Waterloo’s new Metro station. Both buildings have the same cold, de-saturated, brutalist design.
When I look at either of these buildings, I feel nothing but an empty void. The buildings do not bring me any inspiration—only the feeling of imprisonment in a colourless world.
It’s as if these buildings have been put here to crush our spirits and keep us suspended in an eternal state of dread. Now regardless of if this was done intentionally by the government, or perhaps the elites pulling the strings (for all you conspiracy theorists)—I think we can all agree that the design of the world around us matters.
We used to build cathedrals and places to glorify God, whereas now we build crypto casinos to drain the bank accounts of the vulnerable and places for kids to goon online to their favourite e-girl.
Not to mention but the quality of goods produced across the globe has also dramatically decreased as formerly well-respected companies seek the path to highest possible profit—even if that means cutting back on quality.
Now, even though the above feels frustrating, I think there’s an answer.
Divine Design
If we start looking away from the dread and start looking to the beauty of the human form, animals, plants, trees, the ocean, the mountains and everything else in nature for inspiration, we’ll be able to amplify the glory of God not debase it.
The places, objects and art that surround us should make us feel inspired to build, innovate, share and collaborate. I call this Divine Design and I think we can apply it to every single domain of life.
For example, imagine if we:
- Made natural light a priority in our buildings.
- Sent gentle reminders asking if people still needed their subscriptions.
- Created more third-spaces for people to not only work, but hangout and rest.
- Rearranged our grocery stores and moved junk-food to the back of the store.
- Removed deceptive pricing and stopped encouraging overspending.
- Treated customers as neighbours not data.
- Had more places to repair our belongings and not just buy them.
- Added friction to buying things we might not need.
- Introduced more greenery indoors.
- Redesigned classrooms to prioritise dialogue over dictation.
- Used materials that aged with grace.
As you can imagine the list above could go on forever—but you get what I’m going for. By designing pro-human spaces, experiences, products and services—we’ll be able to forge an entirely new world, and maybe wouldn’t get places nicknamed things like The Suicide Towers.
That sounds unrealistic…
Stop. I know what you’re thinking.
In theory the above sounds amazing—but aren’t we too far gone to really change our cities, corporations and governments? That sounds like a huge task to redesign our entire world.
To which I respond, think smaller.
You don’t have to do everything, you could just implement one little change, or pivot how you do business, design products, or make art.
All we need to do is play our part as creators and try our best to use Divine Design principles when we create here on Earth.
Also, when I say Divine Design I don’t mean purposefully trying to build Cathedrals for aesthetics—I mean creating from a deep place of care, intention and glory for the human spirit.
Divine Design is just The Golden Rule applied to creation.
So the next time your making something ask yourself:
Would I like this?
Does this inspire me?
Am I doing this for the right reasons?
Real change begins from the centre and radiates outwards.
Reminder
I normally only include five sections in my newsletter but I thought I would add a bonus section.
REMINDER: Stop telling your ideas and ambitions to people.
I’ve realised when you do this, people often reflect back their own limitations and lack of belief in themselves.
So what I’ve learned from this is it’s best to shut up, listen to your own heart, and just let your actions do the talking.
Hope everyone enjoys their week.
Love,
Jet Williams