“You do not just wake up and become a butterfly. Growth is a process.” -Rupi Kaur See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
about 20 hours ago • 1 min read
“Your life’s goal should be to become the most improbable person you can be. Your path, your character, your life, should be the most unlikely, the most unexpected, the least predictable version you can make. Improbable lives have fewer competitors, more unique rewards, and are harder to replace with AIs, since AIs run on the predictable. This is true whether you favor traditional humanist directions or work on a frontier.” -Kevin Kelly Your improbable life is your Authentic Life. See you...
3 days ago • 1 min read
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” -T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot offers us some great news. No matter what just happened, you are now at a starting point for a fresh beginning. You don’t have to carry the past forward if it doesn't align with where you are going, who you want to become, or no longer serves you. Leave it. Start new. What would the future version of your Self do? Do that. We always have the opportunity to reinvent our Self and move closer to our Authentic Self, and it starts in this...
4 days ago • 1 min read
I hope you had a great week; I kept it a little lighter on writing and recording this week, but I've got some great AlignedLife podcast episodes coming and a list of longer-form content I want to write. That day trip to California stayed with me through the week, and I had a busy week of client meetings, so as I've written about in the past, I listened to my body and rested when I could. Let's get to the Notes... 📝 this week's Daily Notes 9.14.26 #1302 the flow of money 9.15.26 #1303 twenty...
5 days ago • 1 min read
If you could choose to do just a few things a day, what would they be? For me, it’d be a lot of Self, family, and clients. If I think about the details, I almost think of it as an ideal day exercise—just without assigning time: Meditate.Journal in notebook.Light exercise like Peloton or walking.Morning family routine.Hot yoga.Weightlifting.Creative work.Client work.Creative work.Conversation with interesting people.Creative work.Family time.Walk outside (weather permitting).Journal in...
5 days ago • 1 min read
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” -Anne Lamott See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
6 days ago • 1 min read
“If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.” -Edward Albee To the outside world, aspects of your Authentic Life will look “interestingly”. Embrace it and trust that you know better than anyone else what you’re supposed to be doing and who you are supposed to be. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
8 days ago • 1 min read
How many times do you hold back from telling someone what you’re really excited about? This morning I ran into an old CrossFit buddy at the coffee shop, and we got to talking about life, what we’re up to, and the opportunity to talk about my creative work naturally presented itself. I told him about the writing I’m doing on my AlignedLife blog for my first book, looking at money as a form of energy. I shared the concept in my latest post, The Velocity of Money, how I’m meeting with Sarah...
9 days ago • 1 min read
Who you choose to align your Authentic Life with is one of the most important decisions you will make, and it’s a decision most of us make way before we discover who we really are. Today, Ang and I celebrate twenty years of being married. As I’ve reflected over those years, and the two and a half years of dating before, I see yet another breadcrumb in my life—an important and big one. As with most things in life, so many things had to line up for Ang and I to meet—my choice to go to Franklin...
10 days ago • 4 min read