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...
8 days 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...
15 days 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...
22 days ago • 2 min read
Week 405 (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 CULTIVATE SELF-AWARENESS TO BOOST PERFORMANCE Self-awareness is the ability to detect, identify, and understand one's own emotions and their potential...
29 days ago • 3 min read
Week 404 (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 TUCKER MAX STORY: 500 REJECTIONS BEFORE SUCCESS "The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Week 403 (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 Handle Yourself When You Lose: Four Unusual Tips During the last seven years of building a business, I've had lots of experiences winning and losing...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Week 402 (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. --- 5 LESSONS I'VE LEARNED FROM CONQUERING MY FEAR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING I still have this vivid memory from college of stumbling my way through a painful 15-minute...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Week 401 (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 RAY DALIO FORMULA: PAIN + REFLECTION = PROGRESS On August 30th, 2018 I lost my job. Just before lunch, in a matter of minutes, I was stripped of my laptop...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Week 400 (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 PREVENT THE SPRINT TO BURNOUT EFFECT "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott In our race to...
2 months ago • 3 min read