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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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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.
- 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…
- Mental Monday - Edition 33Aug 16, 2026Discipline Begins SmallMental Mondays: My story, stoic perspective, and purpose to start the week. Mental Monday “Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.” - Epictetus,…
- Mental Monday - Edition 32Aug 9, 2026Clearing Things UpMental Mondays: My story, stoic perspective, and purpose to start the week. Mental Monday "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you…
- Feeling Friday - Edition 31Aug 6, 2026The Arena of GrowthThe theme of the week is: The Arena of Growth. Strengthen your mindset today! Feeling Friday Theme of the Week: The Arena of Growth Brother, Earlier this week, we explored that competition can be one…
- Mental Monday - Edition 31Aug 3, 2026The Arena of GrowthMental Mondays: My story, stoic perspective, and purpose to start the week. Mental Monday "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity, for he is not permitted to prove himself." -…
- Feeling Friday - Edition 30Jul 31, 2026Bend, Don't BreakThe theme of the week is: Bend, Don't Break. Strengthen your mindset today! Feeling Friday Theme of the Week: Bend, Don't Break Brother, Earlier this week, I shared that building a strong mindset…
- Mental Monday - Edition 30Jul 26, 2026Bend, Don't BreakMental Mondays: My story, stoic perspective, and purpose to start the week. Mental Monday "The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm." - Confucius…
- Feeling Friday - Edition 29Jul 24, 2026A Matter of PerspectiveThe theme of the week is: A Matter of Perspective. Strengthen your mindset today! Feeling Friday Theme of the Week: A Matter of Perspective Brother, Earlier this week, I shared that one of the…