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Men of Mindset 3

Scott Mulvaney — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Men, Meat, and Manly Mindset Conversations:

Welcome to a third rendition of Scott’s Men of Mindset themed evening. This third event and podcast episode features a discussion among friends about their personal and professional lives, including their experiences with health, business, and family. They reflect on the importance of setting goals, the significance of family time, and the impact of charitable work. The conversation touches on the benefits of eating quality meat, the challenges of balancing work and family, and the emotional impact of volunteering in disaster relief efforts. They also discuss the potential for organizing future events to support charitable causes, emphasizing the importance of community and personal growth. The conversation revolves around the importance of setting and achieving goals, emphasizing the significance of writing them down for better retention and motivation.

Quote: “The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” ~ Thomas Paine

Your host, Scott Mulvaney brings together likeminded “Men of Mindset” for an evening of grilling steaks, male bonding, and this special podcast recording night out in his pole barn aka the man-zone aka the Fuel Up Barn.

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

Write down goals and reasons for each, advocating for a physical pen-and-paper approach over digital methods.
Journaling and the benefits of helping others, which in turn benefits oneself.
The value of spending time with family, particularly children, and the long-term impact of such actions.

Your Co-Hosts:

BRIAN STRAUSER: Husband, Proud Father, and Entrepreneur. Owner of Strauser Home Improvements here in Bethlehem, PA USA. At SHI, we not only strive to grow personally, as well as professionally, we also devote a lot of time in helping others do the same.

Rob Eschbach: Husband, Super Dad, High Performance Trainer, Enlifted L2 Coach, and Entrepreneur. Gym Owner of F13 Performance in Allentown, PA.

CHRIS SEIDEL: Husband, Father, and Entrepreneur. Owner of Poseidon Seafood Company and Todd’s Island Seafood in Allentown, PA.

Today’s Guest Co-Host Links:

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/ovXh3-2tfns

Final Words Timetamped:

01:04:30 – Rob’s Final Words: I said it before on your show, and it’s a rule I follow as well to help you stick to your goals or resolutions or whatever you want to title them for 2025 write them down, title it and then if you’re done writing it down, take the time to write a paragraph afterwards. Whatever the goal is, whatever you guys use, write it down, and then do something no one does after they write it down. If you wrote it down, you’re already 90% above everybody else. Take that last 10% and read it out loud. Then if you find yourself falling off or not sure why, just pull it back out. Don’t forget about it. The more you write, the more you can focus. People don’t write things out anymore. I’m not talking about typing it. Don’t type it and no, don’t put in your phone. Get a pen and a paper and write it down like you learned in elementary school.

01:06:20 – Final Words from Brian: I just bought a really good new journal. I’m a big journal guy and value writing things down. I was talking to my wife the other day because I got some lofty goals again for ’25, trying to get my life in check, as I always am doing. I need to come up with a journal that really encompasses. I don’t want a weight loss journal. I don’t want a diet journal. I don’t want a weightlifting journal. I don’t want a Business Journal. I want a journal that’s a lifestyle journal that really has bits and pieces. I’m not trying to lose weight. I’m not trying to build the mega business. I’m trying to do all of it. I want to create the total package and and I started doing some Googling and dicking around on Amazon and stuff, and found, I don’t remember the name of the damn company, but I found a very good journal that kind of does that for me. So I’ve already been sitting there writing down doing exactly what you’re talking about those things. Yeah, I got it. It’s all down.

01:10:20 – Final Words from Chris: All words are wise. Something that really resonated with me tonight was Brian mentioned it earlier. You know, driving your kids to school, spending that 15 minutes with them, that’s something that, I’ll be honest, it fucking annoys the shit out of me. Driving the kids to school sometimes, because it’s, I have enough going on and driving the kids to school, there’s five of them. It’s two different trips back and forth. But, you know, I kind of take that for granted, and those are times where you’re right, I’m never gonna fucking get them back.

