Brought to you by Realizations. Premium Lined Notebooks Clean pages. Clear mind. → 8/4/2025 Northern Michigan, last week. I’m piloting a rental boat when a storm rolls in across the lake. As waves start building, I scan the water and see smaller boats getting tossed around like toys. But we’re cruising along. Completely unaffected. That’s when it hit me… Equipment Matters We cut through those same waves like butter. Same storm. Same lake. Completely different experience. That’s when it...
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Brought to you by Realizations. Premium Lined Notebooks Clean pages. Clear mind. → 7/28/2025 The Mountain Metaphor Picture this, [FORMATTED_FIRST_NAME GOES HERE]. You’re standing on top of a mountain. Maybe you were camping or just went for a hike. And your car is parked down the west side of the treacherous incline. You take in the beaty of your surroundings. The peace of birds chirping and squirrels trotting around you, you notice the sun start to set. That’s ok. I’ll build a fire. You’re...
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Brought to you by Realizations. Premium Lined Notebooks Clean pages. Clear mind. → 07/21/2025 You’re going about it all wrong. Your goals have a deadline: “I’ll workout until I lose 10lbs.” But what happens next, [FORMATTED_FIRST_NAME GOES HERE]? You default back to your current operating system. But you disguise it as “taking a break,” or “rewarding yourself.” Yet, all the hard work you’ve been putting in is now going to waste. What’s Wrong With Goals My whole life I’ve been a goal-setter....
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Are you interested in a digital version of The Self-Mastery Journal? And would you like to be one of the first to see it? Yes I'm Definitely Interested! Nope Not For Me 7/14/2025 “Sorry, Sir. You’re not on this flight”. You’ve got to be kidding me. I sat in frustration as my son ran circles around me with not a care in the world. We already missed a connection and, according to the flight agent, had been re-booked for the next available flight. But apparently something fell through the...
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Brought to you by Realizations. The Self-Mastery Journal Designed for Thoughtful Growth → 7/7/25 Last week I was flying home and overheard the people behind me talking. Call it eavesdropping if you want, [FORMATTED_FIRST_NAME GOES HERE], but we were all strapped down in the flying tin can so I had no choice. A 20-something year old was moving away from home, anxious yet excited. “Nothing stays the same.” he said to the passenger next to him. And it got me thinking. He's right. Everything...
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Brought to you by Realizations. The Self-Mastery Journal Designed for Thoughtful Growth → 6.30.2025 2017. My kitchen table at 6am. I was re-reading “The Power of Starting Something Stupid” for the 4th time, highlighter in hand. My corporate job was sucking my soul, but I kept building “security” around a life I hated. Then Richie Norton said something that flipped everything upside down… Flip the Script Build the castle first, then the moat. Here’s what blew my mind: Most people hustle toward...
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This week's edition is brought to you by Realizations. Self-Mastery Journal: A Better You, One Page At A Time. Discover Journals Designed For Thoughtful Growth → I almost gave up. Flat broke. Worn down. Wondering if I was insane to believe in something no one else could see. But that vision? It never left me. It actually got louder. That’s the thing about vision — when it’s real, you’re not chasing it. It’s pulling you. Anyone who’s built something great started with a vision. A blurry,...
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This week's edition is brought to you by Realizations. Premium Lined Notebooks - Turn Ideas Into Action. Crafted to clear your mind and capture your best thoughts. → 6/16/2025 You’re Drowning in Solutions Every morning, your socials explodes with “life-changing” advice: “I lost 57lbs because of Keto!” “Read 12 self-help books a year!” “The best way to build passive income” Lord have mercy… By 9 AM, you’re already overwhelmed. Conflicted. Paralyzed by choice. Here’s the brutal truth: You’re...
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This week's edition is brought to you by Realizations. Self-Mastery Journal: A Better You, One Page At A Time. Discover Journals Designed For Thoughtful Growth → 6/9/2025 I used to have a horrible taste in my mouth about sales. Not sure why, just despised it and was committed to never being a salesman. So, like anyone trying to avoid going down the sales route... I got a Master's Degree. But that didn't work out and years later I found myself looking for a new gig. You're probably thinking I...
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This Issue Is Sponsored By:Premium Lined Notebook Life is interesting, innit? When I was 15 years old, I was talking to my sister’s friend, a 25 year old. He had graduated college and seemed to have an incredible job. I was eating it up. And I remember thinking to myself “I can’t wait until I’m 25. I’ll have it all figured out then. Just like him”. Then I became 25. And I saw 30 year olds and had the same thought… “Man, it’s gonna be real nice when I have everything figured out… like him”...
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