Take 2 Minutes For Yourself This Year, Gratitude, Journaling, Meditation, and More:

Scott Mulvaney introduces Marc, a guest co-host with over 25 years of IT experience, who has created “Take Two Minutes,” an app designed to improve happiness and well-being. Marc emphasizes the use of SMS for high read rates (92% within three minutes) and discusses various features like gratitude journaling, positive messages, and meditations. He highlights the importance of self-improvement and balancing personal and professional growth. Mark shares insights from research showing significant increases in positivity after using the app’s exercises. The conversation also touches on the challenges of managing anxiety and the benefits of setting aside time for personal well-being.

Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Dream Journaling
2. Three Good Things aka Take The Good Out of The Day
3. Growth Through Challenges and Risks.

Your Co-Host Today:

MARC S. FUSSELL is the visionary founder behind the non-profit Take 2 Minutes, a revolutionary platform designed to enhance mental wellness through positive psychology and technology. With over 25 years of experience in IT, Marc’s entrepreneurial spirit and passion for improving mental health have led to creating a suite of tools that leverage daily positive messages, gratitude journaling, meditations, breathing exercises, a grounding exercise, a gratitude challenge, sleep audio, dream journaling, and more to foster happiness and well- being. As a dedicated father, his journey into positive psychology was inspired by a personal commitment to support his son’s mental health, evolving into a mission to spread positivity to a broader audience.

Today’s Guest Co-Host Links:

• https://www.take2minutes.org/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcfussell/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/take2min/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/take2min/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@take2min

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/ADsba_QYCqM

Timestamped Show Notes:

11:00 – It’s not about trying to create false positivity or be in a positive state all the time. Life is going to throw things at you. You’re going to have ups and down flows. You’re not always going to be in a good mood. I am not always in a good mood. I have stresses. We all, we all have stresses, right?

36:00 – If you don’t want positive messages, just text back pause positive messages, and it’s going to turn those off for you. Then you can focus on your gratitude journaling, your three good things, your dream journaling, or other meditations. You know, we have all kinds of activities now. You can turn on daily meditations, gratitude reminders, and/or three good things. You may be getting four texts a day at least, maybe even five sometimes, so you should adapt it to you.

46:30 – Before they started at all, they took a modified differential emotion scale questionnaire, MDS questionnaire, and that questionnaire is 20 questions. It’s available for anyone to use on take two minutes, but ideally, it ranks your positivity against your negativity. So it gives you a score of how positive or how negative you are.

01:00:45 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

That quality time by yourself is doing something. It can be yoga. It can be meditating. Obviously, Take 2 Minutes is a lot of meditations. But definitely spend some quality time on self improvement every day. Yes, it’s tough. I know, I have Take 2 Minutes. I’m the CIO of a company. I have another company I just started. So I have a lot going on. There are days where I feel like I wake up at 5am and I really want to start working right off the bat, but I know that’s not the healthy thing to do.

The healthy to do is to spend a good 30 minutes on myself, whether it be journaling, yoga, meditating, exercising, or something positive. I gotta spend some me time, otherwise the whole day is not going to be as productive as it could be. So I think that’s what I would like to share with everyone, is find a way to spend time improving yourself. That is a very generic term, because improving yourself is different for each person and the time of day you do it can be different for each person too. Maybe it works better for you after work, maybe it works better for you before bed, but definitely take time out for yourself every day to improve who you are and get yourself into a better mindset.

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Get A Will! Don’t Pay Yourself To Care For Family:

Will Young made his mark as an entrepreneur and civic leader, helping raise more than $25 million dollars for companies and nonprofits in his capacity as board member (serving on ten boards), and business owner from 1996 to 2011. After writing four business books, a knock on his door in 2011 changed his world forever. Now he writes and records books, podcasts, plays, keynotes, movie scripts, short stories, and blog posts from his own life experiences and failures.

Quote: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Live With Gratitude
2. Be The Comeback King
3. Be Yourself

Today’s Guest & Resource Links:

www.unlikelyfelon.com

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/aYJqru2_UIM?si=oMHmXkYrovareDlb 

Timestamped Show Notes:

05:20 – The funny thing is, when they came in the house that day, my wife and I, we still joke about it to this day… You have to find a way to look at it, that’s exactly what the first couple of years of this was like. It was hard, but you kind of you relax with it. We joked around because neither one of us knew what was going on. I looked at it, I thought, was she cheating on me with somebody? Is she in the mafia, something that I don’t know about? Is she living a double life? All these weird thoughts. Then she’s looking at me going, are you looking at weird stuff on the internet? I mean, just all these thoughts, because you have no idea nowadays, and then, why are these people in our house?!

