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The Greatest Investment You'll Ever Make
So now that we've talked about how beliefs shape our lives, the next question becomes: How do we actually change? And that's why it's so imperative. It is one of the most, if not the most, crucial choices that you'll ever make in your entire life. And it's always difficult. It's never easy. You're never going to have time for it. You're always going to make excuses. You're going to come up with all these justifications why you either don't have the money, or why it's not act

Kurtis Mercer
Jun 54 min read


Transformation Is a Grueling Process
Transformation is a grueling process to change from who you are currently into somebody that you are not. That, in that moment, in that current state of being, you are not that other person. But you're trying to change yourself, your whole identity, what you believe to be true, how you see yourself, and how you view other people. Like, if you believe that the world is a place that is filled with people that are surviving and people that are just struggling day to day, well,

Kurtis Mercer
Jun 43 min read


Why I Love Detailing: The Connection Between Cleaning a Car and Healing a Life
Starting my detailing business has revealed something I never expected. The deeper I get into detailing, the more I realize it mirrors the work I've spent years doing in emotional health. My coaching brand is called Autopilot to Alive. At its core, it's about helping people move from numbness to presence, from darkness to purpose, and from merely surviving to truly living. When I think about the word autopilot, I picture something neglected. I picture disorder, depression, nu

Kurtis Mercer
Jun 32 min read


You're Poor, and It's Time to Admit It
I think one of the most difficult things a man can face in life is admitting that his life isn't actually together and that it's actually falling apart. The only way that we can really track this is by looking at the numbers. You can't track it just because you've got a job. You can't track it just because you've got a car in the garage, a wife, or children. That is not how you measure success. That is not how you determine whether you've got your shit together. The one thing

Kurtis Mercer
Jun 26 min read


Churchianity vs Christianity
I have a lot of opinions about the church. Not because I hate the church, not because I hate Christians, and certainly not because I hate Jesus. Actually, it's the opposite. The more I've studied Scripture, the more I've noticed a growing gap between what I read in the Bible and what I often see practiced in modern Christianity. I'm not talking about every church, every pastor, or every believer. I'm talking about a pattern. A tendency. A culture. Something I like to call Chu

Kurtis Mercer
Jun 13 min read


What Real Christians Look Like
If you saw me at a music festival, you probably wouldn't think I was a Christian. I'm covered in tattoos. I wear black almost every day. I listen to rap, rock, electronic dance music, and screamo. I headbang. I dance. I sing. I pump my fists in the air. Sometimes I swear. I play video games. I love psychological thrillers. I can walk into a room full of business owners, construction workers, recovering addicts, musicians, or people sitting at a bar, and feel completely at hom

Kurtis Mercer
May 313 min read


How Our Parents Shape the Adults We Become
Growing up, I lived in a world that revolved around work. Not dreams, not purpose, not emotional health, but work. The message seemed simple: get a job, support your family, pay your bills, and if you're lucky, maybe have enough left over to enjoy a vacation once a year. My father embodied that mindset more than anyone I knew. He owned a welding business in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, and worked relentlessly. Looking back now, I know he loved me deeply. I never truly doubted t

Kurtis Mercer
May 304 min read


What Does It Really Mean to Follow Jesus? The Cost of Discipleship According to Scripture
The Forgotten Part of the Gospel Most Christians know the story of the cross. We know that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, willingly gave His life for the sins of the world. We know the nails. We know the crown of thorns. We know the suffering. We know the resurrection. But before the cross, there was a garden. And in that garden, we see something many modern believers rarely talk about. We see struggle. We see anguish. We see obedience in the face of overwhelming emotional pai

Kurtis Mercer
May 296 min read


The Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Not for Everybody
Not every person is an entrepreneur. And I had to wrestle with that. I honestly thought that everybody was like me, you know, everybody thought the same way that I did. And this isn't like a superiority thing or like thinking I'm better than anybody else. This is the realization that we are all made for different reasons. Like, we were created by God for different purposes. And we have skills that others don't, and vice versa. And that's actually a beautiful thing, you know,

Kurtis Mercer
May 288 min read


AI is Replacing Human Labor & That is a Good Thing
Okay, for most people, when they hear that AI replacing human labor, that it’s a bad thing. That: “Oh yeah, I’m gonna lose my factory job,” or farming, or trades, or office work, or transportation, or construction, or manufacturing." And yes, to some people — honestly, well, to most people — that would be a terrible thing.| That would be terrifying. To have to think about everything that you have built your life around: the person that you are, the routine that you’ve kept, t

