Magical Thinking Doesn't Build Monuments
Too many good people want the rewards of world-class yet don't want to do the work that world-class requires. Magical thinking doesn't build a monument. Heroic focus, discipline, devotion and consistent effort does. The great masters all think long-term, develop rigorous patience to train daily on their skillset and move toward their most difficult projects, for there is where legendary lives. [It’s easy to blame conditions for anything you lack yet Leadership involves a good look in ...
25 Elo 20223min
The Obsession of Remarkable Entrepreneurs [In Times of Deep Change]
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 and services that you offer. So you become an exceptional—and unrelenting—force of good, on this tiny planet you and I inhabit. If you'd like to significantly increase your happiness via real-world habits and practices that I’ve previously only shared with many of the world’s most successful people including business titans, sports...
24 Elo 20222min
Practice the "Polite No"
The secret of mastery (arguably) lives in a single word. Minimalism. I’ve been teaching this for two decades. Saying that “minimalism isn’t just a design vibe. It’s a lifestyle.” Encouraging human beings in fiery pursuit of their private Mount Everests to do less to achieve more. …To stop chasing complexity and obsess with simplicity. …To reject maximalism and filling their days with too many activities [and their closets with too many things]. Beethoven and Earhart, Ali and Mandela, Wy...
23 Elo 20222min
5 Mantras for Mindset Recalibration [An Exercise You Can Do Today]
Words mean what words say. Legendary leaders and movement makers of the past have spellbound their followers by deploying the language of hope. And employing the vocabulary of possibility. And yet in our current culture, too many potentially great people are super sloppy with the words they use. ...if something is good they call it “dope”. ...if something is cool they call it “sick”. ...if you deliver a great performance they’ll say “you murdered it”. Yet dope and sick and murder are ba...
22 Elo 20223min
Battleproof Elite Health + Get Ultra-Fit to WIN [10-Minute Episode]
While the majority does long for pure success, real greatness and their place at the table of genius, they refuse to install the beliefs, run the routines, do the work and live the days that would make so much of their readily observable reality. Getting into world-class physical condition will help you outperform your industry peers and produce outright magic in your field. if you'd like to significantly increase your happiness via real-world habits and practices that I’ve previously onl...
19 Elo 202211min
Extraordinary Leaders Understand That Integrity Is Everything
Extraordinary leaders are honest—understanding that integrity is everything and that a 20-year good reputation could be lost in 20 seconds of poor judgement. They are candid and communicate truthfully. What you see is who they are. This makes them powerful, influential and hard to beat. Here’s the good news: you can become one of these leaders. By leading without a title. By using each day as a platform for leadership practice. By upgrading your dedication to authentic winning. If you’d like...
18 Elo 20222min
Insights to Help You Insulate Your Positivity Amid the Turbulence
Positivity is not flaky. Oh, it certainly isn’t. ...The great master Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearly Earring was made while this human was in a state of inspiration, not negativity, ...JFK’s dream to place a person on the moon was born of hope, not defeatism and victimhood. ...Hedy Lamarr’s invention of signal hopping, the basis of all current wireless communication, was produced in a flight of high faith, rather than in a state of apathy and dark discouragement. Greatness—in your productivity, ...
17 Elo 20224min
Recalibrate Your Ecosystem to Release Magic Into Your Field
Reorder your ecosystem so space gets created for your inner magician to show up. Your environment influences your ability to unlock the door that is the entrance into the magic that life has in store for you. [The universe really does want you to win, you know? You just have to start doing the growth required to get out of your own way]. Starting your day checking emails or peeking into your texts or watching the news, allowing your workspaces [and lifespaces] to be messy and sloppy, and be...
16 Elo 20222min
