Anyone who tells you that they are fearless is being disingenuous. The future is bright, bold and full of bogeymen. If you're playing a big game for a big prize, it's going to be hard. The competition is going to be amazing. The clients are going to be incredibly demanding. The standards are going to be unreasonably high. It's going to take everything you have and then some.

What is the one skill that the world’s most successful people practice more than any other? Anticipation. Anticipation means that you see things before they happen; you act before others have a chance to react and you preempt problems before they occur. You reap all the advantages that accrue to the first-mover.

One thing is for certain: 2016 is not for sissies. It will demand a colossal capacity to control one’s emotions and reassure others. The future belongs to those who can create their own internal realities, irrespective of circumstance. In fact, this capacity is most crucial when uncertainty is at its greatest – in other words, for the foreseeable future.

Often, the only difference between a Champion and an Also-ran is their belief about their own capacity. Our inner world forms our outer world. As we think, so we become. We are all the writers, directors and producers of our own reality show. It’s not the size of the person in the fight. It’s the size of the fight in the person.

“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” Champions know it’s always day one. It all begins all over again every day. As the Navy Seals say, “The only easy day was yesterday”. So let’s go celebrate the struggle.

The Magic Touch is one’s unique ability to thrill people by doing something remarkably well. The impact is what counts. What really matters is the way you make others feel.

The meaning of threshold is: the intensity that must be achieved for a certain result to occur. That result is magic. Magic means it’s so good it can’t even be described with ordinary language.

Try on different outfits. Experiment with different styles. Adopt new approaches. We’re all being asked to take on new roles with new people in new spaces. We’re all being challenged to stretch our definition of who we are and what we can be.

There is a massive difference between surviving and thriving. Surviving is about getting through the day. Thriving is about reveling in the day. To revel means to take intense pleasure in something and profit greatly from it. The Thriving Ten Percenters are the people who revel in the day. They seize the seconds to achieve firsts.

Confidence in your environment is your secret sauce. What are you confident about? This is the most important question I can ask you. Confidence in your environment is your secret sauce. It guides what you think, what you feel, what you do and ultimately what you become. Context is decisive...