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Calm On Command™:  The 60-Second Reset Protocol 

1.  Breathe slow (Biological Switch) 
-4–6 breathing 
-Physiological sigh
-The Science—Vagus nerve activation and Parasympathetic nervous system activation 
-Breathing changes → vagus nerve signals safety → parasympathetic system restores calm everywhere.

2.  Choose calm (Mental Switch) 
-Mental chalkboard
-Stay In The Circle
-3 Phrases:  I can handle it, Compared to what?, Relentless solution focus
-The Science—Activates calming physiology:  Lowers cortisol and activates parasympathetic calm.

3.  Do one thing (Behavioral Switch) 
-Ask for help (A key component of mental toughness)
-Read
-Serve
-Exercise (walk, jumping jacks)
-An object in motion stays in motion
-It’s the start that stops most people
-All fear is in the beginning
-The Science—Simple actions reduce stress by restoring control and predictability. 

Relentless Solution Focus by Dr Jason Selk
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Learned Excellence by Dr. Eric Potterat 
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The Respect Code™: The 7 Contrarian Habits of the Most Respected Person in the Room

The Respect Code™: The 7 Contrarian Habits of the Most Respected Person in the Room
1.  Be the earliest person you know.
2.  Be your word. 
3.  Get back to people faster.  
4.  Always do a little extra (more than it is expected). 
5.  Be brief (don’t waste words).
6.  Be the most positive and polite person you know. 
7.  Be the most brutally honest person you know.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”  -Aristotle

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The Five Laws of OVER-Communication™️:  How the World’s Most Effective Leaders Actually Get Things Done—SIMPLIFIED 

1.  The Law of 90/10:  Listen 90% of the time, talk 10%.  You already know what you know, you need to know what THEY know.  Additionally, the more you ramble on, the less respect you get.

“If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this:  Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”  -Dr. Stephen R. Covey

2.  The Law of The Standard:  Tell the truth today; never walk by greatness or mediocrity without saying something.  If you see something, say something.  Always let people know where they stand…for good and for bad.  Catch people doing things right and challenge them to be better.

A person’s success in life can visually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he/she is willing to have. Tim Ferriss

"Reinforce the positives and the rest will take care of itself."  -Bill Walsh, 3x Super Bowl champion head coach of the San Francisco 49ers


3.  The Law of Simplicity:  Simple is remembered and acted upon.  Complex isn’t.  

Simplification attracts. Complication repels.  If you complicate something, you are going to push people away.  If you simplify it, you are going to magnetize everybody to you.  Paul Akers


4.  The Law of Self-Conviction:  Conviction commands attention.  Conviction cuts through the noise.  Where conviction exists, attention follows. Hesitation is ignored…conviction is followed.

People actually prefer to be associated with someone who is absolutely certain of themselves and their convictions.  Dan Kennedy 


5.  The Law of Seven:  When you get sick of saying something and they get sick of hearing something…that’s when it starts to sink in.  A message needs to be repeated a minimum of seven times before it sinks in.

“The Rule of 7 is a marketing principle that states that your prospects need to come across your offer at least seven times before they really notice it and start to take action.” -John Stevens

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The Five Laws of OVER-Communication™️:  How the World’s Most Effective Leaders Actually Get Things Done

The Five Laws of OVER-Communication™

1.  The Law of 90/10:  Listen 90% of the time, talk 10%. 

2.  The Law of Simplicity:  Simple is remembered and acted upon, complex isn’t.  

3.  The Law of Conviction:  Conviction commands attention.  Conviction cuts through the noise.  Where conviction exists, attention follows. Hesitation is ignored…conviction is followed.

4.  The Law of Repetition:  When you get sick of saying something, that’s when it starts to sink in.  When they get sick of hearing something, that’s when it starts to sink in.

5.  The Law of The Standard:  Tell the truth today; never walk by greatness or mediocrity without saying something.  Always let people know where they stand, for good and for bad.

