Mark your calendar! Conscious Growth Club will open its doors to new members during the last week of April. Our annual one-week window to welcome new members runs from April 25 to May 1, 2023. As we wrap up Year 6, we’re excited to embark on Year 7 together, starting May 1st. Get ready to join us for an incredible journey of growth and transformation! Today I teamed up with ChatGPT to revamp the 5-step quarterly planning process we use in Conscious Growth Club. Our AI collaborator expertly helped me streamline the process, reducing the word count by an impressive 38% without losing any essent ..read more

I’ve been exploring and experimenting a lot with ChatGPT over the past several weeks, and it has quickly become one of my favorite tools for self-development work. Let me share a few ideas for how you can use it in some interesting and worthwhile ways, based on my own experiences. Clarify Your Values I recently decided to update my list of personal values. I’ve done that many times before, and this time I thought it would be fun to explore this with ChatGPT. I shared some of my core values with ChatGPT and then asked it to generate more related values. This helped me to identify clusters of va ..read more

On Wednesday I attended a one-day workshop on TikTok led by my Transformational Leadership Council friend Raymond Aaron. I had never used TikTok before, and this seemed like a fun opportunity to lean in and explore divergently. Raymond has 56K+ TikTok followers, and I had zero, so I was happy to learn from him. My intention was to try it out with an open mind. The night before the workshop, I downloaded the TikTok app for the first time and created my account. I very much enjoyed Raymond’s workshop since it was very hands-on. He got us posting our first videos quickly and helped us make improv ..read more

Let’s explore why investing in a lifelong relationship with Reality directly is a more stable and empowering choice than basing your worldview on a relationship with a god or a religious or spiritual practice. Reality Is Sensory Reality doesn’t require belief or faith. It’s readily observable through your physical senses, all day every day. You may ponder the nature of Reality in a variety of different ways, but its existence is never in doubt. The summation of your subjective perceptions suffices as a crisp enough definition of Reality. That means this relationship is always stable. As long a ..read more

I’ve been making steady progress on the new Engage course design. It’s a lot of work – I’ve been putting in some long hours lately – but very fulfilling. I’m enjoying working co-creatively with ChatGPT on it. This has really taken the course design and development process to a whole new level. I wouldn’t say that it’s saving me time per se. I could potentially leverage AI to speed up my design process, but that doesn’t resonate with me. Rather, it’s enabling me to go much deeper into understanding the core ideas, transformations, audience, and more. I can explore the ideas from many more angle ..read more

Recently I’ve been pondering how our mind’s expectations often block us from experiencing more richness and possibility. Even when we set goals and invite new desires, we can easily stop ourselves from taking accessible actions to advance. This month I ran into my own personal example of this phenomenon. One aspirational goal that I set months ago was to eventually do an hour-long group training session at my gym called UltraFit. That class looked intimidating from the online videos I’d seen of it. You can see the description on the UltraFit web page if you’re curious, with lines like “Our mos ..read more

Conflict. It’s a word that can strike fear into the hearts of many, especially those who consider themselves “spiritual” people. After all, isn’t the goal of spirituality to move beyond conflict and find inner peace? Conflict is not something to be feared or avoided. Conflict is a powerful aspect of human life to embrace and even celebrate. The existence of conflict in this reality is not a mistake. Conflict has many benefits, both for our individual growth and for society as a whole. It helps us sculpt our characters, upgrade our thinking, and add more depth and nuance to our understanding of ..read more

I recently starting developing a new deep dive course, which I expect to launch later this calendar quarter. It’s called Engage, and my intentions for it are ambitious. Engage is about optimizing personal productivity and creating a powerfully engaged life. It’s going to be unlike any productivity course or book you’ve ever seen before. This will be our 6th course, and I want it to be our very best one – helping a wide range of people experience major productivity breakthroughs. I’m framing this as our one course to rule them all. I want this to be our #1 flagship course. These are the big roc ..read more

I often think of life as summation of different experiential frequencies, much like different musical instruments can combine to create a song. Some frequencies combine harmoniously while others would sound discordant if you tried to merge them. What about I find most interesting about this model is that it helps me discover when some frequencies are holding me back from having new experiences. I cannot always invite new frequencies into my life when pre-existing frequencies are anchoring me to a different range. Usually I must detach myself – or at least loosen my grip – from some anchor freq ..read more

I had a fascinating weekend of plant medicine journeying that involved taking several different substances: kanna, white lily, psilocybin (mushrooms), and ayahuasca… mostly the latter two. I had only done ayahuasca before (3 years ago for 4 nights in a row in Costa Rica). I shared the insights from that previous experience here: Lessons From Ayahuasca. In this post I’ll share my experience of this recent journey while it’s still fresh in mind and heart. If you’re short on time and only want to skim the insights instead of reading the details about what it was like, feel free to scroll down to ..read more