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Send us Fan Mail 95% Is Noise, 5% Is Mission Critical by Dr. Price Pritchett “There's a zillion other little tactics that one can do. 95% of the stuff is noise. It's helpful, maybe, maybe even unhelpful, but 5% is mission critical. That's the mission critical.  Trust the method. Trust the method. Just do that. People over complicate this.”  -Dr. Price Pritchett https://www.pritchett...

Send us Fan Mail Buffet And Munger Inner Scorecard:  They Focused On Living Up To Their Own Exacting Standards by William Green From the book “Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life” by William Green: “But what resonated most profoundly for Pabrai was the sense that Buffett was true to himself—that he lived in extraordinary alignment with his own pe...

Send us Fan Mail Which Moments From Your Past Are You Identifying Yourself With? Which Moments From Your Past Are You Using As A Template For Your Future? by Dr. Nate Zinsser  “Which moments from your past Are you identifying yourself with, which moments from your past are you using as a sort of template for your future?  We all have a vast stock of memories, but I think we have to be selective ab...

Send us Fan Mail How Does This Fit Into Me Going 10x? by Dan Sullivan “If your brain has excepted a 10x framework for looking at everything in your life, everything comes up to be examined.  All you have to do say is:  How does this fit into me going 10x?”  -Dan Sullivan Dan Sullivan has spent five decades helping ambitious entrepreneurs thrive in both their professional and personal lives. https:...

Send us Fan Mail Act As If, Think As If by Gary Marshall, author of The Charisma Rules The Charisma Rules book https://a.co/d/0bQhtr1N Comment below with your number-one takeaway. Listen now on YouTube, Spotify or iTunes. Please like, share and subscribe if you find it useful! I am a high-performance specialist and 7x author who helps successful people dramatically elevate their performance and ac...

Send us Fan Mail If You Act Confident People Will Believe You Are Competent—Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer  “Confidence is often confused with competence.   If you act confidently, people will believe you are competent even when they have data to suggest that you are not.” -Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer The 7 Rules of Power book https://a.co/d/04TwWpSP Comment below with your number-one takeaway. Listen now on YouTube...

Send us Fan Mail Am I Being The Person That I Want To Be Right Now?—Dr. Marshall Goldsmith  “This came from my friend Carol Kauffman, she started the Harvard Institute for coaching. She taught me one thing. Do you know those 400 books that I read?  If you just do this one thing that she taught me, you can skip the 400 books and jump ahead.  One question that you ask yourself over and over again as...

Send us Fan Mail Act As If Your Success Is For Certain—Dr. Price Pritchett Act as if your success is for certain.  Instead of holding back because you don’t have hard proof that you can make a quantum leap, see if you end up with evidence proving you can’t . Just make the jump.  Act as if your success is guaranteed.  And then see which set of ideas you should believe in. Price Pritchett The Quantu...

Send us Fan Mail Set Your Big Goal, Write Down Three To Five Things You Can Do, Start Executing—Dr. Price Pritchett Set your big goal, write down three to five things you can do right now that close the distance between you and the goal, and start executing. Execute. Price Pritchett The Quantum Leap Strategy book https://a.co/d/08wkNJMP Comment below with your number-one takeaway. Listen now on Yo...

Send us Fan Mail The Best Strategy In Almost Any Case Is To Find A Role Model by Tony Robbins  “I’ll tell you now that the best strategy in almost any case is to find a role-model, someone who’s already getting the results you want, and then tap into their knowledge. Learn what they’re doing, what their core beliefs are, and how they think. Not only will this make you more effective, it will also...

Send us Fan Mail Zach Osterman—The Blueprint: How Cignetti Shocked College Football Key Takeaways on Curt Cignetti’s Leadership  -Focus solely on what’s next and what matters -Keep what is important and shave away anything that’s not -Avoid the temptation to equate quantity to quality  -Identify quickly what is drag and not important  -How you do one thing is how you do everything  -Be a creature...

Send us Fan Mail 10 Things You Would Do If You Weren’t Afraid by Steve Chandler  From the book “Reinventing Yourself” by Steve Chandler: “Go off by yourself somewhere and sit down with a spiral notebook. (Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino says the spiral notebook is the most high-tech invention of our lifetime because you can take it anywhere, you don’t need an electrical outlet or batteries, and you ca...

Send us Fan Mail Your Top 10 by Dr. Nate Zinsser  From the book “The Confident Mind” by Dr. Nate Zinsser: “Get out a blank piece of paper, put “My Top Ten” at the top of the page, and write out a list of ten accomplishments in your chosen field. If you’re a competitive athlete write down the ten best moments playing your sport—games or races won, goals scored, and so on. If you’re a musician, writ...