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30-30 Cardio Challenge (The #1 Best Life Habit)

If If I had to choose one habit with the highest return on investment for your mind, body, and performance, it would be this:  thirty minutes of cardio, three days a week, at Zone Two or above.

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The Seven Leadership Secrets of Curt Cignetti 

1.  The Right Influences 

2.  Have A Blueprint (A Plan)

3.  No Self-Imposed Limitations (Change The Way People Think) 

4.  How You Do Something Is How You Do Everything (High Standards) 

5.  Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing (The Process)

6.  Don’t Waste Time 

7.  The Right People

1.  The Right Influences 

“My dad had the most influence on me of anyone in my life.  Highly competitive. Great leader. Led by example. Honest. hard worker. Organized. tough. Mentally tough. That guy was given his last rites twice and he lived 43 more years. He worked out for two hours every morning religiously.” -Curt Cignetti 

2.  Have A Blueprint (A Plan)

“You have to have a blueprint, a plan, a way of doing things. And you work your plan every day.” -Curt Cignetti

3.  No Self-Imposed Limitations (Change The Way People Think) 

“We believe that with proper preparation, the commitment and discipline, that there is no self imposed limitations to what we can accomplish.” -Curt Cignetti

4.  How You Do Something Is How You Do Everything (High Standards) 

“You have to have high standards and expectations.  You can never compromise and lower your standards. You have to have consistency day in and day out on maintaining high standards. And there has to be accountability through the entire organization. How you do something as how you do everything.” -Curt Cignetti

5.  Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing (The Process)

“We are never about results. We are process oriented. I don’t know what the future holds, but I know how we are going to prepare every day for the future. And there will be no self imposed limitations on what we could accomplish. And when we take the field, we will be prepared and confident.”  -Curt Cignetti

6.  Don’t Waste Time 

“My big thing is to always have a sense of urgency every second, minute, hour of the day. But I am also a big believer if you are organized and structured, that you don’t need to spend 18 hours in the office every single day.  -Curt Cignetti

7.  The Right People

“At the end of the day, it’s all about people. The people you hire and the people you recruited.  They have to have strong character, strong passion, and the ability to be successful.” -Curt Cignetti

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The 7 Day Mental Diet by Dr. Emmet Fox

“Make up your mind to devote one week solely to the task of building a new habit of thought, and during that week let everything in life be unimportant as compared with that. 

If you will do so, then that week will be the most significant week in your whole life. 

It will literally be the turning point for you.”  -Emmet Fox 

The 7 Day Mental Diet book on Amazon

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Dr. Jason Selk—The World’s #1 Expert On Self-Confidence, Mental Toughness and Winning 

Key Takeaways 

-96-97% of the things we worry about don’t happen 

-Greatness does not happen with distracted thought

-100% intensity, 100% of the time 

-In the face of adversity, the mentally tough lean into process

-Self-confidence is the number-one variable of all human performance 

The 9 Patterns Of The Highly Successful

1.  Relentless Solution Focus

2.  Prioritizing

3.  Process Mentality/Have A Winning Gameplan Defined With Process

4.  The Best At Keeping It Simple

5.  Attack Mentality/Obsession For Improvement

6.  Possess The Uncanny Ability To Control What Goes On Between Their Ears

7.  Fanatical and Precise About Their Most Important Things/Apply Precision To Every Aspect That Is Important In Their Job

8.  Effective Self-Evaluation:  What Am I Doing Well?  What Do I Want To Improve?  How Am I Going To Improve It?

9.  The Goal To Be The Best In The World

Today we have the world’s number one expert on self-confidence, mental, toughness, and winning Dr. Jason Selk.

While serving as Director of Sport Psychology for the St Louis Cardinals, Dr. Selk helped the team win their first World Series in over 20 years, and in 2011 he assisted the Cardinals in the historic feat of winning their second world championship in a six-year period. Over the last 20 years, Dr. Selk has written five best-selling books and has become widely acclaimed as one of the most sought-after keynote speakers in the country. 

