Minute With Mallon: From One Dream to a Thousand!
👋🏻 Hi, and welcome to Minute with Mallon!
Something I Taught:
"The man who has his health, has 1000 dreams, but the man who doesn't has but one."
My wife Sandy and I heard that adage several years ago and memorized it.
When a person has good health, the possibilities in life seem infinite. A person's dreams, goals, and ambitions multiply because the physical and mental energy to pursue them is there. In contrast, when a person is not in good health, that multitude of dreams narrow down to a single, all-consuming wish:
The return of good health!
I was working with a client this week on a Zoom call. There are a few companies who have employees I work with every six weeks or so, so I don't see them as often as I do most clients.
As soon as he came on the call, I said, “Steve (not his real name), what has happened to you?” He looked INCREDIBLE - thinner, very healthy, and he had a huge smile on his face. 👏
It turns out that in the last six months, he's gone from 254 to 205, shedding about 50 pounds. He feels great, is full of energy, and is super optimistic about his life and career.
As the conversation moved forward, I asked him if his family was proud of him. He said they absolutely were and also told me his father asked him what the big switch had been.
(Straight from the Zoom call:)
"I told him Robert Mallon. You might not think this, but I owe all of this to you. I always knew I had some sort of work ethic issues in my life, I just didn't know how to fix them. I didn't know how to start moving forward. You simplified everything. I had it all in a mess up in here (pointing to his head) and you just slowed everything down and said, you're going to focus on this, this, and this. I'll see you in six weeks."
Sometimes all you need is someone who believes in you and who can help you come up with a simple, clear path forward.
One of the simple things we came up with for him to begin focusing six months previously was for him to do:
10 sit-ups
10 pushups, and
10 squats each day
Simple as that, and the most important part:
➡️ He took action!
And once he was on track, he started to take things further. Momentum began to build. He joined a gym and started really paying attention to what he was eating. One thing led to the next.
Now, six months and 50 pounds later, he feels incredible! 🙌🏻
It doesn't take Herculean efforts to begin a goal. Just take baby steps and keep repeating those steps daily.
My client now has his health back and has 1000 dreams. And not just goals for his health, but in all areas of his life, including his career. 👏🏻
Something I Learned:
I read a book recently called The Practicing Mind, Developing Focus & Discipline in Your Life, by Thomas Sterner. Truly a wonderful book!
Here's an excerpt that grabbed my attention:
“Focus on the process, not the product that the process was meant to achieve.” It’s a paradox. When you focus on the process, the desired product takes care of itself with fluid ease. When you focus on the product, you immediately begin to fight yourself and experience boredom, restlessness, frustration, and impatience with the process.
The reason for this is not hard to understand. When you focus your mind on the present moment, on the process of what you are doing right now, you are always where you want to be and where you should be. All your energy goes into what you are doing.
However, when you focus your mind on where you want to end up, you are never where you are, and you exhaust your energy with unrelated thoughts instead of putting it into what you are doing. In order to focus on the present, we must give up, at least temporarily, our attachment to our desired goal.
When reading this, I realized that's why I love writing these newsletters! Within seconds it just begins to flow. 5% of the time I'm thinking about the finished product. 95% is just letting the thoughts flow through my fingertips on the keyboard.
Where do you already find a similar sense of flow, or where can you begin to experience or extend it?
Maybe it's sports or athletic activities, artistic endeavors, video games, or professional tasks. Come up with an answer and jump right in! 🤿
Something to Ponder:
You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to.
Something I Saw:
One of my favorite Hole-in-the-Wall Restaurants in Atlanta!
Like taking a quick trip to Cuba! 🌴
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Hoping you have a truly Extraordinary week!
Robert
