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Month: January 2026

Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself

Published on January 2, 2026

My name is Matt.

I’m here to help connect people to their higher calling.

In real life (IRL), I’m a martial artist who runs a brick-and-mortar martial arts school. It’s here—in a traditional martial arts setting that emphasizes respect, discipline, and unity—that I meet people face-to-face and we exercise our bodies, minds, and spirits together. There’s no phones, no hateful/toxic energy, or otherwise distractions. Just a sacred training space, a focused curriculum, and a community of open-minded individuals. I know how impactful a space like this can be on a person’s life because of how drastically it impacted mine—my current goal being to help open more locations that can serve others in similar ways.

Online, I’m a writer who helps busy people do inner work. It’s here—this blog to be exact—where I reflect on recent experiences, wrestle through things I’ve learned, and contemplate my current inner landscape so as to extract a written insight that can also be shared (and read in 1-minute or less).

MoveMe Quotes is my personal quote library turned public website that houses some of the best insights I’ve discovered on my own inner work journey. I’ve also written 30-day guides for the busy person to help them live life with less regret and build habits in an anti-hustle-culture way. And I do 1-on-1 coaching.

In addition to training martial arts and writing I love to read, rave, and play basketball. I’m definitely not a morning person. I definitely am a dog person. And I definitely don’t believe in pinky promises.

Thanks for being here with me :)

Inner Work Prompt: How would you introduce yourself in 280 words or less?

8 Hours Of Cleaning

Published on January 2, 2026

I spent about 8 hours cleaning, organizing, and preparing my house for 2026 today.

Two observations as I reflect on it:

1. Chain tasks together. Going one task to the next to the next is always easier than doing one task, stopping, and trying to start back up again. This is as true for cleaning as it is for productivity at work as it is for personal development.

2. Prepare your environment in a way that makes getting the things you gotta/wanna get done easier. Keep your workout area clean, have your workout clothes ready, write down your workout the night before, make sure the equipment you need is prepared and organized, and so on. Also: hide the bad foods in the kitchen, keep a fruit bowl out (and filled), meal plan, have healthy cravings alternatives for when you need something sweet/salty, etc.

Getting everything done that I got done today felt incredible.

If you haven’t prepped your environment like this in a while, it’d be an excellent thing to consider at the outset of 2026.

Music > Podcasts?

Published on January 1, 2026

There was a time when I was very much podcasts > music. The thought being, if you have the time to listen to something, why not make it something “productive” that can help you gain valuable insight and possibly help you improve your life?

But then I hit a point of saturation where too much of a good thing was flooding my mind. And I realized that what I needed wasn’t more time devoted to productive self-improvement (which is a large part of how I spend my time professionally)… what I needed was more time to let my mind… breathe.

And I am now very much in my music > podcast era.

Because what I learned is that space is just as important as what fills it. Too much stuff in your house, for example, and no space to move isn’t a good thing—more space would be… Nor would too much exercise and not enough rest be—rest is when the body rebuilds and recovers itself… Or when you think about how awful too much work and not enough play feels… the beauty is in the balance.

There’s nothing wrong with podcasts.

It’s simply to say: give your mind/body space to breathe from whatever is heavily saturating it/them.

Maybe even something to cheers to for 2026?