This Week
- An update on my sleep and health prioritization.
- The Kintamani motorcycle trip with the boys.
- How the coaching business is going.
August 2025
| Su | M | T | W | Th | F | S |
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| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 8/1 | 2 |
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| 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)
- 🇮🇩 Kintamani (Bali, Indonesia)
- 🇮🇩 Canggu (Bali, Indonesia)
Metrics From The Week
Snaps From The Week
Sleep and Health Update
As I alluded to in last week’s section “The Sleep Struggle” I started the week with a new lens of prioritizing my sleep.
And for two nights I got 10 hours and 11 hours of sleep.
And oh my god at how much better I felt after that.
I had forgotten how good it feels to actually get enough sleep 😂
Then for the next three nights it was back to late nights, but worth it.
However, this new desire has not gone away.
My Whoop Age and pace of aging updated again (it’s every weekend) and my age jumped 0.3 and my pace of aging stayed at 1.4x… This hurt to see.
Yeahhhhhh yeah yeah I know I’m 19 and 7.8 years younger than I am, I get it…
But it doesn’t reduce the RELATIVE pain I feel seeing this rise from what used to be around a consistent 0x pace of aging.
It’s knowing what could be.
It’s knowing my potential.
And seeing it being sacrificed.
So anyways I’m back in this mindset again. Saying no more, working on up’ing my sleep consistency (the biggest metric affecting all of this).
Very grateful for this Whoop.
Sprints
Also part of the Whoop age is Zone 4-5 training per week. More is better.
I’ve been doing runs off and on here, but seeing this as an opportunity to improve my health/longevity, I decided to start integrating more Zone 4-5 training.
Started doing some sprints on the treadmill.
And MAN is this fun. Been doing 14-17 kmh (8.7-10.6 mph). Also hit a new heartrate max (193bpm), was previously 191 bpm.
Socializing
Nirvana Social Day
Had an insanely social day at Nirvana this week. This doesn’t usually happen, some days I talk to no one, some days it’s just a quick chat with someone I know.
Complimented this girl’s matching outfit.
Had a fun conversation in the sauna with a bunch of people.
Chatted with a friend at the day beds, met some new people there, some great laughs and humor.
Then second sauna session saw a friend I hadn’t seen in a little while, was catching up sharing my plans and story (van life) and there were two other women in there that had done van life. One had a 1981 bus in Australia, another had a pull-behind trailer.
Then saw another friend on my way out.
I left like “jesus” 😂
I’ve been here for almost 4 months, at Nirvana for maybe 3 months, and finally seeing the returns from all the little moments, continuing to show up, meeting people, having conversations.
This is what it’s all about.
Night Out
Did go out with friends one night this week. Didn’t drink and left at 11pm.
I was kinda half in and half out (see previous section on my sleep/health mindset right now). But the music was actually good, so I just leaned into that. It was good.
It felt like a good compromise.
But then I realized something the next morning as I was journaling…
202508270748 Brain dump this morning - ARA Coffee
...
I felt a little more eye-y last night looking around. I like that the women dress up at Desa. It's not like Mexicola. They're more sophisticated at Desa and I appreciate that.
But I still felt SOOO closed off.
Bro I went to the bathroom and I was walking back through the moshpit of people. I scoot by this group of women/girls, make a quick glance over and I'm like aight they aren't bad, then catch this girl on the end kind of staring for a little bit.
Then I give a late peek and catch her eyes and as I'm scooting by she kind of lifts her hand up and out, half waving, essentially like a "come over here"
And what did I do?
Eyes locked straight, kept moving forward hahahahaha
I was like _fuck that_ 😂
But part of my mind here is like, _hmmmm but... why?_
Let's play devil's advocate here for a second...
_You want to grow. Growth requires discomfort. You want to get better at talking to people, at talking to women, at your own self confidence._
_Why are you SO closed off?_
_Why don't you just talk to them? [...] I know why you're hesitant, which is fine [...]_
_But it's like bro why not play the game?_
_What are you afraid of?_
- That I don't know what to talk about or say
_What if I gave you a list of 5 things to say and ask, guaranteed, works every time, makes the conversation flow_
Okay fair.