Kurtis Mercer
May 273 min read


God Has Given You the Power to Do Everything — Get After It!
So I am a confident person. I am very confident. I feel like I have a lot of power, a lot of ability, a lot of motivation, and honestly, an endless amount of energy to go out and take action, make moves, and get stuff moving. Like, I’m talking actually build something. Build empires. Build movements. Go out there and realize that God has given me all the tools necessary in order to get everything out of life that I want. I know that I’m going to be a millionaire, if not a bil

Kurtis Mercer
May 266 min read


Career, Survival, and the Collapse of Family
So, I think this is where I’m going to get a little controversial, but I believe that being controversial is really the only way to move ideas forward. So, career identity. When we talk about career identity, when we talk about where people are when it comes to their idea of working for a corporation and making money around that corporation — and in particular, we’re talking about women here. Because in the traditional sense of being a woman, back in the early days, and even

Kurtis Mercer
May 253 min read


You Are Responsible for Your Future
I have realized something extremely important, and it has to do with everything. It shapes everything, including my life, and by extension, every single person's life on this earth. And that is that we are in control of our destiny. We are the ones that choose whether we are going to sink or swim, that our choices have consequences, that the actions — or the lack thereof, the lack of action instead of action, inaction — that we take directly affect our lives and the lives of

Kurtis Mercer
May 2413 min read


Entrepreneurship in 2026: From Hustle Culture to Conscious Creation
There’s a strange thing happening online right now. Everyone wants freedom. Everyone wants money. Everyone wants influence. Everyone wants to “escape the matrix.” But very few people are actually asking a deeper question: What does it mean to truly be an entrepreneur? Because if entrepreneurship is only about making as much money as humanly possible, then we have misunderstood the entire thing. A lot of modern entrepreneur culture is built on hustle, image, and endless grindi

Kurtis Mercer
May 234 min read


Artificial Intelligence, Embodiment, and the Future of Creativity
One thing I realized recently after getting feedback on The Inner Game of Awareness is that a lot of people still see artificial intelligence through a very specific lens. I was talking to someone yesterday who read a tiny portion of the beginning of the book and immediately said it “sounded AI generated.” And honestly, I appreciated the honesty. I genuinely did. But it made me realize something important: Most people currently associate AI with regurgitation. They think of s

Kurtis Mercer
May 225 min read


Video Games, Escape, and the Illusion of Progress
There’s something important that needs to be said about video games right now — especially with the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto VI. Video games are not inherently dangerous. They are tools. Like any tool, they can either enhance your life or slowly become a substitute for it. And that distinction matters. Because a lot of people — especially young men — aren’t just playing games for entertainment anymore. They’re using them as emotional escape routes without even rea

Kurtis Mercer
May 214 min read


Poverty Mindset, Fear, and the War Over Your Identity
There’s a mindset that quietly traps millions of people long before money ever becomes the issue. It’s not just about income. It’s about identity. And most people never realize they inherited that identity in childhood. If you grew up hearing things like: “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” “You better save every penny.” “Rich people are greedy.” “People like us don’t get opportunities like that.” “Playing it safe is the responsible thing to do.” …then chances are you didn’t just

Kurtis Mercer
May 205 min read


Inflation Is Forcing Humanity to Wake Up
There’s a reality happening right now that many people can feel… but few people are willing to fully admit. Everything is going up. Rent prices. Gas prices. Groceries. Property taxes. Mortgages. Student loan debt. Insurance. Basic necessities. Even everyday shopping. Meanwhile, most people’s income is not going up at the same rate. Most people are living on a fixed paycheck — weekly, bi-weekly, or salary-based income — while the cost of survival keeps climbing higher and high

Kurtis Mercer
May 193 min read


When Survival Mode Becomes Identity
There’s a growing reality happening that many people don’t fully see yet. Millions of people are slipping into what some call hidden homelessness — living out of hotels, motels, temporary rentals, or unstable housing situations because traditional housing has become increasingly expensive, unpredictable, or inaccessible. But what interests me most isn’t only the economic side of this problem. It’s the psychological side. We’re beginning to watch survival mode become normalize

Kurtis Mercer
May 182 min read


ADHD Is Not Just a Disorder — It’s a Nervous System Experience
It’s very easy, especially from the outside looking in, to think ADHD is simply about: distractibility, impulsivity, hyperactivity, overthinking, or difficulty focusing. But honestly, those are just words. I remember early on after being diagnosed with ADHD, I started doing what most people do: I went online trying to understand what ADHD actually was. I searched YouTube for ADHD creators. I read articles. I Googled definitions. I tried to piece everything together. But most

Kurtis Mercer
May 155 min read
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