I love sailing, and there's no better metaphor to life, if not that of surfing. A fresh breeze in your sails, push your life full wind, without even noticing. The knowledge about winds, their names, their behaviors, it is a must to navigate life as a pleasurable journey. It allows us to look at far thunderstorms in the western horizon with confidence meanwhile enjoining a beautiful sunset.

For the journey to achieve sovereignty is long: bitcoin is a tool that allow us to achieve financial sovereignty. Not enough in the current landscape, not enough to achieve the change we aim in today's complex economic environement. True entrepreneurial success requires more than just profitability—it demands the creation of value. Value that others can recognize, benefit from, and make them happy to provide something back in exchange for the value they will receive.

Sailing through the words of commerce, legalese contracts and business law, isn't that straight forward as we might imagine. Discover and understand how natural law principles, applied to our operations, helps create sustainable organizations in the long term. Sovereign private entities with low time preference, oriented to preserve value for generations ahead. When defining value, it isn't monetary value that is referred, nor economic. It's value that transcend the meaning we attribute today to this word.

To recognize these differences is required to live and conduct commerce privately and protect and defend your family or business assets from lawsuits, regulation and taxes.

The most successful people understand that business, like anything else, operates according to natural laws¹ that transcend human legislations all around the word. These principles govern all exchanges of value. Have done so since long before modern commercial codes have been created and widely used across continents.

Sovereignty fundamentally requires genuine care for your customers, employees, the community around thou, the environment it operates within and the created value itself. All those concepts could easily be a representation of the Generative Principle—a deep knowledge of natural law and your authentic self— enabling your understanding of the deeper rules of commerce and your authentic purpose in this lifetime. One must learn to endure with courage, take decisive action despite market uncertainties and challenges an individual will inevitably face. Challenges, though, come to through as a signal that must be recognized as opportunity.

The ancient Trivium methodology² has been proven invaluable in my decision-making, beginning with Grammar as the input of knowledge through gathering comprehensive data without bias, continuing through Logic for processing and analyzing information, finding patterns and leaving nothing to causality. Building upon Rhetoric as the output of wisdom toward implementing strategic decisions and communicating value effectively. When properly embraced, these tools could help thou discern truths from promotional noise in the ocean of markets, allowing surfing challenging environments without falling as prey to trendy, but corroded, business models.

The Seven Hermetic Principles Applied to Business The Hermetic principles from The Kybalion³ provide profound insights for thou to sail your life as wished, but most importantly to successfully drive business operations:

The Principle of Mentalism declares “THE ALL is Mind; the Universe is Mental,” reminding us that successful businesses begin with mental clarity, as your business is a manifestation of your thoughts, and while competitors remain distracted by short-term market fluctuations, thou, as sovereign entrepreneur, are able to maintain focus on long-term vision with purpose.

The Principle of Correspondence you proobably heard already, states “As above, so below; as below, so above,” showing how your internal culture—referring to the culture thou create in your organization or community—will be unconsciously reflected externally in your customer experience, while the macroeconomy contains patterns visible in microscale business operations. Understanding these correlations can position your organization advantageously and continue flowing within larger economic currents.

According to the Principle of Vibration, “Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates,” one comprehends that markets are constantly in motion. We embrace market volatility without fear, recognizing vibrations as energy that can be harnessed, while your brand's “frequency” attracts corresponding customers and opportunities, as a consequence, effortlessly and automatically.

The Principle of Polarity teaches that “Everything has poles; everything has pairs of opposites,” revealing how challenges contain opportunities and market threats conceal advantages, enabling us all to transcend artificial dichotomies like profit versus purpose. We create instead integrated solutions that address opposing needs, effortlessly, simultaneously.

The Principle of Rhythm declares “Everything flows; everything has its tides,” show us how economic cycles, seasonal demand fluctuations, and industry disruptions all follow rhythmic patterns, and rather than being devastated by inevitable downturns, the sovereign entrepreneur anticipates cycles and positions accordingly, maintaining liquidity to capitalize on opportunities others cannot see.

Through the Principle of Cause and Effect, “Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause,” we understand that business outcomes are never accidental, and the sovereign entrepreneur takes responsibility as the cause-point of their enterprise's circumstances, carefully tracking how operational decisions create specific market responses.

Finally, the Principle of Gender asserts that “Gender manifests on all planes,” illustrating how successful enterprises balance masculine qualities such as decisive action and linear strategies with feminine aspects including intuitive understanding of markets and relationship cultivation, as we integrate both energies regardless of personal gender.

In business, morality isn't a constraint—it's a competitive advantage. I've distilled commercial ethics to three principles: accepting complete responsibility for your business operations and their consequences; avoiding harm to stakeholders, communities, and ecosystems; and defending your enterprise against harmful actions while respecting others' rights.

A “right” in business means any action that creates value without harming others through theft of property, time, energy, or reputation, creating virtually unlimited business opportunities within moral boundaries.

The sovereign entrepreneur vigilantly avoids commercial violations including theft in all forms, from wage theft to intellectual property infringement; fraud and deception, particularly misleading marketing; coercion, including high-pressure sales tactics; breach of contract; negligence leading to harm; trespass, including privacy violations; and any physical or emotional harm to stakeholders, recognizing that ethical practices are the foundation of sustainable success.