Send us Fan Mail Is This Thought Helping Me Or Hurting Me? by Jack Canfield  “You want to be constantly asking yourself:  “Is this thought helping me or hurting me?  Is it getting me closer to where I want to go, or is it taking me farther away?  Is it motivating me to action, or is it blocking me with fear and self-doubt?”.   You have to learn to challenge and talk back to the thoughts that are n...

Send us Fan Mail Speak Impeccably: All My Words Are Intended To Uplift Myself And The People Around Me by Jack Canfield  “Speak impeccably.  This is a concept I got from Did Miguel Ruiz and The Four Agreements book. Speaking impeccably means that you don’t put yourself down for starters. You don’t put anyone else down. You don’t gossip. You don’t spread rumors. You’re not sarcastic, sarcasm is fai...

Send us Fan Mail $20 Million Dollar Thinking: If Someone Offered Me $20 Million Dollars To Do X, How Would I Act? by Gary Marshall “Imagine you’re at a social gathering and someone said to you, “I’ll give you $20 million if you go and introduce yourself to that person and start a conversation with them”. Assume this person is a Billionaire and is dead serious. Assume they are trying to demonstrate...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine You Were Fired Today As The CEO Of Your Life And The Best In The World Was Brought In To Take Over by Brian Cain “There is a simple formula for success: do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.  Tom Brady‘s advice:  find out what’s good and do more good and less bad and you’ll have a great career.   The most successful athletes, coaches, CEOs that I’ve been around,...

Send us Fan Mail The Rampage of Appreciation by Jack Canfield “The Rampage of Appreciation is something I learned from Esther and Jerry Hicks.   You take 5 minutes walking around your house, your hotel room, wherever you might be and just start appreciating everything.   The people who made the television, the flowers, a roof over your head, fresh water, clothes on, food to eat, indoor plumbing, e...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine There Was A Film Crew That Followed You Around All Day Every Day by Brian Cain “Imagine there was a film crew that followed you around all day every day.  Documenting where your time goes. Documenting what you eliminate. Documenting what you said yes and what you say no to. Documenting how you show up in your energy, your work, and your love.   Would you want that film to...

Send us Fan Mail Relentless Solution Focus by Dr. Jason Selk Relentless Solution Focus (RSF) is simply defined as within 60 seconds, replacing all negative thoughts with solution-focused thinking. The RSF Billion Dollar Question:  “What is one thing you can do right now to make this better?” “Keep moving forward. When you have problems, keep moving forward. Stay in the fight. Don’t ever let those...

Send us Fan Mail Chief Erich Becker—Leadership and Life Lessons From The Chief of Ocean City Beach Patrol One of the best interviews from almost 200 episodes of the show! Key Takeaways  -Start your day with an attitude of gratitude  -Set clear expectations and standards with all of your team -Always listen to people first  -If you’re going to do it, do it right or don’t do it all  Erich Becker is...

Send us Fan Mail The 1/50 Law:  One Action Creates 50-100% Of Your Results “Take a simple idea and take it seriously.” -Charlie Munger The 50x Question:  What is the ONE thing I can do that will get me 50 to 100% of my desired results?  The 1/50 Law 1.  The 80/20 principle reveals that a minority of actions generate the majority of results.  20% of your efforts produce 80% of your results. 2.  Whe...

Send us Fan Mail The Dream Team Audit™—How To Make The Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make A top service provider might cost a little more, but the return on investment will be tremendous in terms of:  1.  Better results.  2.  Time saved.   3.  Reduced unnecessary stress. The Mediocrity Tax™ 1.  Mediocre results. 2.  Wasted time. 3.  Unnecessary stress. Your Dream Team: ⭐️1. Doctor 2. Medic...

Send us Fan Mail I Am The Cause  Take 100% Responsibility for everything that happens with your team, your organization and your life. As a leader, your results organizational results and your people are your mirror.  They are the reflection of you as a leader.  The mirror never lies. Their failure is your feedback. Your life and results are your mirror. They are a reflection of all your thoughts...

Send us Fan Mail Navy SEAL Stew Smith: How To Build Elite Fitness & Mental Toughness For Anything Life Throws At You “We all could be tactical athletes.  Your fitness can be the difference between living or dying or saving a friend.”  -Stew Smith, ret. Navy SEAL One of my all-time favorite episodes in five years of the show! Key Takeaways  1.  Your fitness will determine whether you are an ass...