Success Breeds Complacency
The moment you think you’re untouchable, you’re in decline. The minute you take your success for granted is the time you focus is off iterating your craft, upgrading your game and optimizing the performance that will take you to higher reaches. The instant you stop rising early, putting in the practice, investing in your learning, […]
A Spiritual Lesson to Help You Rise Above a Hard Time
Suffering is nature’s way of making you special. The greatest bleed the longest. What I mean by this is that it is actually within the fires of deep difficulty that the dross that covers the gold is burned off. Life loves you so much that it sends you difficulties to make you strong. In the […]
Practice Deliberate Gratitude [As an Antidote to the Negativity Bias]
Gratitude is a beautiful thing. Makes the recipient feel better. Makes the sender feel great. In my journal, I often express gratitude to the people who elevate, influence and inspire me. On crisp white pages, I honor my kids for all the gifts they have brought to my life (wish I could be half as […]
Don’t Confuse BUSY With PRODUCTIVE [Nor Movement With Progress]
I do believe that rest and recovery and regeneration are deeply essential. I’ve written a lot about this “cycling” in my latest book The Everyday Hero Manifesto and The 5AM Club if you’d like to go deeper. Yet, to lead a soaring life one must also be productive. Getting big and meaningful projects done gives […]
A Powerful Idea to Help You Turn STRUGGLE Into STRENGTH
It’s in the face of fear, doubt and danger that we are given the chance to test out our wisest, bravest and biggest selves. Rather than wishing for easier days, perhaps we should be praying for greater strength. If there was only one thing I could do to turn struggle into power, doubt into leadership […]
Exceptional People-Builders Lead Without a Title
Monumental leaders lead without a title, deriving their power and organizational influence via their character, performance, results and optimism versus from the position they have on the organizational chart. Winning is both making your own ethical ambitions come true while giving those that you serve overwhelming benefit through the work you do, products you calibrate […]
The KEY to Domain Eminence in a Recession?
In this era of hypercompetition, massive marketplace disruption and other forms of deep change that I haven’t seen as so intense in my lifetime, I do humbly suggest there is a way to lead your field. I teach the clients I mentor to pay less attention to the swings of the stock market, global economy […]
Worry NOT About Your Legacy [And Stay Dedicated to the Good You Can Deliver Today]
If you’ve read my latest book you know that although I spoke a lot about legacy years ago (even wrote a book on it 25 years ago called Who Will Cry When You Die?), I no longer think it’s a thing worth pursuing. Because we’ll be dead. So who cares what people say? Better to […]
Produce Your Magnum Opus
Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces Yet, to lead a soaring life one must also be productive. Getting big and meaningful projects done gives you the feeling of satisfaction. And that you’re leveraging your life well. [I explain my entire creative and productive process in my #1 […]
The TOP Trait of Monumental Leaders? [4-Minute Episode]
Monumental leaders lead without a title, deriving their power and organizational influence via their character, performance, results and optimism versus from the position they have on the organizational chart. If you’d like so much more information like this to keep you focused on your mission in these trying times along with science-backed insights and daily […]