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You Can Get Out When You Puke — Achieving Greatness — Part Four

You Can Get Out When You Puke — Achieving Greatness — Part Four

Last week, we talked about the larger lesson and how your relationship to fear and discomfort is the answer to achieving greatness. Let me repeat. Your relationship to fear and discomfort is the answer. In other words, whatever you’re doing, whatever project, initiative, business, partnership, etc. Whatever it is, greatness only happens when you want…

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You Can Get Out When You Puke — The Discomfort Question — Part Three — Clear and Open

You Can Get Out When You Puke — The Discomfort Question — Part Three

Now, we’re going to get granular about embracing discomfort and how knowing what that entails helps you achieve greatness. In part one of this series, I talked about the tortures of my early springboard diving career and promised I’d tell you more scary things about it. Every diver faces a very specific moment of fear…

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You Can Get Out When You Puke — Utilizing Discomfort — Part One — Clear and Open

You Can Get Out When You Puke — Utilizing Discomfort — Part One

“You can get out when you puke.” We all know that growth requires discomfort, but many people never realize their potential because they don’t actually understand what is meant by discomfort, and so fail to embrace it. To solve this problem and empower you to get there, we’re going to go into detail about what…

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The Practice of Gratitude - Happy Thanksgiving - Clear and Open

The Practice of Gratitude

I sincerely hope you read this blog post to the end. I’m going to give you a practice that takes zero time and radically improves your life. At least for us Americans, Thanksgiving is upon us, and I wish you a great one if you celebrate it. And I’d like to make a teaching moment…

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You Do It, Too – Part One – Self-Improvement and Perspective — Clear and Open

You Do It, Too – Part One – Self-Improvement and Perspective

This series may upset you. Don’t read it unless you want to be challenged to be better, and to embrace self-improvement in both your personal and professional worlds. Part of you is not going to like this one bit. In the United States, there is probably more complaining about politicians than ever before. On one…

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Own It – The Real Purpose of Business Systems – Part Four

Own It – The Real Purpose of Business Systems – Part Four

Up to this point in the Own It series, we’ve discussed the importance of responsibility and the employee-manager dynamic. Now we look at business systems and where they fit into this great big business machine. The fundamental misinterpretation of systemization is that “systems are the solution.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Systems are…

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