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Engage 19: How to Finish What You Start (Without Killing Your Spark)

Lesson 19 explores how to finish what you start without killing your creative spark. You’ll learn how to work with different energy phases – inspiration, staging, and completion – so projects flow forward naturally instead of stalling or burning out. This approach helps you move projects across the finish line while preserving enthusiasm, clarity, and…

Engage 18: Stretch Goals Reshape Your Identity

Lesson 18 of the free Engage course explores how stretch goals can serve as catalysts for inner growth rather than pressure-filled achievements. You’ll learn how to approach ambitious goals by expanding your identity, working through internal limitations, and becoming someone who can step into those experiences with confidence and ease. You’ll find the rest of…

Engage 17: Embrace Your Inner Paradox

Lesson 17 of the free Engage course explores how to embrace your inner paradox – the seemingly conflicting parts of your nature – and integrate them into a more unified sense of self. This expands your range, increases your freedom, and helps you make clearer choices about what to deepen and what to release. You’ll…

Laughing at the Beast

I know there are many people who now feel the world (and especially the USA) are going backwards and sliding into darkness. They’re largely right. The USA in particular is backsliding greatly. Remember that this wasn’t an accident. Lots of people chose this. This backsliding phase is spiritually purposeful and meaningful, like a giant cleanse…

Engage 16: Open Up the High End

Lesson 16 of the free Engage course explores how to shift your reality from needing, striving, and wanting to already being inside the life you truly wish to embody. You’ll find the rest of the Engage course videos in the Video section. Join the Engage Email List Join the Engage notification list to get an…

100 Days of Sex: Day 108

Here’s an update on our ongoing 100 days of sex experiment, which is now up to 108 days and still going. At this point I’ve figured out that if Rachelle and I spend time in the same room together during the course of a day, it’s going to be a sex day. Sex has become…

Yin Productivity

This week I began exploring a yin-based approach to my days. First I journaled about how I might differentiate yin productivity from yang productivity. I figured yang was mainly about deciding, controlling, and directing the flow of action whereas yin would be more about sensing and allowing action to flow through very flexibly. I also…

The Importance of Conscious Integration Work

Integration is the process of extracting core lessons and insights from your lived experiences and intelligently applying those insights to your life, so you feel, think, and act in alignment with whatever you’ve gained from your lived experiences. Integration especially matters when you have a stretchy experience that feels inconsistent with your previous conceptions of…

CGC Year 9 Is Now Closed – Next Opening April 2026

Our one-week annual window to join Conscious Growth Club for our 9th powerful year together is now closed, so if you haven’t joined us at this point, you’ll need to wait till April 2026 for our next opening because we are sailing on without you. You’re welcome to circle back for Year 10’s opening if…

6 Hours Left to Join Conscious Growth Club for Year 9

We’re in the final stretch – only 6 hours left to join Conscious Growth Club for Year 9. If you’ve been feeling the call, now’s the time to say yes. After midnight Pacific Time, the door closes for all of 2025. Here are some helpful links to guide your decision: If this is your next…