This Week
- What happened getting sick this week.
- The video that popped off this past week.
- What actually made me buy the van almost 4 years ago.
March 2026
| Su | M | T | W | Th | F | S |
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| 3/1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 | 4/1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Where In The World Was I?
- 🚐 Salt Lake City, Utah
Metrics From The Week
SO CLOSE to Whoop Age in the 19s… I’ve been itching to make a teenager joke for weeks now hahaha
Snaps From The Week
Went to a new coffee shop here in SLC, Roots in sugar House. Super cool vibe inside an previous residential home, felt very cozy. I’ve mainly been just rotating between: Publik, Urban Sailor, then some of Salt Lake Roasting and Loki (but shorter here because it’s smaller and fills up quickly).
Sore Throat…
Woke up I think Tuesday with a sore throat out of nowhere…
Then the congestion hit Wednesday or Thursday, bit of a headache, dry cough…
Stopped working out, but kept up my walks 1-2 times a day.
Then Friday is when it hit my body hard (drop in overnight heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and respiratory rate)
Saturday started to feeling like it was clearing, but with a 16% recovery I still held back one more day.
And sure enough Sunday (today) my recovery score is up at 77% in the green, and it’s the first day I woke up feeling pretty clear, no sore throat, bit of congestion still left, some lung tightness, just a little bit more slow, but very workable. Finally got a workout in again.
It either ended up being something mild in the first place, or my body just “beat” it pretty well because the worst of it was like a mild headache, congestion, occasional dry cough, bit of throat tightness… but that was it. Still working in coffee shops, went on walks, just didn’t push it.
So very grateful to be on what feels like the tail end of this now.
These moments really force you to remember how good it feels to just be… normal, healthy… to be able to walk, workout, focus, without this… heaviness.
Coaching
Last Wednesday’s video popped off (from what’s considered normal for me), so that was fun to watch.
It was last Friday and I was walking around the park thinking “I need to record a video today to publish tomorrow (Saturday) morning…” and was thinking of ideas that felt alive in me, that were bubbling up.
I passed those, and some related notes to AI and had it generate some title ideas based on some of the themes that were popping up.
I saw this title and thought… haha yeah that’s actually a good one.
Gave it an outline and then recorded on the spot.
Then figured I’d literally just swipe my image and thumbnail pattern from my first formally “edited” video last year that did well.
So that was pretty cool to see hit. It seems that every time I talk about my story, that feeling of scrolling on the couch, wasting my potential… people resonate with it.
I tried to capitalize on this knowing the algorithm would probably serve my next video to the same people.
It didn’t do so hot lol. I had to tweak the title+thumbnail a couple times to get to something that felt right.
Ya win some ya lose some… Such is the algorithm… But I also hold the thought that maybe one of those views is someone new, maybe one of those views, this message really landed for, etc.
I’m not even really looking to “go viral” it’s never been my goal. It’s just that middle ground, enough views to be resonating with my exact target customer, not too many that I get “randos” that dilute the waters.
In other news, held a really good coaching call this week, second time running Focusing with someone and it was actually kind of crazy… We ended and he was like “bro that was amazing, I shed some tears… that’s some Tony Robbins shit” hahahahah. YES.
And published my Path Clarity Protocol notion doc after having it basically done for I don’t know how many weeks already… And within 30 minutes a semi-new follower responded already asking for it. I was like… Huh! Would ya look at that…
Lastly, after doing some AI chatting, I decided to create my first mini-VSL, that shares who I work with, how, and how they can get in touch. I think that’s one of the big pieces missing from my Instagram funnel right now, so glad to have that.
I’ve been surprised that Instagram (Reels, stories) have led to more DM conversations than YouTube, at least so far.
And updated my Start Here story highlight to point to that, and change the other thumbnails to look a little more “clean.”
The Video From 2022
I was looking for this video the other week… but couldn’t find it in my Google Photos.
Then I forgot about it.
I was journaling this week… Ah, I’ll just put it here instead of in Thoughts From The Week.
202603020726 Brain dump - Publik
#journal
Good. Mornin' there chap.
Came to Publik this morning. It's raining out. Planning to do errands today. I'm out of fruit. Need to do laundry.
Bro there WAS a storm rolling through Utah, it was gonna be a pow day 6" on Tuesday and then something like 10" on Friday. It got downgraded... now it's a slushy rainy mix, 4" on Tuesday, 4" on Friday.
I'm like b r u h. I was gonna ski that. Now I don't see the point in going up, it's not enough to get excited about. It would be... okay. My skis are designed for pow days. That feeling I'm looking for, that I got 2 weeks ago with the [[202602221527 The Week Of The Park City Double Pow Day - Life Update February 22nd, 2026]] needs at least 6"-8"...
And so now looking at open snow, we're looking at 12" over the next 5 days (spread out in 3 days), 7" over the next 6-10 days, 2" over the next 11-15 days...
Back to basically nothing...
I got to my camp spot last night and I was like... what do I do here?
