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Fuel Your Mind Friday

Brendan Barca - Entrepreneur | Speaker | Blogger

Helping busy professionals create space through mindfulness, level-up their mindset & design a life with purpose.

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You Can't Please Everyone: The Story of A Family and Their Donkey

Week 375 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Follow our new Instagram page here! YOU CAN'T PLEASE EVERYONE: THE STORY OF A FAMILY AND THEIR DONKEY Ever since I was young, I've been a people pleaser. Whether I was running...
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5 days ago • 2 min read

The Will Smith Dilemma: Overcoming the Insatiable Hunger Within You

Week 374 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out here. THE WILL SMITH DILEMMA: OVERCOMING THE INSATIABLE HUNGER WITHIN YOU Freedom isn't secured by filling up on your heart's desire but by removing your desire." -...
12 days ago • 2 min read

The Internal Fix to External Problems

Week 373 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out here. THE INTERNAL FIX TO EXTERNAL PROBLEMS Where would I find enough leather to cover the entire surface of the earth? But with the leather soles beneath my feet,...
19 days ago • 1 min read

What's Good? What's Bad? Who Knows?

Week 372 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out here. WHAT'S GOOD? WHAT'S BAD? WHO KNOWS? We have a dangerous tendency to label every event in our life as either "good" or "bad." A promotion is good. Getting laid...
27 days ago • 2 min read

The Man and The Sailor (Accepting Where You Are)

Week 371 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out here. THE MAN AND THE SAILOR (ACCEPTING WHERE YOU ARE) There was once a man who lived in a magnificent home on the Connecticut coast. In the summertime, while running...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Questioning the Majority, Trailblazing, & Washing Your Hands

Week 370 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out here. QUESTIONING THE MAJORITY, TRAILBLAZING, & WASHING YOUR HANDS Ignaz Semmelweis was a 19th-century Hungarian scientist now widely known for pioneering the...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read

You Can't Live In The Future - A Cautionary Tale of Future-Focused Living

Week 369 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out here. YOU CAN'T LIVE IN THE FUTURE Much of my life, I've spent living in anticipation. When I had a decent job, I sat in my cube daydreaming about what it would be...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Ditching Old Thought Patterns to Find Freedom

Week 368 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out here. DITCHING OLD THOUGHT PATTERNS TO FIND FREEDOM There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Practicing Equanimity & Getting Off the Roller Coaster

Week 367 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out here. PRACTICING EQUANIMITY & GETTING OFF THE ROLLER COASTER In 9th century China there lived a Zen master. Whenever someone visited him and asked how he was, he...
2 months ago • 1 min read

The Story of Two Fisherman: Ditching Realistic and Aiming Higher

Week 366 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out here. THE STORY OF TWO FISHERMAN: DITCHING REALISTIC AND AIMING HIGHER Two fishermen sit together at the bar after a long day's work. How was your catch today?" one...
2 months ago • 1 min read
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