ACE — A Framework That Might Work for You
Agency. Consistency. Ego. In short, ACE.
It’s a framework I stumbled upon in my own life, something that helped me reach a few of my goals. It’s not easy to follow; honestly, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve executed it properly.
Nevertheless, it’s an interesting idea, and I hope you feel the same after reading.
Ego
Ego gets bad PR. Sigma reels on Instagram and TikTok have made it look cringe. But ego is one of the core pillars of life, especially for those who have tasted failure.
It’s the flame in your chest that refuses to die down. It keeps you awake at night because you refuse to accept what’s handed to you, refuse to accept the status quo.
My suggestion: be egoistic about what you truly desire. Only you know yourself best. Only you know how deeply you want what you want.
Your success or failure isn’t accountable to anyone but your ego.
Consistency
I keep telling people that to build anything, whether a relationship, a company, or yourself, you need to be consistent in your actions.
It’s borrowed from Bruce Lee’s quote:
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
You will have low tides and high tides. Some nights you will deserve peace. You won’t always have energy.
But if you aren’t consistent in your duties, how will progress show up?
Do it even when it’s boring.
Do it even when it’s tiring.
Do it slowly.
Do it badly.
Do it first.
But keep being consistent.
Agency
This word clicked for me only when a friend explained it in a WhatsApp group. I’d seen people throw it around on X, but never truly understood it.
Agency is the beginning of everything.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, agency is “the ability to take action or to choose what action to take.”
Anything you want in life, personal, business, or pleasure, begins with intentional choice.
You must decide. You must exert your free will.
Without agency, there is no point.
No point in being consistent.
No point in being egoistic.
Because the bottleneck is you.
If you want to achieve your dreams, goals, ambitions, it’s you who must spark the fire of agency.
I’m not going to end this guide by telling you what this framework has solved for me. That’s irrelevant.
What matters is your story.
I’m curious what you’ll discover through it, and what might change in your life when you put it to work.
Till we meet again, Sayonara.
