What if true courage is simply the willingness to drop the act?

Frameworks are the invisible architecture that gives shape to the processes leading to our desired outcomes. And here is the fascinating thing about them: They impose their influence regardless of whether you are aware of their existence or not.

Winston Churchill said, “Success is the ability to move from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” 

Few have been as successful as Mike Brown.

The research suggests sustained focus occurs when a task sits just 4% beyond your current comfort zone.

It needs to be hard enough to demand total cognitive presence, but familiar enough that your skills can absorb the strain. 

Your capacity to encourage the discouraged is directly proportionate to how you walked through discouraging times in your own life. 

Walk through it well in order to build capacity for someone who needs you later.

It’s the frustrating plateau where you find yourself asking, “I’m doing the work. Why am I not seeing the results?”

Your principles, values, leadership philosophy, vision statements, all of it is very important - but how you handle conflict will ultimately define your leadership effectiveness.

If we want to experience peaceful being and purposeful doing we need to get comfortable with living differently than those around us. Get comfortable with being yourself.

Whether you’re highly regarded or “Clueless Joe”, the standard doesn’t change for the performer’s mind. 

Everyone else gets to watch. You have to perform.