“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...

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s time to finish strong. The journey never ends but the stages do. We’re into the final stages of 2014. No matter what kind of year you’ve had, you can make it great by how you finish it. As JRR Tolkien said, it’s the job that’s never started that takes longest to finish. So start your final play of the year now. There are only two kinds of people in the world…

Talk is back. The phone call is the money call. Although people have a wider array of communication options, they are increasingly choosing “voice interaction.” The word is the seed of the deed. Procrastination is the enemy. We all live in symbiosis with each other. You’re part of my ecosystem and I’m part of yours. In fact, we all become the company we keep. So astonish others through your Promise, Action, Inspiration and Discipline. It’s the way you do it that counts.

We all have our own four minute mile. It is a highly ambitious personal goal that seems just beyond our reach. It demands that we cross our pain threshold and pursue it with passion, maybe even obsession.