For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been aware of my thoughts and reluctant to allow them to stay negative for long. I’m convinced that my ability to redirect my energy has kept minor inconveniences from expanding into something much bigger and more painful. Take, for example, a backed-up toilet in our basement this weekend. Sunday afternoon, I went downstairs to get a workout in, stopped in the bathroom for some strange reason (I didn’t need to use the bathroom), and noticed that the...
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I hope you had a great weekend--let's get to this week's Notes... 📝 this week's Daily Notes 1.26.26 #1105 know your values 1.27.26 #1106 what's missing? 1.29.26 #1107 choose how events impact you 1.30.26 #1108 making tough decisions 1.31.26 #1109 done competing with other people's lives 2.01.26 #1110 money's real power--from AlignedLife 📺 AlignedLife Blog Reading: The Story You Were Told About Money See you next week (or tomorrow) and keep pursuing, JC
2 days ago • 1 min read
Originally posted on the AlignedLife Blog. In case you haven’t been following my writing on money on AlignedLife, here’s one of my most recent posts, “Money’s Real Power”. Money doesn’t change who we are. It reveals us. I think this might be one of the most misunderstood truths about money. We’re taught, explicitly and implicitly, that money does something to people. That it corrupts. That it spoils. That it turns otherwise decent humans into something darker. But money isn’t a moral force....
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“I'm thoroughly convinced that the biggest boost to happiness comes when you start building the life you want for your family and stop competing with other people's lives.” - Justin Welsh See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
3 days ago • 1 min read
Today I’m going to do something I’ve never done before…hit you with two Daily Notes. This first one is for yesterday–with a two hour school delay, two amazing life planning meetings, helping my wife, Ang, move everything out of her storefront and into our house, and driving to Roman’s basketball game I didn’t get a chance to sit down and write a Note. As I’ve watched Ang the last couple of weeks get ready for her last day with Roman & Leo (the boutique she started 12 years ago), I couldn’t...
3 days ago • 1 min read
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -Marcus Aurelius How you receive what happens to you in life determines its impact on you; nothing is “good” or “bad” until we assign a value to it. As life unfolds, be aware of how you are receiving it and make a conscious choice on how you want it to impact you. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
5 days ago • 1 min read
What’s missing? What’s missing from your life that is keeping you from waking up each morning excited to start the day? Start looking for ways to bring whatever is missing into your life, even in small ways. If it’s meant to be a part of your life, opportunities for it to grow will begin to present themselves, but they can’t start showing up if you don’t make the first move. Don’t put your Self in the position of looking back later in life regretting that you never gave your Self a chance to...
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Last week, I was asked in a podcast recording how I define authenticity. You’d think I’d have a definition ready to roll, but I didn’t. I don’t think the definition of authenticity is complicated, and I shared that I really just think it means being true to your Self, true to your values. True to your values is important. But only if you know what your Authentic Self values. I think today, more than ever, people are living by values that are not aligned with their Authentic Self. Instead,...
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I hope you had a great weekend--let's get to this week's Notes... 📝 this week's Daily Notes 1.19.26 #1099 when you have a good thing 1.20.26 #1100 are you really living? 1.22.26 #1101 appreciate YOU 1.23.26 #1102 your brain's frequency 1.24.26 #1103 get some rest 1.25.26 #1104 follow your bliss 📺 AlignedLife Podcast: Building A Creative Vision Without Quitting Your Day Job With Rashan Brown Apple Podcasts Spotify In this conversation, I sit down with Rashan Brown—spoken word poet, founder of...
9 days ago • 1 min read