“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.”
*Convince your mind to win the day today.
BODY
Diana Taurasi 1982
Maya Moore 1989
“I think there are a couple of players who could play in the NBA right now, honestly,” Kobe Bryant said when asked whether his daughter could someday play in the NBA. “There’s a lot of players with a lot of skill that could do it. Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore, Elena Delle Donne. There’s a lot of great players out there, so they could certainly keep up with them.”
*These 2 WNBA superstars both went to UConn and they share a birthday today. They also share the admiration of NBA superstar Kobe Bryant who believed that his daughter would one day make it in the NBA. I’m typing these words the day after Kobe and his 13 year-old daughter, Gianna, died in a helicopter crash. Shoot some hoops with your daughter today.
SOUL
Peter Dinklage 1969
“Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it and make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”
*You know what people are saying about you. Address it with them – now you own it and they can’t use it to hurt you. I know that people talk about me marrying someone 21 years younger. So I talk about it too. I make fun of it because it is funny.
MONEY
Joe Montana 1956
Montana is no stranger to investing. He has an ownership stake in the sports app company GameOn, and has also invested personally in hot tech startups Pinterest and Dropbox
*Do the same as Joe Montana. Make investments today that will put you in the Hall of Fame tomorrow.
“I write everything down. My entire schedule. I have it in my phone, but I write it down and it helps me remember it a little better and stay a little bit more on top of things. For some reason writing it down puts it in my brain rather than typing it in and so I have double reminders. If I don’t jot things down I won’t be able to sleep.”
*Hopefully you have the 365DOLF app on your phone and a 365DOLF journal so can write everything down as a double reminder of how to Live Famously today.
BODY
Tara Lipinski 1982
“I’m pretty lucky that one of my best girlfriends is a barre teacher. She will come over a lot and we will just set up our yoga mats by the pool. Even if we only get a half hour in, I still feel like I’ve done something. I also live in Santa Monica and I have a big dog, Dublin, and he’s very energetic so trying to be a good mom as always, I try to take him out for a run-down San Vicente [Boulevard] which is beautiful.”
*Take a barre class, take your dog for a run, and go ice skating if you can.
SOUL
Faith Evans 1973
“But the bottom line is it was two senseless tragedies that were the result of people not being good people.”
*Be a good person and surround yourself with good people. Have faith today. Listen to Faith Evans for inspiration.
MONEY
William Rosenberg 1916
Anticipating Starbucks by several decades, Rosenberg realized early on that consumers would gladly pay more for a good cup of coffee than for a mediocre one.
*Anticipate what people will pay more for in the future, and get to work on it. Start your day with a cup of Dunkin coffee (after your two mugs of warm water).
ENTERTAINMENT
Judy Garland 1922 – watch A Star is Born (1954)
*Watch Judy Garland almost win an Oscar in the original A Star is Born (1954).
FOOD
Elizabeth Hurley 1965
Elizabeth says she drinks two mugs of warm water first thing in the morning.
Breakfast: a bowl of Greek yogurt, a banana, and a little bit of honey
Lunch: vegetable soup.
Dinner: grilled chicken and “lots and lots and lots” of vegetables
*Eat (and drink) like Elizabeth Hurley.
SNUB – Sasha Obama 2001
Review –
Write down your entire schedule
Take a barre class and your dog for a run
Be a good person and surround yourself with good people
Playing music is a complicated undertaking that engages multiple areas of the brain simultaneously. In essence, it’s the definition of multitasking. Translating black and white symbols into pleasing sounds requires:
fine motor movements and an intact sensory system to manipulate an instrument,
immediate processing of visual and auditory elements of a melody,
mathematical precision and internal rhythm to keep tempo,
*Today would be a great day to pursue music lessons. As you see, it won’t be easy but so worth it. If you do play an instrument – play, baby, play! Watch Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future for motivation.
To help Portman build a strong, slim ballerina body, Bowers supplemented ballet classes with swimming, cross-training, and endurance exercises. “We usually started by swimming a mile a day, doing the front crawl and breast stroke,” she says. “Then we’d do 2 hours of ballet exercises and resistance work.”
For your first ballet class, relax and enjoy yourself even if, or maybe because, ballet is one of the most beautiful ways to exercise your body and brain.
