Tag: love

  • He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not…

    He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not…

    I am having a difficult time coming to terms with the fact that – at 44 years old, with the handful of failed relationships I left behind because of the exact same answer to this exact same question – I’m actually Googling: “how do you know if someone truly loves you?” I mean… how the…

  • Monday Mark – 48.5 & 49.0

    Monday Mark – 48.5 & 49.0

    48.5 – For Last Week’s MM: Self-doubt doesn’t go away when you succeed. In fact, the higher the stakes get, the more doubt will continue to show up. Confidence isn’t about removing all doubt. Confidence is knowing you’ll be all right if things go wrong. What stakes are making you doubt yourself right now? What would…

  • Monday Mark 47.5 & 48.0

    Monday Mark 47.5 & 48.0

    47.5 – For Last Week’s MM: A healthy relationship should periodically make you a little uncomfortable. The conversations that matter are uncomfortable. The vulnerability required for intimacy is uncomfortable. Finding compromise and forgiveness is uncomfortable. A comfortable relationship is likely an empty one. Resentment is the compound interest on conversations you were too afraid to have.…

  • Monday Mark 46.5 & 47.0

    Monday Mark 46.5 & 47.0

    46.5 – For Last Week’s MM: The most underrated trait for a happy life: decisiveness. Our intuition is that it’s best to keep our options open. But as long as you try to keep every door open, you’ll never be able to walk through the one that matters. Optimizing your life for optionality creates a false…

  • Monday Mark 45.5 & 46.0

    Monday Mark 45.5 & 46.0

    45.5 – For Last Week’s MM: Happiness is having better challenges.Success is having better failures.Discipline is having better addictions. Improving your life does not remove your problems. It simply exchanges them for better problems. Do you have better problems today than in the past? Or just the same problems? Find one problem you’d be happy to…

  • Monday Mark – 44.5 & 45.0

    Monday Mark – 44.5 & 45.0

    44.5 – For Last Week’s MM: There is no amount of information that will make you feel “ready.”There is no amount of approval that will make you feel confident.There is no amount of success that will make you feel entirely fulfilled. Life is about just doing the thing anyway. “I lived so carefully, thinking someone was…

  • Monday Mark 42.5 & 43.0

    Monday Mark 42.5 & 43.0

    42.5 – For Last Week’s MM: The moment you accept that you can’t control the outcome is the moment you stop being controlled by it. The people who seem most at peace aren’t the ones who got everything they wanted. They’re the ones who stopped wanting everything they couldn’t have. What outcome are you trying to…

  • Monday Mark 40.5 & 41.0

    Monday Mark 40.5 & 41.0

    40.5 – For Last Week’s MM: The honest conversation you’re avoiding is likely the one your relationship needs the most. Avoiding conflict doesn’t protect a relationship. It lets one person suffer in silence while the other suffers by wrongly thinking everything is fine. What honest conversation are you avoiding? What’s it costing your relationship? Have the…

  • Monday Mark – 39.5 & 40.0

    Monday Mark – 39.5 & 40.0

    39.5 – For Last Week’s MM: An underrated cheat code in life: being incredibly reliable. Show up on time.Do what you say you will.Own your mistakes. It goes so much further than you think. If you asked the people closest to you, would they say you’re reliable? Where in your life might you be letting people…

  • Monday Mark – 38.5 & 39.0

    Monday Mark – 38.5 & 39.0

    38.5 – For Last Week’s MM: Being busy is not being able to add anything else to your calendar.Being fulfilled is not wanting to add anything else to your calendar. Don’t confuse one for the other. Is your calendar full because you want it to be, or because you can’t say no? If you had a…

  • Monday Mark – 37.5 & 38.0

    Monday Mark – 37.5 & 38.0

    37.5 – For Last Week’s MM: “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.” – Rainer Maria Rilke Underrated life skill: knowing when to give up. What are you still holding onto that you already know isn’t working? What happens if you give it up? Let go of one thing you’ve…

  • Monday Mark – 36.5 & 37.0

    Monday Mark – 36.5 & 37.0

    36.5 – For Last Week’s MM: Every decision you make shapes who you have to live with tomorrow. Make sure you’re creating a person you like being with. You’re going to be in a relationship with yourself for your entire life. So you should probably learn how to make it a good one. Do you like…