Motivation Minute

The Pressure Principle: Handle Stress, Harness Energy, and Perform When it Counts (Dave Alfred)

- Move out of your comfort zone to embrace the “ugly zone”

- Live like a skateboarder.  Celebrate your …

Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success (Matthew Syed)

-  There is no fast-track to success.  Iterative growth and 10K hours experience is the key.

-  Dedication is the …

-  Wise entrepreneurs are not purely risk takers - they’re risk managers

-  Taking fewer, more calculated risks is a safer way to grow

-  Master minimalism daily to wisely steward money in your busin…

Leaders Eat Last (Simon Sinek)

-  Leadership should be about lives - not numbers!

-  Tension is common between leaders and followers, often causing an authority vs. information tug-of-war

-  Keep rel…

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (John Maxwell)

-  Leadership potential depends on how much you invest in developing your character

-  Momentum is the great exaggerator and enables average teams…

The Icarus Deception - How High Will You Fly? (Seth Godin)

-  Problems are waiting for you to solve them - so take responsibility before it’s  given to you

-  Perfectionism is lack of confidence.  Gr…

Who’s Got Your Back? (Keith Ferrazzi)

-  Cultivate “lifeline relationships” with at least 3 mentors/friends

-  Generosity, vulnerability, accountability, and honesty are key ingredients to solid ment…

Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

-  Our thought process involves two competing systems: emotions vs. logic

-  Falling prey to just emotions can create too narrow a frame of reference

-  Being…

The Power of Positive Thinking (Norman Vincent Peale)

• We have full control over how we view life’s ups and downs
• To earn the attention and admiration of others, intentionally build them up to become…

Flow (The Psychology of Optimal Experience)

• Flow results from the simultaneous convergence of skill and challenge
• Being relaxed fails to produce long-term happiness.  But being stretched in strong f…

Failing Forward (John Maxwell)

• The difference between average people and achievers is how they perceive and respond to failure
• Failure isn’t so bad if it doesn’t attack the heart.  Success is all ri…

12 Rules for Life (Jordan Peterson)

Our Top 3 Rules

• Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
• Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
• Pursue…

Back of the Napkin (Dan Roam)

• Visual thinking enables you to focus on making the complex understandable
• Use the right tool for the question.  e.g. for who/what a portrait, for when a timeline, etc.
• …

Four Seconds (Peter Bregman)

• Four seconds is all it takes to stop, assess the situation, and act strategically moving forward
• Taking a few moments to reevaluate expectations can improve dynamics aro…

Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)

• The most common way we think irrationally is making relative vs. quantitative comparisons
• Free items give us an irrational sense of excitement, since there is no …

Deep Work (Cal Newport)

• Pushing our cognitive abilities to the limit is a rare and valuable skill
• Frequently switching between deep and shallow tasks is more inefficient than it seems
• Choosing bored…

The Intelligent Investor (Benjamin Graham)

• Sell to optimists.  Buy from pessimists.
• Popular stocks tend to be overvalued.  Leaning towards more “boring” stocks can produce more long-term consistent …

Made in America (Sam Walton)

• Lean teams stretch a long way, especially when leaders work roles at all levels of the chain
• Humility as a leader is key to keeping ahead of competition and building rel…

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth (John Maxwell)

• Focus on growth over goals.  Grow through life as opposed to just going through
• Feeling tension is an essential ingredient in the growth process
• You c…

The End of Average (Todd Rose)

• When focused on average users, systems become stacked against everyone
• We all seek to be better than average, but average people don’t exist
• We all walk the road less …