Week 414 (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. --- HOW TO REWIRE YOUR BRAIN TO OVERRIDE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS The average person has over 6,000 thoughts per day. With all those thoughts pin-balling through our heads...
14 days ago • 2 min read
Week 413 (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. --- THE MODERN DAY PAVLOV'S DOGS - COMBATTING TECHNOLOGY-BASED ADDICTION Ivan Pavlov was a 19th-century Russian physiologist known for his experiment on classical...
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Week 412 (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. --- THE REVERSE APPROACH TO PRODUCTIVITY When you think of the word "productivity," what comes to mind? Maybe it's getting through your To-Do list or working...
28 days ago • 1 min read
Week 411 (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. --- THE LAW OF RECIPROCATION: RULES FOR BUSINESS & LIFE In 1974, Phillip Kunz, a sociologist at BYU, received more holiday cards in his mailbox than any year before...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Week 410 (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. --- WHY SUCCESS IS SOMETHING YOU CAN HAVE NOW "Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment." - Eckhart Tolle For...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Week 409 (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. --- CREATE MORE TIME IN YOUR WEEK WITH THIS ONE SIMPLE QUESTION We have 168 hours in a week. If you sleep 8 hours per night, 56 of those hours are spent sleeping....
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Week 408 (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. --- THE SHAKE SHACK STORY: FINDING CLARITY THROUGH IMPERMANENCE Back in the mid 1980s there was a young twenty-something named Danny who was trying to figure out...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Week 407 (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. --- DON'T FIGHT THE ALLIGATORS "I must remember, I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators." - Rosemund Stone Zander I've always had a...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Week 406 (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. --- DIARIES OF A WORKAHOLIC: BE PRODUCTIVE, TAKE A BREAK I'm a workaholic. Most of the time this works to my advantage. Week after week I grind it out, despite...
2 months ago • 2 min read