JETS JOURNAL - #080

May 6, 2025

Hi All!

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.

Finding direction

The past year has been hard. From having my first real, meaningful relationship come to a end, to seeing dozens of projects I poured my heart into fail, all the way to ending up in $40,000 worth of tax debt with no idea how I was going to pay it off, life has been confusing, I’ve felt lost, and I’ve had no idea what I was doing.

But now, the fog is finally clearing, and for the first time do I finally know what I want.

Thankfully, as of last week, I’ve officially paid off my tax debt, and can finally begin rebuilding my life from the ground up. It’s liberating having a clean slate combined with all the lessons I’ve learnt over the past few years.

Also, thank you E for reaching out to remind me to remember who I am.

Literally just telling the truth

Telling the truth has set me free, even if it’s in the form of a fictional story.

One of the reasons I write is to see myself.

It’s a way of not only purging what’s inside of me, but transmuting the negativity and turning it into something in which other people can see and accept within their own story.

Because I believe when I live in my truth, it gives people who come into my orbit, the permission to live in theirs.

And even if my words only reach a couple-hundred people, I know that they are being felt deeply by at least one person, myself.

I can’t wait to finish editing my novel.

Exercise as maintenance

The other day someone asked me what my goal with exercise was, to which I replied, “To keep training.”

Which might sound silly on the surface, but let me explain.

Firstly, I’ve been training consistently for the majority of life, and in different phases, my relationship and motivation to exercise has been dramatically different.

Early on, I listened to my coaches, and trained simply because I had to.

I was working towards my sporting goals, and this was simply what I had to do to get there.

However, as I got older, and my aspirations of being a professional athlete faded, my motivation shifted, and as most guys do, I started training to try and impress the girls.

But eventually, I did impress a girl, and ended up in a long-term relationship with her.

And then slowly, my motivation dried up, and I stopped exercising as much. I fulfilled that burning desire that unconsciously drove me to work so hard, and started falling into bad habits because I’d built my drive on something outside of me.

I realised being driven by external goals, like validation and sex, was great to get the engine started, it wasn’t enough to keep the momentum going long term.

Whereas now, my goal is sustainability, because to me, the reward for work, is more work.

And while, there are of course added bonuses like the improved confidence, and external validation. It isn’t the driving force at the wheel anymore.

Now, the person I want to impress most, is me.

Which is why I find it much easier nowadays to slow down not only in the gym, but in life.

Because I know when I need to rest, and I know why I’m doing it.

This is simply the routine maintenance my body deserves.

We need more third spaces at night

I spent last Saturday night at home chilling.

And although I love my alone time, I also love being out and about around people.

However, as someone who’s sober and doesn’t necessarily love going out partying, I found it hard thinking of places to go late at night that doesn’t involve a pub, club, or restaurant.

And because I’m not trying to get drunk on a Saturday night or waste money on food, it doesn’t leave many options left for people like me, who’d prefer a quiet place where they could play board games with strangers, work on their computer, watch dvds, code, paint, or literally anything other than consuming crap on a night out.

I did hear of one 24 hour library in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, but I’d love to see more venues getting creative with their opening hours, and providing another space for people to go at night.

Yung Lean interview

I loved this short interview with Yung Lean.

Especially when he said,

“The most fresh thing I could do was the oldest”

“The furthest I could move, was to come back home”

Hope everyone enjoys their week.

Love,

Jet Williams

JET WILLIAMS