misogi
Forget broad resolutions. Instead, Itzler suggests choosing one big, hard, year-defining challenge. He calls this a "Misogi," which stems from an ancient Japanese water cleansing ritual. Your Misogi can be personal or professional - anything that will push you outside your comfort zone and make 2025 truly memorable.
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Misogi is traditionally a Japanese Shinto purification ritual with deep cultural and religious significance, which means purifying, cleaning, or washing away. The purpose of misogi is to purify the mind, body, and spirit by removing impurities and negative elements.
Learning a little bit more about the origins of misogi, it began as an annual Japanese purification process for both the body and the mind. The word misogi translates to “water cleansing” and is generally done by standing under an icy waterfall while winter waters pour over the body. Researching this, I found that Nat Geo had explored traditional... See more
Client Challenge
Jesse is convinced that we must do one defining thing every year that makes our hearts shrink and scares us the most. An extreme challenge that will make a memorable experience every year. An epic story to tell that we can pass down to our grand children.
If you think climbing a mountain like Kilimanjaro or Everest would be a proper option, do it.
If
... See moreI recently heard Jesse Itzler talking about the concept of a Misogi Challenge on a podcast. For reference, Jesse is a successful entrepreneur, brand incubator, author, former rapper, and the husband of Sara Blakely, who founded Spanx. As he shared, “The notion around the misogi is you do something so hard one time a year that it has an impact the... See more
Client Challenge
One way to describe a Misogi is by taking a closer look at a Hero’s Journey as an example:
... See moreThe hero exits the comfort of home for adventure. He’s hit with a challenge. It tests his physical, psychological, and spiritual fortitude. He struggles. Yet he manages to prevail. He returns with heightened knowledge, skills, confidence, experience, and a
I want my life to be filled with meaningful events so that if I’m blessed to become an old man, I have memories to enjoy. And, if my life is taken more quickly than I would like, I want to know I packed it full and did something with it.