CPA & CFO. Lost 90 lbs. Dropped my handicap from 100+ to 13. Published author. I write about building a life worth living - golf, fitness, money, and the coast.
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1/ Day 1.
An hour ago I finished week one, day one of my 2027 Ramp. For the first time in 18 years of doing this, it's public — first weigh-in is on the board at FreedomJourney.life.
Day 3 is up.
You’re not making wholesale changes week 1 or even month 1. You wrote down minimal actions for a reason. They were made too-easy on purpose. Just start on them and before you know it they are done.
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Day 2 is up.
No scale for 3 weeks. Letting myself get into the flow of the climb before getting on the scale.
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3/ The journal posts daily from here: weigh-in trend, program week, one win, one wobble, the next day's plan.
If I crash into a guardrail around Christmas — history says I will — you'll read it that day. That's the deal.
4/ Build alongside me. Do Chapter 1's ten-minute assignment and start this week. The free workbook: freedomjourney.life/rampbala…
Day 1 entry lands today: freedomjourney.life/my-2027-…
On Jan 8, Quitter's Day, we'll be eleven weeks in while the gyms empty out on schedule.
Two golfers, both 52, both "getting in shape this year."
One starts Jan 1: cold gym, dead stop, quits by Quitter's Day.
One starts Oct 19: 11 weeks of momentum by the time the other guy laces up.
Same goal. Same willpower. Different calendar. amazon.com/dp/B0HKZHWKHF
The kids on social media lock in for the last 90 days and call it a winter arc.
They're right about the calendar.
The Ramp is that idea for a 48-year-old with a mortgage: same running start, minus monk mode, plus a downslope that survives Thanksgiving. amazon.com/dp/B0HKZHWKHF
The book's whole thesis in one line:
When you start matters more than how hard you try.
Everyone else is waiting for January. Your running start is at the end of October. amazon.com/dp/B0HKZHWKHF
The new weight-loss medications?
Honest answer: between you and your doctor. Not my lane.
Every path — medicated or not — still needs the daily system: train, protein, sleep, identity. Somebody still has to build the ramp.
Launch week is on. The Ramp: amazon.com/dp/B0HKZHWKHF
1/ Launch week starts now.
THE RAMP — the system I've used for 18 years to skip the January cliff: start in late October, coast through the holidays on purpose, launch past the resolution crowd.
99¢ on Kindle through Nov 8, then $4.99: amazon.com/dp/B0HKZHWKHF 🧵
4/ What's NOT inside: meal-plan dogma, a drill sergeant, medical advice, or a single "results not typical" promise about YOUR body.
One guy's audited 18 years + a system you can check my math on. That's the offer.
5/ And in 7 days you can literally check the math: Oct 26, my 2027 Ramp begins — journaled in public, daily, at FreedomJourney.life.
The book is the map. The blog is me walking it. amazon.com/dp/B0HKZHWKHF
Dec 31, 2025, 7am: 169.2 lbs. First 2026 goal — under 170 — done before the year started.
That morning, everyone else was planning to begin "Monday."
I'd been building since Oct 14.
Momentum is a calendar decision. freedomjourney.life/my-2027-…
October 13, 2026 was the date in Chapter 7. I said I'd grade it in public, on time, not price.
Grade: PARTIAL. The volatility showed up on time — in the bond market, not in Bitcoin's options.
Every reading, every source, dated: coast2coastfinancial.com/oct…
1/ This summer I fell off my own system. I wrote a book about that system. The fall-off is staying in the book.
Let me show you why. 🧵
6/ In 2008, a summer like that would've cost me two years. In 2026, the crash never came.
That's what ramps actually build. Not perfection — a FLOOR. You fall off, you don't fall far.
7/ The perfect-guru version of this thread doesn't exist, because a system you only see in highlight reels is a system you can't trust.
The Ramp's launch week starts Oct 19, fall-off chapter included. And my next ramp starts Oct 26 — journaled in public: freedomjourney.life/my-2027-…