- That it'll be a one-sided conversation, one word answers, stuck conversation, shit energy, having to "try" to force conversation, that she won't be interested.
_Look at the girl at Black Sand [...]. Also part of what I'd say is bro grow up you're not gonna resonate with every single person you meet. Look at [name]. It's fine. You're being a perfectionist. What would make you grow more? Waiting for permission and wanting conversations to always flow, or being able to walk through the fire, walk through the glass of shit conversations?_
_Also pretty sure this is just fear of rejection. How do we get over fear of rejection? By being rejected... and realizing that you're still alive._
- Okay okay. I think the biggest thing is what to talk about. I like the non-club space of conversations because we can go deep, we can explore, it's not this high-stakes public environment where we're both shouting at each other over the music and where the questions I _actually_ want to ask (the deep ones) aren't appropriate.
_What if I told you exactly what to talk about and what questions to ask? What if I just gave you 3 starters that you knew worked that you could always lean on. Then you just try it and see where conversations go and what works and what doesn't work. Oh, like learning?_
_Oh and don't give me the excuse that "ewwww but the girls aren't my type" BRO I'm not saying sleep with them. I'm saying just have a conversation with them. Because that's the fear you have right now._
_Like what if you just fucking went up to 5 girls and talked to them, had some laughs, then went ahh shit I gotta go back to my friends. Easy, no pressure, gets you exploring that boundary._
Okie dokie, no excuses now. [[202508270820 Cold approach cheat sheet]]. Now it's just action and practicing approaching, overcoming that approach fear.
Dinner Out
Went to ARTE with this massive group. Had some amazing and hilarious laughs. Then started chatting with this guy next to me about purpose and goals. I asked him a couple questions and he was like “ohhhhhh man that’s a really good question”
The Kintamani Trip
The ATM Trip
Got a voice message from a friend on Tuesday about this idea of renting motorcycles and driving up to Kintamani on Thursday to work on our laptops then drive back.
I was like hmmm, actually that might be fun.
So I went for it, told him I’d come on Wednesday. Then spent my whole workout at Nirvana (~4pm) trying to find a motorcycle to rent in about 2 hours because we were leaving the next morning at 8am 😂
Thankfully I found a place.
Since I haven’t ridden a motorcycle since my motorcycle license course back in September 2024 (The Week I Drove Up To Northeast Wyoming, September 22nd, 2024), my plan was to rent it then come back later to pick it up so I can take my time re-learning how to ride properly without any pressure.
But the guy didn’t have his credit card terminal with him and I didn’t have enough cash on me. 300k/day ($18)
I offered to go to an ATM and come back.
And he goes “just follow my friend to the ATM [on the motorcycle] and you can pay him there”
And I’m thinking “ah fuck, trial by fire here we go 😂”
So I follow this guy down the road, quickly remembering how the hell to ride a motorcycle as I’m following this guy to the ATM. Didn’t crash and only stalled it once 😂
The Trip
My expectation for this trip was that we’d basically drive straight to Kintamani to this coffee shop, lock in, work, then drive back.
Boy was that not how things ended up going haha.
We started at this cafe (it was 5 of us total)
Then drove up about halfway, to this ancient tree and other coffee shop.
But it started downpouring rain as soon as we left. Threw on a backpack cover but didn’t wear my poncho so I was absolutely drenched 😂
Then stopped at this waterfall. We thought it’d be a quick stop but ended up being this super steep hike down (and back up 😅) these steps.
But it was absolutely worth it. Insane waterfall and took some crazyyyyy pictures.
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Then drove up to Akasa Coffee Shop on the Kintamani ridge. Insaneeeee views. Then it turned cloudy 😅
We got there around 3-4pm and one of the guys was like “why don’t we just stay a night and go back tomorrow?”