“My destiny is to help other people reach their destiny. You must remember that real life does not begin in the light but what you do in the dark. Helping you has given me purpose, love, and life.”
“I’m 76 and I’m obsessed with this,” he said Wednesday. “I’m in 13 halls of fame. A guy who couldn’t play a lick but just showed the passion and love I have for the game. I want to show that passion now for pediatric cancer research.”
Remember to give yourself credit where credit is due. It can be so easy to credit others but discredit yourself. Don’t do that. You have a lot to offer this world, but if you don’t believe in yourself it will be hard to get other people to believe in you. With that said, it’s okay to be confident and to show that confidence to other people.
He orders in his staccato hecsent: “Listen, bring me a pastrami sanawhich (TO ME) you’ll have half, I’ll have half, also a half glass tea with a nepkin … she’ll also have tea …” and so it went mit the halves around the table.
“Since my surgery, I’ve made my physical and emotional health a priority above all else. Whether it’s on my own or through guided meditations on YouTube or Headspace, I find that those few minutes a day of clearing my head & centering myself make a huge difference on how my day goes.”
*Her website is really good. Check it out. It’s got some 365DOLF to it. Use it for your 2 minute meditation.
BODY
Julianna Margulies 1966
“I like being alone with no to one hear me. I run or bike or go on the elliptical. I breathe into my body. I do a mixture of yoga and Pilates. I love to stretch. I get tremendous joy from working out. I know it sounds crazy,”
*Workout alone today. Run, bike, elliptical, yoga, or Pilates. Don’t forget to stretch.
SOUL
Gabby Giffords 1970
“Which baptism truly heals? Do we need the water of God, or the blood of a 9-year old laying on a street in Tucson? The answer is profoundly and simply obvious. We need redemption gushing from the rivers of God’s love, not that of blood-soaked sidewalks.
If we don’t speak for the soul, our silence will surely aid evil.”
*Speak for the soul. Don’t let your silence aid evil. Think of getting baptized.
MONEY
Kanye West 1977
“I got a problem with spending before I get it” from All Falls Down
*Don’t spend money that you do not have yet. Listen to Kanye for motivation. His music – not his rhetoric.
ENTERTAINMENT
Jerry Stiller 1927 – watch Zoolander
*His son Ben is the star but he’s no slouch as Maury Ballstein – head of Ballstein Models, in this must watch yearly movie.
FOOD
Barbara Bush 1925 – mushroom quiche
The night before she died, Bush was alert and was having conversations — along with a glass of bourbon.
*She was married to the vice president for 8 years, then married to the president for 4 more years, and then was the mother to the president for 8 more years. Enjoy her mushroom quiche while watching Zoolander. And wash it down with a glass of bourbon.
BONUS
Keenan Ivory Wayans 1958
“You know, my health is no laughing matter. My vegetarian diet helps me stay health and fit. Not just for myself, but for the one’s I love. From pasta primavera, a hearty vegetable soup, or my mothers red beans and rice. Delicious and good for you. That’s no joke. Tonight, make it vegetarian.”
*Besides the FLOTUS mushroom quiche, make some pasta primavera, vegetable soup, and red beans and rice to make it vegetarian all day.
“Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.”
*Your reminder to not give up today, and to plan an adventure to get out of your comfort zone.
BODY
Allen Iverson 1975
“The Answer” could have added muscle to his 165-pound frame during his 17-year NBA career but much like practice, he wasn’t a fan of lifting weights.
“That s— was too heavy,” Iverson said, admitting he never lifted during his career.
*Don’t lift weights today. That shit’s too heavy. Don’t practice anything either. Play a game of pickup basketball – but do NOT practice!
SOUL
Prince 1958
“We all have our problems, some are big, some are small. Soon all of our problems, y’all, will be taken by the cross.” – “The Cross”
*Prince was actually a conservative Christian with deep messages in a lot of his music.
MONEY
L.A. Reid 1956
“That head-down thing, it’s going to limit your career. See, while your head is down, opportunities are passing right on by you, and you don’t even see them.”
*While putting your soul into your work, keep your head up – looking for opportunities.
ENTERTAINMENT
Liam Neeson 1952 – watch Kinsey
*Watch Liam Neeson win the AARP award as best actor in the movie Kinsey.
