This is my journal entry from January 27, 2026 — my real, unedited day, shared just as it happened.
The kids take a while to wake up this morning, and we barely get my daughter to school on time because everybody's dragging so much ass. It's cold this morning, 36 degrees when I wake up, which is crazy. I feel like I'm in Michigan for a moment. After I drop the kids off, I have a business coaching call scheduled where I'm talking to a coach about my business. And she gives me some good suggestions like reaching out to local organizations, seeing if I can get up in front of different groups and speak for them and then give out or sell a bunch of my books there. I schedule an appointment to see her on Friday to go into more detail.
Then I run over to my AA meeting, say hi, enjoy the first 45 minutes of the meeting there. Then I run over to noon yoga at my yoga studio. Today, we're going in regular clothes, not testing that whole thing, wearing out my nice clothes there. And I have pants on, which is not as uncomfortable as I would have thought it would have been. I put my mat down in the most open spot. There's another cute girl next to me, and I'm plotting to see if maybe she'll be interested. I am nice after class and take one of her blocks back, but she has no more interest in interacting with me after that. Then I walk out of class after a little friendly discussion with the instructor, a yoga instructor. I then am standing in front of a car that I thought was mine. But as this girl goes to get into it from yoga class, I realize, oh, it's just a similar color to mine. And we have a exchange of a few words. And I think, should I have tried to get her phone number or something? Or fuck, what do I do with myself? I thought I was just going to peacock.
I go back and shower and clean up real quick, then go straight to my massage with my massage therapist. It's nice to see my massage therapist after she's back from her cruise. We catch up and exchange stories. It's amazing how much has happened in my life in three weeks. Like last time she saw me, I just was talking about going out with a woman I'd been talking to. So that feels like it's been forever ago at this point.
I have the kids overnight again, and my ex-wife drops them off a bit after five today. They go over to play with some friends immediately. I get to work making food, cleaning the house, getting ready for bedtime with them, getting their lunchboxes ready. Then my mother comes over and we have a nice walk around Crescent Lake, which is very nice. And we play the Harry Potter deck builder game after we pick the kids up at the park. My son gets a bit upset because we all say that my daughter buying Elvis Dumbledore would work better for everybody instead of him. But he gets through his feelings about that. And my mother has a good time playing with us, says goodnight to the kids. And everybody's in bed a little bit earlier tonight.
I am feeling a bit more hopeful today after yesterday felt like so much despair about my business and fear. And now I feel like, you know, what if I can just keep publishing these books? If I can just keep publishing these books, it's all going to work out great. But I do need to get in there and publish books. Now I dictate every single day and add to my books constantly, but I've gotten way behind on editing. Like I'm probably like 20 hours of dictated audio behind on getting that turned into books. And I definitely have time for that. I've also decided I'm going to cancel my gym membership, because I'd be better out passing books out in person.
I talked with ChatGPT today and last night, and it seems the key thing I need to do is pass my books out in person to people, get my books into people's hands, and from there, then great things are going to happen, especially if the book is set up with a call to action by itself, whereas so far, the books have not been set up with much of a call to action, and the books I've given out have not been the kind of books that often would get people to want to talk to me or do coaching with me or come to an event. But I'm starting to feel a little bit better. I'm glad I got the cash advance, another $15,000. So I've got around $30,000 in cash. I've got plenty of time to crank out books and enough money to print a bunch of them and pass them out to people. I really hope this works out. And my mother talks about, you know, maybe how she went in the military. It was a big adventure. And I'm like, this is a big adventure for me too. And I tell my mother, I just don't have time for anything else but my life at this point. I don't have time to just make somebody else money so I can get by. I have no time to survive. I only have time to thrive.
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