I was meeting someone in the morning, but ended up being able to move that, and the motorcycle rental place was fine with me doing another day.
So we booked this 5-bed airbnb for 60 euro (total, not per person) 😂😂😂, went to this local hot springs place, and found some sticks and marshmallows for a campfire.
Woke up the next morning, shot some photos/videos, headed to another coffee shop on the ridge for breakfast/coffee.
Then drove down Ubud for lunch on our way back.
Reflections
I rented a bike with a custom exhaust that’s louder but the whole trip I couldn’t hear anything because of one of the other guy’s bike that was also custom with a VERY loud exhaust. Man I couldn’t stop laughing the whole time.
We had some amazing moments and laughs, especially around the campfire. Shoutout “Gary the fucking cat”
It was also interesting how authentic I felt with them, bringing out more of my own sense of humor. And they had a similar sense of humor. It was a moment to reflect on how much I’ve grown and changed over the last couple months.
We were also just so grateful for the lives that we live. To be able to have the freedom and flexibility to do this trip on a random Thursday AND go “hey why don’t we just stay the night here?”
I definitely needed some of that masculine adventure in my life.
202508292130 The desire to just lock in
#routine #productivity #journal
Was reflecting on my 2 day Kintamani trip with [friends].
I was feeling some inspiration and desire from them to just get a villa or guesthouse for a month and just lock in, build, focus.
Not 2-3 nights out a week... Zero.
Back to full routine, eating clean, gym, 100% sleep scores.
Feeling that masculine drive and inspiration to become better and progress.
^ Will I act on this fully? Not sure yet. But wanted to capture the feeling.
Also, Bali is massive and extremely beautiful. I’ve realized how much of a bubble Canggu is and how crazy it is compare to all the other towns and little villages you get to drive through. Kinda wild.
Coaching
I’ve been going through the Inner Circle course content from the community I joined back in June/July. FINALLY using it and it’s extremely applicable right now. I KNEW it would be useful to join and have in my back pocket for the future.
I’ve been going through problems, solutions, and starting to piece together an offer for a client transformation journey I’ll take people through.
It’s pretty insane because I found a note in my Obsidian journal that’s literally just a list of all the problems I was facing in life at that time… An absolute gold mine.
I met someone new and we started talking about YouTube and getting started on YouTube. It was about 10-15 minutes of chatting and asking some questions and she told me the next day she had already recorded her first video. This shit happening continues to build the conviction I have in what I have to offer people. I get into these conversations with people, I do what I do, something clicks and they just fucking take action towards their goals.
On the back of this conversation I shared this story and put out another CTA this week inviting conversations and had some responses!
Had my first actual coaching call this week and it went extremely well!
And another conversation with someone in person that was very much similar in style.
The snowball is rolling 🙂
Thoughts From The Week
Feelings
202508250739 We chase feelings not things
We chase things, not even money, because we think we want them but really we want the feeling. But we can actually access the feeling at any time.
I've started to learn and understand a lot more about the power of using feelings. It's like, we think feelings are this thing we need to overcome using our mind, mental frameworks, discipline, but actually feelings are literally everything... Leverage them.
From "Outsmarting Reality by Nero Knowledge"Memories
202508250742 What type of memories do you want to have
I heard myself make this claim recently that oh but the nights out usually lead to memories. But I just thought, what if I actually built something...
Like just for example [name] is in Singapore speaking, how good of a memory you think that will be? And it has nothing to do with going out.
The ROI of going out is being more expressive and loose (alcohol), enjoying music, and being fun and dancing with other people (friends).
Finding my path
202508251059 How I found my path
Asked by [name]:
It looks like you've found _your path_... how did you find it?
- Self-awareness
- Experimenting and reflecting
- Detaching from social media, stop comparing to other people
- Creating space to think and feel
- Being around other people, collecting feedback from other people, finding what makes you unique
- Learning to listen to your body and feelings
What’s Next?
Locked in. Maybe. 😂