your influences


If you’re having trouble finding the path to your authentic life, step back and examine the influences and people you admire the most. See if you can find any commonalities that can help provide some clarity.

Who are your favorite business people to follow?

Your favorite musicians?

Your favorite unknown people?

What do you notice about them, and is there anything common among them all?

A few of my influences and people I admire are (in no particular order):

Chris Brickley (basketball and business)
Russ (music and business)
Nipsey Hussle (music and business)
Rich Roll (podcast)
Chris Williamson (podcast)
J. Cole (music and life)
Kendrick Lamar (music and business)
Rick Rubin (music and business)
George Kinder (finance and life planning)
Bimma Williams (branding and marketing)
Jack Butcher (branding and creating)

I won’t share what I see in common among these individuals, but I definitely see a few things.

The goal is not to imitate the people on your list but to see if the common characteristics among the people you admire tell YOU anything.

Maybe you are supposed to remember those common characteristics as you move closer to your authentic Self. Or maybe there is a different meaning.

Only you will know…but you will know.

There is a reason you are drawn to certain people and you should consider that as you think about your own Pursuit.

See you tomorrow (or later today) and keep pursuing,

JC

connect spirit, mind, body, and money w/ Justin Castelli

I'm on a mission to help more people find and live their authentic life. Check out my Daily Notes where I write a short note each day about the connection of spirit, mind, body and money on the Pursuit of your authentic life.

Read more from connect spirit, mind, body, and money w/ Justin Castelli

A friend told me a story his pastor shared, and I've been thinking about it a lot lately: A father and son planned a road trip across the desert. This trip happened before cell phones, GPS devices, and modern technology that makes traveling easy, and the risk of getting lost very, very low. Armed with just a map and a full tank of gas, the father and son began their trip. After a couple of hours on the road, they arrived at a fork in the road—a fork that wasn’t on their map. Confused by the...

As I mentioned in yesterday’s Note, I started the day being lazy–laying on the couch, binge-watching Starting Five on Netflix, and researching different breathwork trainings. My lazy Sunday didn’t stop there. I did some reading.I watched some football.I took a couple of short naps.I cut the backyard.I watched two movies on the couch with Silas in the evening. I didn’t think about work, I didn’t think about writing anything, and I didn’t feel the need to be on my computer planning for the...

I’ve spent a large chunk of this morning being “lazy,” binge-watching Starting Five on Netflix, getting ideas out of my head and into Notion, and researching different breathwork training programs--it's been extremely refreshing being lazy for a bit. Now isn’t the time, but in the next year, I’d like to start a program to become a breathwork facilitator to use in my LifeDesign+ work and even do small group sessions. I know that becoming a great facilitator will require me to learn different...