2 Transformational Insights I Wish I’d Learned at 20

I wish I had learned these potent ideas when I was twenty years old… …I’ve embraced and integrated them now, yet not knowing them cost me a lot over the years. – If you want to get insider access to the neuroscience, methodology and tactics of a truly world-class morning routine so you maximize your […]
Fear Becomes Faith [Once You Walk into It]

You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear. I suggest that you use any fear surfacing to heal, grow and strengthen yourself. Hard times activate hidden wounds that can be remedied. Making you stronger, wiser and more loving when the pandemic ends. Remember that terror is closer to triumph […]
Leave the Cult of Superficiality

Be deep vs. be light. Moving from superficiality to granularity will separate you from the 95% of humanity that is stuck at average. [Note: if you’d like a much richer understanding of the “granularity versus superficiality” distinction that I’ve been teaching to my clients for years to prepare them for intense adversity, read The 5AM […]
One Potent Method to Enable Emotional Healing

Emotional healing is absolutely essential to expert performance. Heartset work [introduced in The 5AM Club] allows you to dissolve the repressed regret, disappointment, shame, anger and sorrow that we all experience as we advance through life. Working on a better Mindset for 2021 while neglecting your Heartset sets up a situation of self-sabotage where your […]
Pain is Potential Unexpressed

You are born into genius, but have you resigned yourself to mediocrity? Remaining in your Safe Harbor of The Known is a wonderful way to stunt your self-respect, while you degrade your mastery. It really is in the process of pursuing your visions that the winning lives. Please just don’t fall too in love with […]
Take Care of Your Relationships and the Money Will Take Care of Itself

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection. With your customers, with your suppliers, with your loved ones, with your self (big idea there). Commit to insanely great relationships (Steve Jobs coined the “insanely great” standard BTW – I adore it) and you”ll have an insanely great life. And being […]
Every Genius-Level Entrepreneur Has Otherworldly Acumen

Most businesses and most business people operate at average. Oh – what an awesome opportunity. This leaves a gorgeous chance for you and your business to stand for Mastery. To know more about what you do than anyone who has ever done what you do. To dazzle by acumen and skill. To leave us–as your […]
Release Only Magic [for a World-Class Company]

Most producers rush to deliver many materials rather than investing the time and painstaking care to handcraft a single masterpiece that stands the test of time. I go into great depth on this pivotal subject in The 5AM Club yet for now please consider this: it’s wiser to make one Fifth Symphony versus many pieces […]
Self-Forgiveness as a Productivity Accelerator

Too many potentially fantastic performers + rare-air leaders among us have left their best creativity, productivity and impact on the table of broken dreams because they stayed stuck in the past. As I wrote about in The 5AM Club, everyone alive does the best that they can based on where they're at in terms of […]
Toxic Emotions Limiting Your Performance?

The real secret to exponential performance is cleaning up your interior life versus cleaning up your office. Heartset work [introduced in The 5AM Club] allows you to dissolve the repressed regret, disappointment, shame, anger and sorrow that we all experience as we advance through life. – If you want to get insider access to the […]