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Upgrade My Classroom

Kevin Mecchella

Thank you for listening to the Upgrade My Classroom Podcast! Kevin Mecchella, youth speaker and behavior change specialist uncovers the social and emotional strategies that help teenage students make great decisions and mitigate bad ones. On this show, you’ll learn from experts in the field of education, youth leadership and behavioral psychology how to create positive, lasting change for your teens. Our kids are faced with so many challenges and we have a responsibility to guide through the choices

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Ep - 73: The Philosophy Behind Your Days Off: Live...

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2022/03/24

What is your philosophy behind your days off? Sometimes your days off are incredibly important in order to build the life you want instead of escaping the one you have. It's the only time you have to really dig into deep work and make progress on what you're working on. This is what's called a weekend warrior. I used to hear this many times through my career as a musician. Other times you may need to actually shut off for at least one day. You may need that mental break and remove yourself entirely

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Ep: 72 - What We Can Take Away From A Child's Daily...

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2022/03/17

Implementing a child's daily routine is fairly common practice for most parents and teachers. Considering I work with adults and distilling how Ritual Design can help upgrade their lives, I thought maybe we can learn something from a child's day. Most kids have such structure that it might be beneficial to dive deep into why this is the case. So today on the show I talk about the four ways we can look at a child's daily routine and use this to our productivity quest and personal development. If

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Ep: 71 - Empowering Today's Youth Through Empathy,...

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2022/03/10

Working with children is an entirely different animal. Especially when you realize that the brain of a high school and college level student has not technically finished forming! So I asked myself..."is it possible to teach some of the personal growth and productivity philosophies that I teach adults to teens"? Well today I brought on Keith Senzer in order to help my learn how he's been empowering today's youth. Keith Senzer is a youth leadership empowerment coach. He helps teens find their true

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Ep: 70 - The Fundamental Four Part 4: Leverage Your...

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2022/03/03

Your PM Routine can be something of a silver bullet. Not only does it help maximize your evenings but it can help set up the next day for success. You may be reading this saying to yourself "after dinner I'm shot. There's no way I can be productive at that time of night". Well you don't have to! It all comes down to priorities. This is why Elon Musk has different priorities compared to the rest of us. No one is holding a gun to his head saying you have to develop all of these world changing

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Ep: 69 - The Fundamental Four Part 3: Leave Work At...

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2022/02/24

The After Work Routine is often overlooked. Most people when wrapping up their work day are simply thinking about....being finished with work! They're ready to get home, kick up their feet and relax a bit (which is totally cool). But planning specifically when you'll spend time to relax is the strategy because otherwise we'll be left the outside influences. That never works. If you've ever told yourself "ehhh just one episode" and 2 and a half hours later you get off the couch asking yourself what

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Ep: 68 - The Fundamental Four Part 2: Start Your Day...

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2022/02/17

The Before Work Routine is one of the more difficult routines to implement. That is if we make it really challenging. Welcome back to the second episode in a four part series where we discuss the fundamental four of Ritual Design. The fundamental four are the four primary routines throughout the day. When we first wake up, before work, after work and before we go to bed. Today we're going to dive into the Before Work Routine. Why even have a before work routine? #1 There are four major inflection

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Ep: 67 - The Fundamental Four Part 1: How To Instill...

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2022/02/10

Creating a consistent morning ritual can be tricky. But it's worth it. Welcome to the first in a four part series where we discuss the fundamental four of Ritual Design. The fundamental four are the four primary routines throughout the day. When we first wake up, before work, after work and before we go to bed. What better place to start than your AM Routine! You've probably heard many people tout the "millionaire morning" or the "CEO morning routine". I believe this has gotten so much traction is

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Ep: 66 - Learn How To Hit The Reset Button In Order...

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2022/02/03

Learning How To Hit The Reset Button is different to many people. Sometimes it's a simple walk around the block and other times it's a week long retreat! We get to a point where we're trying to make progress and we're trying to instill healthy routines in our lives and just can't seem to get ahead. There's always something that is interrupting us or stealing our attention. There's always something that is a mess and causing stress and it all feels too much (especially with the ambitions we have)

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Ep: 65 - How To Plan Your Week For Success

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2022/01/27

Weekly planning is extremely powerful in addition to your daily Ritual Design. We have 13 weeks in a quarter and 52 weeks in a year....that's not a lot of week! While mapping out your day and designing a perfect system of daily rituals is a huge part of personal productivity, having your weeks mapped out is a close second. I often tell people that if they can only do one routine, the Keystone routine (the one you do once a week) is where you might want to start. So today on the show I break down my

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Ep: 64 - Goals vs. Domains: Which One Is More...

