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Month: March 2026

Hot N Cold

Published on March 31, 2026

I saw some of the best DJs in the entire world play music this past weekend.

And yet… one of my favorite moments was the last night when a friend was driving a group of us back to an Airbnb and right before we went inside… Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold” came on the car’s stereo…

And I told everybody to wait… to stop… that we couldn’t go in until we sang it as LOUD AS WE COULD.

…And we cranked it all the way up and sang our little hearts out.

This is the energy I was trying to lead with all weekend: we can’t wait for the event to give us the energy… we have to give the energy to the event.

…And that happens long after the event ends too.

Ask Me To Walk 45k Steps…

Published on March 31, 2026

…And it’d more than probably be a drag.

…Put me at a music festival with banging dance song after banging dance song after banging dance song and friends who match big dance energy?

…And at the end of a 45k step night, you may just find me wanting more. Like it wasn’t enough. Like all I wanted to do was go back and do the 45k steps all over again.

…Something you’d more than probably not catch me saying if I just walked the 45k steps straight up.

Alignment makes everything exponentially easier.

Somebody’s Gotta Do It

Published on March 28, 2026

While staying at a friend’s house in Florida, I came to find out that his girlfriend is the president of their Home Owners Association (HOA).

I asked what a day in the life of an HOA President looks like and she said, “Listening to a ton of complaints—even when trying to sit by the pool, devoting a ton of extra time to fixing things—and doing all the hiring of others to fix things, and trying to convince people to budget more money towards the Association (that comes out of their pocket) so they all can have a better living space vs just letting everything go.”

I asked her what the incentive was for her to be doing all of this extra work… and she said, “Welp, somebody had to do it. Because the path they were on wasn’t future focused and things were taking a turn for the worse.”

…And she’s not getting paid a dime.

…Just going above and beyond to make their shared living space—one that supports 300+ people—a better place.

…An example we all might be able to learn from.

You’ve Arrived

Published on March 26, 2026

What if being in a hurry was your new reminder to breathe and look around?

What if being in a hurry turned into a trigger that slowed you down?

What if being in a hurry was actually a mentality—a perspective—that robbed you of life?

…Because being in a hurry (100% of the time) means you’re not where you are. You’re future focused—because what’s happening right now isn’t as important as what you’re hurrying to.

And while that may be true some of the time… what isn’t true is that you always (finally) mentally arrive.

Life Is Confusing

Published on March 24, 2026

Do not let confusion scare or intimidate you.

For this is what the first stage of all learning and growing feels like.

Simply reply to confusion with curiosity. Ask information-gathering questions. Flex your problem-solving muscles. Think critically and thoroughly. Be flexible in your approach and open-minded to new ideas. Take long walks.

Life is confusing.

And those who avoid it avoid life herself.

And buried they stay inside a mound of monotony, ease, and trivial. For the only way you’re living a life of complete clarity is if you’re not challenging your mind (or you’re enlightened, but I wouldn’t know anything about that).

So, no. Don’t let confusion scare or intimidate you. In fact, use it as a reverse compass of sorts. Lean into it. Explore it. Wrestle with it.

What results on the other side is something much closer to life than the opposite.

Takeaways And Insights Unshared

Published on March 23, 2026

One of my tasks as a writer is to convert experiences into words.

…Share some of the takeaways and insights of life in a way that others can utilize and download into their own worldviews.

And in this way, the tide that raises the boat of my understanding gets shared into the tide that might also raise the boat of their understanding as well.

Because in some ways, takeaways and insights unshared become water held on board the boat. And rather than getting added to the tide that raise the boats of all, it becomes a weight that pulls the level of their boat down.

…Which isn’t to say every takeaway and insight needs to be shared.

It’s simply to say, being the only person around with takeaways and insights becomes a sort of weight rather than achievement.

Takeaways and insights are meant to be shared so that those around can, not only deepen their understanding (and ability to connect more deeply with you), but contribute back takeaways and insights of their own (and add back to the tide you both share).

The tide won’t raise on its own.

We’ll Never Know

Published on March 22, 2026

I found out yesterday my 90-something year old neighbor passed away a couple weeks ago.

It was apparently of natural causes and while she was asleep.

And while I was just writing about how Lisa Lux was devoting all of her energy towards healing and squeezing every drop of presence out of life with what little time she had left… my 90-something year old neighbor apparently was frequently wondering what was taking so long.

Her husband had apparently passed away in the late 1970s and she eventually got to a point where she would ask her daughter… why do you think I’ve lived as long as I have? Why me? Why not my husband? Why not my grandchild—who died in his 20s? Why not somebody else?

And the truth is: we’ll never know.

What makes this life so very special is that we’ll never know.

And it’s the knowing this… the keeping death close in our minds… and not the opposite… that turns time into memories… energy into experiences… life into legacy…