_{Hello friends! My name is Max Daniels and I’m a life coach and a writer. I wrote a short and salty book about the easy way to quit overeating and binge eating. Here I write about all manner of life improvement. And I have a monthly column about self-care over at Modern Daily Knitting.}

_{Please get in touch if you’re looking for coaching. You can also ask me a question.}

Hi friends! It’s mostly news this week:

🪶 Something to look forward to for 2027.

Scarlet leaves, Rhinebeck, LARPing in Salem: All indications point to a New Year coming right up here. I suggest you make a plan for a truly good 2027. Whatever you want more of (ease? freedom? Sunday lunch with the fam?) (or less of), it’s more likely to happen if you approach your wishes with intention.

This year, my annual planner will be brought to you wrapped in a workshop. That’s right: for 2027, we’ll be doing our planning together, live.

We will do it during that precious quiet time between Christmas and New Year’s. When I worked full-time, that was a cherished week for me. I still cherish it. Earlier this year, I learned the identity of the singular person who gave me (and many others) that gift. I’ll tell you that little story when we get together.

Anyway, space will be limited. Details to come, so keep an eye out.

Questions? Just hit Reply to ask me.

🪶 Last call: no-cost coaching.

As I mentioned last time, I have space for one pro-bono, no-cost-to-the-client coaching at all times. That space is open now, and we will start in December and go for 12 weeks.

That weekly session is for someone who

• could not otherwise afford 1:1 coaching

• has something specific to accomplish together


You can apply here. This is a non-intrusive questionnaire in the spirit of dignity and basic aloha.

Applications close November 1.

🪶 So you say you have a weekly newsletter?

I’ve been traveling a lot! Since getting back from New Mexico in August, I’ve been to Cape Cod a couple times, to a meditation retreat with my teacher in Ireland, I’m at an artist residency at a working farm in upstate New York right now, and I’m heading to Turkiyë and then India for block-printing school in less than two weeks. And I want to tell you about everything!

Materials describe this newsletter as “weekly” but the fact is it’s been coming out at unpredictable intervals for a while. My life has been episodic and unpredictable and that’s late-in-life divorce for you, I guess. It’s fine!

That’s just all to say: I have lots of essays in the pipeline for you, and they are coming! Just not weekly.

🪶 RECOMMENDING.

playing.

Have you tried the word game Outlier yet? It’s like if some ppl got together and said let’s make something that’s the opposite of everything we hate about the Times word games. New puzzle daily at 9am Pacific. I LOVE IT.

reading.

I’m re-reading Marie Kondo’s Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Did I really read it the first couple times? I’m sceptical, because I’m seeing things I could swear I never once clapped eyes on.

Specifically, the first sentence under the “papers” category. The instruction is as follows: GET RID OF EVERYTHING. Throw out all papers.

Hahahahaha okay, Mrs Lady! It is ON.

writing.

Over at Modern Daily Knitting, I have a little piece on regret-free living. Discussed: life mistakes large and small, lingerie, the French (naturally), attitude shifts.

Just give me something that WORKS!

When I was trying to extinguish the very hard-to-kill habit of binge eating, I tried one million things and like Edison found a bunch of shit that didn’t work. (Unlike Edison’s methods, they all claimed to work.)

Yeah anyway! I had to build it myself. My method is contained in the book pictured above, and I can just about guarantee that it will work for you too. This method cold stops the binge habit. Unlike other methods (they know who they are) it does not cause weight gain either.

It may or may not make you rich. It may or may not deliver true love. It WILL eliminate a TON of problems. It will for sure not cost you any extra money, it takes almost no time, and it won’t embarrass you or inconvenience you in any way. IT WORKS LIKE YOU CAN’T BELIEVE til you try it.

And you won’t ever have to do anything else.

Give it a try for a few bucks and an hour or two. Let me know how you go.

📚 Kindle $5 here.

📚 Paperback $10 here.

Okay, then! That’s us. xoxo and see you soon.