Why “Hustle and Grind” is An Outdated Concept
The way most people work is from an ancient age. The dominant chant of the productive class these days is “hustle and grind”... ...The suggestion is that if you’re not working all the time you will never win. I’ve found that elite productivity comes via a cycling of intense periods of work balanced with profound periods of rest (this includes active rest; I explain all of this in my new book The Everyday Hero Manifesto which you can now order here.) Having said this, work matters. And workin...
17 Apr 20232min
How YOU Can Build Great Habits Today [5-Minute Episode]
Just because you failed to find victory around a new habit yesterday doesn’t mean you can’t do it today. You’re one day more experienced! I’m not sure what your “one best habit” will be yet please do remember the idea I’ve been teaching for over 25 years: a 1% improvement every day leads to a 30% improvement within a month and a 365% improvement in a year. Just do your best, each and every day. And rather than trying to transform your life too quickly and setting yourself up to fail, grow ...
14 Apr 20235min
When Things Seem Hard Trust Your Strength
As humans, we often feel weak and forget all our strength. As things fall apart—for the brave few who wish to turn trouble into triumph—there are gorgeous opportunities. These include: —the chance to leverage the mess to become a stronger and more serene human. —the chance to reinvent the way you (and your team) have always done things to operate in far better ways. —the chance to deliver richer value for more people (and by so doing enrich our world) —the chance to grow while your peers con...
13 Apr 20232min
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 quiet times of my own life’s largest heartbreaks, I retreated from the world [like a wounded animal retreats to the woods for healing]. And I remained in the wilderness—befriending the pain and allowing it to purify me as much as possible. If you’d lik...
12 Apr 20232min
Stop Listening to the Trolls
Ignoring the trolls starves the trolls. Releasing your poetry into the world is a threatening act to stuck people. You modelling possibility and demonstrating creative bravery brings up their acts of potential betrayed. It’s far easier to sling arrows at your art than step up their own courage. And produce work that wows. So don’t let the haters and naysayers get you down. If you'd like to significantly increase your happiness via real-world habits and practices that I’ve previously only ...
11 Apr 20233min
The Micro-Wins Advantage for Greatness
Your daily habits are creating your brighter future. 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 Tyson that when Mike was at the top of his game as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, he only did three things: trained, ate and slept. I explain my entire weekly planning process in my latest book The Everyda...
10 Apr 20232min
The #1 Way to Process Through Pain, Sorrow, and Other Challenging Emotions [7-Minute Episode]
Over the past number of years I’ve been a bit of a lone voice in the wilderness, evangelizing a message that emotional healing is absolutely essential to expert performance. Monumental leaders not only work to improve their Mindsets, they do the emotional healing required to purify their Heartsets so that the darker emotions of anger, shame, disappointment, regret, sadness and guilt leave them—allowing for maximum creativity, productivity, prosperity and human decency. If you'd like to si...
7 Apr 20237min
Legendary Leaders Are Always Servant Heroes
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 so much more information like this to keep you focused on your mission in these trying times along with science-backed insights and daily practices to increase your happiness, performance an...
6 Apr 20233min
