Helping busy professionals create space through mindfulness, level-up their mindset & design a life with purpose.
Week 394 (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. --- BUILDING A STRONG FOUNDATION THROUGH ELIMINATION We spend much of our life trying to optimize our present condition by adding more of the things we want into our life. If we want more money, we work on getting a promotion. If we want a bigger house, we save up for a downpayment. If we want a family vacation, we book a trip to Bermuda. But, all this focus on adding and optimizing may not lead to the picture-perfect life that we imagine it to be. Why? Because we don't spend any time working to fix or eliminate the things that are dragging us down. It's the equivalent of trying to build a glamorous mansion without taking a moment to ensure the strength of the foundation. If the foundation is weak, that beautiful mansion, that you worked so hard to build, may collapse when the first storm rolls through. To strengthen the foundation of our life we must start fixing (and eventually eliminating) the bad habits that may be dragging us down before we try to build our mansion. One exercise I've found helpful in identifying these bad habits comes from executive coach & entrepreneur, Jerry Colonna. Jerry challenges us to think through one question that can help us identify the gaps and shortcomings in our own life. Jerry recommends we take out a piece of paper and write the following question at the top of our page: "How am I complicit in creating the conditions I don't want?" Then, take 5-minutes to list out at least ten answers to this question. To give you an idea of how it works, below are my answers to this prompt: Question: How am I complicit in creating the conditions I don't want?
After you complete the exercise, reflect on what you've written. Then, circle or highlight one item that you'd like to work on fixing or eliminating from your life. If you're having trouble deciding, perhaps ask yourself this question: "Which item, if corrected, could create the biggest positive change in my life?" Finally, once you've selected an item to work on, brainstorm one way in which you could make a change this week. Next week, return to your list and note your progress. Like any rebuild, it'll take time to make changes, but the upside is tremendous. Building a beautiful life isn't possible if we don't first eliminate the conditions and habits that are dragging us down. Work on creating a sturdy foundation first. Then build your mansion.
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Brendan Barca - Entrepreneur | Speaker | Blogger
Helping busy professionals create space through mindfulness, level-up their mindset & design a life with purpose.
Week 396 (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 COLONEL SANDERS APPROACH: SMALL STEPS, BIG RESULTS “It's better to go slowly in the right direction than to go speeding off in the wrong direction." - Simon...
Week 395 (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. --- RETURN ON LUCK - WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE "Luck does not cause greatness. But return on luck is a gigantic swing variable. What will you do with the...
Week 393 (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. --- SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS, WORK LESS, & ACCOMPLISH MORE In America, we've been bred to accept the 40-hour workweek as the norm. But where did this arbitrary number...