Firebird Flow

Every Sunday I’ll share a full Firebird Flow recap of the week. Daily entries will continue as individual posts.

Week 1: Firebird Flow.

I want to set the stage for what I’m doing here. Every day this week I paired my writing with training footage and a voiceover. It felt aligned. My mind and my body finally speaking in the same direction. That’s the lane I want to stay in.

And this weekly post on Sundays is where I zoom out a bit. Not to break the flow, but to bring you into the process that’s shaping all of this.

I call this the Firebird Flow. Four steps. Reflect, Remove, Reveal, Rise. It’s an approach to journaling that I built during a time when life felt heavier than I could articulate. It helped me return to myself. It’s a cycle I move through whenever things get foggy.

Think of it like a brief check in with yourself.
What’s going on?
What needs to go?
What’s left without it?
What’s the next step?

I’ll be sharing my Firebird Flow every Sunday, along with daily entries from my journal.

Maybe this is helpful. Maybe it just keeps me honest. Either way, this is where the long arc begins. Eventually all of this becomes the book I’ve been outlining for years. It’s called Create Yourself. But for now, we start here.

Reflect

This week I started publishing again. Writing every day. Putting a voice to the footage of me training. Somehow it feels like the most complete version of me. My thoughts and my physicality in the same frame. The way I make sense of my life is the same way I connect with people who are built anything like me: through honest expression.

Sharing can be scary. You think about judgment, misunderstanding, all the ways something can be taken the wrong way. But if you don’t share your real experience, how do your people ever find you? How does any of this become real?

This is me consolidating everything I am into one direction. One practice I can maintain.

Remove

When you step back and look at your week, you can see the noise clearly. What doesn’t belong. For me, it’s doubt. Doubting the videos. Doubting the writing. Doubting whether any of this matters to the people who currently follow me.

That has to go. Because it doesn’t matter. What matters is keeping it up. Sharing openly and honestly. I can live with whatever comes from that.

And honestly, the small escapes that sneak in when I’m tired or overwhelmed need to go too. They don’t show up as often as they used to, but the poor diet decisions, the substances. They work in the moment, then slow me down. They blur intention. So they can go.

And the impulse to start something new? Another app, another idea, another sprint? Removing that is freeing. Ideas pop into my head all the time. Some I think are really great. I can see a path to success. But I’m one man, despite my efforts to multiply myself through technology. And I already have enough on my plate. Enough writing to fuel these daily posts for a long time. Enough music to finish. Enough material to shape into something complete.

All of this writing is planting the seed for one cornerstone project: the book. The long form. The throughline I’ve been orbiting since I pulled myself out of a dark chapter a few years ago. Firebird was born from that turning point. Removing the noise is how I stay connected to that mission.

Reveal

When the fog clears, what’s left is simple. I love creating. I love writing. It’s the most honest way I can understand myself. Maybe it’s the neurodivergent part of me that needs this medium. Maybe it’s because language is the best tool I have for organizing internal chaos into something useful.

What’s left after removing everything else is the version of me that just wants to create things, express myself, and connect with others in an honest way. The part of me that hums melodies throughout the day. The part that notices the small things. The part that smiles at strangers for no reason. The part that feels alive without a story attached.

From that place, I can give attention to everything that matters. My writing. My music. My training. My projects. My relationships. Without doubt. Without running from myself. Without chasing every distraction.

Rise

Now it comes down to action. What do I do with all of this?

I track it. I measure it. I hold myself accountable to the gap between how I want to live and how I actually show up. The Firebird app was built for that. It worked wonders for me. It launched me into new versions of myself, capable of things I never thought I’d be capable of. I stopped using it last month when investors didn’t bite, but the truth is I wasn’t even fully committed to it myself. Now I know what it needs. What I need. And I can build toward that again, step by step.

This week I’ll do the simple things. Keep writing and posting on the blog. Keep finishing songs and releasing them. Keep training. Keep building the book and the Firebird ecosystem one day at a time. Keep learning the tools that help me create. And keep showing up for the people I love, not just in my mind, but in practice.

That’s week 1.
Let’s see where week 2 goes.

Quick updates from the week

• Training: lifting and boxing at Gleason’s daily, sharpening fundamentals, combos, and working towards coaching and competition
• Music: continuing the weekly demo series (6 weeks, 6 songs down). Listen here.
• Building: outlining the next Firebird app improvements. Check out the beta here.
• Personal: focusing on consistent sharing, removing distractions, and consolidating my energy into fewer, deeper commitments