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.

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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 on AlignedLife: "Something Left To Notice"

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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 question ran through all five pillars: what are you still keeping for yourself?

Not dramatically. Not as a manifesto. Just as an honest look at how many small handoffs we make every day — our decisions, our attention, our spiritual search, our sense of what our money is for — and what accumulates when we stop asking who's actually in charge.

In Spirit, we look at what happens when technology quietly absorbs the functions religion used to serve — and what gets lost in the substitution.

In Mind, we get into new data on AI and decision-making, and the philosophical argument that judgment isn't just useful, it's constitutive — you can't fully delegate it without losing something about who you are.

In Body, we look at the longevity movement and the uncomfortable finding hiding inside it: the strongest predictors of a long, healthy life aren't cellular. They're purpose and connection.

In Money, we sit with the gap between what people say they value and where their money actually goes — and make the case that the antidote isn't discipline, it's clarity.

And in Creativity, Rick Rubin's The Creative Act makes the argument that creativity begins with noticing — and that in a world engineered to capture your attention, protecting the capacity to notice is its own kind of practice.

Five pillars. Five Conversations. This is The Five.

📺 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

📝 Ambition by David Whyte​

📝 My Disclosure Date by Ben Katt​

📝 Thoughts On Being Nomadic For 1.5 Years by Paul Millerd​

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

JC