To Tame Your Beasts, Flow.
To train anyone — including yourself — you need training plans, rewards, and punishment.
Most learn through pain only. That’s why they never tame anything.
They push harder, punish more, and call it necessary, when in truth, it’s desperation. Pain is their only language.
But what if there was a better way? What if the beast didn’t need pain to obey?
There’s a book called Whale Done.
It’s about people who train creatures the size of Titans.
Animals that don’t fear you, don’t need you, and can crush you in a blink.
And yet, they listen. They follow. They flow with their trainer.
No whips. No threats. Just direction, rewards, and presence.
Funny how a man feared by everyone suggested me this book and taught me about gusto. But I digress.
Time to leave aside whales (regardless of how cute they look) and take the Whale Done concept deeper.
Because, doing some mind reading here, you are here to learn how to tame the inner beasts. The real beasts aren’t in the ocean. They live on the inside. We all have to deal with them everyday. Do they look familiar?
Types of Daily Inner Beasts
The Loud – feeds on drama and noise
The Sneaky – whispers doubts before action
The Lazy – loves safety and comfort, hates risks and change
The Perfect – never satisfied, always fixing
The Scared – hides behind excuses
The Angry – blames, burns, repeats
The Pleaser – fears rejection more than regret
The Doubter – kills ideas before birth
The Victim – waits for rescue, not results
So the big idea?
Inside us there are impulses, forces, drama, trauma, dark corners of the Mind, even the Jung’s shadow if you’re up to it. Make taming not only possible, but a positive experience too.
To win, you don’t fight your beasts. You study them. Then you lead them.
Everything is part of the flow considering that life is a series of challenges and how we face them.
This graph is one of the most important ones you will ever see:
Getting to flow is how you get what and where you want, while you reduce entropy friction inertia and any other Force that’s in the way
Checklist to Deal with the Inner Beasts
Name the beast — know what you’re fighting.
Observe it — don’t react, just watch.
Breathe — calm body, calm mind.
Question its story — is it true or fear talking?
Shrink it — write it down, drag it into light.
Move — action dissolves anxiety.
Reframe — turn obstacle into training.
Rest — beasts grow louder when you’re drained.
Repeat — discipline tames what motivation can’t.
That’s it for now.
Everything you do either increases or reduces the gap between you and flow.
Flow is where control feels like instinct. Where you stop forcing and start becoming. Tame the beast.
Lifeward,