Today I’m going to do something I’ve never done before…hit you with two Daily Notes. This first one is for yesterday–with a two hour school delay, two amazing life planning meetings, helping my wife, Ang, move everything out of her storefront and into our house, and driving to Roman’s basketball game I didn’t get a chance to sit down and write a Note. As I’ve watched Ang the last couple of weeks get ready for her last day with Roman & Leo (the boutique she started 12 years ago), I couldn’t...
about 20 hours ago • 1 min read
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -Marcus Aurelius How you receive what happens to you in life determines its impact on you; nothing is “good” or “bad” until we assign a value to it. As life unfolds, be aware of how you are receiving it and make a conscious choice on how you want it to impact you. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
3 days ago • 1 min read
What’s missing? What’s missing from your life that is keeping you from waking up each morning excited to start the day? Start looking for ways to bring whatever is missing into your life, even in small ways. If it’s meant to be a part of your life, opportunities for it to grow will begin to present themselves, but they can’t start showing up if you don’t make the first move. Don’t put your Self in the position of looking back later in life regretting that you never gave your Self a chance to...
5 days ago • 1 min read
Last week, I was asked in a podcast recording how I define authenticity. You’d think I’d have a definition ready to roll, but I didn’t. I don’t think the definition of authenticity is complicated, and I shared that I really just think it means being true to your Self, true to your values. True to your values is important. But only if you know what your Authentic Self values. I think today, more than ever, people are living by values that are not aligned with their Authentic Self. Instead,...
6 days ago • 1 min read
I hope you had a great weekend--let's get to this week's Notes... 📝 this week's Daily Notes 1.19.26 #1099 when you have a good thing 1.20.26 #1100 are you really living? 1.22.26 #1101 appreciate YOU 1.23.26 #1102 your brain's frequency 1.24.26 #1103 get some rest 1.25.26 #1104 follow your bliss 📺 AlignedLife Podcast: Building A Creative Vision Without Quitting Your Day Job With Rashan Brown Apple Podcasts Spotify In this conversation, I sit down with Rashan Brown—spoken word poet, founder of...
6 days ago • 1 min read
Joseph Campbell on “hidden hands”, It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time–namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be...
7 days ago • 1 min read
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives bountiful crops.” -Ovid I spent all day Wednesday in bed. Not by choice, though. Tuesday evening, a nasty stomach virus came over me and left me with aches, chills, and feeling like I had been hit by a bus. I cancelled my Wednesday meetings because I knew there was no way I’d be feeling better, and on the rare chance that I did, I wasn’t about to risk passing whatever I had on to my clients. So that set my Wednesday up to be a day of...
7 days ago • 1 min read
“When you make a decision, you flip your brain onto a different frequency. You begin to attract whatever is on that frequency.” -Bob Proctor What and who are you attracting? See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
9 days ago • 1 min read
“A simple idea that’s too often neglected. To appreciate you. For all you’ve gone through and all you’ve become. For all the fears you’ve faced and found freedom from. For the dreams you now only dreamed but had the bravery to make real. For all the people you’ve helped and for all the food you have done. You matter more than you know. So please do not measure your worthiness by what the majority tells you that you should be, do and have.” - Robin Sharma This might be the greatest...
10 days ago • 1 min read