“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” -Bruce Lee See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
about 22 hours ago • 1 min read
I hope you had a great couple of weeks! Last week, I was in Sarasota with Roman, four of his friends, and their fathers for a father-son spring break. It was a great time, despite not spending as much time as I would have liked writing. Going down, I anticipated taking the boys to Siesta Key, dropping them off at the beach, and posting up at a coffee shop and doing a lot of writing and creating. That plan changed when we rented e-bikes for the boys, but that was ok. I got to spend some...
2 days ago • 3 min read
This morning while getting ready to check out of our hotel and head to Leo’s second match in Chicago, I had Moneyball on the TV. I’ve never watched the movie, despite liking the majority of Michael Lewis’s books. The final scene I saw was the one in which Billy Beane watches his analytics-focused approach to rebuilding the Oakland Athletics fail at the beginning of the season. The team was on a losing streak, and the media and fans questioned why the team was struggling and called for Beane...
2 days ago • 2 min read
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” -Epictetus Everything is neutral until you assign a value to it. So that “bad” even that happened to you was only “bad” because that was the value you assigned to it. Remember this the next time you begin to assign a negative value to something that has happened to you. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
3 days ago • 1 min read
“We must let go of the life that we have planned, to accept the one that is waiting for us.” -Joseph Campbell Sometimes we try to control too much. Twice today, in different conversations, I shared that it’s important to know, directionally, where we are being called or want to go, but that I don’t think we should be too attached to where we think we are supposed to end up. The truth is, I’m not sure we can know exactly where we are supposed to end up, because experiences, people, and...
4 days ago • 1 min read
Maybe you noticed that I didn’t publish a Daily Note a couple of days last week? The lack of publishing wasn’t because I was losing my desire to write or because the Muse stopped visiting me each day; it was because I was on spring break with Roman, four of his friends, and their dads. There were a few mornings where I slept in a little later (8:00 being “later”) to get some additional rest, or instead of keeping to my Self to write, I hung out with the dads, helped make breakfast, or got...
5 days ago • 1 min read
“To be empowered—to be free, to be unlimited, to be creative, to be genius, to be divine—that is who you are…. Once you feel this way, memorize this feeling; remember this feeling. This is who you really are….” - Joe Dispenza Last evening, I found out that one of my instructors for my Registered Life Planner designation and a dear friend had unexpectedly passed away. As I reflected on our conversations outside of class, which always centered on the woo subjects we both believe in, I thought...
7 days ago • 1 min read
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” -Robertson Davies I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought that my eyes are what see the world in front of me. But the truth is our eyes don’t see anything, they just collect information and feed it to our brain—so it is our brain that actually sees. I don’t know how much our mind shapes the physical world we see—I don’t think we can make a tree appear that isn’t already there. But, I do know the world we see through...
9 days ago • 1 min read
I was revisiting the Watch The Throne album by Jay-Z and Kanye (such a good album—I almost forgot how good it was) and there were a bunch of lines that jumped out to me from the song “New Day”. I often think about how I make sure I help the boys grow into the men they were created to be and help them learn important lessons to make their Pursuits of their Authentic Lives smoother—assuming they aren’t supposed to learn their life lessons through great struggles (this is something I struggle...
10 days ago • 1 min read