Coffee and Checkboxes

Coffee and Checkboxes

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Coffee and Checkboxes episodes

  • Episode 28: Persistence is a Super Power

    Persistence is needed in life. With all of the ups and downs in life, we learn that skills and talent is not enough to get to that top level in life. We need to have persistence in order to get through the failures in life.

    So let's talk about how life is a marathon and that persistence is a super power we need to get through it.

    Links:

    • Lelisa Desisa Wins the New York City Marathon in the Last Miles - The New York Times
  • Wendell Phillips - Wikipedia
    • — Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.
    34 min
  • Episode 27: Let's Get It Started

    How do you go from a dream to reality? 3 steps is vital to do this. Let's talk about it.

    Links:

    • How To Set Goals (And Why You Should Write Them Down)
    — There’s some impressive science to back up goal setting. And yet it’s something we’re never taught or encouraged to do. But the statistics don’t lie, and make a strong argument for getting good at this skill; and making a habit of it.
  • Neuroscience Explains Why You Need To Write Down Your Goals If You Actually Want To Achieve Them
    • — I’m sure you’ve heard that if you want to achieve a goal, you need to write it down. I know it sounds a bit cliché, but it actually does work.
  • Why 3% of Harvard MBAs Make Ten Times as Much as the Other 97% Combined
    • 31 min
  • Episode 26: Time for Some Action

    We've prepared our minds for obstacles

    • We know that we need to control our emotions
    • We know that we need to be cool in the face of adversity
    • We know that we need to focus on what we control and not on what we can't control

      • It's now time to take action!

      31 min
    • Episode 25: Disguised Opportunities

      A good person dyes events with his own color... and turns whatever happens to his own benefit - Seneca

      Opportunities doesn’t always come in the form in which we want them to. They might come in the form of obstacles and difficult situations. Let’s learn how to see obstacles for what they really are, opportunities in disguise.

      Links:

      • King cake - Wikipedia
      — A king cake (sometimes shown as kingcake, kings' cake, king's cake, or three kings' cake) is a type of cake associated in a number of countries with the festival of Epiphany at the end of the Christmas season; in other places, it is associated with the pre-Lenten celebrations of Mardi Gras/Carnival.
      What started out roughly 300 years ago as a dry French bread–type dough with sugar on top and a bean inside now comes in many varieties depending on the country. Some king cakes are made of a sweet brioche dough in the shape of a hollow circle with a glazed topping sprinkled with colored sugar. Hundreds of thousands of king cakes are eaten in New Orleans during the Carnival season.
    • Nets' Joe Harris shocks Warriors' Stephen Curry for 3-point title
      • 35 min
    • Episode 24: Becoming a Genius

      Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There’s no other definition of it. —F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

      We often get being super duper smart with being a genius. We have that all wrong. It takes great ideas and dreams and the ability to manifest that into our world. Let's all become a genius1

      Links:

      • Kenya Kirinyaga Kariru Release | Blue Bottle
    • StrongLifts 5×5: Get Stronger by Lifting Weights only 3x/Week
    • The Obstacle Is the Way - Wikipedia
      • 40 min
    • Episode 23: Control

      In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices. - EPICTETUS

      God, grant me the serenity, to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuht

      There are things we can't control (weather, our parents, economics). And there are things in which we can control (work ethic, creativity, perspective, emotions). It's time for us to learn how to focus on the things we can control, and be at pace at things we can't.

      Links:

      • High Performance Planner OFFICIAL
      — STAY MORE FOCUSED.
      PRIORITIZE LIKE A PRO.
      INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY.
      MEASURE WHAT MATTERS.
      BUILD BETTER HABITS.
      ACCELERATE YOUR GROWTH.
    • FREE Hardcover Copy of High Performance Habits
    • LA Rams' Brandin Cooks surprises team janitor with Super Bowl tickets
      • — The Los Angeles Rams’ coaches and players won’t be the only ones traveling to Atlanta, Georgia, for the 2019 Super Bowl. Thanks to the generous act of wide receiver Brandin Cooks, the team’s locker room janitor, Alfonso, will accompany them to this Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots, off the clock.
    • "The Obstacle Is The Way" by Ryan Holiday
      • 40 min
    • Episode 22: Welcome to 2019

      Welcome to the first episode of 2019. Let's get off to a great start of the year by discuss our overall theme and statement for the year. Whether you believe in New Year Resolutions or not, thinking about the year as a whole can help you achieve your goals.

      We discuss...

      1. Transitioning from 2018 to 2019
      2. The New Year Resolution debate
      3. Yearly Theme
      4. Yearly Statement
        5. 21 min
      5. Episode 21: Freestyle 2
        1: My passion for programming
        2: Speaking of Passion: The Coffee Enthusiast
        3: Customer Service Appreciation
        4: The Avengers

        Links:

        • The Coffee Enthusiast
      6. Infinity War’s Thanos proves CGI supervillains are a terrible idea - The Verge
        7. — The character’s disintegrating-grape look is a reminder that old-school makeup and costuming are often more convincing
      7. The Coffee Enthusiast on Facebook
        8. 17 min
      8. Episode 20: Nerves like MJ

        Talent is cool and needed. But what happens when your world turns upside down and things you expect doesn’t happen and things you fear does. That’s when your ability to be cool and control your nerves is more valuable than your talent.

        Links:

        • UMBC Seals Its Place in March Madness History with CBB's Greatest Upset Ever | Bleacher Report
        — The Retrievers—yes, Retrievers—might sound like PETA's weekend softball team. But on Friday, they fetched a victory that will forever define them as best of show, in the underdog division.
      9. Atl and Peru Together!
        10. 32 min

      About Coffee and Checkboxes

      From the publisher's feed

      Coffee = Enjoying Life. Checkboxes = Getting Things Done. Let's talk about both.