The Day My Monitor Took Me to Church

When the oracle on my screen said “change direction,” I heard a deeper sermon.

My computer has a mischievous little folder that pops up random messages on my monitor.

Over time, it’s become an oracle—blinking in with divine timing, then vanishing like a hummingbird.

Last week, it didn’t whisper.
It shouted.
Black screen. White letters. Red dot in the corner. My body went electric.

CHANGE.
F*CKING.
DIRECTION.

I felt it in my bones—the kind of message that rearranges furniture in your soul.

(I’ll just drop the audio of me reading it to a group chat right here.)

Here’s what landed:

We love to think of change as fresh paint or a shinier rebrand.
But the real change is the room.

Think of the goldfish. It grows only to the size of the bowl that holds it.
So do our businesses. Our profits. Our capacity to receive, rest, and roar.

We say we want more revenue, better clients, a regulated nervous system, clean books, sovereign profits. But here’s the rub: we keep trying to pour expansion into yesterday’s container.

Old bowl. New you. That’s where the water spills.

---

If you’re wondering how to spot it, here’s some tells:

Outgrown Bowls (In the Wild)

• Pricing bowls: legacy rates and reflexive discounts you set when you were proving yourself—grandfathered clients at starter pricing while doing 2x the work, “friends & family” deals, and an effective hourly that now sits below your team’s.

• Offer bowls: everything custom, nothing codified—mix-and-match scopes, “just one more tweak” projects, and no signature method to contain your genius so you’re drowning in admin instead of delivering transformation.

• System bowls: money living in one pot; personal and business swirled; no tax or rainy day savings; bookkeeping done only at tax time; stale subscriptions still billing; categories stuffed into “misc” and decisions made by vibes instead of data.

• Calendar bowls: back-to-back calls with zero white space; 24/7 access via Slack/DM/Voxer; “quick” meetings that breed scope creep; context-switching every 15 minutes; no CEO day; rest scheduled last and moved first.

• Identity bowls: the quiet ceiling that says “this is as much ease, visibility, or money as I’m allowed”; apologizing before you quote; choosing “helper” over “leader”; over-delivering to “deserve” receiving; hiding or downplaying your wins; letting louder rooms override your inner authority.

If any of these sting, your bowl is too small—and your spirit knows it.

---

When you change, everything must

The oracle’s message wasn’t about turning left instead of right.
It was a call to become different so the world around you must reconfigure.

When you change, perception shifts.
Suddenly, “fine” looks constricting.
“Manageable” looks like a muzzle.

That discomfort? Sacred data.

It’s okay to grieve the bowl that kept you alive. Gratitude… then growth.

---

Upgrading Your Bowls

1) Price for sovereignty. (Pricing bowl)
Let numbers tell the truth of your work—stop asking yesterday’s self for permission. Quote like a leader; receive like one.
Reverse-engineer pricing: set your minimum from reality—expansive take-home pay, team, taxes, and an impact fund—then let the math set the floor.

2) Codify your genius. (Offer bowl)
Build a container worthy of your transformation. Name the method; let scope be sacred so your brilliance can breathe.
One-page Scope & Standards: name what’s included in plain language; everything else becomes a premium path.

3) Make profit inevitable. (System bowl)
Open a dedicated Profit account. Sweep a chosen percentage every week—even if it’s only 1%. Teach your nervous system that overflow is routine, not rare.
90-second Thursday Sweep: transfer 1–5% to Profit—no drama, all devotion.

4) Buy back capacity. (Calendar bowl)
List the tasks that drain you. Hire for one outcome this month and reclaim 10 hours. Capacity creates cash; cash creates capacity.
Simple math: 10 hours × $300/hr = $3,000 capacity returned monthly.

5) Walk in as a peer. (Identity bowl)
Find the rooms where the ones you admire gather—and enter with quiet certainty. You’re shoulder-to-shoulder, not hat in hand. Your brilliance is a tuning fork; when you arrive, the frequency lifts.
Boss move: in your next room, skip the typical intro question “So, what do you do?” Ask instead: “What impact are you hungry to have this quarter?” Follow with “And when that lands, what shifts for your people?” and “Why this, why now?” Then offer one tangible act of help within 24 hours—no advice, no pitch. Example: “I can introduce you to a podcast host whose audience is your exact people.”

---

At the threshold, numbers steady; breath deepened. The new bowl becomes home.

Reflection—light a candle, breathe, answer one

• Which bowl is too small—price, offer, systems, calendar, identity?

• What 1-degree turn today would create 10x relief?

• What does your data confirm that your body already knows?

• Which room will hold your next octave without asking you to shrink?

• If overflow were safe, what standard would you raise first?

Choose one move you’ll do in the next 72 hours and tell me in the comments: Which bowl are you upgrading this week?

---

Daily Affirmation

I honor the nudge and move.
I choose containers that match my calling.
Capacity grows in my body and in my books.
Overflow is my normal; service is my signature.

---

P.S. Profit is Protest. Upgrading your bowl is how you refuse extraction and choose regeneration. Every sovereign standard you set—prices, scope, margins, room selection—funds your freedom and your impact.

Song of the Day: Church — Samm Henshaw (feat. EARTHGANG)
Added to the Shaneh’s World playlist.