“If I were playing poker, I’d say that until I was 24 years old, I held a royal flush—in spades. But in one split second, I was left with a pair of twos. What I’ve discovered, however, is that if you play it right, a pair of twos can win.” – Adam Helbling (from...

“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle…...

Are you really focused on the important things in your work day?

Researchers at the University of Michigan found that productivity dropped as much as 40% when subjects tried to do two or more things at once. Rescue Time did a study and shows that the average work checks email 50 unique times and...

Wow. I just finished a call with best-selling author and speaker, Bob Burg, and I’m super excited to share it with you. We talked to Bob a few months back, mainly about his book, co-authored with John David Mann, The Go-Giver. This time around we’re talking about his newest book, ...

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

Are you running your day or is your day running you?

We are getting crushed by the constant barrage of interruptions and focus grabbers. Emails, phone calls,...

“When you focus on the practice instead of the performance, you can enjoy the present moment and improve at the same time.”

James Clear

It’s New Year’s Resolution season – the season of starting fresh and setting goals for 2014. I don’t have to tell you the...

Never before had I made a coaching move with this kind of impact. Never in my career had I felt such emotion. You’d think we had just one a championship. It wasn’t a buzzer-beating basket; it wasn’t a heave from half-court that made the place go nuts. In fact, it wasn’t...

“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyper-consciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced...

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Viktor Frankl (“Man’s Search for Meaning”)

Being average is easy. Letting your...

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn

A lot of people talk about this but I’m not sure everyone really gets it. Who do you spend the most time with? Are the top 3-5 people you talk to or work with everyday a positive or negative...

“The ability to start can separate you from 99% of people… when most people choose to sit and wait around. Most people let the uncertainty hold them back. The successful people choose to get started anyway.” – James Clear

I recently had a conversation with James Clear. He...

I recently connected with author and speaker Kary Oberbrunner. He’s become a good friend in a short amount of time and is a fantastic writer. In his book, The Deeper Path, Kary tells a story about Pablo Picasso and the importance of being prepared.

As the story goes, the legendary Spanish...