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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Monday Mark – 35.5 & 36.0
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Monday Mark – 34.5 & 35.0
34.5 – For Last Week’s MM: Scarcity dictates what’s meaningful. When you are alone, a relationship feels meaningful.When you’re in a relationship, time to yourself feels meaningful. When you are overworked, time off feels meaningful.When you have plenty of downtime, work feels meaningful. The scarcity never gets solved, it simply changes form. What feels scarce to…
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Monday Mark – 26.5 & 27.0
26.5 – For Last Week’s MM: A great spouse makes everything else in your life easier.A bad spouse makes everything else in your life harder. Your romantic relationship is your highest leverage choice in life. Every healthy relationship starts with two people who have healthy relationships with themselves. Any toxic relationship is the result of at…
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Monday Mark – 25.5 & 26.0
25.5 – For Last Week’s MM: You can have anything you want in life. You just can’t have everything you want. The game of life is trade-offs. Being willing to disappoint people is the only way to be truly free. Who are you afraid of disappointing if you really go for what you want? Choose one trade-off you want, and…
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Monday Mark – 24.5 & 25.0
24.5 – For Last Week’s MM: Actions are your values made real. You can talk and talk, but at the end of the day, your actions never lie. Is there something you tell yourself you value but your actions don’t follow?Is there something you tell others you value but your actions don’t follow? Pick one thing…
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Monday Mark – 23.5 & 24.0
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The Back Deck Incident
In the interest of not having much motivation to blog/journal, let alone something to talk about… I’ve titled this as what my EMDR therapist and myself are calling the memory of when my brain “broke” and Anhedonia took over. It seemed fitting enough, since we started working on it yesterday. It was rough, but necessary,…
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Monday Mark – 22.5 & 23.0
Who IS EnchiPants?! 