The Post I Couldn't Write Until Now

The Enemy Isn’t Out There. It’s in here.

It’s been 4 months since the last UNCAPPED issue. Not because I didn’t have ideas. Not because I ran out of things to say. But because I hit a wall.

The next pillar I had planned to write about was MINDSET. But here’s the truth—I was struggling with my own.

And I wasn’t going to be hypocritical. I wasn’t going to write about winning the war in your head when I was still losing mine.

So I went quiet. And in that quiet, I wrestled.

What I learned is this: the enemy isn’t out there. It’s in here.

Your circumstances don’t cap you. Your own thinking does. And most of us live on scripts we never chose—but we’ve repeated them so long they feel like truth.

Here are four of the most common ones:

The Victim Script – “Life’s happening to me.”
This mindset convinces you you’re powerless. Instead of acting, you react. Instead of building, you wait for rescue. It keeps you stuck in survival mode.

The Proving Script – “If I don’t outperform, I don’t belong.”
This one drives achievement but kills joy. No matter what you accomplish, it’s never enough. You’re exhausted because your worth is tied to performance.

The Control Script – “If I let go, everything falls apart.”
This mindset breeds anxiety. You micromanage, overthink, and try to hold everything together—because deep down, you don’t trust that God or others can.

The Scarcity Script – “There’s never enough.”
This one shrinks your world. Time, money, energy, opportunities—you live clenched-fisted, always bracing for loss. It’s fear dressed up as realism.

I’ve lived inside all four at different times. And they don’t just cap your mindset—they cap your life.

But here’s the good news: scripts can be rewritten.

The same circumstance, two different mindsets, creates two radically different scripts.

• Rejection → “I’m not good enough” vs. “That wasn’t my opportunity.”

• Conflict → “They’re against me” vs. “We’re sharpening each other.”

• A delay → “I’m falling behind” vs. “God is preparing me.”

That’s why I put together five principles that now guide how I think, respond, and lead—something I call The FlowCode. It’s not hype. It’s not a quick fix. It’s a practical mindset framework I put together for myself to come back to time and time again. It is what has helped me survive the last several months and help put me back on track mentally.

And this “rewriting the scripts” is Step One of the FlowCode: COGNITIVE FRAMING.

Here’s what that looks like in practice: COGNITIVE FRAMING is the ability to pause and choose the lens you’re looking through before you act. Instead of letting fear, scarcity, or control tell the story, you ask: What frame am I carrying into this moment? If it’s the wrong one, you reframe. This simple shift can turn anxiety into clarity, rejection into redirection, and conflict into sharpening.

I’ll start breaking it down for you next week. But for today, start here:

Stop blaming the outside. Start breaking free from the inside. Because freedom doesn’t come from fixing your circumstances—it comes from renewing your perspective.

The shift starts the moment you take back authority over what you believe. And once you own that—you stop reacting to life and start leading it.

I didn’t want to write this until I had lived it. That’s why it took 4 months. But that’s also why this issue matters—because it’s real.

Your mindset is either your ceiling or your launch pad. If you leave it unchallenged, you’ll keep repeating the same cycles. But if you confront the enemy inside and rewrite the script, you’ll discover freedom that circumstances can’t touch.

Next week, we’ll go deeper into the FlowCode—starting with Cognitive Framing, step by step. Because when you frame the moment, you change the story.

Let’s live UNCAPPED.