2018 has arrived. If you’re committed to making it the best year of your life… Implement this little trick that Scorsese, Spielberg and Disney use when making movies… Work backwards. Begin at the finish. Know how you want it to end. Solve the climax first. Figure out where you want to go; then work backwards […]
Repeal and Replace. No…we’re not talking about healthcare… But we are talking about habits…as in repealing bad habits and replacing them with good ones. With 2018 just a week away…my aim is to help you start the year in the smartest and healthiest way possible. We’ll do that by focusing on repealing and replacing the […]
The way I see it… If Maxwell House can produce a cup of coffee that’s “good to the last drop”…then I should be able to produce a message that’s “good to the very last word”. If 2018 stands a chance of being your best year ever, you must bake this reality into your mind… BEHAVIOR […]
What are you going to do to up your game and make 2018 your best year ever? I long ago discovered an important strategy that has allowed me…and my clients to continually grow and improve performance every year. It’s called an After Action Review (AAR), and it’s all about reflecting on this past year’s performance…reviewing […]
THE MORAL OF A STORY is a lesson that is conveyed within the context of a story or event. As an example…at the end of Aesop’s fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, in which the plodding and determined tortoise won a race against the much-faster yet extremely arrogant hare, the stated moral is “slow […]
Here’s a rule without an exception… Success requires purposeful action. To make something big happen today… Take massive action and advance the ball. Demonstrably move the needle on a project. Confront a fear and create a breakthrough. Solve a challenging problem and own the solution. To make something big happen today… Execute the moment you […]
You have the right and responsibility to START SAYING NO to anything that is hurting you. To anything not in alignment with your values. To the standards that no longer serve you. To the people who drain you of your creativity and peace of mind. To the beliefs that are not true to the real […]
In part one of this series on Achieving Rapid Success, I shared with you the most potent growth hacking strategy there is…the Law of Accelerating Returns and why it’s in your best interest to learn everything there is about it. In its simplest terms…the Law of Accelerating Returns states that technological change is exponential and […]
In part one of this series on Achieving Rapid Success, I shared with you the most potent growth hacking strategy there is…the Law of Accelerating Returns and why it’s in your best interest to learn everything there is about it. In its simplest terms…the Law of Accelerating Returns states that technological change is exponential and […]
By the end of this series, I’d like to convince you that serendipity can be engineered, that lucky breaks can be manufactured, convention can be defied, and that the best path to success—no matter how you define it—are different today from what they were yesterday. We’re all familiar with the law of diminishing returns where […]
Gary Ryan Blair is the President of The GoalsGuy, a highly focused training organization whose mission is to help their clients build and sustain superior performance.
