FML1: Using Location, Places & Spaces To Transform
ALCHEMIZE FML
Newsletter #1
Weekly Tips, Tools & Strategies to Alchemize your Fitness, Money & Life
"When you leave a beautiful place,
you carry it with you wherever you go."
Alexandra Stoddard
Yours truly walking in front of Hoover Tower at Stanford University.
Greetings my fellow Life Alchemists!
My major Theme of Focus in 2023 is Expansion. That means I will be expanding the value I provide to my audience.
On that note, the 3-things my friends, colleagues & clients most frequently ask me about are Fitness, Money & living a Life well-lived so I am transforming my weekly Newsletter into the "Alchemize FML Newsletter" (or FML Newsletter for short).
You can think of it as 3-actionable tips, tools or strategies to Alchemize your Fitness, Money & Life to the Next Level. Or if you're feeling humorous, 3-ways to unf*ck your Life (unFML, get it?).
Without further ado, here are 3-actionable FML items for you:
FITNESS: Change gym locations or get more than one gym membership.
Sometimes all you need is a new environment to change up your energy & renew your motivation. I've been utilizing this strategy for years. Whenever I start feeling stagnant in my weekly workouts I'll change up where I go to workout. If you've never done this before you will be amazed how changing your environment can significantly revitalize your fitness.
MONEY: Put your money in more than one place.
Banks fail, brokerages fail, currencies fail, countries fail & nothing lasts forever. It's critical to keep your money well diversified across the board so no one thing destroys all your wealth. I keep my money in well diversified broad-based index funds (US & International) & ETFs with a few different brokerage firms. I keep cash savings with different banks, and I even hold some crypto (much less than 5% of my total Net Worth) to further diversify my money.
LIFE: Change your living/working space.
This could be redecorating your home, office or a single room to bring in new energy or even moving to a whole new place, city or country. The Phoenix wife & I moved to Santa Cruz County from Menlo Park in September 2022 and now that we are only 5-minutes from the beach we've been to the beach more times in the last 4.5 months than we have in the last 4.5 years. This lifestyle change has radically expanded & improved our health & happiness. When I needed to completely reboot my career & life I left Hollywood & moved back to the Stanford area. This move empowered me to find meaningful work & start becoming the person I truly wanted to be in the world. [For more inspiration see this video of my new Fit Work Space]
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Lastly, here is Episode 33 of the Alchemize Life Podcast with Jordan "Doc G" Grumet where we talk about Purpose, Identity, Connection, being on "The Climb," a Proxy for Happiness, the 3 speeds of Financial Independence & much more!
Send you all lots of Energy & plenty of Dragon Magic!
Justin "Dragon" Carl
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