I'm feeling that urge to just be like fuck it let's go back to Bali.
And honestly? If I weren't planning to go to [...] and [...], I would 100% just do it.
I'm like, the whole reason I'm here is to ski... and I'm not skiing... so why am I here?
I'm living the van life lifestyle which is not designed for... city and urban life. I'm doing this basically because of Anytime Fitness locations so that I can continue to workout and make progress on my bulking muscle gain goals (and take showers), and it's not exactly warm out.
But I was like if there won't be any good skiing opportunities over the next 2 weeks... and it's been 1.5 weeks since the last one... should I just drive somewhere else? Phoenix? Moab? Find another Anytime Fitness-Trader Joes-Camping setup somewhere.
I was gonna write something like, I just feel... stuck. Then felt that kind of inner tension. Let me try focusing ([[202602251449 Focusing by Eugene Gendlin]]), this is a good opportunity and let me see if I can make contact with the "whole sense" of this problem.
...
Just did it and some interesting things came up, nothing quite _shifting_ but similar to [name] I feel like I have some more clarity.
- First was "stuckness"
- Then this image hit me, me back in my Denver apartment, looping, stuck, [...] "restriction," "constraint," this image of my freedom being restricted, wanting to do something but not being able to do it
- Then "plateauing" came up, attached to this idea of how much I value growth, and how I feel like that's slowing, the same loop I was spiraling in before quitting my job to travel
- I kind of sat with those things, struggled a bit with what questions to ask to get a better sense, but already felt like that gave me a better handle on this than before.
I like this process though, gonna do it more.
So anyways, ...
_I just looked up this note, because I knew it was in here, and found this one_ [[202202010837 Feeling bored]]... which is actually _exactly_ the note I made after the video I was looking for the other day, which I found! 14 minute video January 31st, 2022.
And man... wow.
Just spent some time clipping it up into shorter clips I can post. What a journey it's been... People need to see this.
... Just posted a reel from this.
[...]
I watched that video and was honestly surprised…
Lately I almost started to wonder if was over exaggerating my story… I saw that and was like “nope, definitely not”
I remember that walk too. And I remember the difficulty I had even getting outside… In finding value in walking about 100 feet outside my apartment for 5 minutes and then back…
I didn’t even share the whole video on social media yet, but the gist was that I just felt like I had nothing to do… I didn’t know what to do. I spent the last couple hours watching livestreams, and was considering opening reddit just because it was something… something to do.
I considered playing video games that night, just going back and forth from my desk to my couch, scrolling.
I felt lost, stuck. Wanting to build, work on something meaningful, but just couldn’t do anything. Nothing felt exciting.
And that same day I took this photo… I even remember taking this. It’s commit contributions to our team’s repository.
To be fair, there is nuance here. This doesn’t mean “I did all the work” because commits can be of different sizes… But I remember seeing this and thinking… I’m not slacking… I’m not “the worst” on the team… But I felt like I was twiddling my thumbs all day, scrolling Instagram between meetings, growth plateaued, not being pushed anymore, not feeling excited anymore…
Yet I had a glimmer of hope… that I was gonna quit my job in the summer and travel the country living out of my 4Runner, just… figuring it out.
Less than two weeks later I took a long weekend trip to Crested Butte, skiing, camping out my 4Runner…
and also got it stuck in the snow but that’s uh… a funny story for another time 😂
And about 6 weeks later I took my “infamous” trip to Telluride, where I worked my actual job out of the coffee shops and library there
It was on that trip I decided to drive out to Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah because “well if I can live and work here… I could live and work… anywhere”
And it was the drive back after that week and a half that solidified my plans… And even gave me the thought about doubling down and buying a van, which I started browsing Facebook Marketplace THAT NIGHT.
3 days later I found the listing for this van, messaged him, and met him a couple days later, negotiated a price and shook on it.
Took me some back and forth to find the right financing method, but about 14 days later I had the key in hand and was driving it back to my apartment.
It was only then that I told my family about any of this…
Still just wild to think about how this all turned out.
Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
Anyways, back to this week. Feeling very touched and inspired, I decided to base my next video off of this. And this video must have THE MOST b-roll out of all my videos recently.
Other Stuff
Been doing a lot more intentional park walks lately, they’ve felt good.
And also backing up all my media data.
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Thoughts From The Week
202603031312 What will I miss about the US when I've left
#gratitude
So I'm in this position and thinking about how I want to be somewhere else right now, but I just have the thought. What will I be grateful for when I'm back in Bali?
Like what will I miss from the US when I'm gone
- Skiing, that feeling of flow
- The weather, I'm not going to miss the sweat and heat everyday in Bali; Not sweating profusely in the gym
- having my own space, the van, driving where ever I want, recording videos inside. Just feeling like "this is mine"
- The ability to just drive from Denver to salt Lake City, pack up and move cities, That feeling of freedom
- Not quite that feeling of belonging, but not quite that feeling like you're not fully welcome forever in a place or country, like not having to manage visas
- seeing family here in person
What’s Next?
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