Hi there,

One of the biggest keys to being GREAT is not what most people would think...

The key to being GREAT is being GRATEFUL!

The reason is this, when you are GRATEFUL fear disappears and opportunities appear.

We live so much of our lives in fear and scarcity, especially in the world of high performance. I know because I have done it. We are conditioned as high performers to come from a place of scarcity and always be competing against something - opponents, other people, our teammates, ourselves, etc. We fear there isn't enough to go around (enough success, enough starting spots, enough wins, enough validation, enough love, the list goes on).

However, when we get beyond the fear and scarcity, we can choose to look at our environment in a different way. We can start to see it not just as a place to go and get something, but a place we can go full of opportunities to give something. This is the paradox of success...

"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just h...

I recently shared a Max Moment about The Most Dangerous Word in Our Language. So what I thought I would do today is juxtapose that with one of The Most Powerful Words in Our Language...

Before I do let me give you a little context. As a coach to high performers, I am constantly searching for ways to help the people I work with look at their situation in a different way and through a different lens. Because what got you to where you are today might be the very thing holding you back from where you want to go. This often takes a different level of thinking.

With that said I was recently having a conversation with a very successful leader who was sharing some of the problems they were facing in their world at the moment. To challenge them I asked a question that would require a different level of thinking. The answer they gave is for me one of The Most Powerful Words in Our Language...

After I asked the question, their response was simply this "Hmmm"...and after a long pause foll...