Posts Tagged ‘Tony Robbins’
The Human Performance Optimization Framework: What the Miracle on the Hudson and Tony Robbins Taught Me About Anticipation
Most leadership frameworks measure one thing—skill, or style, or outcomes. None of them measure the whole person operating inside the whole system. That gap is exactly what Don Trone, Dr. Sean Hannah, and I set out to close. The result is the 28-Cell Leadership Matrix, now live inside the Human Performance Optimization Framework. Twenty-eight cells,…
Read More
Strategic Effort Prevents Exhaustion: Robbins and Hudson River Lessons
I once worked eighty-hour weeks for an entire quarter and finished with less business than when I started. A mindful strategy for sustainable performance A mindful strategy for sustainable performance That sentence still stings to write. In my enterprise sales career, I was young and grinding through the ADP years. I had convinced myself that…
Read More
The Greatest Gift Tony Robbins Ever Gave Me
Tony Robbins would occasionally give me advice. He gave me something bigger than advice, and it changed the direction of my entire life. I want to tell you what that gift was. But first, I have to take you back to the night everything changed. The Night of January 15, 2009 A few hours after…
Read More
When you Focus on Possibilities, You’ll have more Opportunities
If you have heard me speak live, on a podcast, in an interview, or maybe one-on-one, you know I love to relate stories and how they impacted my life to teach a lesson or strategy. Last week, I spoke with an agent from a speaking bureau about a potential speaking opportunity. She told me she…
Read More
Learn How to Leave Certainty at the Door
In 2003, I was flipping channels and came across the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on ESPN. I became fascinated as I watched Chris Moneymaker maneuver his way to the title. I had never watched Texas Holdem Poker but as I watched; I was mesmerized by how quickly they evaluated the situation and…
Read More
When you Dream Big, Execute Small, Miracles Happen
When my family moved to Virginia in 1973, I started junior high. I gravitated toward the athletic department to try to fit in. I was chosen for the eighth-grade team as a seventh grader. Taking a position on the team away from boys who’d grown up in that town made things a little difficult, to…
Read More
When You Can Sit On The Ball You Are Going Beyond The Wilderness
“Great outcomes don’t lead to being outstanding, Being outstanding leads to great outcomes” One of the most impactful experiences I have had when I was on Tony Robbins’ security team was when he took some of us to his private island in Fiji. I had been to Australia and New Zealand with Tony and the…
Read More
The strategy I took out of my TEDx Talk
If you have watched Tony Robbins YouTube comments after our conversation, the evening of January 15, 2009, Tony shared some details about our call and the first account of some of the things that happened during the fateful flight of US Airways 1549. One of the things most people don’t know is Tony was kind…
Read More
Upon further review
One of the first things I learned at my first Tony Robbins event in 1994 was that “change is inevitible, progress is not.” As I wrote in my blog last week, during these years, I was living in the GAP as I was measuring myself against someone’s results instead of my results. Focusing on his…
Read More