VP of RevOps & Partner at @impactmybiz.
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The end of the year is for reflection.
After interviewing 75+ elite performers and reading hundreds of studies this year, here are...
25 lessons on peak performance for sport and life:
1. Do real things in the real world with real people. Your nervous system knows what’s fake
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Common mindset vs. Inner Excellcence mindset
Top Performance Coach Jim Murphy (@innerexcellence) reveals how to quiet the mind and execute when it matters most.
Jim spent 5 years writing Inner Excellence, the mental toughness manual that shot from obscurity to #1 New York Times bestseller overnight when star athlete A.J. Brown was caught reading it on the sidelines of an NFL playoff game.
00:00 Introduction
01:01 The 3 Pillars of Inner Excellence
04:14 A Manual on Mental Toughness
07:55 Goals are Secondary
11:53 Clean Fuel vs. Dirty Fuel
14:23 What You Want Most
16:26 Ad Break
18:41 The Achievement Treadmill
21:47 The Busy Trap
22:34 The Best Vacation
25:39 What's Your Purpose?
27:41 The Spiral of Isolation
31:09 The Key to Performance
34:00 The Courage to Be Disliked
35:55 What the Most Successful People Do
39:49 Redefine Success and Failure
41:43 Comparison & Envy
42:53 Individual Cost and Collective Gain
46:31 Talking to Your Kids About Mental Toughness
47:34 Discovering Your Inner Excellence (Where to Start)
51:25 Tension Between Achievement and Happiness
55:09 Dealing With Guilt
58:10 Knowledge vs. Wisdom
01:01:21 Changing Focus to Accomplish Goals
01:05:40 Using Automatic Rules
01:10:40 Daily Mantras for Success
01:12:15 Ambition or Love?
01:14:52 Train Your Mind
01:15:38 What Is Success?
Out now wherever you listen to the knowledge project.
Includes paid partnerships.
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The best way to improve is not to focus on results. It’s to focus on habits.
27 studies: Behavior change goals are 3x more effective than outcome goals in boosting performance. Growth depends on altering the actions we can control.
A key to progress is concentrating on process.
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No Cousins Christmas is complete without a racine danish kringle
😂 @KirkCousins8
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1,100 turkeys reached families across Chicago through the combined efforts of community groups, volunteers, and local leaders. We’re grateful to have contributed alongside so many others.
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I learned this week that you will never grow until you learn to accept all the things wrong with you, and make them better.
Your growth is directly tied to your desire to hear the truth.
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“Even if I lack the talent, I will not abandon the effort on that account...We do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it.” - Epictetus
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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
- Max Lucado
This quote always hits me.
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After a breakthrough performance, we often push forward, upping our training to match our new level.
When you are somewhere you haven’t been before, your body doesn’t need press down on the gas further, it needs to step back & absorb what you’ve done. scienceofrunning.com/2019/06…
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"I hope this experience is hard for you.
I hope it’s not easy for you.
That's how you're going to find out what you are made of.
Life is hard.
The challenges of life are hard."
You don’t build yourself in comfort.
You build yourself with resistance and resilience.
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The 5 Rules of Training:
1. The boring stuff is your foundation
2. Let it Come, Don’t Force it.
3. Take the Next Logical Step
4. You lose what you don’t train
5. Train the individual, not the system
scienceofrunning.com/2020/05…
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1. "What are the physics of this problem?"
Musk strips everything to objective reality.
"I'm struggling to grow my newsletter. What are the physics of this problem?"
AI reveals the hard constraints, the real forces, and the non-negotiable bottlenecks.
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Impact is driven by our people and the clients we serve. Thank you to every team member and partner who made this year exceptional. Your trust and dedication fuel our growth and innovation!
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The hardest shift in the year isn’t XC to track.
It’s 5K rhythm to 1600 rhythm.
Different engine.
Different cadence.
Different level of honesty.
So we reset with something simple:
10×150 @ 1600 pace, walk back recovery.
No pressure to hit magical times.
Just asking the legs to remember:
“This is the gear we’ll need later.”
We’ll extend the reps in a few weeks.
We’ll add density after that.
We’ll sharpen in the spring.
But right now?
We re-teach the feeling.
Because if you can’t feel the pace,
you can’t hold the pace.
And you definitely can’t race the pace.
Alex Kusters retweeted
Next Thursday, November 6th, at 1:30 PM CT, join Impact's new leadership team for a candid conversation on turning misalignment on its back and bringing teams together.
We'll see you there!
Grab your spot 👉 hubs.ly/Q03QRP730
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Tomorrow's the day...
AI strategy starts with how you think.
Save your spot, time is ticking 👉 hubs.ly/Q03KnWB50
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When you get defensive about feedback, you fail twice. You fail to learn today, and you fail to encourage people to keep teaching you tomorrow.
If you can't handle the truth, people stop telling you the truth.
A key to growth is showing that you're coachable.
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Asking "what AI tool should we use?" leads to 30% ROI.
Asking "how do we design intelligence partnerships?" leads to 4,000%.
Join us for a framework that aligns AI with business outcomes
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