I hope you're having a great Monday this Memorial Day!

This week's Weekly Note is coming to you a day late because I chose to spend Sunday being a true Hoosier — watching and listening to the Indianapolis 500. We spent the day in and out of the pool, cooking out, working out, and sitting under the stars. If you are a longtime Weekly Note subscriber, you know that I have no problem sending the Note a day late or even missing a week.

I know this is not what writers are supposed to do. But I don't like to always follow the "rules", which I hope encourages you to sometimes do what YOU want to do or what feels right to you, regardless of whether or not it's what you are supposed to do.

Something New Is Coming

I've been reluctant to share the new venture my wife and I have begun, but we're at a point where it makes sense to start sharing it gradually.

This fall, we will be opening the "doors" to the AlignedLife Community.

Community has always been on my roadmap, although I didn't know what it would look like. I didn't know whether I would create a formal online community like The AGC™, the community for financial advisors I co-founded, or if the community would just come together on its own — this was inspired by reading This Is Not A T-Shirt by Bobby Hundreds.

A couple of months ago, my friend Tom Morgan wrote on his Substack about The Network of Networks in a piece titled "Three Ways To Change Your World.​ Right Now." and it told me now was the time. The Network of Networks was something my community would belong to, and I needed to move sooner rather than later to join the Network. The only obstacle standing in my way was that I knew I couldn't start a community on my own, which is why I haven't done so yet.

I had the ideal partner, though.

With my wife closing her store earlier this year and my longstanding desire to work with her, I asked her if she'd be interested in helping me start a community to support more people in living their Authentic Lives. She said yes, but I wasn't sure until later that day, she was texting me podcasts on community building, and she had already found a community to join for community builders.

So we got to work.

I'll share more in the coming weeks and will have a separate email for those interested in learning more and possibly joining the first 25 Founding Members in the fall.

But for now, I wanted to share that soon, there will be a new option for those authenticists looking to continue or even start the Pursuit of their Authentic Lives with other authenticists. We're pouring a lot of our souls into making sure we create the right container, have the right content and activities, and attract aligned individuals.

Ok, let's get to this week's Notes...

📝 this week's Daily Notes

5.16.26 #1206 courage​

5.17.26 #1207 energy matters​

5.19.26 #1208 the signal for change​

5.20.26 #1209 to become who you want to be​

5.21.26 #1210 the world is your mirror​

5.22.26 #1211 this is my Authentic Life​

5.24.26 #1212 inner purpose​

📺 The Five on AlignedLife: "The Constraint Is The Point"

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Every week on The Five, we find one headline and one deeper idea across all five pillars of aligned living — Spirit, Mind, Body, Money, and Creativity — and ask what they mean for the life you're actually trying to build.

This week, one thread ran through every single pillar before we even went looking for it: friction. Deliberate, chosen friction.

• There's an ancient case for silence that a noisy culture keeps trying to drown out — and it turns out the doorway to your inner life may be quieter than you think.
• Research is finally putting a clinical name to the loop that keeps running in your head, and the distinction it draws between rumination and reflection changes everything.
• Scientists keep confirming what our ancestors knew: the human body was built to move through nature, not around a track.
• A growing movement of Americans is choosing to close their wallets on purpose — and what they're discovering isn't deprivation. It's something closer to enough.
• And a generation raised on infinite digital photos is choosing film cameras with 27 frames and no delete button — because it turns out the constraint is the point.

Five pillars. Five Conversations. This is The Five.

📝 AlignedLife Blog

​My Money Story (Part 2) "The script, “always bet on your Self,” might come across as arrogant, but it’s not. It's the recognition that my financial security and freedom are mine to steward. That no one else will protect them the way I will. That the deepest form of alignment is showing up fully for the life only I can live."

🦅 Omens

​The Power of Now "I’ll leave you with a quote that I partially highlighted four years ago and added to it this morning as I read it.

​Why Do I Keep Doing All Of This? "So whenever I have a moment of second-guessing or doubt, which does happen every once in a while, I quickly return to my Authentic Life and to the fact that I am only doing things I love and feel called to do."

📺 The Authentic Life On Other Shows and What I've Been Consuming

From time to time, I listen to a conversation, and all I can hear is other people talking about the Authentic Life.

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What else I Read/Watched/Listened To

📝 Relatively Obscurity by Michael Remedios​

📝 Mr. Jim by Casey Grizez​

📺 David Deida on Modern Wisdom​

See you next week (or tomorrow) and keep pursuing,

JC