ATG 271 | You Don't Have to Be the Smartest Person in the Room, Just the Bravest: 3 Soundtracks for Entrepreneurs

You've already won before, so why aren't you using that success? In this episode, I'm sharing a soundtrack I've been teaching for years: win the way you've won before. I'll walk you through a real moment from a podcast interview where a host had presented at Oxford twice but still felt intimidated by writing a book, and how I helped him see he'd already done something harder. You'll learn why your brain remembers failures but forgets victories thanks to negativity bias, and why people trying ...

Have you ever felt like you're failing at something you used to be great at? You might be judging yourself with an old scorecard. In this episode, I'm breaking down a soundtrack that came from coaching people in my Remarkable You Community, especially a real estate agent who couldn't figure out why he was struggling until he realized he was now caring for his dad who has early onset dementia. He was judging his current performance against a version of himself from a completely different...

You've never met someone who accidentally got in shape, accidentally achieved financial freedom, or accidentally built an awesome marriage. In this episode, kicking off a new series based on my upcoming book, The Three Minute Mindset, I'm sharing one of my most powerful soundtracks: awesome is never accidental. Whether it's your health, your finances, your marriage, or your career, everything you care about that becomes awesome takes intentionality. I'll share why the danger isn't trying noth...

If you ski, try not to fall near the lift. Yard sales are hard enough without an audience. But from the lift you'll also see snowboarders hunting for trouble on purpose: rails, jumps and half pipes. In terrain parks, they don't call those things obstacles. They call them features. In this episode, I'm sharing the first soundtrack from my brand new book, The Three Minute Mindset: Obstacles are features. We'll talk about difficult coworkers, surprise bills (like an $8,000 air conditioner ...

Some tasks are dead ends. Some are dominos. In this episode, part of my four episode series on prioritization, I'm teaching you the final question to ask when your to do list feels overwhelming: does this task make other tasks possible? A domino task unlocks a chain reaction of other important work, while a dead end task just gets done and stops there. I'll walk you through a real example from my own week, comparing a low stakes lunch meeting to a high stakes speech description, and show you ...