Category: Monday Mark

  • Monday Mark – 18.5 & 19.0

    Monday Mark – 18.5 & 19.0

    17.5 – For Last Week’s MM: People don’t burn out from doing too much. They burn out from doing too little of what matters. The only thing worse than failing at something meaningful is succeeding at something meaningless. Think of your most recent success. Was it meaningful? If it wasn’t, what do you wish you’d tried…

  • Monday Mark – 17.5 & 18.0

    Monday Mark – 17.5 & 18.0

    17.5 – For Last Week’s MM: When people ask, “What is my life purpose?” What they’re actually asking without realizing it is: “How can I use my time in a way that feels meaningful?” You don’t find your purpose.You build your purpose, experiment by experiment, mistake by mistake. What do you spend your time on that feels meaningful?…

  • Monday Mark – 16.5 & 17.0

    Monday Mark – 16.5 & 17.0

    16.5 – For Last Week’s MM: Everything good comes to an end.Learn from it. Grow from it. Be grateful for it. Everything bad comes to an end.Learn from it. Grow from it. Be grateful for it. What’s something good in your life that ended? What did you learn? What’s something bad in your life that ended?…

  • Monday Mark – 15.5 & 16.0

    Monday Mark – 15.5 & 16.0

    15.5 – For Last Week’s MM: If you’re not willing to be laughed at, you’ll spend your life clapping for people who were. There are graveyards full of people who constantly told themselves “one day.” What are you avoiding right now because you’re afraid to be laughed at? What would it take to stop saying “one…

  • Monday Mark – 14.5 & 15.0

    Monday Mark – 14.5 & 15.0

    14.5 – For Last Week’s MM: Everything you believe will one day fail you. Let it. Because that’s how you grow. When’s the last time you said, “I changed my mind”? Is there a “truth” you hold onto that might actually be holding you back? Pick one belief you’ve never questioned and ask: “What if I’m…

  • Monday Mark – 12.5 & 13.0

    Monday Mark – 12.5 & 13.0

    12.5 – For Last Week’s MM: Most “time management” problems are really just fear management problems. Procrastination is merely the avoidance of unpleasant emotions. Get comfortable with unpleasant emotions and procrastination takes care of itself. What unpleasant emotions might you be avoiding in the things you’ve been putting off? That one thing you’ve been procrastinating on?…

  • Monday Mark – 11.5 & 12.0

    Monday Mark – 11.5 & 12.0

    11.5 – For Last Week’s MM: There are two fundamental skills in life:1) Focus on what you can control.2) Let go of the rest. Ask yourself: on your deathbed, will you regret doing/not doing it? Then act accordingly What’s one thing you’re stressing about that you have no control over? What could you change that’s within your control?…

  • Monday Mark – 10.5 & 11.0

    Monday Mark – 10.5 & 11.0

    10.5 – For Last Week’s MM: The only way to feel better about yourself is to do things worth feeling good about. Self-love is a form of action, not merely a belief. You can’t think your way into a better life, you have to live it. What have you done recently that’s worth feeling good about? How did…

  • Monday Mark – 9.5 & 10.0

    Monday Mark – 9.5 & 10.0

    9.5 – For Last Week’s MM: You don’t build resilience by feeling good all the time.You build resilience by getting better at feeling bad. To deny pain is to deny our own potential growth. How good are you at feeling bad? What pain might you be denying? Pick one thing you’re willing to feel bad about,…

  • Monday Mark – 8.5 & 9.0

    Monday Mark – 8.5 & 9.0

    8.5 – For Last Week’s MM: When have you caught yourself living for the emotional scraps of strangers’ opinions? What did it cost you? What would living for yourself look like instead? I used to be really bad about wanting approval from other people. I suppose that’s a byproduct of the trauma that was my entire…

  • Monday Mark – 7.5 & 8.0

    Monday Mark – 7.5 & 8.0

    7.5 – For Last Week’s MM: You’re not afraid of failing. You’re afraid of being seen failing. Most people aren’t paying attention to what you’re doing, and your loudest critics are probably too scared to try. What are you so worried about? While I was growing up, failure (as seen by my father – “The Plague”) was…

  • Monday Mark – 6.5 & 7.0

    Monday Mark – 6.5 & 7.0

    6.5 – For Last Week’s MM: The best investments are the things no one can take away from you: knowledge, experience, mindset, attitude. The weakest investments are the things that you can lose at any time: status, emotions, material things. Have you been investing in the right things? Why or why not? Reflecting on this……