Delulu Is The Solulu?: The Importance of Big Goals

Delusion is back.

What started as a sarcastic put-down—“you’re delusional”—has somehow flipped into a strategy:

“Delulu is the solulu.”  Delusion is the solution.

Alright… tell me more.

At first glance, this feels like a stripped-down, next-gen version of the whole The Secret era from the 2000s. Same general idea—positive thinking, belief, vision—just repackaged with better branding.

Helpful?

Maybe.

Here’s where I think it does have value:

There’s something powerful about choosing optimism over negative self-talk.

About believing something might work—even when the evidence says, “ehhh… it might not.”

That kind of mindset can get you moving. It can help you push through fear. It can open doors you wouldn’t even walk toward otherwise.

Affirmations, belief, whatever you want to call it… it can work.

You can even take it further.

Start asking bigger questions—about meaning, purpose, whether there’s something more going on here.

Afterlife. Universal goodness. Some kind of pattern to it all.

Or not.

Because the alternative?

Is… nothing.

I’m not sure but this is Atheism, right?

And, I don’t know about you…

but the thing about atheism to me is the pointlessness of it all…

Ba-da, boom. (He’s here all week, folks!)

But seriously—what’s the harm in believing in something you can’t fully prove?

There can be harm… sure.

But in most cases, the real issue isn’t belief.

It’s belief without action.

Take music.

Trying to build a “career” as a musician today?

That’s about as delulu as it gets, right?

Probably always has been.

And yet… people do it. Every day.

Big dreams matter.

Believing in yourself matters.

Pushing beyond what seems realistic—that matters too.

That’s how anything interesting ever happens.

It’s how our lives have improved.

(for example… modern dentistry, much preferable to 1700s dentistry, right?)

That said…

None of this works without grounding. Without doing something.

Without starting small.

Because for all the talk of big dreams, life still works like this:

First, you crawl.

Then you walk.

And then maybe—maybe—you run.

So here’s something I’m experimenting with this week. If you want to join in, go for it:

Step 1: Pick 1–3 things you want to do… but aren’t doing.

Step 2: Ask: what’s the smallest possible action I could take?

Step 3: Set a timer for one minute. Do it.

Step 4: Tomorrow, do it again—but for 1 minute and 5 seconds.

Step 5: Keep going. Add a little time each day—until it actually starts to feel like something.

Five minutes. Thirty. An hour. You’ll know when you hit resistance.

Step 6: Celebrate your little delulu off! (write it down, each day, as a win).

Big belief + Tiny action = Dream Lifestyle Brought to Reality

That’s the equation.

Let’s go do the baby-stepping boogie!

I have a feeling it might just work.