“You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon. Yet here you are confusing a screen for the world.” -Jay Alto See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
about 12 hours ago • 1 min read
“Being an alien is just being yourself, when people don't understand you. We just trying to let everybody know there's a place for everybody in this world. You just gotta find yourself, and be true to yourself. That's how you get prosperous and happy." -Andre 3000 This week, the album ATLiens by Outkast turned thirty, which is hard to believe, given what that means about my age. ATLiens came out my freshman year of high school—I remember this without having to check the date because I...
2 days ago • 1 min read
Yesterday, some pretty big news in my profession grabbed everyone’s attention—the what isn’t important. I observed something interesting. The news stirred up a lot of emotions, inspired a ton of posts, and, naturally, responses. What I observed was that the reactions and responses seemed less about the news itself and more about the individual poster's internal state. What looked like excitement or disappointment about the news felt, to me, to be more about the individual’s internal world....
4 days ago • 1 min read
Successful people think differently. They don’t waste energy asking, “Why is this happening to me?” They ask, “What can I do about it?” -Anonymous I saw this on IG the other day and wrote it down, but I didn’t write down the account that posted it, so I can’t at least attribute it to that account. If you find your Self dismissing this, my guess is your default is the “why”, which is probably the human mind’s default setting. Before dismissing it, I challenge you to give it a try next time...
5 days ago • 1 min read
This morning, I was listening to the latest Rich Roll podcast with Hellah Sidibe and Rich said something that stood out to me—it was something simple and common. “Life is hard.” Being a big believer that the words we choose matter and can quietly shape our reality—or maybe they quietly reveal our inner worlds, I cringed (not sure if that’s the right word, but I had a reaction) when I heard Rich say it. No doubt that life doesn’t always go smoothly, and there are times when we are tested. And...
6 days ago • 2 min read
If you’ve ever been to Sedona, you will probably understand what I’m about to try to explain. Time there seems to move a little slower. After spending a few days there last week, one of the things I’m trying to hold onto now that I’m home is how slowly the day seemed to pass. Maybe it was because I’d wake up each morning at 4:00 and then 5:00 to FaceTime the boys before they went to school, so my day was kind of starting early, but I’d go back to sleep until about 6:00, so I would be working...
7 days ago • 1 min read
I hope you had a great week! Here are this week's Daily Notes, a new episode of AlignedLife, a couple of Omens, and some great reads and podcasts I enjoyed. 📝 this week's Daily Notes 8.16.26 #1278 unshakeable confidence 8.17.26 #1279 quality vs. quantity 8.18.26 #1280 never know what you might find at the top of a mountain 8.19.26 #1281 love people for who they are 8.20.26 #1282 succeeding at who you are 8.21.26 #1283 feeling irrational 8.23.26 #1284 allocation of currencies 📺 AlignedLife:...
7 days ago • 2 min read
There are really three currencies in life: time, energy, and money. Most people would probably guess time and money, but energy may not be an obvious answer. Compared to time and money, energy might be the hardest currency to track. We have time-tracking and budget apps that can help us understand how we are allocating those resources, but energy isn’t as easy to track. Sure, tracking sleep can kind of measure energy, but energy is more than how you feel when you wake up. Energy also includes...
8 days ago • 1 min read
If you are pursuing your Authentic Life, it is perfectly normal to feel a little irrational. You are embarking on bringing not only a version of your Self to the world that has never existed, but also an impact that has never been felt. Your Authentic Life is not irrational. It only appears irrational to others because they do not understand what you know and feel. Your feeling of irrationality is not your own, but the projection of others onto you. Depending on where you are in your Pursuit,...
9 days ago • 1 min read