This is my journal entry from March 16, 2026 — my real, unedited day, shared just as it happened.
I wake up today with a burst of inspiration. I remember how I dictated I'm seeking a wife and how important that was in my development. And I realized I need to do my money book right now. And it needs to go into exactly my future the way I did with the wife. Thus, I get up and immediately dive into dictating an hour-long book called Making Money After You Quit the Thing That Made You Rich. I dictate the entire thing, then I go to a 10 a.m. power flow at my yoga studio, which is a real ass-kicker. I was barely able to get through some of the parts of it, and I'm so glad that I've got the stamina for it. There's a very pretty girl, maybe like mid-20s, that I put my mat down next to as usual. She actually gives me a little smile and eye contact right when I put my mat down. And I'm like, how nice. After class, I thank her for that. She also has a washcloth and a hand towel instead of a proper size yoga towel. So I ask her a little bit about that, have play conversation, and then disengage without lingering too long or waiting for it to be awkward or without asking for a phone number. I had a polite conversation, but I didn't see any signs of significant interest higher than that. I also did escalate with asking her if she wanted me to give her my spare yoga towel in the trunk. She said no, so I figured, all right, time to move on.
I head home and I have just enough time to quickly shower and have a little snack. Then I head to my recovery meeting. I get there and the topic we're reading out of the big book, the guy next to me shares one thing and I pretty much share the opposite, which I think it's good to hear those different kinds of views and not like he shared basically that you, you know, you could do things his way or you could do things the way they say in the big book, Alcoholics Anonymous, and that's the program. And it's worked for him and it works for a lot of others. I said, I pretty much do Alcoholics Anonymous Jerry's way and it works just fine. I'm very happy. I'm sober. And I'm not into anyone telling me what to do. And I help others. And I give some examples of stories, like when I went to a bachelor party at just a few months sober, maybe like four or five months. But I had had this spiritual awakening. I'd started, had a good little initial run through the steps. Everybody said I shouldn't go to the bachelor party, but I knew. I just had this knowing that going to the bachelor party would be the most joyful, helpful path to take. And I didn't drink. I didn't go to the bar. And I saw that alcoholism, you know, that while my friends at the bachelor party did have a little bit more fun than I did, say 20 or 30% more fun than I did, they also had at least 50 or 60% more misery than I did. Some of them 80 to 90% more misery than I did, like the guy who got punched in the face. I really enjoyed not getting punched in the face. So I shared that saying that, you know, I'm not a person to just do what everybody tells me to do and follow somebody else. And, you know, this isn't a cult kind of thing. The guy I'm I'm have known him for years. I really like him. And he gives me a little tap on the shoulder and says something and then heads out right after I share, which I don't I figure, you know, he's got something to do. He is going to leave anyway. But I hope he didn't feel all sharing against him. I was just I want people to have different points of view. That that can work and this can work too.
I head home and my ex-wife drops the kids off right after that. For the next several hours, they hang out with their friends. And I'm just doing everything I can around the house, cleaning up. Then I get into, well, if I have this much time, I might as well go through and submit my book to Amazon. So I'm really grateful that after yesterday, I submitted Divorce Day. Today, I submitted Making Money After You Quit the Thing That Made You Rich to the Kindle store as well. And I went through and got the paperback version of Divorce Day ready. All I need to do on that one is get my proof copy in the mail. Divorce Day is such a thick book. It's $8, $8.50 per book. So I only get two of those proof copies. And I feel this burst of inspiration. I'm like, as I hold a little booklet in my hand and I've got the book digitally on Kindle on the same day I created it, I'm like, this is big. I've just made a big breakthrough today that I can make a booklet that I could print and hand out for like 50 cents around town that has a call to action, a schedule on my website. And I've got this on Kindle. It'll be on Audible and it'll be on print on Amazon. Like that is huge. This is what I need to do. I need to grind out books like this.
I feel so good having created this entire book in a single day. I'm grateful to see that even though if you read back through my daily journal, it seems like I've had this kind of realization a few times, but now it's super clear. I need to crank out all these books online, and it's important they're all there, and combine that with some local promotion and branding. And from there, I should have a really solid business because I could get calls and coaching purely online through my books, and I'm set up really well locally with this approach too, where I could go up to somebody and have a whole bunch of different booklets or hear somebody talking and give them an ultra-specific book that then leads to coaching. This feels very well aligned.
After I get done submitting the books, my mother comes over and the kids are still over. So my mother and I play Exploding Kittens, both the original and the zombie kittens version. We have fun and my mother's in a great mood, which I really enjoy. I haven't seen her in several days. And this to me is much better to have this time with her when she's really up for it and in a good mood instead of seeing her every day for a few minutes. Seeing her for several hours on a good day is really nice. The kids come over and we play some zombie kittens with them as well. And all of us wrap up and are in bed at about 9.30.
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