Good, Better, Best

You’re the driver of the bus, it’s all about personal responsibility.  Desire, vision and focus to move your bus in the right direction.  Fuel your ride with positive energy.  Invite people on your bus and share your vision for the road ahead.  Enthusiasm attracts more passengers and energizes them during the ride.  Love your passengers.  Have fun and enjoy the ride

Rome wasn't built in a day . Important work takes time. This expression functions as an injunction or plea for someone to be patient. For example, You can't expect her to finish this project in the time allotted; Rome wasn't built in a day .

You miss 100% of the Shots you don't take.  Many salespeople who intentionally avoid going for large sales because they’re afraid of blowing the big one. 

Pete Rose was a Hall of Fame baseball player known for his extraordinary passion and effort. The small percentage of entrepreneurs that wouldn’t even consider quitting are the true hustlers. They aren’t afraid to take a risk, no matter how high the odds are stacked against them.  Don’t worry about what others think of them, “Try Hards” love what they do.

In 1519, Captain Hernan Cortes landed in Veracruz to begin his great conquest.  Upon arriving, he gave the order to his men to burn the ships.  There is no turning back!  There is no plan “B”.  You must win or die trying.  If you want to take the island you must burn the ships.

What is your personal vision and purpose?  How do you hope to accomplish your vision?  What can you do that will support your vision and purpose? What do you do when sales dry up and you are ready to quit?  What do you do when you get scared and lose confidence?  You must understand your Why!

This expression comes from Mark Twain and the saying goes, “if you have to eat a frog, eat it first thing in the morning and if you have to eat two then eat the biggest one first.”  So do the hardest most difficult things first thing.   Stop Procrastinating!

In his book Find Your Yellow Tux, Jesse Cole, is the modern day. PT Barnum, Walt Disney, and MLB owner Bill Veeck. Jesse Cole is the owner of minor league baseball team the Savannah Bananas and he applies the lessons he learned from great showmen and businessmen to create a dynamic experience at his minor league baseball games.

Every time you want to put something off, don’t. Instead, start working on it.  Every time you work, start with the tasks that will contribute most to your success.  Every time you want to stop working and there is still 15% to go, don’t. Just deliver.  Every time you go to say no, I can’t, or the problem is, don’t. Be positive instead. 

Psychologists are finding that the one characteristic that is emerging as a significant predictor of success is not social intelligence, or IQ. It’s Grit. It’s been said that grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint. But what is Grit, how can it be nurtured?  “Grit is having stamina, Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, bu...

Striving for continuous personal improvement.

Learn how to do it better than anyone has ever done it before.  

Greek Mythology, Sisyphus was the king of Ephyra, also known as Corinth.  He was punished, by Zeus, for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it come back to hit him, repeating this action for eternity.  Tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore described as Sisyphean.  We tend to complain during trials,...

It's Your Ship summarizes an extraordinary model of efficiency, teamwork, and multifaceted leadership.

Coaches are mentors that work hard at exposing critical errors that affect performance by properly identifying and correcting bad habits.  This process requires constant attention and a willingness to learn.  Musicians, athletes, pastors, and businessmen are constantly receiving coaching but what about teachers?  Everybody needs coaching!

Develop a system that satisfies and excites those around you so that they naturally and consistently  promote your business for you through word of mouth.

If you can say Good then you are still alive, so get up, dust off, reload, recalibrate, re-engage and go out on the attack.  Get after it! Go on the Warpath And Get Some.   ·A leader is only as good as the team behind them.   A leader is entirely responsible for their team's actions so that when facing failure, a leader must take  extreme responsibility.

You can't sleep.  Broke people sleep.   You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.

My dad taught me about business and sales when I was 16 working at baseball card conventions and our sports card memorabilia shop.  This episode is a summary of lessons from each chapter of Good, Better, Best that I learned at Tony Jaime Baseball Cards.

Failure is part of life but it doesn't have to define you if you learn and grow from your trials.

Improving through small marginal gains.

There is no finish line.  Learn how to create a lifelong legacy of reaching and maintaining a high level of success.

Never give up because life is a competition!  Learn how to compete in the game of lie so that you can contend against trials and obstacles.

Train in a way to get the right results by training correctly.