FOOD
Dean Martin 1917 – Pasta Fagioli
“When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool That’s amore When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet You’re in love When you walk down in a dream but you know you’re not Dreaming signore ‘Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli That’s amore”
Guard against your own weaknesses: A more experienced spy would never have fallen into Rogers’ befriending trap, but Nathan did. As we’d learned, Hale did not inherently have the ability to deceive, and he perhaps felt a secret, non-deceitful bond with Rogers, a fellow American soldier. A worldly Hale could have guarded against this gullible weakness of his, but he didn’t. There was one other flaw that Hale may have had that was left from his Yale college days. Though pious, it’s reported that Nathan still liked alcohol. It’s very plausible that Robert Rogers, a well-known life-long alcoholic, bought some drinks for Hale that night which possibly could’ve opened Hale up for a more confidential and damning conversation. Rogers invited Hale to breakfast with him the next morning. Hale accepted for some reason. Rogers was setting the scene to spring the trap.
Englund’s interview with Wes Craven landed him the role playing the burn scarred dream demon Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street and launched him into horror history.
Scientists have gone to great lengths to fully understand sleep’s benefits. In studies of humans and other animals, they have discovered that sleep plays a critical role in immune function, metabolism, memory, learning, and other vital functions.
Abercrombie has transformed many times over the years.
It went from an outdoor gear shop in the late 19th century to a retailer known for oversexed, borderline-softcore pornographic ads. It was later maligned, and it looks like it’s headed towards tame basics
Though he emerged as more of a leading man in the early 2000s with movies like American Splendor and Sideways, Giamatti is content to play a supporting role. “I think you’re given more license to have fun, in a way,” he told The Guardian of being a supporting player. “You’re supposed to be more vivid, your job is to be more eccentric. I think I just like it better. There’s something about working in a smaller space that I’m more temperamentally suited to.”
*If this movie doesn’t motivate you to improve your mind, body, and soul – it may be time to refocus. Watch Giamatti get robbed of an Oscar for best supporting actor.
“I know I played, two of my sons played, my three grandsons play so we have three generations playing the game, and I think the life lessons that you get playing football are worth the risk.”
*What risks are you willing to take to learn life lessons? If you don’t have a cryo chamber, get a massage at 9:30 a.m.
BODY
Amanda Crew 1986
After training for a role as a wrestler in the film Chokeslam, Amanda Crew unexpectedly fell in love with weightlifting.
“It sounds cheesy, but it completely transformed my life,”
“A good weight-training session is incredibly empowering, especially if I’m having a bad day.”
*Get a “good weight-training session” in as one of your two workouts today.
*Think of donating to the McKnight 360 Foundation or donating time to help provide a well-rounded and positive educational experience to young people in need. And listen to some Brian McKnight – it’s good for your soul.
MONEY
Suze Orman 1961
“Pull out your three most recent bank and credit card statements, circle every charge or debit that is not a necessity, and ask yourself, “Can I eliminate this cost entirely?” If not, can you scale it back 30 to 50 percent? Every time you cut expenses, you can put the money toward bigger goals.”
*Do this during your 2 p.m. meetings/work calls.
ENTERTAINMENT
Mark Wahlberg 1971 – watch The Fighter
*Watch Wahlberg almost win an Oscar in The Fighter . If you are living like Marky Mark, make sure you start this movie by 5:30, so you are in bed by 7:30. Make boxing one of your two workouts today.
CROSSOVER: BODY
Wahlberg’s typical daily schedule: 2:30 a.m. wake up 2:45 a.m. prayer time 3:15 a.m. breakfast 3:40-5:15 a.m. workout 5:30 a.m. post-workout meal 6 a.m. shower 7:30 a.m. golf 8 a.m. snack 9:30 a.m. cryo chamber recovery 10:30 a.m. snack 11 a.m. family time/meetings/work calls 1 p.m. lunch 2 p.m. meetings/work calls 3 p.m. pick up kids from school 3:30 p.m. snack 4 p.m. workout No. 2 5 p.m. shower 5:30 p.m. dinner/family time 7:30 p.m. bedtime
FOOD
Pancho Villa 1878 – Pancho Villa Stew
Pancho Villa’s last words were – “It can’t end like this. Tell them I said something.”