The Matrix isn't a trap: we must knowis simply a Game, not a fight. We can play by the rules or leave the table. Knowing the rules is a must, to master the game. Abandon the table make loosers by default, slaves in effect. Modern commerce operates within systems that many entrepreneurs fail to fully comprehend, they mostly follow the rules without understanding what they mean, and most importantly most operate without evaluating the hereafter consequences. Banking structures, corporate law, securities regulations, and tax codes create a complex matrix that can either enslave or liberate depending on the knowledge thou have about it.

The limited liability corporation, for instance, creates a separate legal entity (similar to the “strawman” concept you probably heard about) that shields personal assets but also creates obligations many people don't fully understand. It is not their faults, no one teach us these rules, they have actually been accurately occulted, but still accessible and visible to trained eyes. It's for the men and women with sight to find and read them all. All corporate words written in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS represent legal fictions.

Most of us operate with currencies that aren't true money but debt instruments, results of some earned trust, and its consequent commercialization: that's how debt is created, with written words and signatures. Understanding this distinction reveals why businesses with healthy cash flow can still fail due to debt structures, their assets denominated in currency can devalue despite increasing productivity. That is why financial engineering often extracts more value than actual production, creating a system where true sovereignty requires penetrate understanding, deeply. A rabbit hole not many are willing to enter, too uncomfortable, too deep, why no way back to what we are used to.

Organizations and people can access “The Remedy” to this mess by structuring to maximize both freedom and protection, beginning with appropriate entity selection by creating with private contracts, structures that align with their values and activities. Establishing proper contractual relationships by crafting agreements that honor all parties while protecting their interests, privacy, and security. Cultivating strategic relationships by working with financial institutions that understand and support the system and, more importantly, your business model. There's nothing more important than developing an administrative process to mastering by knowing how to properly respond to governmental and regulatory bodies. They are businesses too, they know the rules of the game. This remedy force us to include both, external structures and internal people alignment—developing business models and contracts that authentically reflec values while lawfully protecting your enterprise.

Honor in business means fulfilling obligations exactly as agreed upon, with those in charge of the ship delivering what was promised exactly when and how it was promised, fulfilling these commitments completely and on time. We need to stand firmly behind our products or services for communicating truthfully with all stakeholders, understanding that reputation built on honor becomes an invaluable asset.

Equity, the quality of being fair and just—not those dirty paper shares sold by public companies, nor referring to the value of mortgaged properties after deduction of charges against it— is the guiding principle of fairness when dealing commercially. It provides us powerful tools for our business operations, and when properly understood, equity allows us to enforce specific performance from vendors and partners, allow us to create remedies where none seem existing through innovative problem-solving. It teaches us to maintain favorable positions in negotiations through principled action, rescinding unfair contracts when necessary, and empowering us to operate according to established maxims of fairness.  All of which contribute to sustainable and long-living relationships built on mutual respect. Respect that must be earned through one's actions and behavior, rather than being automatically granted by or demanded to someone else.

For the established sovereign individual, private irrevocable trusts offer unparalleled asset protection and standing business continuity solutions to separate control from ownership. Crucial for liability protection, it creates an unstoppable, untouchable, multi-generational wealth transmission vehicle. A shield for assets of any kind that plays in a higher jurisdiction, providing tax optimization opportunities (not tax avoidance) allowing for privacy in an increasingly transparent world. Establishing effective trust structures requires careful planning and competent trustees who understand these dynamics and your objectives. Mastering a Trust typically requires three to six months of dedicated study⁴. The sovereign protection provided makes this time investment worthwhile for serious people seeking long-term security, privacy, and their legacy.

Sovereignty isn't a destination but an ongoing practice. It means making decisions from a position of knowledge rather than fear or greed; it means creating value exchanges based on mutual benefit rather than exploitation; it means continuously developing your understanding of commercial principles, building systems that function effectively regardless of market conditions, and based on your own values. Lastly, it will teach to maintain personal integrity aligned with the organization mission and objectives.

The sovereign men and women embodies qualities that transcend metrics, ROI, KPI and all that fiat crap. Demonstrate attentiveness to market signals, stakeholder needs and community benefits through teachability. A continuous execution of learning, collection of failures that bring curiosity about emerging future opportunities faced with imagination and problem-solving. Apply creativity with persistence through challenges, with courage during uncertainty, and care for the whole system will help create a holistic approach to business that honors both, pragmatic success and deeper principles.

Sailing the markets through the sovereign path means aligning with natural law internally, spiritually, mindfully, phisically and externally within the surrounding commercial contexts and environements. We cannot escape economic laws or market forces, but the closer we align ourself, our organizations and communities with these fundamental principles, the more prosperity and freedom we'll all experience.

This alignment creates businesses that generate sustainable profits, generate genuine value; a full world of abundance. Learning to weather economic storms through principled operations frees entrepreneurs from dependency on external legal systems — one day we realize as behaviours, not laws. With time, it builds a multigenerational legacy beyond simple wealth transfer, contribute to communities by honoring individual rights, and by creating a comprehensive approach to business that balances everyone' best interests.

That's what it's all about: true sovereignty balances profit with purpose, rights with responsibilities, and individual success with collective well-being. It comes not from exploiting loopholes or gaming systems, but from deeply understanding the principles that govern all value exchanges and consciously operating in alignment with them.

Sovereign people don't just build a successful business, that's a consequence—they create a vehicle for expressing their highest values along with enjoying the fullest measure of prosperity and freedom possible… With a fresh breeze in your sails, push your life full wind, without even noticing.