“What does violently aligned look like for you?” A good friend of mine asked me this earlier this week in reference to a Daily Note from last month, "violently aligned." I first reminded him that there isn’t a “right” way to find personal alignment—what works for me won’t work for him or anyone else, but what I do might help give some direction on where to start. I believe “violently aligned” is found in the alignment of spirit, mind, body, and money, and as I wrote in the earlier Note, the...
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“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.” -Seneca See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
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“The reason we’re alive is to express ourselves in the world. And creating art may be the most effective and beautiful method of doing so. Art goes beyond language, beyond lives. It’s a universal way to send messages between each other and through time.” - Rick Rubin Don't limit your definition of "art" to the traditional arts. There are many ways to express your Self to the world that will allow you to send messages to others the way Rubin suggests we're able to do. Being in a creative state...
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Are you aligning your current Self with the future version of your Self you are pursuing? Do your habits match the habits of your future Self? Do your thoughts match the thoughts of your future Self? Do you feel as if you are already your future Self? To become the version of your Self you are pursuing, you need to align your current Self with it. You can’t be a leaner, fitter version of your Self if you aren’t eating and exercising the way your future Self does. You can’t accumulate the...
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"The following is a list, in no particular order, of those activities that most commonly elicit Resistance: 1. The pursuit of any calling in writing, painting, music, film, dance, or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional. 2. The launching of any entrepreneurial venture or enterprise, for profit or otherwise. 3. Any diet or health regimen. 4. Any program of spiritual advancement. 5. Any activities whose aim is the acquisition of chiseled abdominals. 6. Any course or program...
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I hope you had a great week! Here's this week's Notes... 📝 this week's Daily Notes 10.26.25 #1020 your two lives 10.27.25 #1021 quality relationships 10.28.25 #1022 the non-duality of money 10.29.25 #1023 are you picking up breadcrumbs 10.30.25 #1024 the wisdom in your body 10.31.25 #1025 the natural reaction of fear 11.2.25 #1026 removing the inauthentic Remember, you can catch each of the Daily Notes on the AlignedLife Podcast Monday through Friday!! ✍️ AlignedLife Substack I spent a lot of...
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“I believe each of us possesses, inside ourselves,” Bagger Vance began, “one true Authentic Swing that is ours alone. It is folly to try to teach us another, or mold us to some ideal version of the perfect swing. Each player possesses only that one swing that he was born with, that swing which existed within him before he ever picked up a club. Like the statue of David, our Authentic Swing already exists, concealed within the stone, so to speak.” Keeler broke in with excitement. “Then our...
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“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” -Pema Chodron You might be misinterpreting the feeling of fear. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
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“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Just a reminder that the answers you seek for your authentic life reside within you, not in the outside world. Meditate. Journal. Pray. Sit in silence. Create. Whatever you need to do to connect to your inner Self, do it. And do it now. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
9 days ago • 1 min read