A collection of stupid jokes, dumb memes, and insights from the day before... if you can even call them that.

In February of 2019, one of my best friends, Emma, and her family were caught off guard by an extremely painful and unforeseen event. The pain we watched them endure was unbearable. We decided the least we could do was send some jokes, memes, and whatever else every morning to, hopefully, help start her day off on a lighter note or, at least, serve as a distraction. Thus, Emma's Morning Wakeup.

The Glass Half Empty

Happy Friday! Just some stupid pictures and a quick quote today. Start the weekend off right! “I’m not interested in whether the glass is half empty or half full. I’m interested in figuring out how t...

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I've Been Screwing Up With Personal Goals

Happy Thursday! I was listening to The ONE Thing podcast and they had my boy, Dan Martell, on as a guest. He was talking about his book “Buy Back Your Time.” Great book, if you haven’t read it. Crazy ...

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Replacing Bad Habits

Happy Wednesday! Here’s a great excerpt from The ONE Thing newsletter on breaking bad habits (hint: it’s done by replacing them): Bad habits stick out like a sore thumb. Everyone has them, but you ha...

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If You Can't Fight, Flow

Happy Tuesday! I saw someone post a page of a book in Instagram, but am not sure where it’s from… but it was good: If you can’t fight and you can’t flee, flow. - Robert Eliot Too often, we men have li...

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10 Things to Stop

Happy Monday! Here’s a really good and really quick article about 10 things to stop doing: https://medium.com/makingofamillionaire/to-retire-forever-and-do-the-work-you-love-stop-doing-these-10-things...

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Acquaintance Audit

Happy Friday! Here’s a quick thought to get you going into the weekend: If you take an audit of your closest friends, acquaintances, etc., will you find that more of them are bad influences or good in...

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"Not All Anxiety is Bad"

Happy Thursday! Back in SD from celebrating Erin and Kevin getting married. It was beautiful and the rain miraculously held off! I cam across this article from Tim Denning who turned 37 and gave 37 li...

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Purple Eyes

Happy Thursday! Here’s a phenomenal parable about not letting untrue things hurt you and not giving power to words from other people. Katie sent it to me a long time ago from a lady giving a speech, R...

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Rip Currents

Happy Wednesday! Ok, last one of these! And today’s is about currents. When surfing a lot of times, you don’t have the ability to choose what you do or where you go. If you’re trying to fight against ...

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Going for Waves

Happy Tuesday! Sorry this one’s going out late today. I forgot to schedule it, so I’m just sending it now!Today we’re continuing our douche-y surfer analogy series with part 2: going for waves!!!!! Ko...

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