High-Performance Lifestyle
What follows is a letter from Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Within the letter contains the keys to Google’s success as a technology company: an unrelenting focus on its organizational culture.
Although Google will forever be known for superior internet search technology, its capabilities come from its people. And the focus on its people will keep it at the forefront of technological innovation.
2020 is year that will forever be remembered for all that we lost as a nation.
Personally, I was impacted very little by 2020.
I am not saying that bad things did not happen to me, they did.
I am saying I was impacted minimally by them.
Your thoughts and attitudes determine your outcome. How you feel about any given situation is up to you.
I choose prosperity in 2020, and that is what I received. [Read more…]
This post was originally published on LinkedIn.
In 1978, the San Francisco 49ers finished dead last in the NFC West Division with a paltry 2-14 record. The general manager of the time made a series of shaky decisions that did little to improve the outlook of the failing franchise. He shipped off key talent, including a QB that would go on to win two championships. He made a poor bet against the franchise’s future with a gamble on an over-the-hill O.J Simpson. In shambles, no one would have guessed that this same team would eventually become known as the “Team of the 80s.”
In 1979, the 49ers rise to football stardom would begin. Bill Walsh was hired on as Heach Coach and General Manager. [Read more…]
In 1979, Dr. Denis Waitley published what would become the all-time best selling audio program on self-mastery, The Psychology of Winning. The term winning can actually be replaced with success as one that more appropriately describes its content.
I believe he chose the term winning as an antidote to the losers he saw in society. The 10 qualities he describes are more in alignment with what it takes to be successful, a total winner, and not just a psychological method for performance. [Read more…]
There is an illusion of choice in today’s society.
We think we have many choices, but the variety of options only leaves us less fulfilled. We think we can be high-performers and have robust social lives. We want to be rich and travel. We aim for the rewards but rarely do we strip away the choices that will lead us to the pinnacle.
If you want to be uncommon, you must settle for less. Less choices and options. More of the same mundane things that ultimately lead to greatness.
We call it character and it comes from discipline. [Read more…]
