UPWIRE®: Unlocking Your True Potential

The brain loves big, complicated, later and never.  Exceptional leaders and teams choose the exact opposite: breakthroughs and rules that are small, simple, now and next.

In this UPWIRE, we'll look …

The brain is hard-wired to be stuck in a defensive "me-first" mode.  It despises criticism and over emphasizes every perceived slight, ultimately leading to artificial roadblocks to your (and your te…

The brain is hard-wired to shrink, not soar. But inside each of us is a quiet lifelong beckoning call which will awaken the courage to face uncertainty, grow and achieve the "impossible."

In this ep…

By hard-wired human nature, the brain seeks to be out of touch.  Instead of engaging with and achieving your best possible future, the brain much prefers the comfort of mindless repetition, distracti…

The brain is largely a forgetting machine, and in today's fast-paced world, it's primed to forget what matters most faster than ever!

In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll take a look at how you can stru…

To the brain, momentum is not natural.  Instead, it prefers interruptions, distractions or anything gives the illusion of activity or movement: brain circuits which are firing frequently but not forw…

The brain loves to keep hundreds of top priorities actively floating around.  The problem is the goal traffic jam which inevitably results, burning valuable mental energy and leading to reduced perfo…

The brain is hard-wired to run from challenges (real or imaginary), while barely walking toward opportunities, no matter how amazing.

In part one of this episode of UPWIRE, we'll learn how to impleme…

The brain gets hijacked by many forms of competition.  Fortunately, so does almost everyone else's brain.

In this podcast, we'll look at how competition negatively impacts our growth, and learn some …

By instinct, the brain waits for everyone else to change.

If we want to UPWIRE our lives, we must lead by example, go first, test better ways forward-upward and not wait for others. 

In this podcast,…

The brain is largely lost in its own labyrinth of vagueness and will choose to stay there unless you're willing to lead it out of the shadows.

In this podcast, we'll learn the power of framing, and h…

Left to its own devices, the brain is a go-second machine, willing to happily follow someone else. The problem, of course, is that if we're always ready to follow, how will we ever achieve our bigges…

Clarity helps the brain move out of the blur and aim at what matters most.

In part two of this podcast, we'll look at some additional techniques we can use to hack human nature and gain instant clari…

In all aspects of our lives, chaos (either real or invented by our brains) can quickly destroy focus, leave us without direction and derail us from achieving the future we want.

In part one of this p…

The brain loves "tomorrow", "later" or "never."  It constantly imagines itself far into some vague but wonderful future.  Unless you learn to masterfully guide your brain, it doesn't do much to make …

By hard-wired human nature, the brain magnifies every single negative small thing in life, consuming vast amounts of time and energy.

In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll learn how we can quickly hack hu…

Your brain is the biggest barrier between where you are and where you want to be.  It easily becomes overloaded with useless distractions, negative emotions and excess "baggage."

In this episode of U…

The brain always thinks there's a big puzzle somewhere which makes sense of everything--if only it could find all the pieces.  Waiting to see and understand all the pieces is what keeps many of us fr…

Left to its own devices, the brain loves to get lost in the blur.  The brain mistakes motion for work that actually matters, confusing hyper-activity with meaningful progress.

In this episode of UPWI…