Archive - A Bangin' Life

I was a zoo animal for 36 years.

Nov 7 • ◬ Colby

October 2026

Alan Watts, Thoreau, and Neville all found the same truth about what you see. Almost nobody lives by it.

Why the gap between how you see the world and how everyone else sees it is where your power lives.

Oct 31 • ◬ Colby

When you can’t see the way forward, look behind you.

You’ve figured out a life you once had no idea how to live. There’s evidence in that.

Oct 24 • ◬ Colby

You can’t plan for something you’ve never done.

You don’t actually want a plan. You just like the feeling of having one.

Oct 17 • ◬ Colby

The cost of being good at the wrong thing

One decision on August 30, 2024. $0 income. Newborn twins. Here's what happened.

Oct 10 • ◬ Colby

Stop posting like you’ve figured it out.

Start posting like someone who’s terrified of what they might find out about themselves.

Oct 3 • ◬ Colby

September 2026

You deserve to get flaked on if you do this.

One word is dismantling your friendships, and you can’t see it.

Sep 26 • ◬ Colby

Forced flow is contaminated work.

Six months of monk mode isn't available to you. Micro Monk Mode is. 18 months in so far.

Sep 19 • ◬ Colby

It took me 14 years and 1,200 clients to solve the problem I couldn't fix at my own dinner table.

How a decade of client onboarding solved the problem no parenting book could

Sep 12 • ◬ Colby

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