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Challenge #13: When in Doubt, Starfish Up

Your body is the bridge between the world inside your head and the world you can touch.

What we’re proving is that the bridge goes both ways. You can shape the outside world with your mind. You know this because you’ve already done it. The people reading this have built careers, businesses, families, communities — all from the ground up. They brought something into existence that wasn’t there before.

It’s time to realize that the mind’s inside world is just as malleable. You can build, carve, and ...

How Posture Unlocks the Mind

“That the body affects the mind is, it’s fair to say, incontestable.”
— Amy Cuddy

Why is Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker so unnerving?

To answer that, we need to talk about superhero movies, which I love. Yes, even now — after two decades of having them crammed down our throats. For me, watching a character launch into the sky or shoot lasers out of their eyes will never get old.

What makes this genre so likable for many (and dislikable for others) is the tropes they follow.

A hero always has heroic traits....

A Guide to Post-Games Grief

Enjoy this MISCellaneous article as we take a break from our main series this week.

Books have always been my safe place.

When my world has been shattered by some event, disappointment, or tragedy, my first instinct is to find someone else’s words to help me make sense of it.

For those in the CrossFit community wrestling with the pain of Thursday’s loss, here are a few reads that might help you too.

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When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person by Harold S. Kushner

I have met [hope] in the sunshine ...

Challenge #12: Styling a Confident Brain

There’s a quote I like by entrepreneur Peter Voogd that says,

“You’re either helping or hurting your confidence at all times. There is no in-between.”

At all times means the little stuff counts too.

The hole in your sock. The tattered belt. The shirt that’s a bit more wrinkled than it should be.

All of it matters.

The solution isn’t to become an anal-retentive perfectionist (like seriously, don’t do this – for all our sakes!). The answer is much simpler than that.

Rea...

The 4 C's to an Easy, Breezy, Confident Brain

“If your body acts out a story, your mind will believe it.” — Dawwn Karen

On day one, she entered the school normal. Or at least as her normal. Blue jeans, sneakers, a red t-shirt underneath a dark denim jacket. It was comfortable, practical. Exactly the type of clothing she’d worn for years.

Two weeks later, she was unrecognizable.

She walked in…no, strolled in on heels. Her short skirt, patterned with baby blues and soft pinks, was complemented by a top and cardigan of the same colors. The outfit...

Challenge #11: Timing the Snooze

FYI I explain the whole electric camel thing here.

A better brain begins with sleep.

It helps you regulate emotions, see clearer, remember more, and problem-solve imaginatively. Not to mention all the physical benefits, too, like being OxiClean for your organs. But I digress!

The reason you’re here, today, is to push the seed of belief (that sleep matters) a smidge deeper into the soil of your soul. You can expect a challenge like this every Wednesday during the Body Body Body series.

It’ll be a sim...

Why Only The Rested Win

“It was as though my body and my mind were unclenching, and then replenishing.” — Johann Hari in Stolen Focus, after getting his first good night of sleep in months

I smelled like gasoline in high school.

Not every day, but a high enough percentage of the time that it begins to make sense why I never had a serious girlfriend.

The smell came from working at the local gas station and man did I love that job. There was always something to do. Always a fire to put out (not literally, thankfully). Every...

What It Means to Be a Good Man? | F-Word Series Recap with Curtis Carnes

What does it mean to be a good man in today's world?

Listen as I talk with executive coach Curtis Carnes ‪about this topic, as we wind our way through the recent F-Words series, his latest book, and some of the wild experiences that made us who we are today.

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F-Words

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His book: Breakthroughs Are Everywhere

Chapters

Intro

(1:00) How Steel is Bent (What is BPS?)

(5:30) Definition of a Good Man

(8:00)The Bad Ele...

The Body Body Body Series

I still remember the first time I had smoked meat.

My wife wanted to spend Thanksgiving with her grandparents, so we made the trek down to little ole Pembroke, Georgia — a town with fewer people than most American high schools. But what it lacks in basic amenities (the closest Walmart is a 40-minute drive), it makes up for in Southern charm and hospitality.

The people smile, wave, and call you sweetheart. Everyone is handy. Everyone knows how to cook. The world turns slower there.

We woke up to the...

The F-Word Series: Wrap Up

3 months ago, I had an idea for a series…

What if I wrote about all the things guys never talk about? The stuff we avoid, laugh at, gloss over, and keep shoved down deep so that we can function (almost) like normal human beings in society.

So, I made a list.

A list of things I didn’t want to talk about. Things that made me feel less than. Topics that stirred up the gunk and made me want to hide.

I tried to write about these things in a new way, one that was fresh and irreverent and funny and access...