This Week
- Going back to Tribal and Nirvana and recognizing people from last year.
- What life and work has been like lately.
- Getting back into socializing consistently again.
May 2026
| Su | M | T | W | Th | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 5/1 | 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 | 6/1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Where In The World Was I?
- Bali, Indonesia
We Back
Back to Tribal – saw some staff that remembered me 🙂
And back to Nirvana – also saw some staff there that recognized me and a noticed a handful of other people I saw last year.
Feels good to be back 🙂
New whip – 2024 nmax, and actually bought a helmet this time instead of using the rental. Went with the fixed chin (last pic) instead of the flip up, just way more comfortable to be honest! Cost me $51
Snaps
Working
Been actually a lot more locked in here than I was expecting.
I started ordering GrabFood delivery for lunch and dinner pretty much every day. It’s been an interesting mental shift, feels like one of those clear pieces of evidence where I’m now valuing my time more. The convenience is just worth it.
I’m spending pretty much every morning in a coffee shop journaling with my physical journal. Feels good to get thoughts out and back into writing.
Then I’ve been liking this process lately, I come back and transcribe my journal into a note in my Obsidian.md second-brain, then 1. I have this AI prompt that gives me 3 questions to continue deeper, and then 2. a second prompt to coach me based on what it sees, patterns, contradictions, etc.
And it’s been suuuper helpful getting that on the micro-level of thoughts and what I’m actually writing.
Then I’ve got a content repurposing prompt that I pass this whole journal entry in and create some reel ideas and scripts. That’s mostly what I’ve been using in the last couple days, and I’ve been getting a lot more messages from people resonating with my reels in the last week.
So we’re getting back into that, haven’t gotten around to a YouTube video yet, but that’s next up as well.
I also got a tip from a friend on improving my Instagram profile. I put this “origin story” and who I help post together and cleaned up my page a bit.
Different Chapter
It’s just been interesting how my Bali experience so far is very different from the last 2 years. I’m kind of just spending most of my time in my room on my laptop, recording, and then going to Nirvana for a workout, sauna, chatting with people, dinner/lunch with some friends/dates here and there. But I’m not around people as much as last time now that I’m in a guest house.
And I’m not sure that’s necessarily a good or bad thing, it’s just interesting to note how it’s different. I’m in a bit of a different chapter now.
Socializing
So now my extent of socializing is mainly focused on meals with friends/dates and Nirvana after my workouts.
I’ve been farming the Nirvana sauna lately like last year and maaaaan I’ve been way better at starting conversations. I think there’s something about the environment, being back, feeling more comfortable, chatting with the staff there more. I just feel more comfortable. And so I’ve been going “where are you/you guys from?” almost every day and getting into some nice conversations.
I struggled SO MUCH with doing that towards the start of last year in Bali… Now it’s just… easy.
Another time I was on the sun lounges, this guys sits down next to me, we strike up a little conversation. He asked what I do, I talked helping people with career, productivity, self-trust… He’s like “is it hard to get clients because not many people admit that they struggle with self-trust?” And I’m like so most of my content I talk about consistency, phone scrolling, bad habits, negative cycles and he’s like “OHHHhhhhh yeah it’s good that we met because I have this bad doomscrolling habit” 😂😂
Went to Tribal one afternoon basically purely to socialize, saw a couple people I knew, hung out with two friends and we just chatted, joked around. Had this idea to make this meme viral video reel… and then followed through and did it.
It was absolutely hilarious, we were going around filming clips, goofing around, dying laughing together. I walked away from that going… yeah I needed that.
It’s good to be back with that energy.
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Thoughts From The Week
202605120802 Morning journaling - Jelajah Coffee
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May 12th 2026 | Jelajah Coffee
Pagi. Got a date with [name] today. We back baby! Should be fun. Otherwise feeling pretty good. Did some planning for the next quarter yesterday. I think content is my new number one priority, getting leads from IG/YT. Gotta get back on that train posting on IG stories like in SLC. I feel like discipline-wise, I feel pretty good though. I'm able to push through the discomfort of tasks. Got my March + April finance updates done the other day, just need to finish the biz expenses changes. I'm back to a clean todolist though and it feels good. Will keep up this energy. [...]
