Episode 007: How to think positively but not lie to yourself, and an interview with Travis Mills about his documentary Travis, a soldier’s story. Travis is a quadruple amputee from injuries in Afghanistan. We discuss that and what he’s done with his life since then. 

• Positive thinking is NOT looking at the world through rose-colored glasses
• Did you hear the one about the optimist and the pessimist?
• We don’t see things as they are
• How to focus on the positive and how that helps you
• You get to choose
• Action step 1: Pay attention to your thoughts
• Action step 2: Focus on those positive thoughts and take action on them to improve your situation
• Action step 3: Every night, write down three new things you are thankful for
• Part 2: Interview with Retired United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills of the 82nd Airborne. On April 10, 2012, he was critically injured on his third tour of duty in Afghanistan by an IED (improvised explosive device). He lost portions of both legs and both arms. He is one of only five quadruple amputees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive his injuries.
• What Travis is doing now

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Find out more about Travis at his website: https://www.travismills.org/

Information about his documentary - Travis: A Soldier's Story - http://travisthemovie.com/

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Episode 006 Show Notes: How to lead in business and parent your kids better in ONE MINUTE! And an interview with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The New One Minute Manager.

Greg talks about how to lead in business and parent your kids better in ONE MINUTE! Part two is an interview with Ken Blanchard, a prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant. His new book is The New One Minute Manager. It’s an update of his iconic 1982 classic, The One Minute Manager, coauthored with Spencer Johnson. It has sold more than 13 million copies.

• The First Secret: One Minute Goals
• There are three parts to managing people’s performance – planning, coaching, and evaluation
• It matters who sets the goals and how they are set
• Greg tells a bad and good personal story about goal setting
• The Second Secret: One Minute Praisings
• The key is to be honest. Don’t praise to flatter – and be specific
• The Third Secret: One Minute Re-Directs
• A Reprimand is for when a person knows better than what they are doing. A Re-Direct is for a person who is a learner
• Greg’s personal story about how his JV basketball coach actually made the team worse
• Part two: Interview with Ken Blanchard on The New One Minute Manager

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Greg asks you to consider this question: What would you do if it was impossible to fail? What does thinking like that do to your dreams and what you would even think about trying? How can you change your mindset so you think bigger and attempt things that can lead to the extraordinary life of your dreams? Then, Greg interviews Erik Weihenmayer. He’s blind and he has climbed Mount Everest and kayaked the Grand Canyon. Wait, WHAT?! Let’s go!

• How does asking questions impact your thoughts, goals, and plans?
• Greg’s strange obsession with stuffed pizza crusts
• What the Apollo 13 mission teaches us about impossible
• What barbeque did to save our astronaut’s lives
• Is there anything recently that caused you to say it can’t be done?
• What would happen if you assume it’s possible, say failure is not an option, and start some imaginative thinking on how to do it?
• Interview with Erik Weihenmayer

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Erik’s book, No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon

No Barriers foundation: https://nobarriersusa.org/

Greg explains why you should become a selective listener, how you are already talented enough to learn and do whatever you want to do, and interviews New York Times bestselling author, Daniel Coyle. His book is The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This book provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and the people they care about.

• Why you should become a selective listener to keep a positive mindset
• Be selective about who and what you listen to - it can build you up or tear you down
• How the When-Then game can destroy your life
• The World will whisper you’re not good enough - you get to decide if you listen
• When passion and desire meet, you have tremendous power
• Start today with baby steps
• Part Two: You ARE talented enough to learn and do what you want to do
• The data show no proof of what most of us call talent
• The kind of practice you do matters as much as the amount of time you practice
• How to do Deliberate Practice
• The keys to practice so you can do in 10 minutes what used to take hours
• How to practice in your career for great leaps of success
• Part Three: Interview with New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle – The Talent Code

Find Daniel’s book and more information at www.thetalentcode.com and http://danielcoyle.com/

Get my book, GO! How to Find and Pursue Your Passionate Purpose, for free! http://gregorybknapp.com/gofree/

How to Change Bad Habits and Create Good Ones AND Interview with Charles Duhigg. http://gregorybknapp.com/

• One habit that’s hurting your relationships and career
• Why we don’t stop a habit that’s hurting us
• Why you need to focus at first on how the habit hurts you
• Action steps to stop (or greatly reduce your bad habit)
• Email me [email protected] What techniques do you use to minimize your complaining?
• Listener question: I tried to change and it didn’t work. How come?
• There’s really only ONE reason you didn’t change…yet
• If it sounds too hard, how are people with fewer resources than you doing it, and how can you?
• Interview with author Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit
• The three components of habit
• The cues and rewards are the key to changing your bad habits
• As you’re creating a new habit, reward yourself as you go
• How elite athletes use habits to win
• Free gift of my book, GO!, at www.gregorybknapp.com/free
• Email me via [email protected]

Greg explains why you should stop trying to please everyone. Instead, create raving fans for your business. He also interviews Author and Speaker David Burkus on a new way to run your business. http://gregorybknapp.com/

• Why you should stop trying to please everyone 
• Instead, create raving fans for your business
• Do you want to give people you don’t even like power over your life?
• The reasons it’s hard to stop trying to please everyone
• Being polite doesn’t mean you have to stop speaking truth and being yourself
• My story on why this is so hard for me – can you relate?
• How we focus on the negative, read minds, and how that hurts us
• Worrying about pleasing everyone makes you question your work and hurts you
• If you connect with YOUR tribe and help them, you’ve done your job well
• Being authentic is more important than pleasing more people and allows you to do your best
• Better to create fewer raving fans than more lukewarm fans
• Summary of how to stop worrying about pleasing everyone
• Your “rough edges” are what your raving fans grab on to
• When you serve your raving fans doing what you love you have more fun and often make MORE money
• Author interview with David Burkus, Under New Management
• New biz ideas for your employees – unlimited vacation, no internal email, no annual performance review, actually puts the employee welfare first
• How to get your company to try some of these ideas
• Free gift of my book, GO!, at www.gregorybknapp.com/free
• Email me via [email protected]

Greg helps you find your purpose and live your passion in work and life. http://gregorybknapp.com/

In this episode:

• How do I find my purpose
• How to use death is a motivator
• There’s more than one way to find your purpose -and no one, right way
• Some get struck by lightning
• Others have to try things out
• Try a combination of things to find your purpose
• Two freebies to help you find your purpose
• What successful people have in common
• We all ask ourselves dumb questions that hurts us
• Part II: Fourteen Questions to create your best life -Why do you want to change?
• The rest of the 14 questions
• Part III: Interview with Tim Sanders
• What does the title “Today We Are Rich,” mean?
• The Sideways Years
• You can only be as positive as the information you put into your mind
• Positive thinking is not a prescription it’s a result of your lifestyle by design
• Two freebies to help you find your purpose
• Free gift of my book, GO!, at www.gregorybknapp.com/free
• Email me via [email protected]