Something New

But also ancient.

Every wave that ever crashed thought it was separate from the ocean, right up until it wasn't...

I’ve been sitting on this post for a while, partly because I wasn’t sure how to say it, and partly because I wasn’t sure I was ready.

It’s been over a year since I last wrote here. Life got full. Two boys, a wife who somehow keeps all of us upright, a growing meditation practice that turned from something I did quietly for myself into something I now teach. Somewhere in that shift, this newsletter went quiet too. Not because I stopped thinking about resilience, or growth, or all the small ways we rebuild ourselves after the hard weeks. I just didn’t have the bandwidth to write about it here while building it elsewhere.

Here’s the Elsewhere.

I’ve spent the last stretch of time deepening my own meditation practice and training to teach it to others. Vedic meditation, specifically, the kind rooted in effortlessness rather than forced focus. I’ve been running an intro course and weekly group meditations, watching people go from skeptical to genuinely changed in a matter of weeks. It’s the most meaningful work I’ve done, and it deserves a home of its own.

So I started one. It’s called Mishaal Patel Meditation, and it’s where I’ll be writing about the practice itself: what it actually feels like to sit down and do this, the ideas from the ancient Vedic tradition that reshaped how I see effort and rest, and the small moments, like a broken-down car on the turnpike or a conversation with a tow truck driver, that keep teaching me the same lesson meditation does. Slow down. Pay attention. Let go of what you can’t control.

The Resilient Club® isn’t going anywhere. This community means too much to me to close the door on it, and honestly, I don’t know exactly what it becomes next. Maybe it stays a place for the broader stuff, the books, the mindset shifts, the George Costanza references. Maybe it picks back up one day in its own right. For now, it’s a chapter I’m not ready to finish writing.

But if the meditation side of my life is the part you’re curious about, that’s where I’ll be showing up regularly. I’d love for you to come with me.

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Some things get decided. Others get discovered slowly, the same way a meditation practice teaches you to stop forcing the pace of your own life.

What is nature organizing here? I’m not in a rush to find out.

Thank you for sticking around this long, even through the silence. It means more than you know.

More soon.

Quote of the Week

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
-Mahatma Gandhi