I hope you had a great week! Here are this week's Daily Notes, a new episode of AlignedLife, a couple of Omens, and some great reads and podcasts I enjoyed.

📝 this week's Daily Notes

8.16.26 #1278 unshakeable confidence​

8.17.26 #1279 quality vs. quantity​

8.18.26 #1280 never know what you might find at the top of a mountain​

8.19.26 #1281 love people for who they are​

8.20.26 #1282 succeeding at who you are​

8.21.26 #1283 feeling irrational​

8.23.26 #1284 allocation of currencies​

📺 AlignedLife: How A Torn ACL Taught Zac Owens To Play Free

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Zac Owens is back on AlignedLife — and this conversation picks up right where we left off two years ago.

Since his first appearance, Zac launched For the City, a foundation that gave 120 kids a free basketball camp experience. Then, right before heading back overseas, he tore his ACL — a season-ending injury that forced him off the court and into the deepest inner work of his life.

We talk about what that year away from basketball actually looked like: the phone call to his coach and GM, the doubt, the gratitude journaling, discovering hot yoga, and the moment he sat down and asked himself who he'd be if everything — the money, the career, the game — was taken away.

We dig into non-attachment, flow state, why injuries sometimes carry a lesson we keep missing, and how detaching his identity from basketball might be exactly what lets him play his best season yet. I also turn the questions back on myself toward the end, sharing what I'm working on and what I feel I've done well.

If you've ever had to rebuild after a setback — in sports or in life — this one's for you.

📝 Omens

​I Am Creative And People Will Work With Me Because Of It "For now, it complements my intuitive guiding and financial expertise, but I have a vision where it expands to creative work with brands I will collaborate with in the future, creative consulting with individuals and businesses, and more work with other Creatives aligning their life, finances, and creative careers."

​"Why Not Me?" "There’s no reason I can’t have the experience I am being called to. The way it makes me feel tells me it is something I am supposed to pursue—it’s not a want. It is a legit calling. The feeling calls me, and it’s not being driven by my ego, as I know what that feels like."

​Holotropic Breathwork And Winks From The Universe "The visit from the Brunner’s stick mantis reminds me of the visit we had from a whiptail lizard after our first breathwork session three two years ago—we went into the session with a focus on growth, only to be greeted by a whiptail lizard on a curtain. Yep, you guessed it—the whiptail lizard represents growth."

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

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📝 The Architecture of Meaning: The Creative Power of Invisibility​

🎙️Tetragrammaton: Steven Pressfield​

📺 Rich Roll and Manoj Dias​

📝 Michael Remedios: Lights Will Guide You Home​

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

JC