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2022/01/20

Goals vs. Domains… This might not be a burning question for you but it might have peaked your interest! What is a domain? How do I set goals? What is a smartER goal? Let me start by saying that I believe it’s not a question of goals vs. domains. I think you should actually use both. Although if you’re someone who is just starting out in the personal development world you may wish to take it slow and only set goals or focus on life domains. So first let’s define the differences. Goal: a result or

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Ep: 63 - How To Create A Life Vision

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2022/01/13

You see, this is the time of year that some people are beginning to take action on their goals. They feel motivated and ready to go by the turn of the calendar. But for some it's tricky. Some people may not know even what they want to achieve and what goals to set. Without a life vision, there is no hierarchy that dictates what goals you need in or to live congruent with a vision and purpose. So today I go through the 5 parts of my life vision which you can feel free to pick and choose in order to

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Ep: 62 - How Ritual Design Can Transform Your Life...

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2022/01/06

This show speaks a lot about my system called Ritual Design but we haven't really gone deep into WHY it's so beneficial. I wanted to take some time today to speak about what it actually did for me, how it organically was born and hopefully what it can do for you. Like most good things, Ritual Design was born from the bad! I was in a bad place in my life and I had no idea where I was headed. I was becoming very negative and realized I was putting a tremendous amount of limiting beliefs on myself

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Ep: 61 - [Part 2] - Uncover Your Choices, Make Better...

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2021/12/30

Last week I recorded part 1 of the CDP framework teaching you how to realize the choices you have in order to make better decisions and develop positive patterns. This is a specific framework that really any productivity plan boils down to. We can have everything laid and planned to the T but if we're not taking action, nothing matters. So if you haven't listened to episode 60, take a listen first. Today is an inside look of how the CDP framework came to be. I speak about some fairly rough points

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Ep: 60 - [Part 1] Uncover Your Choices, Make Better...

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2021/12/23

Choices, Decisions and Patterns sound like very important parts of an equation that can have serious impact. You're right! They are. But how they work together is even more important. The CDP framework is at the heart of every major or minor shift in your life. It's literally where the rubber meets the road. You can have the perfect ideal day laid out in front of you with every goal and domain set to take action on but if we don't end up following through, we'll never get there. So the CDP framework

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Ep: 59 - Should You Join The 5:00 a.m. Club?

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2021/12/16

The 5:00 a.m. club is something of a cult like following. It's extremely attractive for high performers that want to instill a morning routine and get things accomplished before the rest of the world wakes up! I myself am a huge proponent of a morning routine but I'm not romantic about the time you decide to wake up. I myself only wake up at 6:30 and my AM routine consists of some reading, breathing, stretching and a workout. I don't need to sacrifice sleep in order to have a solid hour to invest in

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Leverage The Power Of Fringe Minutes To Explode Your...

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2021/12/09

Today we're going to do is we will they'll be talking about something called Fringe Minutes. We had our first baby 5 months ago and we're elated and so incredibly thrilled. Everyday is a new challenge because I'm while I work a full-time job, I’m also playing “Daddy Day Care” while running a business at night! So how and more importantly when do I get anything done? That’s where Fringe Minutes come into play. When you have 3 minutes here, 2 minutes here, 45 seconds there...can we leverage that time

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How To Hold Yourself Accountable With Your Daily...

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2021/12/02

The holidays are coming up and we always, myself included, have setbacks around the holiday season. It starts with Halloween. We buy a huge bag of candy which about a quarter of it gets handed out so of course...we end up eating the whole damn thing! Next is Thanksgiving which is just a nightmare and might put us in a weird mindset! Lastly we have a busy December of parties, drinking and eating out. It’s a mess. During the last three months I don’t necessarily hold myself to a strict diet. My

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Ep: 56 - How To Reassess Your Daily Routines

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2021/08/12

What happens when your plan starts to crumble? You've been waking up early for the past few months to implement a morning routine and then all of a sudden you start going off the rails. You're hitting the snooze button and saying F$%K IT! I made this episode for you today because for the first time in many years my own Ritual Design has begun to degrade! That might sound dramatic but when you have a big life event (ehhmm...having a baby) things can be thrown for a loop. I've found that certain

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Ep: 55 - How To Simplify Your Mid Year Review

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2021/07/08

The beginning of July marks the heart of the summer...but it also means we're halfway through the year. This is a great time to conduct a mid year review. What progress are you making on your annual goals? How effective is your Ritual Design? Are you happy with your current domains? While there are many more things we can track and review at the halfway point, today on the podcast I breakdown my very simple method of checking in at the middle of the year! If you're looking to learn more about

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Ep: 54 - What Is The Belief Wheel And Why It's...

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2021/06/11

This concept is really important to anyone trying to make progress in their lives. Where we are today in our jobs, family, friendships, physical and mental health are primarily dictated by our subconscious mind. Our deep rooted belief patters tell us whether or not it's even worth trying! Today on the show I dissect my simplified version of the belief wheel. This is nothing new to the world of personal development but very important. The more we understand it, the more we can use it to our

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