This Week
- What I made to change up my food routine and how it ended up.
- This new tool I learned to use in coaching.
- How training has been going lately.
February 2026
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Where In The World Was I?
- 🚐 Salt Lake City, Utah
Metrics From The Week
Snaps From The Week
Tikka Masala
Been getting a little bored of my food rotations, so decided to switch things up a bit and bring back the tikka masala (The Week I Sprained My Ankle In The Mountains, October 27th, 2024)
I used chicken thighs instead of salmon this time to try it out.
Despite what it looks… it was… eh 🤷♂️. It just didn’t really have that much flavor. And I cut the chicken a little too small because I was unsure how easily it would fully cook in the sauce. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ I’m gonna try doubling the spices next time. Ya win some and ya lose some haha.
Business Updates
Two videos out again this week. I’m a bit behind the ball, or rather not ahead of the ball right now. The last two videos I’ve recorded the day before and edited+thumbnail+published literally the morning of…
So on the bright side my process is becoming much leaner out of necessity (which is what I was looking for), and they’ve been resonating with people lately, which feels good. Both reels I put out for these videos (which are just the intro “hooks” did well).
I’ve also been experimenting with shortening the idea-to-action loop particularly with reels. I made a couple this week, where instead of getting the idea and writing it down, I just pulled out my phone and either one-take’d it or did a couple takes, then immediately uploaded.
Also been posting a lot more “twitter-like” written ideas to my Instagram stories. I think I’m liking this format, taking the photos I’m already taking, and that people say they like (my photography) and spin it in a “business” style by sharing ideas, thoughts, introspection, etc.
Focusing
I’ve been reading this book, Focusing by Eugene Gendlin, which is this technique the author’s research found common across all the therapy and coaching clients who specifically found success (therapy is only successful in some clients).
The TL;DR here is it’s this 6-step movement and process where rather than trying to intellectually analyze and understand a problem, you look for this fuzzy and murky “felt sense” in the body when you think about a specific problem. This “felt sense” is that same feeling where you feel like you’re forgetting something but don’t quite know what it is, or you feel like the answer is on the tip of your tongue but you just don’t have the words for it. It’s fuzzy, hazy, unknown. And this process helps you get in contact with it. What he finds is that as you get in contact with this sense, you find a word or image for it that “clicks,” the body actually physically shifts, a sigh, repositioning, etc. which actually works to unlock this problem through the body instead of the mind.
So anyways, it’s really interesting… and I ended up running this with a client this week. It was one of those moments where you’re a teaching assistant in college and you read the chapter the night before and you’re teaching it to the class the next day 😂 I was like 15 pages into the book and like oh my god wait this would work really well for them so I basically did a “spark notes” the morning of and just share my intention and went through it with them. Success!
It’s interesting to reflect…
This was one of the core shifting ideas for me in starting to detach myself from my work, starting to realize it’s not for me, from April 2021.
202104210902 Putting energy into something and getting more back out
#energy #fulfillment
This was transformational for me.
What's something that you could put in more effort and work for, but actually get _more_ out of it, like get more fulfillment?
## Context
I've been so used to school and work where you put energy into something and what, get a better grade? That isn't fulfilling to me. I've never thought about actually putting in work for something that would actually give me more out.
I think this will help me with the tendency to just reach for instant gratification and struggling to put effort into things that are harder and take more effort.
This was the next question I came to after [[202104210859 Question - What is something that you could spend hours learning about]].
To think… I could put more hours into my job over the next few days, finish the feature even faster, do even more and… what… in 6 months my bonus might go from 8% to 9%?
And to compare that to now… learning a new tool, increasing my skillset, and the next day implementing it and getting one of the best unlocks I’ve had so far with a client. Now that is what I’m talking about.
This content is not ready to be made public yet.
Breath Work
Been liking doing these walks post-lunch and intentionally and specifically breathing with long exhales.
I did some AI chatting to figure out the science behind this, and TL;DR there’s no specific science behind how long you should inhale versus exhales (box 4-4-4-4, 6-8, 7-7, etc. there’s a million “breathing exercises”), but just as long as the exhale is longer than the inhale, what you’re doing is actually raising the CO2 levels in your blood, which your body monitors and basically says ah okay this means we can calm down.
So I’ll do an inhale through the nose, then kind of close my lips and breathe out my mouth as if I’m blowing through a straw. And I really do notice this slight difference, calming feeling, after a handful of these.
Training
Been feeling a bit of plateauing with training lately… Just finding it hard to muster up the energy, motivation, inspiration to push during my workouts. So there were a few workouts this week where I even really didn’t even feel like showing up but went anyways… Proud of those moments.
I’ve found myself kind of falling back into just focusing on showing up for now. The energy comes and goes.
I was also AI chatting trying to figure out why my weight has been fairly plateaued again, struggling to gain weight. And I think I just haven’t been pushing myself enough in my workouts weight-wise to trigger the stimulus to grow… despite doing exercises that feel hard, that feel like I’m at 0, 1, 2, reps in reserve. So finally one workout this week I pushed my bench exercise weight.
