This Week
- Getting sick with Bali Belly for the second time ever.
- How I’ve felt getting back into working from coffee shops.
- Some honest thoughts from the week.
August 2025
| Su | M | T | W | Th | F | S |
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| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 8/1 | 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 | 9/1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Where In The World Was I?
- 🇮🇩 Canggu (Bali, Indonesia)
Metrics From The Week
Oof
Knocked Out
Went to a muay thai 1-1 session last Sunday.
I noticed my stomach felt a tiny bit off, but figured it was just from the big lunch.
I went with a new coach and this guy pushed hard…
By two thirds the way in my body was fatiguing hard, I was starting to get dizzy/nauseous, lose my focus a bit, and started to feel like I was gonna throw up. Otherwise, it was a great session.
I barely held it together to make it to the end, then made it back and just collapsed in bed. Napped for like 3 hours.
I woke up and felt super slow, nauseous, dizzy, and started to get a fever at night.
Getting up to brush my teeth took a LOT of mental effort…
The next morning?
Despite this I woke up without a fever, just a lot more slow. So we beat whatever the heck happened!
Took the day to just hang out at Nirvana and recover. Nothing special.
The next morning my recovery was 91%, back to normal! Got back into the gym and did a nice little sweaty run.
But by the evening my stomach started feeling really bloated and uncomfortable.
Strange.
Went to sleep.
Woke up the next morning, sat up, and burped some gas up… and IMMEDIATELY I knew what it was 😬😬😬😬 (from The Week I Got Sick With The Infamous ‘Bali Belly’, December 3rd, 2023)
Made like 4 or 5 trips to the bathroom. Lost a LOT of water 😬
So much that I decided to get my first IV drip because I knew there would be no way to replenish that much.
Caption: Everything is fine, mom 😂
I was VERY dehydrated. Can’t say how much it helped, I did feel better after, but it wasn’t fully over. The meds that they gave me did really come in handy though.
2nd morning still battling it, but a lot less so. Took the meds they gave me and started eating some basic foods.
3rd morning woke up and my stomach felt 100% back to normal, I was just still a little dehydrated.
When I weighed myself I ended up about 4-5 lbs (~2kg) down from a couple days before… 😬 A little frustrating to wipe out all the weigh gains I’ve made in the last 3mo but my hope is that most of this is just temporary water weight.
By now I’m all good. Phew. I’m back up 2lbs (~1kg) from the low.
Literally no idea where I got this from, nothing I ate was particularly sketchy the past couple days before.
Snaps From The Week
Back At It
I’ve been getting back into morning coffee shop sessions and they’ve been fantastic lately. The single origin espressos at Blacklist are maybe the best I’ve had in a LOOOONNNNG time (and I’ve been to a lot of coffee shops haha). https://petermeglis.com/nomad-workspaces/
And finally I’ve been feeling the pull to share more ideas, thoughts, journal entries, and learnings on social media again. I’m in such a different headspace than 3+ months ago.
This week my speech video also got posted, which I reposted on my Instagram story and got AMAZING feedback.
Not to compare performance… but to compare the performance of my video to the others (😂😅🥸), it’s at 93 views now, and most of the speech videos they repost on their channel get between 5 and 40 views or so. And the messages people shared with me were amazing.
It kind of blew me away. I feel incredibly grateful.
But I also feel this new sense of responsibility that I somewhat hinted at in last week’s post. That: it’s time. It’s time I start sharing more of my world.
Canggu Dating Club Show
Went with some friends to this blind dating show where you watch people date each other on stage. It was kinda weird haha.
And if I’m being completely honest, it was not good 😂 But I’ll give them some credit because it was literally the first time they ran the event. They had one guy sign up and two girls. All in it lasted about 35 minutes 😂
But what made this night actually fun was the people/friends I was with and the jokes we were making and the chats we had while at the show. We stayed for like 2-3 hours in total just hanging and chatting, then got dinner all together after.
Felt like such a “what truly matters” lesson moment.
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Thoughts From The Week
Back On The Mission
202508051036 Brain dump this morning - Honey
#journal
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Physical journal:
Hey hey, how are we feeling?
Honestly, a little nervous. ...
... What's my mission right now? [name] asked me what my goal is for this week and I said "survive" which was kind of a joke non-answer. ...
What _is_ my mission? Deeply and meaningfully impact peoples' lives, like [name]. So, how do we get there? How could I get one step closer this week?
Ideas: YouTube, offer my first 1:1 session, much more social/networking events (I've been slacking)
The next interesting question here is _why_ do I feel this way? And what if the answer is not to push but rather to sit in this feeling?
Just sat with this. Feeling some inspiration to share more thoughts, learnings, ideas, through my Instagram stories.
