Why I Read Obituaries
Who knows how long we are blessed to live? …Even the longest life is a relatively short ride. …And before we know it, each of us must end up as dust. The bricklayer. The street sweeper. And the firefighter, poet and astronaut. Life is a fleeting ride. May you never wait to completely embrace it. […]
An Exercise to Help You Become Undefeatable in Your Marketplace
Produce fresh solutions. …disrupt or be disrupted. …adapt or be defeated. During this season, rather than play victim and wish things were the way they used to be (those days are gone), elevate your leadership game and out-invent everyone around you. Rather than freezing, create new value that your marketplace will adore. Products that customers […]
One Major Practice of Business Titans
Powerful Idea: With every small achievement comes the corresponding release of a small burst energy+confidence+motivation. What I am suggesting is the way to world-class in your work and inside your personal life is not through radical acts of change but via tiny daily wins. The best productives and the genuine virtuosos focus on steady and […]
The 100 Year Timeline Tool [to Blueprint Your Greatest Life]
I have the members of my private coaching group IconX [as well as the billionaires, tech superstars, and titans of industry I’ve served as the private advisor to] go through this revolutionary process so that they clean out the constraints, strip away the distractions and get super calibrated on implementing the few projects that will […]
Get Ultra-Fit to Dominate Your Domain
You know I’m an evangelist around the whole idea of being ultra-fit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves a leader (and remember-if you consume oxygen, you have the opportunity to behave like a leader) can make. Exercising will make you look […]
Connect to the Shortness of Life [as a Vehicle to Transcend Your Limits]
It’s so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones. I want you to experience an uncommon life. One where you feel fully alive, release your chains, display your gifts and help […]
How to Have a Hard Conversation
The greatest movement-makers all have one thing in common: they were masterful communicators. Through their words and ways of showing up, they have been able to persuade their people to follow them to the mountaintop. For those who have been doing the early morning work to fortify their 4 Interior Empires of Mindset, Heartset, Healthset […]
Solitude as a Tool to Activate Serenity
There is so much encouragement in our culture to work non-stop that we feel guilty when we are not “being productive”. Yet, why is reflecting, or staring at moonbeams or enjoying a three hour summer lunch less productive than building a business, making an app or writing a book? What seems most honest to me […]
Insulate Your Magic
It’s so essential for you to own your greatness. And honor your bigness. The best in the world [BIW] know they have what I call “a primitive magic” within them. And so they set up environments, routines and institutions so that their gifts and talents are maximized [versus destroyed]. If you want to encode Robin […]
One Way to Magnify Your Confidence in Uncertain Times
These are complex times and each of us needs to protect our positivity, defend our productivity and insulate our courage. We are called human beings versus “human doings” for a reason: we’re meant to take breaks from our creativity, productivity and contribution to our community. Exhausted people never become game-changers. Or joyful souls. Non-stop working […]