🌱 Resonance & Evidence: my #1 framework (here's why + how to use it)

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• Make better decisions

• Build deeper awareness

• See your life or business more clearly

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🧠 Belief Follows Experience 

This idea has been stuck in my head all week:

You don’t think your way to new beliefs. You experience your way to them. 

Want to change your life? Change your beliefs. 

Want to change your beliefs? Change your experiences.

🌎 Jay-Z’s London Experience 

At 19, Jay-Z followed his mentor Jaz-O to London.

It was his first time in a real studio. First time in a luxury apartment. First time seeing what a different future could look like.

World travel can have this effect on people. 

But it wasn’t just eye-opening. It was life-saving.

To me it comes down to trusting what resonates.

When something tugs at you — an invite, a city, a moment. Trust it. 

I now have experienced this enough in my own life to believe it to be true. 

• Quit corporate job and moved to Austin

• Sold my stuff in Austin and traveled South America for a year

• Said yes to an Ayahuasca ceremony in a jungle that lead to huge transformation 

And tons of others. (Maybe another big one coming soon.)

Last year I called this magnitude and latitude. 

But today, I’d shift the language.

I’m calling it: Resonance & Evidence.

🧭 Resonance = The internal pull. The gut feeling you don’t need to explain because it just feels right.

🧪 Evidence = The real-world proof. The experiences that reshape what you believe is possible.

Resonance gives you the pull.
Evidence gives you the proof.

One guides you. The other grounds you.

Yet having just one without the other leaves you stuck.

You can resonate deeply with something, but without taking action and building evidence, you stay in theory.

Or you can collect evidence (promotions, praise, approval) but if it doesn’t resonate it slowly drains your tank.

Sometimes the most resonant move isn’t to start something new… but to stop something that no longer fits.(Quit a job, end a relationship, fire a client.)

That single choice can create space — mentally, emotionally, practically — for something more aligned to emerge.

Which kicks off the compounding effect:

• The more resonance you feel, the easier it is to build evidence

• The more evidence you build, the easier it is to follow more resonance

That’s how you create space and momentum.

Don’t overthink the whole path. Just take the next right step.

And let resonance + evidence do the rest.

👀 New Eyes

Salud,
Mitchell

Ps. MC Hammersmith time