MABA and the fight to end loneliness

Do 3,100 burpees in January and you won't know what to do with all the friends you'll make. Well, there is one thing you'll know to do: More burpees.

           Sign up here for Year 2 of MABA—Make America Burpee Again.  
            The MABA challenge: Do 3,100 burpees in January. You can do 100 every single day, or you can bank a bunch and take days off. Other than that, there are no rules. Clap at the top, don’t clap the top, either is fine. Do 100 in a row, or 10 at a time in 10 sets throughout the day, or whatever combination you want.
            100 of anything is a lot for one day, so push yourself but don’t hurt yourself. Sign up for the MABA newsletter here.
            Last year roughly 400 men completed 900,000 burpees in January. We did them to build resilience and discovered they gave us so much more than that. This year we are doing MABA to shed light on, and fight, the epidemic of loneliness among men.
            The theme is Fall Down. Get back up. Together. We all fall down. We all get back up. We must not do either one alone.
            MABA is not about the burpees. They are the means, not the end. The end is the relationships that result. You can’t be lonely if you’re doing 100 burpees a day with your friends.
            Crazy, maybe.
            But definitely not lonely.
            For more on MABA, watch this.
            Or read my essay in the second edition of Freed to Lead. See also my stories on MABA for SUCCESS.com here, here and here.