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The PTB Mindset Newsletter
A stronger mindset is built through the perspectives you return to and the practices you repeat. The PTB Mindset Newsletter brings both to your inbox through two short, connected emails each week.
Every week centres on one theme. Monday creates space to think about it differently. Friday helps you put it into practice.
Two Emails a Week
Mental Monday
Mental Monday combines real-life experiences from Michael with Stoic philosophy translated for modern life.
Drawing from experiences in sport, adversity, recovery, and everyday life, Michael explores how the week’s theme has appeared along his own path. Each edition offers an honest story and a grounded perspective readers can apply to the circumstances they are facing.
Feeling Friday
Feeling Friday carries the week’s theme from reflection into action.
Each edition offers one simple practice, exercise, or mindset tool designed to be understood quickly and applied in everyday life. The purpose is to help readers turn insight into something they can use.
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Mindset Development That Fits Into Your Week
Every newsletter is fewer than 500 words and takes approximately two minutes to read. The content is thoughtful without becoming overwhelming, making mindset development easier to return to consistently.
To date, more than 7,280 emails have been sent to a highly engaged readership that continues to make space for the content each week.
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Optional Men’s-Focused Content
One more email a month, if you want it
Mental Monday and Feeling Friday are written for everyone.
Subscribers who want additional content focused on men’s experiences can select the optional men’s-content box when signing up. Those readers will receive one additional email each month exploring mindset, identity, mental health, and subjects that often affect men.
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“Definitely a James Clear-esque newsletter that provides a tool for introspection, challenges your thoughts, and offers a space to both heal and grow. Love what you’re doing here.”
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Read Past Editions
Every edition at your fingertips
Every previous edition of Mental Monday and Feeling Friday is available to read on the Path to Becoming website. Search past editions, revisit a familiar lesson, or see what the newsletter offers before subscribing.
- Mental Monday - Edition 38Sep 21, 2026Theme of the week: gratitudeMy story, stoic perspective, and purpose to start the week
- Feeling Friday - Edition 37Sep 18, 2026A new chapter for path to becomingSurprise! Special announcement inside!
- Mental Monday - Edition 37Sep 13, 2026The Choice to StandMental Mondays: My story, stoic perspective, and purpose to start the week. Mental Monday “A man becomes honourable when suffering gives him every excuse to fall, and he still chooses to stand.” -…
- Feeling Friday - Edition 36Sep 10, 2026The Strength of FriendshipThe theme of the week is: The Strength of Friendship. Strengthen your mindset today! Feeling Friday Theme of the Week: The Strength of Friendship Hello everyone, On Monday, I shared what it meant for…
- Mental Monday - Edition 36Sep 6, 2026The Strength of FriendshipMental Mondays: My story, stoic perspective, and purpose to start the week. Mental Monday “As nature draws men to each other, so in this matter also there is an attraction which makes us desirous of…
- Feeling Friday - Edition 35Sep 3, 2026Knowledge is PowerThe theme of the week is: Knowledge is Power. Strengthen your mindset today! Feeling Friday Theme of the Week: Knowledge is Power Hello everyone, This week, I shared how knowledge has helped me…
- Mental Monday - Edition 35Aug 30, 2026Knowledge is PowerMental Mondays: My story, stoic perspective, and purpose to start the week. Mental Monday “All men by nature desire to know.” - Aristotle, Metaphysics , Book Il Theme of the Week: Knowledge is Power…
- Feeling Friday - Edition 34Aug 28, 2026Self-ReflectionStrengthen your mindset today! Feeling Friday Theme of the Week: Self-Reflection Hello everyone, On Monday, I shared the places I have gone when I needed to step away from the noise and reconnect…
- Mental Monday - Edition 34Aug 24, 2026Self-ReflectionMental Mondays: My story, stoic perspective, and purpose to start the week. Mental Monday “Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains...but it is in your power…
- Feeling Friday - Edition 33Aug 21, 2026Discipline Begins SmallStrengthen your mindset today! Feeling Friday Theme of the Week: Discipline Begins Small Hello everyone, On Monday, I shared how an extra five or ten minutes after soccer training helped prepare me…