Relentless Forward Progress with Mike Ubaldini

This week I started reading Brene’ Brown’s book, “Braving Wilderness.” It is about how we try work so hard to try to fit in and “belong.” I am learning, more and more, as I continue to go through this journey of life that the Universe provides us with guidance and answers. There were messages that I received, just in the first chapter of this book already, that gave me wisdom to share with my youn...

Today, Robin and I finally get to see our girls after 3.5 weeks away. We feel it was a good opportunity for them to spend time with their friends back east, say their goodbyes, for now, and enjoy their summer before hitting the ground running next week. It also provided Robin and I the ability to get the house ready and have them come right into their new home. Today’s episode we talk about that p...

Back from the hiatus and spinning many plates in the air. It has been 3 weeks since the last episode, so we are going to fill this one with updates, progress, setbacks, and all the other fun stuff that we experienced on this journey. Most of it was fun, we grew a lot, and continue to relentlessly move forward. “Don’t quit on a bad day.” - unknown

As of this moment, we are no longer residents of PA; or of anywhere for that matter. The movers came on Thursday, we closed on our PA house Friday, and are down the NJ shore for a few days as a family, to get some R&R before we make the trek across the country. Today’s episode, and probably a few more over the next couple weeks, will be about this journey. I am not sure how much time I will get to...

Heard this question asked today on Impact Theory and wanted to talk about it a bit in this episode. “What are the questions you will ask yourself about your life at the end of your life?” – Brendon Burchard As my family and I set out to move to AZ in the next few days, there are so many thoughts and emotions running through my mind. Even with all that going on in my mind, I know, we know, deep dow...

Came across this article earlier this week from Brendan Leonard on semi-rad.com. https://semi-rad.com/2018/06/what-happens-when-you-leave-cell-service-behind/ How much are we plugged in? How distracted are we? How tied into our devices can we be? This episode talks a bit about unplugging and taking time each day for you!! “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes……. inc...

Lately I have been hearing much debate between talent and hard work. The word skill is often thrown in there as well. I believe, in some way, they are all directly related but it all starts with the work. In today’s episode I share my thoughts on what I’ve experienced on the subjects. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

As parents, and I think, particularly, fathers of daughters, we want to protect our children, keep them safe, and try to limit their mistakes. However, are we doing them a disservice? We love our kids so much we don’t want to see the fail, to hurt, or to be disappointed. However, this is the path they must go down. They must experience disappointment, failure, and fear; facing and overcoming each...

While listened to a Lewis Howes podcast recently with Jesse Itzler I was reminded of these two, I think somewhat related, characteristics of a meaningful life. There are so many different ways of defining success and whether your life has meaning. I believe these are two important things to factor in and to practice. Today’s RFP Podcast touches on both a bit. Is what you are doing proving lasting...

A few months back I was told that picking up and moving my family to Arizona, at this stage of our lives, wasn’t practical. It took a lot for me not to preach to this person about my reasons, what it means to us as a family, and about chasing a dream. Once again, meditation help me and those, “three deep breaths,” moved me to empathy as I excused myself from the conversation. Two weeks ago, I came...

This is a saying we have in our family and it is spoken often. Historically, I’ve always been one to plan in order to avoid the unexpected. The more I transform and grow, more importantly, the more I let go and let God, the more I have faith that, we will figure it out. Today’s episode goes into our approach to this and how it came to be. “Everything is figureoutable.” – Marie Forleo

Had to stop and get gas earlier this week on my way to my office. While doing so I figured I would grab a cup of coffee. Gas station coffee!!! Needless to say, I’ve had better. That got me thinking about coffee, gas station coffee, and I couldn’t ever recall me having a good cup of coffee from a gas station. Not that I am a coffee aficionado or anything but did think it would be a fun topic for a...

We are consistently seeing so many tragedies happening at schools across the country. We aren’t even half way through 2018 and I believe I’ve read where there have been 21 school shootings. It is tragic, sad, and disheartening to be in our world having to have conversations with our children about these topics. However, that is reality and we must provide our children with the wisdom to mentally h...

When I started this journey of sharing my story, my insecurities, and being vulnerable in January of 2017, I had no idea how it would change my life. I also didn’t understand how it might effect change in others. Today’s episode touches on this and my next project coming soon. “as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same” – Marianne Williamson

Baby diapers to pads & liners. Dudes having daughters!!!! While in the grocery store today a thought came to me, as strange as it may seem to folks out there, but I do have a warped mind 😊; “damn we buy a lot of pads.” For those that may not be familiar, these are feminine products :O!! We’ve come a long way since those earlier days. That is the reality when you live with 3 women or at least one...

Earlier this week I came across this Mel Robbins YouTube video while running. (see link below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lz0VOltZKA She talks about her 5 second rule & actually wrote a book about it. It changed her life and helped her create a habit of taking action each morning. For quite some time I’ve used three deep breaths and practice it each day. Having two daughters gives me the abi...

Daughter’s, Boyfriends, 1st Kisses, & “The Talk!!!” Not sure if how we spent Mother’s Day celebrating my wife Robin but the conversation took an interesting turn at brunch. However, it was a heartwarming, emotional experience for me and feel that I was able to connect, as a father, to my daughters, while having a discussion around the physical aspects of relationships and what goes along with it....

There are moments that I cringe a bit when young kids, my girls ages, tell me about their heroes. Lebron James, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, or even Steve Jobs. Don’t get me wrong, I think each of these individuals, and so many others in business, sport, academics, etc. have done great things and possess wonderful qualities that we can certainly emulate and tried to use in our lives. But I have a hard...

The seasons of our life change. Our priorities change, depending on what our mission is at that point in time. For us, one of our highest priorities is our move out west. Not something that happens all that often so it is impacting what we perceive to be our typical habits. Sometimes it is tough to stay true to those “typical habits” when other, new priorities change. That is okay, not one thing l...

Each day presents us with challenges and we truly never know what is going to come across us in our routines. Having two daughters (14 & 12) with all the things happening in today’s world and wanting to protect them, we can run ourselves ragged thinking about the nonsense. I believe fears will be present no matter what but we can process those fears; they are not reality. My biggest fear is someth...

We get use to our routines? Whether that is preparing for a race, a test, a new job, a new relationship. Our habits and commitments change based on what our blueprint is for life. And those blueprints changes based upon the different phases of your life. And those phase change, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. Based on those phases, what should your life look like? Where are you headed? What are yo...

For most of my life I have portrayed stories that were not necessarily always, “my true story.” I exaggerated, stretched the truth, and downright lied. Most of the time it was to try to impress someone, pretend to be something I am not, to avoid trouble, or to not face failure or fear. I believe the last one, facing failure or fear, is the real root cause of why we avoid being true. In this social...

What are we doing with our “delayed time?” Gary Vaynerchuk shared a nugget that caught my attention recently. He said, “When you are put into an inconvenient circumstance, how do you maximize that moment?” That made me think about the times, where I am feeling put out, standing in line for a coffee and I am running rate!!! Rather than use the time to be grateful and productive, I complain that it...

Each day we are blessed with the opportunity to engage with many people. Going to the store, gym, your office, or whatever it is that we do daily, we come across other human beings. Many times, we have our heads in our screens, going through life with blinders on, missing a chance to connect. But sometimes, when we look up, smile, say hi, we just might change someone’s day; someone’s life. In toda...

The title I got from a TedX talk I watched last week by Stephen Duneier (link here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQMbvJNRpLE) It focused on exactly what it sounds like, marginal improvements over time, small changes, consistently, over time, can get you to where you want to go. I spent much of my life so connected to wanting the “big win” and wasn’t aware that it took consistent effort and wor...