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041 – Using Passion and Purpose to ‘Break Through’ with Mark Black
If you had a second shot at life, what would you do? Would you live life to the fullest and focus on the things that mattered the most to you? Author & Speaker, Mark Black, shares his life-threatening struggle and how that experience has molded him into the person he is today. His story has inspired and taught the true meaning of resilience and how to use it to obtain continued innovation and growth.
* – Time is finite, spend it wisely* – Live everyday like it matters* – What matters the most to you* – Living on bonus time* – How changing the pronouns creates a powerful connection* – Following the resilience roadmap* – How to ‘shorten the gap’* – Everyone is wired differently* – The relaxed hierarchy* – The deepest level of identity
Website:
Home
Book:
Live Life from the Heart – Mark Black
Full Episode Transcription:
Todd: (00:00)All right. Mark, welcome to the show. So excited to talk to you today.Mark: (00:03)Thanks so much. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.Todd: (00:05)Yeah, absolutely. So you have a really fascinating story, which I want to definitely get into some of those details. But I like to give the listener an opportunity to decide if you are the right person that they should be listening to. So I find that the best way to do that is to, is to start with your why. To follow Simon Sendik’s model. He beautifully outlines, which is why do you do what you do? Like what, what drives you as a person to do what you have done for your career.Mark: (00:33)So I do what I do because I had a realization that I think we all have it at some point in our life that time is finite and we don’t know whether we get 20 years or a hundred years. But either way it’s goes fast. And if my time and my energy are the only finite resources I have, which is what I believe, then it makes only good sense to me that I spend those with great intentionality and, and I think everybody else wants the same thing. And so really my ultimate goal is to help people use their time and energy in ways that they are proud of when they look back over the course of their life. Todd: (01:18)That’s awesome. You know, I just I heard in one of your talks or your videos, you talked about living living today like it was your last day and how that can sort of be good at times and maybe not advisable at others. And you know, when you said time is finite, what do you see in people you talk to or people you’ve worked with? Is there, is there a black or white sort of delegation or can you bucket people in two different groups, like people that understand time is finite and really are aware of that and live with that in mind. And then the other side is don’t think about that at all. And just sort of are living along and not really thinking ...
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By ScrimmageIf you had a second shot at life, what would you do? Would you live life to the fullest and focus on the things that mattered the most to you? Author & Speaker, Mark Black, shares his life-threatening struggle and how that experience has molded him into the person he is today. His story has inspired and taught the true meaning of resilience and how to use it to obtain continued innovation and growth.
* – Time is finite, spend it wisely* – Live everyday like it matters* – What matters the most to you* – Living on bonus time* – How changing the pronouns creates a powerful connection* – Following the resilience roadmap* – How to ‘shorten the gap’* – Everyone is wired differently* – The relaxed hierarchy* – The deepest level of identity
Website:
Home
Book:
Live Life from the Heart – Mark Black
Full Episode Transcription:
Todd: (00:00)All right. Mark, welcome to the show. So excited to talk to you today.Mark: (00:03)Thanks so much. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.Todd: (00:05)Yeah, absolutely. So you have a really fascinating story, which I want to definitely get into some of those details. But I like to give the listener an opportunity to decide if you are the right person that they should be listening to. So I find that the best way to do that is to, is to start with your why. To follow Simon Sendik’s model. He beautifully outlines, which is why do you do what you do? Like what, what drives you as a person to do what you have done for your career.Mark: (00:33)So I do what I do because I had a realization that I think we all have it at some point in our life that time is finite and we don’t know whether we get 20 years or a hundred years. But either way it’s goes fast. And if my time and my energy are the only finite resources I have, which is what I believe, then it makes only good sense to me that I spend those with great intentionality and, and I think everybody else wants the same thing. And so really my ultimate goal is to help people use their time and energy in ways that they are proud of when they look back over the course of their life. Todd: (01:18)That’s awesome. You know, I just I heard in one of your talks or your videos, you talked about living living today like it was your last day and how that can sort of be good at times and maybe not advisable at others. And you know, when you said time is finite, what do you see in people you talk to or people you’ve worked with? Is there, is there a black or white sort of delegation or can you bucket people in two different groups, like people that understand time is finite and really are aware of that and live with that in mind. And then the other side is don’t think about that at all. And just sort of are living along and not really thinking ...