Critics Are Frustrated Dreamers
If unprepared, the stone-throwing of the critics and cynics can take you down. The reality is that the very nature of being a visionary and world-changer during dark days means you’ll attract ridicule, jealousy and condemnation. The more you own your power and develop the exceptional confidence that comes with making your fantasies real, the bigger your dreams will get. And when that happens, even more people will think you’re weird. And foolish. And wrong. Those who condemn you are locked...
5 Nov 20212min
Don't Be So Available [a Potent Time Mastery Tactic]
The headliners go dark a lot. They spend long stretches of time in solitude, monomaniacally focused on the masterwork they know will turn their field on its head. They don’t give everyone their phone numbers and refuse to pick up every call. They set up their “Menlo Park Workspace” and stay free of technological distraction so their brains drop into “flow state”, presenting them with the disruptive and visionary ideas that allow them to become legendary. If you want to encode Robin Sharma'...
4 Nov 20215min
1 Rule of Peak Productivity and Creative Mastery
Too many of us are overscheduled, overconnected and overstimulated by all the noise, interruptions and complexity of current society. The cost of this way of operating? You’ll arrive at the last hour of your final day and realize you spent your highest potential on your lowest leverage activities. The heavyweights play a very different game. The world's most successful people all run their days under completely different mindsets and rituals than those who get trapped in the groove of “bein...
3 Nov 20212min
How Nelson Mandela Leveraged Compassion to Lead the World
Nelson Mandela is one of the greatest influences of my life. The visit to his prison cell on Robben Island a few years ago changed my life. It hurt my heart to see a man as great as Nelson Mandela have to sleep on a cold floor for so many of his finest years. It made me pause to stand in the limestone quarry where he would work in the dust (that damaged his lungs) and toil in the glare (that impaired his eyes). It made me stop to see the courtyard where he would walk for exercise and the g...
2 Nov 20215min
We Are Born Into Brilliance
From the moment we are born, the world begins to brainwash [and heartwash] us. ...into believing that if we dare we will fall. ...into thinking that we are not cut from a cloth that will allow us to realize astonishing feats and handcraft astounding lives. ...into accepting drudgery and stress and ordinary and difficulty as necessary parts of our daily life [what a lie!]. The entire body of work behind genius and glorious achievement stands as testimony to so-called “ordinary” people who ...
1 Nov 20211min
Keep Perspective as You Navigate a Challenging Time
We live on a small planet in just one of a vast array of galaxies in a gigantic universe. And you and I are just one of billions of people here. Are the problems we face as we walk through our days really so big? A little dose of perspective makes life easier to manage. A question I sometimes ask myself when I’m facing a struggle is this one: “will this matter a year from now?” If not, I move on – fast. Another great question to share with your team at work or your family at home is “has some...
29 Okt 20212min
Your Best Insights Are Incubating
The way most people work is from an ancient age. The idea that working longer and harder makes you more productive and better is outdated. It comes from the era when most workers toiled on a factory line. And by putting in more hours they would create more products. For creative professionals versus manual laborers, you get rewarded—not by the length of time you put in but by the degree of mastery that you put out. As a matter of fact, for those in industries that must deliver world-class...
28 Okt 20212min
The Business of Business
The kindest person in the room wins. I truly have found that encouraging and elevating others is the greatest gift you can give yourself. I know it seems counterintuitive. And yet I’ve experienced this insight as truth. [Not that I’m anyone special or anything]. Just a blue collar worker toiling in the service of people so they own their native glory, perform at their peak and construct a life that dazzles them at the end. If you want to encode Robin Sharma's finest methods and strategies&nbs...
27 Okt 20213min
