- The 5 Minute Daily
- Posts
- THE PERMISSION TO WANT MORE
THE PERMISSION TO WANT MORE
You weren't made for balance. You were made to rise.

This week, you don't just set goals. You shatter your ceiling of what you think you deserve.
The world taught you to apologize for wanting more.
To call hunger "greed." To call vision "unrealistic." To call your deepest pulls "selfish."
But what if they were wrong?
What if the voice telling you to "be grateful for what you have" was just someone else's fear dressed up as wisdom?
This week, we stop negotiating with mediocrity.
You don't need new goals—you need new permission to want more. No guilt. No apology. Just honest hunger.
Most people spend their entire lives asking for permission to dream smaller. To want less. To fit in.
You're about to do the opposite.
This isn't about becoming someone new. It's about becoming who you were before they taught you to shrink.
Before they told you ambitious was a dirty word.
Before you learned to hide your hunger behind "realistic" goals.
The path ahead isn't balanced. It's not safe. It's not what they'll understand.
But it's yours.
THE DOCTRINE
This week, we recalibrate your standard of what's actually possible when you stop apologizing for your hunger.
Most people have been trained to want small, safe things. To dream in pencil, not pen. To build escape plans, not empires.
You're going to learn the difference.
Day by day, breath by breath, we're going to strip away every excuse you've made for settling. Every story you've told yourself about why "this is enough."
Because it's not enough. And deep down, you know it.
THE RITUAL
Right now. Five minutes. No phone. No distractions.
Sit in silence and ask yourself this question:
"What would I attempt if I knew I couldn't be judged for failing... or succeeding?"
Don't think. Don't edit. Just listen.
That voice you hear? That pull you feel?
That's your real assignment.
Not the safe version. Not the version that makes sense to everyone else.
The one that makes your heart race and your stomach drop.
The one you've been pretending doesn't exist.
Walk in calibration.

What's one dream you've been apologizing for? Reply and tell me. Or don't. But stop pretending it doesn't matter.