Positivity – LIVETHEFUEL

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

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

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260: Your Mindset Wiring and Become a Lifter!

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Helping Companies and Individuals Tune In To

Lifter Leadership:

From TEDx Hong Kong to his home in southern California, Paresh Shah loves to

help others see the light of Lifter Leadership. Lifters can be anyone from the receptionist that brightens everyone’s day, to the call center rep who knows exactly how to listen and make an angry customer a raving fan, to senior executives and CEOs who understand that by aligning purpose with profit and consciousness, they can create 10 times the performance relative to peers, according to the Harvard Business Review.

Lifter Leadership is what organizations have been waiting for to motivate today’s unengaged worker, innovate to solve some of our biggest problems, avoid being disrupted and serve a demanding set of customers and workers with high standards for integrity, authenticity, and value for all humans on the planet.

Paresh is the Lifter behind this movement.

Top 3 Hot Points:

What is a lifter?
How to become a lifter?
Are you born a lifter?

[spp-tweet tweet=”Become a Lifter! Join The Lifter Academy on this #BusinessPodcast @pareshLA “]

Final Words:

Are you going to be the one to uplift people like Scott did or brings people down complains, shames in today’s society? There’s a lot of shaming going on and it’s basically your choice in every moment, every moment, and every moment. So go deep on that or be shallow about it. It’s your choice.

Resources:

Influencers Mentioned:

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”06:00″] I’ve got a 77 Nova right under down here in my garage buddy. It’s parked so tightly in our garage because we’ve got, you know, not much space here. I have to pull it in backward to be able to pull out because it’s long like a Batmobile.
[spp-timestamp time=”10:00″] I started running around to all kinds of spiritual things for two years, I became like a monk. I’ve been married for 30 years.
[spp-timestamp time=”20:00″] We were talking about the blind spots we have, and how many of our strengths. A lot of work in neuroscience and psychology, how many of our strengths are our greatest strains, that end up becoming our greatest blind spots? Have you’ve gotten a taste of Landmark, or any of those cognitive kinds of transformation technologies?
[spp-timestamp time=”31:00″] A Jim Rome quote, we are the product of the five people we spend the most time with.
[spp-timestamp time=”35:30″] Look, some of the best lifters come from very regimented organizations. Let’s not get lifters wrong, lifters are everyday ordinary people who elevate their co-workers, their customers, their community, to a certain way of showing up.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:00″] I gotta have nerds and geeks even though I don’t understand them. I may not agree with what they’re saying but they understand what’s happening. What I say in my TED Talk there, what our research is, and what our team has been researching and writing about.
[spp-timestamp time=”54:30″] Lifters get that it’s all energy, lifters get the point that what you put out, you get out, and lifters get that it’s not just words. This is energy. It’s quantum physics. Positivity attracts positivity, it is magnetized. When we serve others, it just comes back.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:11:00″] Final Words

Action Steps:

Submit an iTunes Review. More 5 Stars reaches more people!
Visit our Resources page and a reminder to LIVE-THE-FUEL my friends!
Join my private Facebook community THE FUEL TANK!

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225: If You Can Believe It, You Can Achieve It, LIVE Podcast

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

If You Can Believe It, You Can Achieve It! Our Theme with Today’s LIVE Guest Co-Host, Jeremy Motivates:

Jeremy Vermeulen is a husband, father, youth basketball coach, motivational speaker and author. His talks focus on the topics of happiness, overcoming adversity, believing in yourself, positivity and leadership.

He has always been someone who has found joy in helping people realize that life is so much more than what is right in front of them. In the winter of 2012, Jeremy jumped at the opportunity to volunteer as a youth basketball coach for a non-profit organization and live out a lifelong dream of coaching. This is where his passion to help others really started to shine. Then, in 2015 after overcoming a one and a half year battle with depression Jeremy’s passion became a burning desire fueled by a single notion that “If you believe it, you can achieve it!” Since then his mission has been to take his message from the basketball court and share it with the masses.

Jeremy’s belief that personal growth and development a long with hard work can help you achieve the life you desire; it is what drives him to continuously learn new methods and techniques that can be used to enhance not only his life but also the lives of others as well.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”04:14″] Independent youth facilities and organizations, basketball seasons, reinforcing all these positive things. Reinforce that if you make a mistake, it’s all right, you’re going to make a mistake. But get back up, get back with the team, keep doing what you’re doing.
[spp-timestamp time=”08:26″] I don’t let any kid ever feel like they are the weak link, I identify which kids are strong and what skills, etc. Some kids maybe have two to three good skills.
[spp-timestamp time=”11:27″] Most of my speaking when I go out to youth organizations, or even mental health facilities, like outpatient mental health facilities, I’m telling them about my story. I’m telling them how I fought back against those things.
[spp-timestamp time=”14:35″] Embrace your fears.
[spp-timestamp time=”16:50″] Initially, I’d hit a pause. Life will get in the way, you know, family things, whatever it may be.
[spp-timestamp time=”19:22″] Setting a definitive ultimate goal. At the end of the year, you gotta have it completed. Draw a hard line in the sand.
[spp-timestamp time=”24:08″] I look at life as a journey. We all have one. We’re all living that journey every day. Mine was trying to find happiness through some of the adversity that I had faced.
[spp-timestamp time=”28:25″] There is nothing that I wouldn’t do for my kids. There’s nothing that I wouldn’t sacrifice for them. There are sacrifices I’m making in my life, to give them a better life, not to say that I had a bad life, but something different than I had.
[spp-timestamp time=”33:00″] How can I take care of my kids if I’m mentally drained.
[spp-timestamp time=”38:18″] That was kind of the start of a weird, very weird journey and childhood.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:09″] So in the fairy tale world, she, my mother was the evil queen. My brother was the horrible step brother.
[spp-timestamp time=”41:49″] I got depressed. I hit a depression wall.
[spp-timestamp time=”44:50″] Doing some personal development and self-education.
[spp-timestamp time=”47:55″] You try and deal with the stress. But you forget about the emotional portion. That’s really what broke me because you have two choices. I feel you have two choices. When it comes to stress and emotions. You can either address them and deal with them, or you can let them build up and you’ll break.
[spp-timestamp time=”51:00″] Two years to get past the change the shame component.
[spp-timestamp time=”52:56″] Putting in the reps, you had to start putting in the healing reps.
[spp-timestamp time=”56:32″] Jim Rohn left a lot huge footprint in the world. Yeah, and then I found Eric Thomas.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:04:05″] Final Words

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Quote Jim Rohn

[spp-tweet tweet=”Are Your Motivated?! You Too Can LIVETHEFUEL! @jvmotivates “]

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Co-Host Links and Resources:

Mentioned Influencers:

Final Words:

If you believe it, you can achieve it!

Action Steps:

Submit an iTunes Review. More 5 Stars reaches more people!
Visit our Resources page and a reminder to LIVE-THE-FUEL my friends!
Join my private Facebook community THE FUEL TANK!

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