From Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: Thoughts and habits not conducive to the work: Believing you’re not good enough Feeling you don’t have the energy it takes Mistaking adopted rules for absolute truths Not wanting to do the work (laziness) Not taking the work to its highest expression (settling) Having goals so ambitious that you can’t begin Thinking you can only do your best work in certain conditions Requiring specific tools or equipment to do the work Abandoning a project as soon as it...

"Motivation often comes after starting, not before. Action produces momentum." -James Clear Over the next week, you’ll start hearing more about people’s New Year’s resolutions, and we all know that only a small percentage will make it past the middle of February. One reason most resolutions fail is the lack of momentum at the start of the year. I don’t think you need to or should wait until January 1 to start doing something different that is going to help you move closer to your goals. But,...

I hope you had a great week! A little heads up--I'm working on a short Google survey to find out what would make these Weekly Notes more valuable, or if they are what you prefer as they are. I'm contemplating going back to curating a few pieces of content each week that align with the Authentic Life, but I only want to dedicate the energy towards curation if enough people say they'd like it. This week, I dropped another episode of Convos with Friends on AlignedLife and am excited for more...