The Morning Rush: Recent Episodes
David Rush
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Each day of 2021 I am committed to delivering a new message of insight, inspiration, motivation to empower your day. Enjoy!
“Shhhh, be very, very quiet”
Take time
The Morning Rush (Episode 33)
A slushy morning run of discovery
Do you take time to really sit down and think and explore your path?
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
A daily dose of inspiration
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“Like running on clouds”
8 miles in a winter wonderland
The Morning Rush (Episode 32)
27 degrees F in a blizzard this morning on the 4 am run
8 miles
Week 1, 1 mile per day = 7
Week 2, 2 miles per day = 14
Week 3, 3 miles per day = 21
Week 4, 4 miles per day = 28
Week 5, 5 miles per day = 35
Week 6, 6 miles per day = 42
Week 7, 7 miles per day = 49
Total miles: 196 miles over 7 weeks
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
A daily dose of inspiration
Each day of 2021 I am committed to doing a podcast to provide inspiration and motivation for us all. A daily practice of expression, mindset, growth, and contribution!
“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it”
Are you measuring and monitoring?
The Morning Rush (Episode 31)
19degrees F this morning on the 4 am run
8 miles
Week 1, 1 mile per day = 7
Week 2, 2 miles per day = 14
Week 3, 3 miles per day = 21
Week 4, 4 miles per day = 28
Week 5, 5 miles per day = 35
Week 6, 6 miles per day = 42
Week 7, 7 miles per day = 49
Total miles: 196 miles over 7 weeks
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
A daily dose of inspiration
Each day of 2021 I am committed to doing a podcast to provide inspiration and motivation for us all. A daily practice of expression, mindset, growth, and contribution!
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
16 degrees F this morning on the 4am run
The Morning Rush (Episode 30)
Gratitude and suffering early in the morning
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
“Vanna Says” : start your day off on the right paw
A daily dose of inspiration
Each day of 2021 I am committed to doing a podcast to provide inspiration and motivation for us all. A daily practice of expression, mindset, growth and contribution!
“Push it, push it good” 17 degrees F and Windy
The Morning Rush (Episode 29)
Where are you pushing yourself beyond your limits? Where are consciously and intentionally growing?
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
A daily dose of inspiration
Each day of 2021 I am committed to doing a podcast to provide inspiration and motivation for us all. A daily practice of expression, mindset, growth, and contribution!
“We’ll see” vs “I am responsible for the outcome”
The Morning Rush (Episode 28)
Language determines our life
Where do we lean in and take responsibility and where to we back away and diminish our power?
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
“Vanna Says” : start your day off on the right paw
A daily dose of inspiration
Each day of 2021 I am committed to doing a podcast to provide inspiration and motivation for us all. A daily practice of expression, mindset, growth and contribution!
“If you take a step back and look at your life as a movie, and you are the hero, what is the next step you would want that hero to take”
The Morning Rush (Episode 27)
In the face of tough decisions, a perspective to consider
We all write our own stories
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
A daily dose of inspiration
Each day of 2021 I am committed to doing a podcast to provide inspiration and motivation for us all. A daily practice of expression, mindset, growth, and contribution!
“It’s ok to lose to the opponent. It’s never okay to lose to fear" - Mr. Miyagi
The Morning Rush (Episode 26)
Fear shows up all the time, it’s how we handle it that makes all the difference!
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
A daily dose of inspiration
Each day of 2021 I am committed to doing a podcast to provide inspiration and motivation for us all. A daily practice of expression, mindset, growth, and contribution!
You don’t have to always go out and try to attract people...if you have the right stuff, the right people will come your way.
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
Can we cause breakthroughs? Relationship to our word, the human need for growth, week 7 means 7 miles a day
The Morning Rush (Episode 24)
Percent responsibility for where you are in your life
If I could have it my way...(what would it look like)
For as long as we can remember or know, spring has come after winter. Some things don’t change. Some can.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your career. Continually look to grow and expand.
If I could have it my way...
Non-attachment to outcomes, open to many outcomes, and let’s have some fun!
If I could have it my way...
January 21st, 21 days for a new habit, 23 degrees F, lions in the wild
The Morning Rush (Episode 21)
How are those resolutions, goals, outcomes...opportunity for a reset
If I could have it my way...
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
“Know your outcome”
The Morning Rush (Episode 20)
Are you Herb Brooks or the 1980 Olympic Committee?
If I could have it my way...
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
“Your morning routine starts the night before”
The Morning Rush (Episode 19)
Rest and Preparation
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
“Don’t stop me now, ‘cause I’m having a good time” -Queen
Breakfast of Champions
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
But I gotta know how it feels. I want to know if love is wild, babe I want to know if love is real
Be masculine to her feminine. Polarity check. How’s the polarity in your relationship??
Are we looking outside ourselves or inside ourselves?
Blind spots, dead zones
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
W/ magical morning routines that fuel your entire day
Certainty
Uncertainty / Variety
Significance
Love / Connection
Growth
Contribution
“Vanna Says”: start your day off on the right paw
W/ magical morning routines that fuel your entire day
Certainty
Uncertainty / Variety
Significance
Love / Connection
Growth
Contribution
The 6 Human Needs & Running
Certainty
Uncertainty / Variety
Significance
Love / Connection
Growth
Contribution
Change your questions, change your life
Life is happening for us, not to us
How can this serve me?
What can I learn from this?
How can I expand and grow from this?
Lean In - comfortable with the uncomfortable
Week 5- 5 miles per day
Relationships
Writing
Morning routine presses on the uncomfortable on a daily basis.
We all operate in different realities.
Find out what reality someone is in. Ask questions. Listen to understand their reality. Have them feel heard, then there is an opening for connection and influence.
Speak into their listening.
“Give the Gift” of:
Level 5 Listening
Attention
Focus
Unconditional Love w/ Boundaries
Cold shower this morning to Welcome to the Jungle
Positive Intelligence and some insights
5:32 (length of the song) cold shower this morning to “Enter Sandman” Metallica
Is Success The Best Revenge??
Is your mind working for you or against you?
Do you have control over the inner judge, critic, heckler?
4:53 (length of the song) cold shower this morning to “Thunderstruck” AC/DC
Brrr 3 minute shower this morning to Bawitaba by Kid Rock
What does your magical morning routine look like?
4am wakeup
Meditation
Priming
4 mile run
3 minute cold shower
Book quote & continued Recommendation:
“You are always searching for freedom. The essential masculine ecstasy is in the moment of release from constraint. This could occur when facing death and living through it, succeeding in (and this being released from) your purpose, and in competition (which is ritual threat of death). The masculine is always seeking release from constraint into freedom.”
The Way of the Superior Man
- David Deida
Book Recommendation:
The Way of the Superior Man
- David Deida
A daily dose of inspiration, like a sip of coffee, get your morning rush of energy.
Each day of 2021 I am committed to delivering a new message of insight, inspiration, motivation to empower your day. Enjoy!
A daily dose of inspiration
Each day of 2021 I am committed to doing a podcast to provide inspiration and motivation for us all. A daily practice of expression, mindset, growth, and contribution!
Happy 2021!
Don’t forget to weed the garden!
A daily dose of inspiration, like a sip of coffee, get your morning rush of energy.
Each day of 2021 I am committed to delivering a new message of insight, inspiration, motivation to empower your day. Enjoy!