“Everyone loves Charlie Chaplin and not just because he’s funny but because he’s fucking true and human and humanist. I’m a huge fan of his – I would beat up anyone who wasn’t.”
*Be true. Be human. Ba a humanist. Also, take today, to defend someone.
BODY
Bar Refaeli 1985
“I’m not a yogi yet.”
“We’re doing some [moves] in the car, and then there’s also poses you can do outside of the car — before driving and after — to stretch out and prepare yourself for a little drive and make your body ready.”
*Stretch before you drive to your yoga studio for a yoga workout.
SOUL
Joyce Meyer 1943
“God never gets in a hurry. He never quits or runs out of patience. He will deal with us about one particular thing, and then He will let us rest for a while—but not too long. Soon He will come back and begin to work on something else. He will continue until, one by one, our knots are all untied.”
*Let God help you get one of your knots untied today.
MONEY
Evan Spiegel 1990
“A lot of it is not wanting to work for anyone else. My dad had to cancel vacations and he got called from work. I used to think that when I grow-up, I want to be the guy on the phone.”
*If you do not like to work for others or work in your own way then it is a clear sign that you probably are built for becoming an entrepreneur. Get on Snapchat.
ENTERTAINMENT
Angelina Jolie 1975 – watch Girl Interrupted
“I know what it’s like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can’t. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.”
*Watch Angelina Jolie win an Oscar in Girl Interrupted.
FOOD
Russell Brand 1975 – Booby Pasta
In 2014, he flirted with veganism after watching the vegan health documentary “Forks Over Knives” with his former wife, Katy Perry.
Whether you see him as a force for good or evil, he was unequivocally—a force that changed American literature forever.
*Whether you are a force for good or evil, be a force for change. Read some of Ginsberg’s poetry for motivation.
Body
Rafael Nadal 1986
During the off-season Nadal trains six days a week for six-and-a-half hours every day – four on court and the rest in the gym or the pool.
*Play tennis, hit the gym, and go swimming today.
SOUL
Curtis Mayfield 1942
Deploying sweet soul and blistering funk – Curtis Mayfield veered between breezy optimism and hard-edged political commentary.
*Listen to Curtis Mayfield and listen for both optimism and political commentary.
MONEY
Anderson Cooper 1967
“I don’t believe in inheriting money. I think it’s an initiative sucker. I think it’s a curse.”
*I love this attitude by Anderson Cooper, but it’s got to be easier said than done. Avoid “initiative suckers” in your life, and make your own money.
ENTERTAINMENT
Tony Curtis 1925 – watch The Defiant Ones
At first they said I was too good-looking for the part; I didn’t look enough like the a*hole “ngger-hater” I was supposed to play. So I wore a false nose and made myself look uglier.
*Watch Tony Curtis win an Oscar in The Defiant Ones.
FOOD
Josephine Baker 1906 – spaghetti bolognese
In 1991, HBO released The Josephine Baker Story. It won 5 Emmy Awards.
Just as her husband realized that his every action might set a precedent for future presidents, so Martha, too, was aware that her behavior as first lady would become the template for the wives of future chief executives.
*Realize that your behavior may be the template for someone today, and act accordingly.
BODY
Abby Wambach 1980 – mountain bike
“I like to run, watch-free. I also love to mountain bike in our off-season — going downhill gives me an adrenaline rush!”
*I live in Florida so going downhill doesn’t happen very often, but the good news is there’s not a lot of uphill battles either. Run, watch-free, or go mountain biking today. Play soccer later.
SOUL
Wayne Brady 1972
“Depression is real.”
Now that he’s opened up about his own battle with depression, Brady is grateful for the outpouring of support he’s received.
*I too battle depression every day. Creating 365DOLF helps a lot. Find what helps you and be passionate about it.
MONEY
Andy Cohen 1968
Cohen is a man that defies labeling. He is the multi-hyphenate extraordinaire. He is a producer, a talk show host, a writer, and a high-level television producer. He basically is the Bravo television network.
*Defy labels. Be a multi-hyphenated extraordinaire.
ENTERTAINMENT
Dana Carvey 1955 – watch Saturday Night Live
*Watch some late 1980s and early 1990s episodes of Saturday Night Live.
FOOD
Justin Long 1978 – spicy lobster linguine
Martha Stewart and actor Justin Long prepare spicy lobster linguine.
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