Michael Chernow

But so I pray for about five minutes.

And most recently I've changed a few things in my prayers where I used to ask God to remove certain things that I didn't like about my life or certain things that could potentially present as hurdles, fear, insecurity, character defects, character assassinations.

I mean, basically I would say every morning, you know, God, please help to remove my fears, my insecurities, my character defects, my character assassinations, my wrong thinking and my rationalizing.

And then I would finish with, please allow me to be of service today.

And more recently, in the last probably six months, I was having a conversation with a buddy.

And we were talking about God and our prayer.

And he said, you're putting that into the...

into the universe, that negative stuff, the fear, the insecurity, you're saying it every morning.

Why don't you flip it on its head?

And instead of saying that, just say, hey, God, please help to bring optimism and positivity and confidence and courage and kindness and presence and joy into my day, as opposed to asking him to remove the bad stuff.

Because if he introduces that stuff, they say it's really hard to be angry if you're smiling, right?

Like if I get that stuff,

then I don't have to worry so much about the fear and the insecurity, right?

Like if my day is blanketed with this positive stuff.

So that's one thing I do.

So I say my prayers and I call it prayers, pushups and poses.

I do as many pushups as I can right after I pray.

I'm in that like 76 to 77 range right now.

And it just, it's gotten, as I've gotten older, they haven't gotten smaller.

They've actually grown.