Why Top Producers, Elite Athletes, and Superstar CEOs Embrace "Mundanity"
The best influencers (and elite athletes, artists and inventors) are boring. They are all about Mundanity: repeating the same few habits every single day (whether they feel like performing them or not) until these consistent practices incrementally morph into a tsunami of victory. Success lies in a masterful consistency around the fundamentals (please read that thrice). Don’t complicate things. Just repeat a few routines staggeringly well. I recall learning from the excellent documentary Tyso...
9 Feb 20232min
How Billionaires Do It
To become a billionaire help a billion people lead greater lives. Income always follows impact. It’s been absolutely fascinating mentoring so many ultra-high-net-worth clients for the past two decades. I must share: they are not of a different universe than you nor do they possess talents you don’t have. Not at all. Many are actually fairly ordinary. And have come from hard backgrounds (sometimes this factor actually serves them well as they have something to prove to the world; which mak...
8 Feb 20232min
Mastery Is a Process [Not An Event]
The true reward for masterwork isn’t public appreciation but who you became in the process of creating the output. Too often we spend our best days running hard to chase an imaginary pot of gold on a far away horizon when the wealth we really need is already in our lives, right in front of us. …like rich connections with family. …like work that serves and causes you to grow. …like friends that stand with you in adversity. …like good books, great films and top music. …like sunrises, sunsets ...
7 Feb 20232min
Persistency Is the DNA of Legendary Performance
Mastery is a process, not an event. It’s so easy to be hypnotized by society into thinking that the superstars among us woke up one day rejoicing in their newfound heightened state of greatness. Pure myth. Study Da Vinci and Buffet, Beethoven and Serena Williams, Kobe and Nikola Tesla and you’ll see that their unusually excellent performance was caused by their uncommon devotion to a journey. ...Their genius was not natural but constructed. ...Their luminosity wasn’t inborn. It was made. ......
6 Feb 20233min
The Highest Impact Leaders Are All Contrarians [6-Minute Episode]
The highest impact leaders all have one trait in common: they are extreme contrarians. They were seen by the majority as radicals, misfits and eccentrics. They saw what most see and thought what few think. They rejected the mass hypnosis and schooled brainwashing of society. That says that geniuses are cut from a different cloth, that your ethical ambitions should be suppressed and that your life needs to be reasonable. Makes me think of the words of George Bernard Shaw who wrote: “The reas...
3 Feb 20236min
One Common Characteristic of All Great Entreprenuers
The superstars I work with are wizards of making things happen. The reality is that the majority moves slowly. It takes ages for them to complete a project and week upon week to get important things done. Zero judgment here. Just reporting. And this way of being is because most people are exhausted. And bored [so they have no raging fire to execute, in their souls]. The A-Players are diametrically different. They rise early, move swiftly and deliver beautifully. I’ve handcrafted an absolu...
2 Feb 20232min
8 Top Rules to Sleep Deeply
The key to becoming masterful at rising early lives in discovering how the pros sleep deeply. Rejuvenating sleep isn’t a luxury—it’s an absolute necessity. Science says you should sleep 7-8 hours a night for excellent health, strong productivity, and a long life. Anything less significantly increases all-cause mortality. [That just means you’ll probably die earlier]. That roughly means sleep at 10pm and awaken at 5AM. To win the battle of the bed. To put mind over mattress. To own your ...
1 Feb 20232min
Critics Are Degenerated Dreamers
The highest impact leaders all have one trait in common: they are extreme contrarians. They were seen by the majority as radicals, misfits and eccentrics. They saw what most see and thought what few think. They rejected the mass hypnosis and schooled brainwashing of society. That says that geniuses are cut from a different cloth, that your ethical ambitions should be suppressed and that your life needs to be reasonable. Makes me think of the words of George Bernard Shaw who wrote: “The re...
31 Jan 20233min
