[AIYA] Endure It (Curiosity)
Happy Monday! We learned the 4 moves on how to Turn Adversity Into Your Advantage. And that the 2nd part is to “Endure it.” Enduring it requires growth. Within this growth phase, 3 practices have helped me and will do the same for you. The first? Cultivate Curiosity Curiosity is the starting point of all […]
[AIYA] Endure It
Happy Monday! We learned the 4 moves on how to Turn Adversity Into Your Advantage. Today, I’m going to hit on #2: Endure it! How do you do this? Once you’ve embraced the truth, now comes the real test: Can you stay in it long enough to grow through it? This is where self-mastery is […]
[AIYA] Embrace It
Happy Monday! Last week, we learned the 4 moves on how to Turn Adversity Into Your Advantage. Today, I’m going to hit on #1: Embrace It! How do you do this? To truly change, you must hit rock bottom. Sads bad, which it is. However, rock bottom is a gift. It doesn’t feel like it […]
[AIYA] How to Adopt the Adversity Is Your Advantage Mindset
Happy Monday! Check this out.. I’ve spent the last 18 months reflecting on my 4 decades on this planet with a project top of mind. There’s been plenty of good, bad, and ugly. With reflection, 1 guiding principle in my life has been to adopt a mindset that adversity is my advantage. Why? Because it […]
[MM]: This is my Last Monday Mindset Message [Bittersweet]
Happy Monday Mindset! Today, I share bittersweet news. This is my final one after 8 years and 485 Monday Mindset newsletters. That’s the bitter news. The sweet news? The journey doesn’t end—it evolves. 🙂 Introducing “Adversity is Your Advantage,” a new brand carrying the torch forward. Why? My core mindset belief, rooted in Stoic philosophy, […]
[MM]: Perspective + Freedom 🇺🇸🇩🇪
Happy Monday Mindset! I hosted my dear friend Dr. Petra Frese on a Fit Body Mastermind call a couple of weeks ago. Petra is a survivor of the hard socialist rule of East Germany post-World War II. She was 22 years old on November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. On a cold morning, […]
[MM]: This is the secret sauce to long-term productivity
Happy Monday Mindset! This past Friday, I rallied my Fit Body HQ crew for some team bonding time. It was a home run, pun intended! 😉 Kickball, steak fajitas, and connection. However, here’s a truth bomb: I’m drowning in projects and deadlines. Work’s been stacking up like a Jenga tower on the brink. When I […]
[MM]: “Oh shoot, I forgot my gun!”
Happy Monday Mindset! A few weeks back, I shared that I took an annual friends’ trip to Atlanta for the weekend. We only have 48+ hours together, so we do a good job aligning on the agenda about a month before arriving. This way we can maximize the time spent. On the first day, I […]
[MM]: Entrepreneurs change the world!
Happy Monday Mindset! Politics aside, I was inspired last week by Elon Musk and the Space X team, along with NASA, who saved 2 American astronauts stuck in space for nearly 10 months. This was an incredible accomplishment and am still in disbelief at what we saw! What a giant win for space travel, human […]
[MM]: A reminder on priorities [Annual Friends Trip]
Happy Monday Mindset! I spent this past weekend in Atlanta with a friend group I met 20 years ago. We worked together in sales for a private education company called Dream Careers, Inc. back in 2005, which was my first and only career before Fit Body. For nearly a decade, we traveled the world together […]