It’s hard not to compare to working out in Bali… I’ll just uh, quote that section here and let you put the pieces together 😅 (The Week Of The Motorbike, Gym Progress, and Sauna Conversations, May 25th, 2025)
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Anyways, I bring all this up because working out at Nirvana shirtless is an absolute CHEAT CODE. It’s so fun.
On the top floor of the gym they have these natural light skylights and the lighting is absolutely RIDICULOUS. If you’re following my Instagram stories I’ve posted a couple videos there.
I’ve felt a LOT more confident, especially considering the “Emergency Journaling Session” I had when I got to Tribal the first day back in 2023 (The Life Of A Digital Nomad In Bali, November 5th, 2023).
I’m definitely not the biggest guy in there, by a long shot, but honestly I might be amongst the most lean in there. I’ve gotten quite a lot of looks from people (both guys and the girls in there).
And I’ve started specifically getting compliments from other guys on my physique, something my brain has to recalibrate to. Someone complimented my progress and said “it also shows as a reflection of your mind/mindset.”
I’ll be pacing back and forth on a rest between sets, look over at the wall mirror, and walk under a light or skylight and go “jesus christ man 😂”
I’ve also been going with the backwards hat lately. I feel like I’m entering my “bad boy” era 😂
And then you layer on the fact that both Bali and Nirvana specifically have maybe the most and most attractive women I’ve ever seen, both working out but also lounging at the pool in swimsuits.
DOPAMINE YESSSSSSSIR
So let’s just say there’s been quite a lot of motivation to go to the gym lately 😂😂😂😂
Thoughts From The Week
202602240713 Brain dump - Urban Sailor Coffee
#journal
Wassup, came to coffee first today.
Need to prioritize getting this video outlined so I can record and edit today. [[202602231126 Video - Feeling lost after quitting, now what]]
But I'm here to get the brain warmed up a bit?
How are things going?
What's going well?
- [...]
- I get to record another video today. I feel like my content ideation is going well right now. I've got a more focused view of my target customer.
- I'm reducing the gap between idea and action. I've been posting almost daily instagram stories of Twitter-like ideas that I'm getting throughout my days. That's been feeling good.
- Somewhat of a positive, despite feeling a little less motivated lately to work out, I've still been showing up, doing smaller shorter workouts, but still showing up.
- I'm in fucking Utah bro, I love the mountains here. Every day I get these incredible views. I'm sitting in Urban Sailor, cloudy day right now, but looking up at the snow-covered peaks as I type on my laptop.
- [...]
- Like I wrote in [[202602221527 The Week Of The Park City Double Pow Day - Life Update February 22nd, 2026]], the no-input meals and my value/belief around my relationship with silence during meals feels much better lately.
- Been reaching out to a lot of people over the last couple weeks inviting people or asking who do you know, for DCEs. It's felt good to feel like I'm more comfortable asking, I'm getting feedback that people aren't wincing, and that I'm discovering more people in my network. [...]
- [...]
- Skiing has been crazy good, though infrequent. The storm last week was life-changingly good, [[202602221527 The Week Of The Park City Double Pow Day - Life Update February 22nd, 2026]]
What's been feeling off lately?
- Whoop recovery metrics (RHR and HRV) haven't been too great lately, like in the past couple weeks. I'm getting consistent yellow recoveries, even though I'm not really training that hard. Honestly I'm not sure what it's from. It's possible the last couple nights where it's like 8:30-9:30pm in bed, replying to messages, posting to Instagram stories, isn't helping. I'm just not sure it would make _that much_ of a difference in my HRV... but who knows.
- Like I wrote in this past sunday's review, [[202602150000 February 08 Weekly Note]]...
- Sleep is slipping a bit
- Training is meh right now
- Stretching is meh
- Diet is just okay
- Meditation is meh
- Aliveness is okay
- Everything feels just like... meh, or okay, habits-wise.
- Socially, just back to lone wolf mode, barely talking to anyone. Every barista exchange is just "morning, what can I get you?" It makes it harder knowing how life was in Bali in comparison.
- Instagram reels have been slipping lately, not posting as much as I used to be. I dunno, just haven't had good ideas for text over b-roll clips, haven't been recording anything (except for last night, that was good).
- Feeling a _little_ bit restricted travel wise. [...]
202602281202 List of things I'm working on right now
#self-improvement
Just a little list of things I've been working on, learning about, experimenting with lately, as a deeper dive/comparison to what I'm putting out on social media.
- Parts and inner body work (guilt, worth, validation)
- No-input meals and valuing silence in my life more
- Rewiring nervous system and identity work
- My relationship with energy and rest
- Sexual energy transmutation
- Storytelling and the 4 communication styles
- Rewiring perfectionism
- Exploring my own edges of self trust
- Tools for even deeper and more powerful coaching calls for clients
What’s Next?
Me looking for the snow this winter
