I'm on a mission to help more people find and live their authentic life. Check out my Daily Notes where I write a short note each day about the connection of spirit, mind, body and money on the Pursuit of your authentic life.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.” -Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
“The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.” - Brené Brown The thread uniting the five pillars of yesterday’s episode of The Five was showing up. Check out episode #8 of The Five on the AlignedLife podcast—I’m beginning to find my confidence with this new format. Listen Apple Podcasts Spotify All of the links and show notes. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
“Don’t live your life to satisfy other people, do it for yourself and what’s right for you.” - Oliver Tree I have to admit I wasn’t aware, or at least wasn’t aware of whether I was, of Oliver Tree and his work until learning of his tragic passing this weekend. After seeing so many people on my Instagram feed post pictures with him and talking so highly of him, I spent some time going down the Oliver Tree rabbit hole. He seemed like a genuine, authentic person—a great example of living an...
I hope you're having a great weekend! Short and sweet this week as I've been trying to catch as much of the World Cup as I can and Sweden just went up 2-0 on Tunisia. Appearance on Planning & Beyond Podcast Ok, let's get to this week's Notes... 📝 this week's Daily Notes 6.08.26 #1220 adventure 6.09.26 #1221 knowing your Self 6.10.26 #1222 what your body is telling you 6.11.26 #1223 aligned goals 6.12.26 #1224 the call for community 6.13.26 #1225 rain dance 6.14.26 #1226 Self-made 📺 The Five...
A couple of weeks ago, a couple of my friends and I were discussing the subject of being self-made—a social media post sparked the conversation. Claiming to be self-made has become en vogue and is often made by an individual in an effort to portray a happier life than their reality; it’s usually represented by material possessions, titles, and other superficial metrics of “success”. Being self-made is one of those claims that those who actually are self-made never make because it was never...
“I wanna always keep a positive mindset The state of mind and control of what my mind says I wanna always be focused on a definite aim 'Cause if you don't, when you fail, you're the definite blame I want my soul, I wanna master my self-control Reassurance to myself, I want myself to know I wanna contact God in this lifetime I wanna sleep with peace of mind when it's nighttime I want my life to be filled with things money can't buy If it has a price tag on it, it ain't worth a lot I wanna give...
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go and not be questioned.” - Maya Angelou I almost chose the famous ancient proverb “If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together.” for today’s quote, but I really liked Maya Angelou’s mention of a safe place to go and not be questioned—I’ll take the liberty to add and be supported to the definition of home. The people you surround your Self with have an impact on your life, and depending on whether...
Do you have trouble reaching your goals? Maybe your goals aren’t aligned with your Authentic Life? Instead of thinking you aren’t “good enough”, reevaluate the goal(s) you are pursuing and be honest with you Self whether or not they are goals you actually care about, are called to, and are aligned with your Authentic Life. Sometimes we come up short on goals because we have to try something different or work a little harder—notice I didn’t say fail because there is no such thing as failure,...
I have a confession: I skipped yoga this morning to take a power nap in my podcast studio. The last few days I’ve found my Self more tired than usual. You probably wouldn’t be able to tell if you were sitting across the table from me—I’m not moving around like a slug or appearing down, but I know how I normally feel internally, and I’m tired. And, I know exactly why my body has been telling me to rest; it’s a lag from my trip to Joshua Tree last week. But, it’s not the lag you might be...
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” -Leonard da Vinci See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC