{"id":4162,"date":"2026-01-21T06:49:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:03:22","slug":"high-agency-being-the-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/high-agency-being-the-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGH AGENCY (BEING THE CAPTAIN)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SCRIPTURE: David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. (1 Samuel 30:6)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THE ENTREPRENEUR\u2019S REFLECTION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;High Agency&#8221; is the ability to force reality to bend to your will without waiting for permission or perfect conditions. Low agency people say, &#8220;I can&#8217;t do this because the economy is bad.&#8221; High agency people say, &#8220;The economy is bad, so I will build a product that saves people money.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Ziklag was burned and his wives stolen, David didn&#8217;t wait for a government bailout. He encouraged himself and pursued. You are the protagonist of this movie. Stop acting like an extra. If there is a wall, you don&#8217;t turn back; you build a door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THE EXECUTION PROTOCOL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The No-Complaining Rule: For 24 hours, you are not allowed to blame external factors (government, weather, customers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8220;How&#8221; Shift: Instead of saying &#8220;I can&#8217;t afford it,&#8221; ask &#8220;How can I afford it?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take Responsibility: Identify one area where you are failing and admit, &#8220;This is my fault,&#8221; then fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCRIPTURE: David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. (1 Samuel 30:6) THE ENTREPRENEUR\u2019S REFLECTION &#8220;High Agency&#8221; is the ability to force reality to bend to your will without waiting for permission or perfect conditions. Low agency people say, &#8220;I can&#8217;t do this because the economy is bad.&#8221; High agency people say, &#8220;The economy is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-january"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}