Your Positive Action Forward:

Don’t forget to Submit a 5-Star Review
Get my book “So You Want To Be Hotshot” – HotshotBook.com
Visit FuelFoundation.org our 501c-3 non-profit!
Visit FuelUpMarketing.com for Sales & Marketing, Strategy & Execution.

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Take 2 Minutes for Happiness in 2025

Scott Mulvaney — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:30:00 +0000

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:

Dream Journaling
Three Good Things aka Take The Good Out of The Day
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.

Your Positive Action Forward:

· Don’t forget to Submit a 5-Star Review

· Get my book “So You Want To Be A Hotshot” – HotshotBook.com

· Visit FuelFoundations.org our 501c-3 non-profit!

· Visit FuelUpMarketing.com for Sales & Marketing, Strategy & Execution.

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053: Emotional IQ and Intelligence with Dr. Megan Cannon

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Emotional IQ Co-Hosting:

We fill our time to try and be as productive as possible and we fill the rest with distractions. Minutes that could be used to take a moment and reflect, we pick up our devices and distract ourselves from growing instead. By taking the time to reflect we become more self-aware and we increase our Emotional IQ. Helping us work on our Emotional IQ in this episode is a return attendance of Mind of the Athlete’s, Dr. Megan Cannon Ph.D.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”01:20″] WOD (Work Out of the Day) and Learn with Mind of the Athlete at SYR CrossFit.
[spp-timestamp time=”02:29″] On March 27th, Mind of the Athlete will be giving a talk on how to be more successful and making gains to process and progress towards our goals in 2017.
[spp-timestamp time=”05:38″] Using Zoom.us for the Podcast, unplugging and being mindful of your emotions.
[spp-timestamp time=”14:32″] “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do” – Steve Jobs. Emotional Intelligence and Emotional IQ refers to your ability to navigate and have awareness of emotions that you’re experiencing throughout your day. As well as through certain situations and also having the ability to recognize this in other people too.
[spp-timestamp time=”18:18″] With Emotional IQ you have to keep putting in the reps. It’s something that has to keep being worked on.
[spp-timestamp time=”21:39″] Taking a 30-second interval to just take a deep breath and think. Using apps in a positive way. Getting started with meditation and the myths behind it.
[spp-timestamp time=”25:27″] Mediation is different for everyone, the biggest problem is everyone is listening to what everyone else is doing. Just start finding a way to start working it into your life. Just like health, nutrition, and business. We are all different. It’s OK if you’re not perfect at it the first time. The most important thing is to just start.
[spp-timestamp time=”28:41″] Taking the time to reflect. Our smart devices can be used in a positive way but on the flip side they can be a distraction and make face to face interaction awkward.
[spp-timestamp time=”32:42″] “Be Here Now” Are you here in the moment, are you even in the conversation.
[spp-timestamp time=”37:48″] Better performance, clearer mind.
[spp-timestamp time=”41:28″] Final Words

[spp-tweet tweet=”Take the time to reflect @DrMeganCannon of @Mindofathlete on LIVETHEFUEL #SelfAwareness #EmotionalIQ”]

Watch on YouTube

https://youtu.be/l-bdJkViunc?si=dG7cQ0r6buzFCwFn

Links and Resources

Other Mind of the Athlete Episodes

Episode 50: Healthy 50th Podcast Mind of the Athlete
Episode 42: Goals for 2017 & return of Dr Megan Cannon PHD
Episode 38: Nutrition Balance with Erin Sparrold
Episode 32: Dr. Jarrod Spencer Sports Psychologist Mind of the Athlete
Episode 30: Balance Sleep Emotional Health
Episode 21: Understanding our Mindset with Mind of the Athlete

People Mentioned

Final Words

Baby steps, you have to start somewhere. The first step to developing a stronger Emotional IQ is to give yourself time to reflect. Whether it is using an app like Mood Track Diary, a journal or making a reminder on your calendar to just check in on yourself, once or twice a day to write down what you are feeling right now. Give yourself a moment to take a deep breath.

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