Let's act on the spark.
---Gratitude
202508071043 Getting sick has made me more grateful for feeling good
#gratitude #sick
Been off and on the last couple days, woke up with Bali Belly yesterday...
Two nights ago was tough, nauseous, slow, could barely get up to brush my teeth.
And that was hard.
This morning is kind of similar in the sense that I'm very dehydrated and slow.
Everything is taking more mental effort.
I realized how much I take for granted just feeling good and operating like normal.
The quickest way to be grateful for something, is to have it taken away...
But then it becomes too late.
I can't feel grateful for feeling good when I feel sick.
So what else can I be grateful for today that I'm taking for granted?
[...]
So much to be grateful for.
First Step
Offered my first 1-1 sessions to this WhatsApp group chat I’m part of. A big step. It felt very clean and aligned.
202508081127 Offering my first one on one sessions
#coaching
Good morning you beautiful people ❤️
I've been leaning more and more into this coaching space lately, mostly holding space for people working through big decisions in their life or seeking some kind of clarity.
If you're in something that feels foggy, conflicting, heavy, hard to name, and you want someone to help ask you the right questions (not give you advice), I want to offer this same space for everyone in this group.
Been having some great convos that people say leave them feeling lighter, clearer, and more grounded.
No selling, no pressure, just a space to jam if you feel you need this.
Just DM me if you want to chat over the next week. I'll be around. Much love.
Brain Dump Thoughts
202508091042 Brain dump this morning - Blacklist Coffee
#journal
[...]
Feeling the pull to share more and more ideas, stories, learnings.
What's calling me this morning?
- Let's finish this, it's a good question [[202508091111 What's been working the most for me for working on myself lately]]
- [[202508091116 Maybe you aren't ready to post content]]
Other random ideas?
My mood is now correlated with the rotation angle of my Instagram story photos/video clips (like working out at the gym).
Went back through [[202507300314 THE FUTURE Event notes]] and came across:
- “Nothing is quite as attractive as someone being unapologetically themselves"
- Inspired me to share some funny photos on Instagram. Just collected a couple, found that band camp photo of me with the rainbow hat and backwards shirt and posted it haha.
- Inspire people by being MY most unapologetically myself.
- And what this means is acting without caring about the consequences.
Another thought I just had... While I was talking to [name] yesterday and [name] in my dorm room the other day, this came up both times when I was talking about moving into coaching.
[name] said something like, are you getting into it because everyone is? And I felt quite confident responding that it's both what I feel aligned with and it's the feedback I'm getting from other people.
And this came up with [name], where I was explaining it's kind of like big decisions, conflict, people feeling in the fog, _that's the feedback I've been getting from other people._
So maybe yes I'm putting my power and validation on things that are external, but boy do I feel a lot more confident than saying something like no I just feel like I want to do it, or I feel like it'd be a good business model. It's like... this is _already happening_ and I'm just responding to the results I'm _already getting._
What’s Been Working For Me
202508091111 What's been working the most for me for working on myself lately
#journal
> What actions would you say has been the 80/20 of working on yourself that yields you the best results now?
What's been working for me most recently. ** are the 80/20.
Inner work (ideas and actions):
- **Addressing the fears and things I've been avoiding
- Journaling around fears, questioning beliefs, goals, what's holding me back, stories I've been telling myself
- Journaling about past experiences, emotional experiences, childhood memories
- Meditating on, feeling, and visualizing fears inside my body, exploring negative emotions
- Doing breath work sessions
- **Really understanding where and how I'm MOST valuable to other people, finding my unique gift that no one else has
- Reflecting on where I feel flow in my life and where I feel friction
- Having a lot of conversations with other people, picking up on patterns, responses, feedback
- Living more in alignment, finding more of my authenticity
- Recognizing where I'm filtering myself online or in person and why, then removing the filters I artificially put on myself
- **Stopping pushing/forcing and allowing life to happen organically
- Exploring, journaling, meditating on what I'm trying to force, friction, fears, guilt I feel
- Maintaining a more open mind, releasing control, releasing restriction on my life, allowing for more spontaneity (dinners with friends, social events, nights out)
- Stop looking in the mind and more looking in the body, stop looking for new perspectives, ideas, hacks, mindset tricks, start listening to my body more
- **Semen retention
- Finally seeing meaningful physique progress
- Putting myself in environments that are just ahead of where I feel comfortable, but on the growth track
- Finding good people that challenge you, question you, to explore deep ideas with, and that push you
External work (related to women/dates):
- spend time in shared spaces - gym, co-working space, coffee shop, social events, networking events
- be around attractive women
- and just marathon mindset
Others
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What’s Next?
Got some events this coming week 🙂 Back at it