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...

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...

From the AlignedLife blog: Money was never meant to sit still. We’ve been taught to treat it like a scarce resource; that it is something you need to protect once you get it. But money is abundant. It flows like a current. A current that stops moving isn’t wealth. It’s a dam waiting to break or a pond going stagnant. There’s a term for this in economics: the velocity of money. It measures how quickly money moves through the economy—how many times a dollar exchanges hands in a given year. A...