Minute With Mallon -Empowering 2024: A Year of Gratitude and Growth!

Welcome to Minute with Mallon! 

Dear favorite subscribers, 

As we bid farewell to this year, and welcome 2024, I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you. Thank you for your unwavering support and for being a part of this growing community. Your dedication to reading my newsletter and engaging with its content has been the foundation of our journey, and for that, I'm truly thankful. 

Throughout the past year, we've explored numerous tools, insights, and strategies to empower you in both your personal and leadership journeys. It is my hope that you've not only found these resources valuable but have also integrated them into your lives to become more effective, insightful, and compassionate leaders. As we embrace the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in 2024, may you continue to grow, inspire, and lead with confidence. I wish you a year filled with success, personal growth, and all the best that life has to offer.

Below you'll find a couple of accountability targets  that I made to myself at the beginning of the year and that I'd like to share with you.  These go along with Pearson's Law which we discussed a few months ago in the newsletter:

Something I Learned: 

Well, this is part of how I chose to learn this year! 

I committed to reading 35 books, and ended up with 53! The ones that I rated 9's or 10's I'd fully recommend if you're looking to explore some great reading. I do my best to investigate books before reading them, but as you can see, sometimes a "not great one" slips through. 📖 

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.  The man who never reads lives only one."

George R.R. Martin  

2023

1. The Storyteller.  Dave Grohl.  1-1-23.  (10)

2. 7 Strategies for Wealth. Jim Rohn. 1.12.23. (9)

3. NYPD Red 7.  Marshall Karp.  1.18.23. (8)

4. The Power of Discipline. Daniel Walter. 1.24.23. (9)

5. Row the Boat.  Jon Gordon. 2.6.23. (8)

6. The Last Thing He Told Me. Laura Dave. 2.12.23. (10)

7. Celebration of Discipline. Richard Foster. 2.16.23. (10)

8. Undistracted.  Bob Goff. 3.12.23. (10)

9. I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist.  Geisler & Turek. 3.14.23. (10).

10. The Hurting Parent. Margie Lewis 3.18.23 (10)

11. One Of Them. Eti Dayan. 3.24.23. (11)

12. The Emotion Code. Dr. Bradley Nelson. 1.15.23. (4)

13. The New Testament. God. 4.7.23. (10)

14. Visioneering. Andy Stanley. 4.27.23. (10)

15. Dark Angel. John Sandford. 5.2.23. (3).

16. Tactics. Gregory Koukl. 5.6.23. (10)

17. The Lincoln Highway. Amor Towles.  5.6.33  (10)

18. Cues. Vanessa Van Edwards.  5.7.23 (7)

19. Magic Hour. Kristin Hannah. 5.22.23. (10)

20. Carnegie’s Maid. Marie Benedict. 6.6.23. (10)

21. The Storied Life of AJ Fikrey.  Gabrielle Zevin. 6.17.23. (9)

22. Secrets in Sex & Marriage.  Dr. Michael Sytsma.  6.24-23. (10)

23. Culture Rules. Mark Miller. 6.28.23. (8).

24. Small Great Things. Jodi Picoult. 7.7.23. (10)

25. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Kaled Hussein. 7.14.23. (10)

26. When Crickets Cry. Charles Martin. 7.16.23 (10).

27. My Reading Life. Pat Conroy.  7.21.23. (10)

28. The Great Santini. Pat Conroy. 7.26.23. (11)

29. The Old Man & The Boy.  Robert Ruark.  8.2.23.  (6)

30. Killing the Mob. Bill O’Reilly. 8.7.23. (9)

31. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools. Tyler Staton. 8.20.23. (10)

32. Excellent Advice for Living. Kevin Kelly. 8.20.23. (10)

33. The New Testament.  God. 8.25.23. (11)

34. Published. Chandler Bolt. 8.27.23. (10)

35. The Judges List. John Grisham. 9.1.23. (9)

36. Night Road. Kristin Hannah. 9.10.23. (8)

37. The Man Who Walked Through Time. Colin Fletcher.  9.11.23. (6)

38. Breaking Point. CJ Box. 9.22.23. (5)

39. The Gap & The Gain. San Sullivan. Ben Hardy. 9.26.23. (10)

40. Never Give Up. Bear Grylls. 9.26.23. (10)

41. The Housekeeper. Freida McFadden. 9.26.23. (11)

42. The Housekeeper’s Secret. Freida McFadden. 9.28.23. (10)

43. Lost Light. Michael Connelly. 9.30.23. (8)

44. The Perfect Marriage.  Jevena Rose. 10.15.23. (9)

45. Winter Prey. John Sandford. 10.21.23. (8).

46. McNally’s Folly. Lawrence Sanders. 10.24.23. (7)

47. Teach Yourself How to Learn. Saundra Yancy McGuire. 10.30.23. (10)

48. Show Your Work. Austin Kleon. 11.20.23. (8)

49. The Lords of Discipline.  Pat Conroy. 11.21.23. (11).

50. The Final Wish of Mr. Murray McBride. 11.24.23. (9)

51. Last Resort. Scott Pratt. 12.1.23. (6)

52. Pathway to Profit. Malcolm Reese. 12.7.23 (8)

53. Obsessed. James Patterson. 12.15.23. (6)

My Exercise Goal:

Since 2006, I’ve diligently tracked my workouts. (Pearson’s Law Again!) For the past 5 years, I’ve consistently achieved the goal of completing 300 or more exercise sessions each year, including this year, which I accomplished on November 29th. 🚀

These consisted mainly of lifting weights, Pickleball (PB), Disc Golf (Purple with numbers) and other assorted things.  If you'd like a fresh copy of this worksheet, you can download it here: Annual Workout Tracker.

Seriously hope you have a wonderful New Year and looking forward to connecting again the first week of January!  🎉

Robert

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