Man, I was stuck. For six months, I was driving myself crazy trying to be one of those “hustle culture” guys, and it was a total disaster. I was pushing myself to wake up at 5 AM, taking cold showers, and mapping out these aggressive, totally linear goals. I was trying to force my way to success, like a bulldozer hitting a concrete wall.
I read all the books, listened to all the gurus who said, “Just grind harder, just want it more.” I spent thousands on courses that promised to unlock my inner wolf. What happened? I ended up sitting at my desk, staring at my computer for three hours straight, feeling absolutely nothing. Zero motivation. Zero juice. I actually became less productive the more I tried to force the standard, aggressive method.
I hit rock bottom, totally burnt out. My business was flatlining, my bank account looked grim, and I was just sitting around feeling like a failure. It was during this miserable two-week stretch, where I basically quit everything, that I started reading stupid things online. I was looking for literally any answer that wasn’t “try harder.”
The Moment I Found the Angle
I remembered some random girl from college talking about astrology charts, mostly just to goof around. Out of pure desperation, I pulled up my own chart. I’m Mars in Pisces. I actually laughed at first. Mars is the engine, the drive, the action. Pisces is the dreamer, the flow, the emotional sponge. That combination looked like a total contradiction, like having a sports car with a flat tire and a passenger full of feelings.
But then I started digging into what that actually meant for drive. The traditional rules of motivation—the “punch-the-clock, dominate-the-market” stuff—it’s all Mars in Aries or Capricorn energy. Those people thrive on clear metrics, competition, and crushing goals. That wasn’t me. I realized I was trying to run an Aries operating system on a Pisces machine, and it was guaranteed to crash.
This Mars in Pisces energy, I learned, it’s not about fighting; it’s about flow. It’s not about dominance; it’s about service. It’s not about aggression; it’s about intuition.
Putting the Pisces Engine to the Test
I decided to scrap my entire system and deliberately try a Pisces-based motivation strategy. I threw out the typical to-do lists that looked like military orders. I stopped timing my tasks. I didn’t care about the money outcome for a few weeks; I just cared about the feeling of the work. This was my practice, step-by-step:
Step 1: The ‘Flow State’ Trigger, Not the Caffeine Jolt.
- I stopped relying on coffee to force me awake. I started listening to movie scores—epic, sweeping, emotional music—to drift me into the work zone. I needed to feel like I was conducting an orchestra, not filing tax returns.
Step 2: Ditching the ‘Metrics’ and Embracing the ‘Mission’.
- Instead of listing “Sell 10 units,” I wrote “Help 10 people solve their problem in a truly custom way.” The drive became about making the other person feel seen. It’s exhausting to chase money; it’s energizing to feel useful.
Step 3: The Creative Detour (Mandatory Slacking).
- I stopped fighting the need to drift. If I felt the urge to go work on a painting, or spend 30 minutes just staring out the window, I let myself. This isn’t laziness for a Pisces Mars; it’s refueling the intuition. When I came back to the “real” work, the solutions to hard problems just seemed to appear out of nowhere.
Step 4: Surroundings and Sensory Input.
- I literally moved my laptop to a desk near a fountain I have in my backyard. Pisces is a water sign. Sounds dumb, but having the sound of running water on loop changed everything. It took the pressure out of the air and put me in a dreamy, productive trance. It was like I was meditating while I was working.
The True Power I Unlocked (And Why I Busted My Old System)
The biggest change? I stopped feeling like I had to prove something to myself or to my competition. My energy became compassionate, and somehow, that magnetic pull of genuine service is what actually closed deals. The clients could feel I was solving their problem, not just boosting my stats. I let the creative, emotional, non-linear side lead the action, and the success just walked in the door.
Why did I even bother going down this strange astrology road? It links back to my previous job where I was trying to get a promotion in a toxic environment. I spent a year being the ultimate “tough guy” in the office—fighting for every dollar, throwing people under the bus to hit my numbers, and generally just being a stressed-out jerk. I got the promotion, but I was miserable, burnt out, and my health tanked. I won the fight, but I lost my soul.
That promotion was the traditional “success.” That burnout was the ultimate failure. My Mars in Pisces was screaming at me to stop operating on borrowed energy. When I finally quit that job, I was so destroyed that I had no fight left. I was forced into the Pisces energy—the surrender, the feeling, the flow—just to survive. This Mars in Pisces study wasn’t a choice; it was the only direction left when the traditional path failed completely.
Now that I operate from this flow state, the money is better, the work is better, and I actually feel energized at the end of the day. Stop trying to hit the target. Start trying to feel the flow. That’s the true power. I wrote this whole thing today just by letting the words drift out, no timeline, no pressure. Try it, you might surprise yourself.
