Stop comparing yourself to others. It’s a great way to destroy confidence and diminish performance. The real game to play is to get better than yesterday’s self. Why dilute your energy comparing yourself to others when the real work is materializing the genius within you. There’s only one you on the planet today. You’ve been built to dazzle. And designed to inspire.

To triumph in these times you really must become a contrarian and process events through a completely different operating system than the majority uses. Tactically this means: "stick to your knitting” and stay ultra-concentrated only on those pursuits within your control (deepening personal mastery, forging even better family unity and making your masterpieces) versus worrying about things you cannot control (which is a recipe for dramatic misery).

Developing the skill of raising children who are authentic, loving, creative, ethical and excellent not only makes your future exponentially happier, you'll also make the world vastly better [as it's the next generation that will run the planet]. In this episode, I'll walk you through what recent research confirms is the #1 family ritual to guarantee the academic and life success of your children. 

In this world where so few of us are comfortable being alone, being in the wilderness, in this world where almost everywhere you go there’s technology and there’s noise and there’s complexity. Almost everywhere you go people want to talk, talk, talk, talk. Just imagine what your life would be like as a creative person, as a leader, as a productive person, as a producer, as a human being if you installed a weekly ritual of going for a walk in the woods. To me, it’s like a tonic from toxicity.

There can be no success without failure. It's just part of the process. The companies and people who have reached the heights of success are the same ones who have failed the most. You need to fail to win. And the faster you fail, the more quickly you’ll learn precisely what you need to do to win.  So Fail Fast. Outfail the competition. Outfail the person you once were.

When people feel appreciated, they shine.Although I see a positive shift as more people in business embrace the ideal of monomaniacal value creation and a career built on authentic contribution [business used to be only about money versus craft, community and acute service to humanity], some still feel that if they give a lot, they'll lose too much.And so I've recorded this podcast episode called How to Stop Being Used. It's pretty short but pretty valuable for you as a Leader Without a Title, A-Player and world-lifter.

The majority are stuck in scarcity. They don’t give much to their organizations nor to their customers. And so their people never fall in love with them—and their brands.⁣⁣Being a real leader is about what you GIVE versus what you get. In today's episode, I’ll invite you to play with a potent insight on shifting from scarcity to leadership.

Reading a book is having a conversation with the author. And as you know, we are transformed by our conversations. 

Transcending what terrifies you and finding freedom from fear is one of the primary pursuits of people rising to world-class, both in their work and within their personal lives.We are not born into limitation. We are taught to doubt, educated to make excuses and trained to fear. In today's episode, I share one workaround to turn limitation into freedom and tiny thinking into boundless belief in your potential, your talents and the fantastic future that destiny has in store for you.

Make Mastery a non-negotiable standard. Commit to excellence not only for your own life, but to elevate the world at the same time.  Do this and life will reward your service.