Mark Silverman - executive coach, speaker, and best-selling author of Only 10s 2.0: Confront Your To-Do List and Transform Your Life - is a true soul brother. When he was working for the fastest-growing startups in the corporate world, Mark was able to sell $90 million worth of products and led teams through multi-million dollar complex sales. After doing some deep, inner work and self-exploration, Mark found new freedom that he shares with others by creating Only 10s, a system of tools CEOs and business leaders use to overcome overwhelm and make the business and life they want.
Mark joins me today to reveal the keys that can help us get out of the prisons we have created for ourselves and reclaim our freedom in life. He shares his story of going from homelessness to sobriety and encountering the “cosmic bricks” that awakened him to his freedom. He describes the role of contemplation and self-exploration in determining the 10s in our lives and explains how we can distinguish the things that pretend to be 10s from the real ones. He also shares some exercises to help us reconnect with our inner self and highlights the impact of seizing our 10s.
“Midlife is the time where we can be the most free; it’s the time when we’re too tired to keep up the charades. It has its own consequences, but those consequences can land us to a better place.” - Mark Silverman
This week on Rebel Souls:
- Why Mark is rebelling FOR freedom for everybody
- What cosmic bricks are and the first bricks that awakened Mark’s life to freedom
- The importance of conscious choice and learning how we’re responsible for the quality of our life
- An existential crisis of the highest order and what it means to not be imprisoned by difficult feelings
- Transforming an overwhelmed multinational corporate executive in 45 minutes
- The lies we tell ourselves about our to-do lists and what makes something a 10
- The power of using the head, heart, and gut brains to make decisions and how doing so helps when figuring out the 10s in our lives
- The role of contemplation and self-discovery in finding your freedom
- Contemplative tools to help you connect with your inner voice
- How writing morning pages allows us to connect with our inner muse and intuition
- The scariest parts of not being busy and how to cope with them
- The difference between a time-management problem and an honesty problem
- Busyness, how it can be an addiction, and how it can keep us from the 10s
- The importance of “ME-tings” and a cautionary tale about Mark’s foot doctor
- The creative genius-total loser cycle and how determining the 10s in our lives doubles our productivity
- Discerning the things that masquerade as 10s and the need to let go of them
- How the people around us could change when we start discovering our 10s
- Why Mark was advised he couldn’t write Mastering Midlife without first completing Only 10s 2.0
- The rain of cosmic bricks and why midlife is our greatest opportunity to be free
Resources Mentioned:
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- Making the Case for a “Finding Your Best Self” with Corporate Rebel, Shelley Paxton | Mastering Midlife Podcast
- I Only 10s 2.0: Embracing Only the 10s in Your Life with Shelley Paxton and Erin Baker | Mastering Midlife Podcast
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- Nick Onsen Rebelling FOR Living Your Fullest Expression
- Helen Appleby Rebelling FOR the Unwritten Rules of Women’s Leadership
- Rebelling FOR the Big Rocks
Connect with Mark Silverman:
- Mastering Midlife
- Mastering Midlife Podcast
- Book: Only 10s 2.0: Confront Your To-Do List and Transform Your Life
- Mark Silverman on LinkedIn
- Mark Silverman on Facebook
- Mark Silverman on Twitter
- Mark Silverman on YouTube
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