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Meet Mark
What’s it all about?
Mark Miller is the founder of M², podcasting thoughts about the really
tough issues in life we really don’t want to think about…
Sex. Death. Violence. Love. Hate. Happiness.
The best things we can do with our lives is think. Thinking defines everything we do, and everything we feel. The hardest thing we can do in life is think honestly. So much of our thinking is reactive, driven by experience and feeling.
Let’s work together on this. Let’s help each other think clearly and honestly. Lets be courageous and deal with the really tough issues in life we really don’t want to think about.
Join with me. Let’s think things through. Then we can have chance of getting what we want from this crazy life we live.
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Get to know Mark…
Traveller
Pilot
Musician
Martial Arts
Business Coach
Mark Miller…The Traveller
Why travel? Because it makes us realise that we don’t know it all. Getting out of our perpetual bubble of familiarity. Mix with people who are different, ways of living that make us question ourselves. Scenery in the wild and cities and villages that challenges our familiarity. Travel destabilises us. It should. On a motorcycle. In a van. Public transport. Every continent. Why? Its more real I guess? Tour buses are great for some, and at least its travel. But lets try and immerse ourselves, not just observe. Have conversations. See the normal life of others not just museum displays. Sit and feel what it could be like to be different. For me that’s the beauty of travel … seeing I could maybe be different.
Mark Miller…The Pilot
So I learned to fly and it scared the shit out of me. So I figured I learn to be a commercial pilot because the challenge was bigger, and I got more scared. Then an instructor and flying aerobatics. Why? To deal with fear. We are amazing at replacing fear with process, if we try. And pilots are damn good at that. They don’t react. They think. What a fantastic life lesson. Scared for your life when the systems all fail on the aircraft and … you’re still thinking. Not that I am naturally good at that. I just worked at it. Which proves, we can all do it. Learn to do something potentially dangerous and learn to make it not dangerous. You’ll change in the process. I did, I actually enjoyed what at first instilled fear. Wow.
Mark Miller…The Musician
I sat down last night and played some guitar. Why? My fingers wanted to express my emotions. So I let them. Not that anyone listening would say it was good music. I have sung and played in public many times. Some liked it, some didn’t. But I don’t care. Why? Because the purpose is to get a bit on the edge and be vulnerable. Get out of that comfort zone. Then your comfort zone gets bigger. And playing music to others makes you not really care what others think. Because they are likely to be indifferent or even not like it. So what are we going to do? Only stick to a life that others like? Music is a great way to be happy that we are not perfect.
Mark Miller…The Martial Artist
So I ended up a senior coach and 4th degree black belt.. So what? Its only a belt. You don’t even need it to hold your trousers up. What was the point? To tell my body what to do instead of it telling me. To tell my mind what to do instead of it telling me. To think not react. To be back in control when emotions are going nuts. When you’re tired and scared and in pain what do you do? Martial arts teaches you to think. So we become bigger people. And that bigger person gets noticed by others as more confident. So less intimidation, confrontation of bullying. No strutting needed. No matter how old or young, gender or size. When you have learned to fight, people know it, they see it in your eyes. So you don’t ever have to fight.
Mark Miller…The Business Coach
Life is about seeing mistakes as steps for success. I have probably made more mistakes in my life than I would care to count. At times I have been utterly stupid. But in the end it was a step. How to be successful depends on those steps. So now I run 4 businesses. And help others to do the same. To get paid what they are worth. To provide for their loved ones a lifestyle which their talent deserves. Reliance on self, go into the world and fulfil what you are. That’s what a business person does. Which is why I coach them. Not to rip off others, because that doesn’t bring in the dollars. Instead, to care for self, family and others and use your talents in an organised way. Then life rewards you. It’s fantastic to watch it happen.
Our vision is to produce a world that thinks instead of reacts
Meet Andre
Poet, Painter, Musician
Born in Jamaica where the natural beauty of my surroundings ignites my senses through taste, sights and sounds, partly moulding me into the man I am today. The other part of my life has been shaped by England where I now live, love and once served in the British arm forces for a number of years. Experience gained from living in these two islands in the sea let me look at life from a philosophical standpoint through reflection and perception.
I am an artist that discovered a love for sketching and painting from a young age, attracted by the sea and landscapes, capturing their essence on canvas. I have developed an addiction for writing, constantly recording my thoughts which is a little unfair for my fingers as they find it hard to keep up. I try to make my words as colourful as my paintings by bringing my imagination to life, giving them a voice that will speak back to the person, because anything observed long enough can change the observer. My love for writing poems comes from an amalgamation of painting, music and art, which give me the right to be free.
Check out Andre’s CREATIONS
Series One
GRAB LIFE BY THE BALLS
Getting tired of people telling you about how their lives aren’t working out the way they planned? Life is a mirror remember. If you don’t like that attitude in other people it shows you don’t like it in yourself. Start with yourself. Are you tired of your own excuses and can’t figure out how to break the cycle? Welcome to the club. You are what we would call ‘normal’…. except that you have something special. You are being honest with yourself. ‘Grab Life by the Balls’ starts with that honesty and looks at life through a different lens. The lens where what we think and feel designs the life we live. Our thoughts & feelings don’t just happen. We decide. We can decide. We will decide. Is your life running you? Or do you want to run your life? Hey I’m with you. Let’s grab it.
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