“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo da Vinci Mind Control is a lesson worth mastering… No…I’m not talking about manipulating, reforming, brainwashing, or exerting authority, dominance and mastery over others. However, I am talking about manipulating, reforming, brainwashing, and exerting authority, dominance and mastery over oneself. Let’s […]
You can’t finish what you don’t start. To make something big happen today… Take massive action…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 finish reading this. Launch that […]
As you are confronted with the reality that the first quarter of the year is just about history…I offer the following as an ideal way to reflect on your YTD performance and how to plan for massive abundance in the second quarter. Here we go… Q2 is shorthand for the second quarter of the year…as […]
I’ve lived long enough to understand that life is a high-stakes game of truth or consequences…and that the truth that makes us free is for the most part the truth which we prefer not to hear. Let’s start this uncomfortable topic with a few uncomfortable questions… What are you pretending not to know? […]
“Just as a kiss can be a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point…so too can a handshake, an email, a text message and even a voicemail!” – Gary Ryan Blair WHEREVER WE ARE…whatever we’re doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do […]
Is Pride a Virtue or a Vice? Like most things in life…it depends on the context in which it is used, so let’s have a look. Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two antithetical meanings. With a negative vice connotation, pride refers to a foolishly and irrationally corrupt sense of one’s personal value, […]
We all know about surprise endings, sad endings and even happy endings…however, none are as meaningful or transformative as “necessary endings”. A moment’s reflection will confirm that life is a series of beginnings and endings. Many of those endings are natural, positive, highly predictable and seamlessly lead towards some type of graduation or commencement period. […]
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.” – Theodore Roosevelt The date…April 23, 1910. The venue…the Sorbonne in Paris, France. The orator…Theodore Roosevelt. The message…Find Your Arena. In one of the greatest rhetorical triumphs…Roosevelt draws a proverbial line in the sand between those who get […]
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” – Bruce Lee Let’s get something straight right out of the gate… The odds that you’ll succeed in solving any problem or achieving any goal without purposeful action are about the same as winning the lottery without buying a ticket. You […]
I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to success and goal achievement… “Go all in…or get all out.” Success in any area of your life and career is forever linked directly to your heart…to your steadfast commitment to your goals. Yet, in a world where commitment is a mandatory condition to success…far too […]
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.