His client list includes companies such as Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Edward Jones, Bacardi, Wells Fargo and Enterprise.  Dr. Selk has worked with over 40 Olympic gold medalists and all-star athletes and coaches from the PGA, WPGA, NASCAR, NFL, NBA, WNBA and NHL.  He has been featured in Men’s Health and USA today, and on CNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and ESPN.

For the last several decades, Jason has had a front row seat to the world’s best performers, the top .001%. Olympic gold medalists, Fortune 100 CEOs, and the highest levels of the US military.  Today Jason will teach us the nine common mindsets and habits they share.

Relentless Solution Focus book

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The High Ground—The Seven Tools of Elevated Thinking 

1.  The 80/20 Principle (Pareto Principle) by Vilfredo Pareto

2.  The Heroic Choice

3.  Modeling 

4.  E + R = O (Event + Response = Outcome) by Dr. Robert Resnick

5.  Relentless Solution Focus by Dr. Jason Selk

6.  Amplify The Good

7.  Continuous Improvement Mindset (Kaizen)

1.  The 80/20 Principle (Pareto Principle) by Vilfredo Pareto

Interpretation:  The 80/20 Principle reveals that for many outcomes, approximately 80% of the end result comes from only 20% of the causes.  In other words, a small percentage of inputs have a much larger effect than others.  This percentage does not have to add up to be 100; 1% of the inputs could lead to 50% of the results, or 20% of the inputs could lead to 95% of the results.

2.  The Heroic Choice 

Interpretation:  The single hardest thing that I can do in any situation. The one emotionally most challenging thing.  Whatever I have been avoiding doing the most is the exact right thing that I need to do next.

3.  Modeling 

Interpretation:  Modeling is the process of achieving a certain outcome by studying how someone else has successfully done it, then doing the same things that they did.

4.  E + R = O (Event + Response = Outcome) by Dr. Robert Resnick

Interpretation:  Dr. Robert Resnick, a psychotherapist in Los Angeles, taught me a very simple but very important formula. The formula is: E + R = O (Event + Response = Outcome) The basic idea is that every outcome you experience in life (whether it is success or failure, wealth or poverty, health or illness, intimacy or estrangement, joy or frustration) is the result of how you have responded to an earlier event or events in your life. If you don’t like the outcomes you are currently getting, there are two basic choices you can make.  1.  You can blame the event (E) for your lack of results (O).  2.  You can instead simply change your responses (R) to the events (E)—the way things are—until you get the outcomes (O) you want.  -Jack Canfield, The Success Principles 

5.  Relentless Solution Focus by Dr. Jason Selk 

Interpretation:  Relentless Solution Focus (RSF) is simply defined as within 60 seconds, replacing all negative thoughts with solution-focused thinking.  -Dr. Jason Selk

6.  Amplify The Good

Interpretation:  Remind yourself of your successes and celebrate them.  Focus on your strengths and what you do well.  Appreciate what you have.  Imagine your desired future.

7.  Continuous Improvement Mindset (Kaizen)

Interpretation:  Kaizen is a Japanese word that means "continuous improvement" or "change for the better".

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No One Is Coming To Save You 

No one is coming to save you.  

But you can save yourself!

You have to do your own push-ups.

There are many people that will help you when you have the courage to ask for help.  They can teach you how to do push-ups to do and tell you how many of them to do.   

But no one is coming to save you. 

No one can do your push-ups for you.  You have to do them yourself.

There are millions of people out there just like you who have done their push-ups.  If they can do it, so can you!

If you need some extra motivation, find someone who is most important to you who needs you at your best, and do your push-ups for them. 

Start with one push-up today.  Then do another one tomorrow.  Then two a day next week.  Then three a day the following week.  Keep adding push-ups.  Before you know it, you will be the strongest person you know!

You CAN do your push-ups.   I love you and believe in you!

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