10:45 – We had to end up selling our home, we had to end up dealing with all kinds of different issues that weren’t documented. So I’m doing the best I can based on what I believe they wanted. Well, there were other family members who disagreed. So that became a big point of of problem.

20:00 – The number one thing is, anybody involved, and I mean anybody, step relatives, uncles, aunts, brothers cousins, friends down the street, they should all be involved in all the decisions for clear communication. Either in writing, in a group meeting, etc, so that there’s witnesses that can say, yeah, I saw that all 10 of us agreed with what were doing. I mean, other than what you said, the wills and signed agreements and all that stuff. The other thing too, is just don’t pay yourself to take care of your your relatives. I mean, there’s a lot of different philosophies on that. 

31:50 – We had to have two different attorneys. You can’t have one attorney represent you. So you have to have two separate attorneys. It just became this odyssey, I felt like every day I was getting up and having an out of body experience because it was so not my life of crime. Up to this point, I only had some speeding tickets. I had an open container when I was like 19 years old in college. That was it. So here, I was caught in this thing. Thank God she, I mean, she’s just an angel. To this day, she’s it, she has incredible friends. She’s an incredible person. Thank God because if she wasn’t, she would have left me in a heartbeat.

40:50 – I think it was smart move. I don’t have a legal background. I’m not here to say whether you are guilty or innocent. I love the fact that you’re honest. You say, we definitely screwed up, and we definitely didn’t do some things that were within the legal process, that’s why we got nailed. Then you stepped up and you owned it because you want to protect your family and not get drug through a massive trial of hell. 

50:00 – Assisted living doesn’t stay easy, even when we put them both in assisted living. It just made a lot of our challenges even worse, because you still have to get them to doctors, you still have to make sure their fed, they have clothes. I mean, people think well, we just put them away. You got to pay for it. You got to be involved in all of it or find somebody or pay somebody to be involved in it. 

54:20 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

If I narrowed it down to three key points… Number one would be gratitude. It’s important to have that, no matter what’s going on in your life, find the good things to focus on the good things. If you focus on the negative and the bad, that’s what grows. I mean, we hear that all the time on every book and self-development podcast. It’s probably cliche, but here’s the reality. It probably saved my life, just finding that gratitude.

Second thing and this is what I teach my kids all the time, is you can come back from anything. Truly anything, if I could survive this, and again, there’s people who’ve been through way worse than me. I mean, God forbid you lose a child or there’s just things that are way worse than what I went through. But the reality is if you can come back from whatever it is, if you just keep working, you can come back. But that’s what I tell my kids all the time.

I think the third thing is, it may be around the word, or the feeling of authenticity and love. Being yourself. I think I was pretending to be somebody. I mean, there were bits and pieces of me that were me. But I was losing. One of my friends said, you know, back in that day, you were so buttoned up. I was like, what do you mean buttoned up? He said, it was like, we didn’t get to see the real you. We didn’t get to talk to the real you. Even now, it’s hard for me. I mean, it’s hard for me to say I’m a convicted felon, that it’s like I just said, but it’s the reality and it’s me, and it’s okay. I’m okay, because I’m still a good person. I’m still living a great life.

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Today’s FUEL Up Friday Podcast Hits on Healthy Gratitude, Skiing Lifestyle, and Lung Health Recovery:

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

1. Gratitude for a Healthy Lifestyle
2. Appreciation to keep skiing at high altitudes
3. Lung Health Recovery from a Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30: Introduction

05:00: Because jackasses like me will probably want to haul ass down it and try and be a professional ski racer because I like to go fast. Well, let me tell you, you don’t want to go fast on this one.

10:00: There are all kinds of health impacts on your eyes and staring at a computer screen too long is a negative one. I’ve got three screens right here. I rock blue blocker glasses in the evening but luckily it’s still daylight outside right now.

15:00: I hinted about lung health, right, like getting outside and breathing the air. I realized, oh my god, this is the one year anniversary this week of my collapsed lung adventure.

20:00: Then in 2019 we were busy launching FUEL Foundations, my new nonprofit that the book will also benefit. It’s like all of these things are just happening and we’ve got to roll with it. But you also have to pause and slow down and appreciate it while sharing the gratitude message.

24:00: Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

Summing this whole piece of the podcast up, which is the gratitude, right, having the connections and the ability to reconnect with people and get back on the snow or on a bike or whatever, and just enjoy quality time with people. You know, besides the fact again, over all of this, we got to spend time with my wife’s parents, who are also retired and had that house out in Colorado, and it gives us a less cost reduction on our vacation planning.

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