Happy Monday folks. Hope you had a great weekend.

Here’s what’s on tap today:

Let’s get into it.

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On a recent podcast episode, we talked about not waiting until 2027 to start thinking about what you want to change, build or get better at.

So here’s a super simple one you can steal today.

I did some executive coaching last year for the first time in my career. I’d always kind of written the whole thing off, but I got connected with a guy named Brian Genuser and we hit it off, so I figured I’d try it.

Early on, he had me make a new desktop wallpaper. What? This is what I’m paying for? But I did it.

I stare at a screen most of the day anyway, so I put a few things on there I wanted to keep in front of me. Family. Work. Health. Where I’m trying to go.

It’s kinda wild how much I actually notice it.

You’re bouncing between tabs, calls, emails, whatever, and there it is in the background. Just a little reminder of what actually matters when the day starts pulling you in ten directions.

Been way more useful than I expected. Shout-out to Brian for that one.

Going old school today with one of the greatest coaches of all time.

John Wooden. He coached UCLA basketball for 27 years and won 10 national championships. Seven in a row, which is still a ridiculous stat.

Let’s look beyond basketball for a minute. Grew up on a farm in Indiana, where his dad gave him a handwritten seven-point creed when he graduated from elementary school.

A few of the rules:

Wooden carried that little piece of paper in his wallet for decades. In 1932, he married his high school sweetheart, Nell. They had two kids and were married for 53 years before she died in 1985.

Wooden never remarried. Instead, on the 21st of every month, he'd write Nell another love letter. He kept doing it for decades.

He lived to be 99. Pretty wild that a guy who coached some of the greatest basketball teams ever was still carrying around advice his own dad gave him as a kid. #goals

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Here’s a fun one to try: after your next meal, knock out 20 air squats.

Research on short “exercise snacks” has found that even brief bouts of movement around meals can help blunt the blood sugar spike afterward.

Squats are not magic here. The point is just to get some big muscles working instead of going straight from the table to chair. Bonus points if you do it in public.