A Message from Magus G.Mack
Join me each week as we explore awareness, human behavior, and the small daily choices that shape our lives. As a thank-you for joining, you'll receive my free guide, 13 Hidden Patterns that Quietly Control Your Life, to help you begin recognizing the hidden patterns that quietly influence your thoughts, habits, and daily decisions.
Welcome to A Message From Magus G.Mack
Welcome to A Message From Magus G.Mack Hello, and welcome. Whether you found your way here through one of my books, a social media post, a conversation with a friend, or simple curiosity, I’m genuinely glad you’re here. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by one question: Why do people do what they do? That question has led me down countless paths over the years. I’ve spent much of my life observing people, studying behavior, questioning my own choices, and trying to...
Find the Pattern: What Happens Before You Make the Same Choice Again?
Find the Pattern: What Happens Before You Make the Same Choice Again? The behavior you want to change might not be where the story begins. Have you ever promised yourself you wouldn’t do something again? Maybe you decided to stop procrastinating. Maybe you told yourself you wouldn’t spend money just because you were having a bad day. Maybe you promised to stop reacting defensively whenever someone questioned your opinion. You meant it. You really did. And then something happened. Before you...
October Awareness Challenge: Find the Pattern
Find the Patterns You can’t consciously choose what you haven’t learned to see. For the past few months, we’ve been building something. Not a complicated system. Not another list of things you’re supposed to do perfectly. Just a little more awareness of what happens between life happening and you responding to it. In July, we practiced awareness. Notice what’s happening. In August, we practiced the pause. Create a little space before reacting. In September, we practiced choice. Use that space...
September Awareness Challenge: What Did Your Choices Teach You?
September is almost over. At the beginning of the month, we added another step to something we’ve been building for a while. In July, we practiced awareness. Notice what’s happening. In August, we practiced the pause. Create a little space before reacting. And in September, we practiced choice. Use that space to participate intentionally in what happens next. The challenge sounded simple: Make one intentional choice every day. Not necessarily a big choice. Not necessarily a different choice....
What If FOMO Is About More Than Missing Out?
What If FOMO Is About More Than Missing Out? The fear that I might be missing out on the good in my own life. I’ve written about FOMO before. You know, the fear of missing out. It’s everywhere in advertising and marketing. Limited time. Only a few left. Don’t miss out. Sale ends tonight. The words change, but the fear underneath them stays pretty much the same: If you don’t act now, you might lose your chance. I explore this in Chapter 6 of Beyond Sin, “Greed: The Fear That Says ‘There Won’t...
September Awareness Challenge Mid-Month Check In: Are You Choosing—or Just Agreeing?
September's Challenge Mid-Month Check in. We’re almost halfway through September. At the beginning of the month, I invited you to try something simple. Make one intentional choice every day. Not thirty perfect decisions. Not a complete redesign of your life. Just one moment each day when you notice what’s happening, pause long enough to consider it, and intentionally decide what happens next. By now, you may have discovered something interesting. Choosing isn’t always as obvious as it sounds....
The Pattern You Didn’t Know You Were Practicing
The Pattern You Didn’t Know You Were Practicing Awareness isn’t only about noticing what you do. It’s about noticing what keeps teaching you to do it. Have you ever caught yourself doing something you promised yourself you weren’t going to do again? Maybe you reacted the same way. Avoided the same conversation. Put something off. Spent money you meant to save. Reached for the same comfort. Went back to the same person. Or made another decision that left you wondering: Why do I keep doing...
September Awareness Challenge: The Choice Is Yours
The Choice is Yours: September Challenge Welcome to September. For the past two months, we’ve been practicing something together. Nothing complicated. Nothing requiring hours of our day. Just small moments of awareness. In July, we practiced noticing. We paid attention to the thoughts, emotions, habits, fears, experiences, and outside influences quietly shaping our decisions. Then August gave us another challenge. Pause. Create a little space between what happens and what we do next. One...
August Awareness Challenge: Looking Back at the Pause
August Awareness Challenge Final August is coming to an end. At the beginning of the month, I invited you to practice something incredibly small. Pause. One breath. One moment. A little space between what happens… and what you choose to do next. Now, before we move into another month and another challenge, I’d like to spend a few minutes looking back. Not to see how well you performed. But to see what you noticed. Did You Catch Yourself? Think back over the past few weeks. Was there a moment...
Who Made Your Last Decision?
Who Made Your Last Decision? We like to believe we make our choices freely. But what if the choice began before we ever noticed it? Have you ever sent a text message and almost immediately wished you could reach through your phone and pull it back? I have. Something happens. Someone says something that irritates you. A message arrives that you don’t like. Maybe someone questions you. Maybe they criticize you. Maybe they simply use three words in exactly the wrong order at exactly the wrong...
Beyond Sin: What If We’ve Been Asking the Wrong Question?
What If We’ve Been Asking the Wrong Question? There are certain words that arrive carrying baggage. Sin is one of them. For some people, the word immediately brings religion to mind. For others.., Guilt. Judgment. Punishment. Hell. Maybe even fear. For much of my life, I understood sin through many of those same associations. There were things you were supposed to do. Things you weren’t supposed to do. Good choices. Bad choices. And somewhere in the middle of all of that was the question many...
Join me each week as we explore awareness, human behavior, and the small daily choices that shape our lives. As a thank-you for joining, you'll receive my free guide, 13 Hidden Patterns that Quietly Control Your Life, to help you begin recognizing the hidden patterns that quietly influence your thoughts, habits, and daily decisions.