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Wednesday Reps (opens the original)
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I’ve been at this meditation thing for the better part of 20 years, and I’ll be straight with you: some mornings it’s still boring. Sat down today and my brain went straight to the grocery list, and a little voice asked what the point even was. Sat there anyway. 6 minutes. Nothing fireworks about it. Got up a little steadier than I sat down, which is about the only proof this rep ever hands you.That’s the rep nobody posts about. The dull Tuesday you show up for anyway, when it feels like nothing
Tuesday Reset (opens the original)
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Caught myself this morning hunched over my phone like a question mark, shoulders up around my ears, jaw tight, reading something that had nothing to do with me and everything to do with getting my blood pressure up. Ten minutes gone. My body braced like there was a threat in the room. There wasn’t. There was a screen 12 inches from my face.So I did the smallest reset I know. I looked up. Lifted my eyes off the phone, sat back, and let them slowly wander around the actual room. The window. A tree
How Howard Behar Overcame Depression and Realized Asking for Help is Our Biggest Strength (opens the original)
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Howard Behar helped grow Starbucks from 28 stores to more than 15,000 and at 80, he found himself in a treatment center for depression.Howard is the former president of Starbucks North America and the founding president of Starbucks International, a longtime advocate of servant leadership, and the author of It’s Not About the Coffee and The Magic Cup. He returns to Men Talking Mindfulness for one of the most candid conversations we’ve had: what depression actually felt like in his body, why ackn
Friday Debrief (opens the original)
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Someone offered to help me carry something this week and my first word, before I even thought about it, was “no.” Pure reflex. I had it. I didn’t need anybody. Then I spent the next 2 hours doing alone what would have taken 20 minutes with a second set of hands, and quietly called that discipline.I’ve done this my whole life. Ran teams where I’d redo a guy’s work at 11pm instead of coaching him through it, because asking felt like admitting I couldn’t hold it all myself. I once led an organizati
Your Thursday Three Things for Sep 24, 2026 (opens the original)
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We called ibuprofen “vitamin M” and ate it by the fistful, and Dr. Mark Gordon says that habit may have quietly walled off the very thing the Pentagon now wants to hand back in a syringe.In the SEAL Teams and across most of the military, we didn’t call it ibuprofen. We called it vitamin M, for Motrin. Sore knee, screaming back, headache that won’t quit? Take some vitamin M and drive on. And these weren’t the little 200-milligram tablets from the drugstore. They were 800-milligram horse pills, an
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