<div>I will tell you that I do watch TV/screen time about 10 hours a week for pure enjoyment/media consumption purposes. Maybe a little more during certain championship runs involving a Boston team or two… YET!</div> The time I have available to pursue a variety of productive and regenerative activities has continued to expand. Apparently, I’m […]
Read More 5MF – Are You The Average American TV Voyeur?I’m going to make this Friday’s post quick. I have uncovered some incredibly useful posts in the past week talking about goals and ‘setting yourself up for the best year of your life…’ I have also found a substantial amount of contrived garbage that was clearly ripped off from someone else with zero heart and […]
Read More 5MF – 2019 Goals? An Invitation To Question?I came across this quote in my journal this week, and it goes back about 2000 years… Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence I have heard derivative quotes and other cliches along the same line as this one. However, this one has grabbed me this week for some reason, and I thought it […]
Read More 5MF – Are you Mid Range, Brave, or A Favored Fortune?Over the past few years, I have taken a number of third party assessments online, and in some cases – been examined/evaluated in person too. I am keeping a running tally of the various assessments I have opted into that really do span multiple Dimensions of Life or DOLs. Today, I’m going to […]
Read More Conation, Kolbe Indexes, and A Useful Test You Have Never Heard Of…What were the choices you made today, deliberately and <em>by default</em>? What if you kept a running list for the next three days of your choices – to get a decent cross section of your choices. This could be a baseline of your midweek approach to your life during a random and seemingly insignificant week […]
Read More Let’s Play A Game This Week – Daily Choices Today 3X …You just want to make the change, but it is just not working out for you. There’s a variety of strategies and techniques, believe me on that. Today’s 5 Minute Friday is all about 3 easy to do techniques that can be readily adopted to getting yourself into gear when it comes to your own […]
Read More 3 Ways To Motivate Yourself to Change Your BehaviorI was asked this question a few times in the past two weeks. People want to know why I am doing this blog. There must be something behind all of this. What is your angle dude? There is always an angle. Right? This blog is my ever increasing portfolio of writing that […]
Read More So What’s The Angle? (my first 2000 word post…)In the past week, I have had a few conversations about where to start. I had a recent conversation around how best to get started back at the gym. I had a recent conversation around how to truly start up a new entrepreneurial idea or two. I had a recent conversation about […]
Read More Breaking the Freeze Frame of Indecision…<div>As a follow up to yesterday’s post about deciding to get going to the gym again – I’m digging this post out of the archives from January, 2018 from another online project.</div> The other night I was out and the conversation turned towards ‘what is your favorite app?’ Which is always fun to kick around […]
Read More Gear – Lifting Apps – A Story Spanning 2 Years…Back in May, I called out how I was going to refocus on the MarkBadeau.com efforts and to truly establish my personal brand. Well, I have established a strong daily habit of writing that has been exceptionally focused on the personal brand, and we have reached a point where Energy and Action is ready […]
Read More Officially in the second half of the year, an update on upcoming contentIn the past week, I have had at least a half dozen conversations with people about habits and routines. We are the product of our daily choices and actions or lack thereof. I follow this guy Jocko on Instagram now. He is an absolute machine. Not surprising considering that he actually wrote a book […]
Read More The Genius of The DailyWhat follows is a piece from another project that was put out in January of this year, I’m bringing it over to my personal site for obvious reasons. It is fun to re-post this here, as a few of the things I was worried about at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 […]
Read More Intentional Imbalance and A Brief Retrospective, reprinted from January