Any interesting ideas I could mine on or synthesize? Let's just try listing some things I've heard from calls.
- Feeling the best self after gym workouts ([name])
- Each time getting close to picking something, brain thinking about the other path ([name])
- Constant state of emergency mode ([name])
- The answers are inside of me ([name])
- Struggling with consistency, reducing phone use in the evenings but doing it consistently not falling back into the habits ([name])
- That's one I think I want to explore more + talk about, building consistent sustainable habits, maintaining consistency
- The answers are in the feelings you're avoiding ([name])
- Parts work is interesting, I haven't really done much of anything the last month with all the traveling and new places. Would be interesting to really split out that [...] voice. My obsidian AI copilot brings this up more than I do lol
- Time management issues + solutions ([name])
- Everyone seems to think it's time management, impulse control, discipline
- Unsure about next step in life (_both_ [name] and [name])
- One more... All my recent reels have been flopping (150-400 views) _except_ one yesterday, 3.9k views, +5 new followers. It was on breaking promises. Double down baby.
[...]202605140805 Morning journaling - Barboa Bali
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May 14th, 2026 | Barboa
Yesterday was exactly what I wanted. Had a nice catch up with [name] over breakfast. Then went to Tribal in all honesty just to socialize for like 2 hours before the gym. Saw [name], [name], and hung out with [name] and [name] just fucking around, chatting, laughing. We came up with this idea for a funny reel that could go viral... and then made it. Bro we were all dying laughing. And we were going around Tribal filming clips and it just felt normal. I told them I used to feel so self-conscious at Tribal, everyone's locked in, running $10k/mo businesses, everyone's better than me. Now I'm friends with all the staff and just easily going around filming clips. We've all become more comfortable and confident in ourselves, each other, and the environment, and it was just so good.
After all this, went to Nirvana, sauna + ice bath, and followed up on yesterday's journal insight. I was at the sun beds, empty beds beside me, hoping someone would sit down next to me so I could start a convo. Nobody came, but had this thought to check the time, but didn't have my phone... Saw it as an opportunity. Went back and forth in my mind a bit, then finally turned to the girl 2 down from me "excuse me, do you have the time?" "thanks" Part of me was like _c'mon bro that's it?_ but the other pat was like _better than nothing_ I've not really done that much. The more reps I get of just starting an exchange, the better.
THEN after all that, had dinner with [name], that was a fun catch up. [...]
Only other thought that's coming up right now is wanting to work more, feel like I'm not putting enough in. Worked 2 hours yesterday then basically the whole day was socializing. Got a date again today with [name], the rescheduled one, then probs Tribal to finish this meme video with [name] and [name], then Nirvana. I just woke up and already feel like the day is over lol. I heard this from [name] during our DCE, a bit different but the same conclusion thought, waking up and already feeling behind. Oof.
202605150845 Morning journaling - Jelajah Coffee
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May 15th 2026 | Jelajah Coffee
Pagi. Actually got 9:14 of sleep (8:36 time asleep) last night and wow have I missed this. Woke up at 6:05am naturally ready to roll but slept until 6:50am anyways. I feel fresh bro, love this. First morning in a while.
The big event from yesterday was my date with [name] at Revolver. [...]
What else? Got the entire day free today. TODAY WE LOCK IN BROTHER. I really want to farm content today and move the needle. Let's make some money today.
What else? Had some great "I engage with life" reps yesterday. While waiting for [name], called the staff over, asked how long she worked there, what she liked, where she's from. Felt like a [name] moment. And at Nirvana this staff walked by, said hello, turned it into an exchange. That felt so good bro. Started a convo with this Indonesian girl in the sauna. And WITH the other two guys there on the other side (a mini "being seen" moment).
Anything else? Nope.
What’s Next?
Nothing but the present 🙂