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…Now What?

Published on May 28, 2026

Dear busy person,

A colleague and friend of mine just found out he has 6 months to 2 years to live.

This news could’ve just as easily been given to you.

…It could actually be beneficial for you to imagine it was.

Close your eyes. Visualize yourself in a doctor’s office after getting tests done the previous week. Today is results day. The doctor comes in and gets right to the point—no small talk. The above is the situation. And it’s said plainly and as a matter of fact. He says he’s sorry and walks out.

…What exactly were you so busy doing again?

…What was it that you were complaining about again?

…What important thing(s) did you say you were going to wait until later to do again?

The thought of death gives us the urgency to really live—whatever that means to you.

But when we bury death as an abstract, foreign concept into the deep, dark corners of our mind—we lose that urgency, don’t we?

Maybe it’s time we resurface it. Maybe it’s time we think about it again. Maybe today is a good day to imagine we only have 6 months left to live.

…Now what?

Intentional Space

Published on May 27, 2026

One of the reasons my work office got so cluttered and messy was because there were so many things that didn’t have a “home.”

I would be given beautiful cards, thoughtful gifts, art pieces, timeless pictures, and sentimental trinkets… and I would have to shove them into one of the limited places I had any open space at all.

And having worked in the same martial arts school for 20+ years… you can only imagine the amount of stuff I had crammed around.

One of my major goals this past weekend, when renovating and redesigning my work office was to give everything an intentional space—both for the things I was already given, and the things that would come.

I spent hours and hours going through it all, organizing it, imagining the appropriate space for it, shopping for the right pieces, and building/designing it—with my sister’s help, of course.

And it turned out beautifully. I’m very proud of the space and feel not only lighter from having removed all of the clutter and mess, but more joyful because so much of what was buried in a tiny drawer is now being featured on the walls and has space to breathe.

A bunch of a good thing shoved into a tiny drawer doesn’t do you or anybody else any good. And sometimes, that’s what’s making us feel bad—whether consciously or not. And all we have to do is give all of the amazingly good things we’ve already been given a home where we can see it, feel it, and experience it on a regular basis—rather than just always wishing for more and more.

Nobody Is Coming To Push You

Published on May 21, 2026

You don’t get amazing people into your life via boring living.

You attract amazing people into your life via exciting living.

And I don’t mean this by anyone else’s definition of “boring” or “exciting” than yours.

You know when you’re living well within your comfort zone, as your unrealized self, doing nothing but consuming behind closed doors.

And equally so, you know when you’re living outside of your comfort zone, as your evolving self, creating and sharing and connecting in the vast landscapes of the world.

The thing is, people want somebody amazing to come into their life to push them into that “exciting” lifestyle. But what we have to realize is, nobody is coming to push us… we have to start living our most exciting lifestyle and, by and by, we’ll attract—we’ll pull—amazing people in.

Not because they saw somebody living in a boring way and made it their mission to make it exciting for them…

…But because they saw somebody living in an exciting way and wanted to join them.

Bowl-Size

Published on May 21, 2026

Like fish, we typically grow in proportion to the size of our environment.

Put into a bowl, and we’ll grow bowl-size.

Put into the ocean, and we’ll grow ocean-size.

If you find yourself feeling stuck at “bowl-size,” try swimming into bigger environments. Or focus so much on growing yourself that the bowl-size simply is no longer a good fit.

There’s a whole ocean out there. For all of us. In every field and life dimension.

The question is… what size feels Goldilocks right to you?

A Walk By The Water

Published on May 19, 2026

“You should take him on a vacation… so that he can best enjoy the time he has left.”

“…Why? So we can forget and drink beers on the beach? …No. No. I’m not doing that. I’m not letting him give up. I’m not giving up. I’ll take him for a walk by the water… so we can talk. I think that’s what he needs most—what he wants most right now. I’ll even help him change is lifestyle so that all the crap gets cut. But quitting isn’t what I want on either of our minds.”

—After hearing a mutual friend’s cancer metastasized and there was nothing more the doctors could do.

“How Do You Go Back To Regular Life After This?!”

Published on May 19, 2026

…Is often a question I’ll ask myself after an incredible music show.

But, the answer—as it is for most things in life—is that too much of a good thing can turn even that incredible thing into a bad thing.

If I was to go to music shows multiple times a week or even every weekend—I’d stop appreciating them as much.

It’s an observation I even made last night when listening to that legendary 2-hour set by two of the world’s best DJs: what makes them so great wasn’t just the banger after banger after banger song choice… it was the tension they expertly built throughout the show.

They knew how to build your excitement and anticipation… hold you in that peaked state… leave you levitating and wondering and anxious for what’s next… and then drop the banger of a track that gave you that euphoric release.

…And then they do it again.

But without the build… you don’t get the same feeling because there’s not really a drop.

And that’s what the space in between does for you in life: it allows your excitement, anticipation, and curiosity to build.

So that when you reach that peaked state and are levitating and just on the brink of being able to experience whatever it is in full… you are properly primed for a completely satisfying drop.

Energy Follows Alignment

Published on May 18, 2026

I played 3 hours of intense basketball today.

Afterwards, I was spent.

…Walking to my car even felt like a chore.

And as I was driving home, I remembered I still needed to mow the lawn.

…And it felt like pushing a weighted sled at the gym for 45 minutes after running a half marathon.

But what’s interesting is later that night, I watched a legendary DJ set on YouTube that I’ve been meaning to watch for months.

…And for two hours, I danced in front of my TV without so much as a grimace—in fact, it flew by and left me feeling light as a cloud.

It was an incredible reminder that energy follows alignment. And if you’re fighting with yourself for energy, maybe it isn’t your energy levels so much as it’s your energy inhibitors and drains.

…And worth meditating on is how alignment can help fix both.