One of the most inspirational stories I have ever seen took place last week in Los Angeles. Basketball’s L.A. Lakers and Andre Ingram took the world by storm when Ingram’s incredible story of perseverance and of never giving up was put on full display. Andre Ingram was never a first-round draft pick with a paycheck in the millions…
Category Archives: Personal Growth
Reading great books and then applying the key information that I learned from each book has completely changed my life. When I look back over the course of my life, some of the biggest breakthroughs I’ve ever experienced started because of a particular book I was reading at the time. In my travels all over…
The inability to decrease stress is one of the biggest factors holding people back from creating transformational breakthroughs in both their personal and professional lives. If you don’t know how to handle stress, it could become the factor that, at first, keeps you from performing at your absolute best, and ultimately — if not addressed…
One of the most important things that you can do to ensure that you have a positive and successful day is to become obsessed with how you spend your pre-work morning hours. Unfortunately, many people never take the time to analyze their morning routine. A typical morning for most consists of picking up the phone right…
If I had to pick just one quality and characteristic I was able to take away from the game of football that greatly impacted my life as an entrepreneur, it would be mental toughness, without a doubt. Playing the game of football since I was a little kid and then eventually getting the wonderful opportunity…
A survey from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that close to half of all working adults say that their job negatively affects their life. And that certainly resonates: It’s easier now more than ever to get stressed out and adopt unhealthy habits into our everyday lives. What’s more, the biggest problem about…
Nothing holds people back from tapping into their full potential and becoming the best version of themselves more than fear. Fear shatters dreams, prevents organizations from achieving major breakthroughs and is the root cause as to why so many end up going to their grave with all of their talents, hopes and wishes still unexpressed….
A lot of people like to think that there is some secret formula to achieving extraordinary levels of success and breaking free from mediocrity, but there really isn’t. The one and only secret to crushing your goals and experiencing the success that you always dreamed of is to take relentless, persistent and massive action every single…
Just as happens with a lot of things in life, we all have choices to make regarding how we live. Are we going to choose to let our fears overtake us and wallow in our failures? Or, are we going to rise above these things and live a faith-filled life? By “faith-filled life,” I mean…
The inability to overcome resistance prevents many people from pursuing a dream they are passionate about. Have you ever been in the situation where you really wanted to get something important done but all of a sudden your internal dialogue took over and you ended up talking yourself out of actually doing it? If I…
My one and only NFL game may as well have been my own personal Super Bowl. I remember that evening in August 2010 at Qualcomm Stadium in California, playing the San Diego Chargers as though it was yesterday: the fresh smell of the wet dirt and the long grass. The taste of iron and salt in my mouth ….
The most important decision you can ever make is to become your own CEO. I’m talking about taking complete responsibility for your life and not blaming others or your circumstances for past results or where you are right now. It’s mindboggling to me how someone can go year after year, month after month, day after day complaining…
There is absolutely no shortage of time-management practices and experts out there promising to increase your productivity levels. And, certainly, we all aspire to be more productive, feel more accomplished and ultimately achieve greater success than ever before. Unfortunately, though, simply wanting these things or reading a time-management book by a favorite author is a small part of…
Identifying key questions to ask yourself for growth can drastically transform your life in many amazing ways. Doing this also encourages you to pause and think more deeply. What’s more, asking the right questions stimulates creative thinking that can inch you that much closer to experiencing a major breakthrough. Such questioning has been monumental in…