Why you snooze your goals
Nigel: So I placed all the gym clothes on the bed and everything. I was like, you know, you ate so much food on this trip. You had to do it. You had to do it. The alarm set went off at five. I was like, now I can snooze again. I put the alarm…
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Get off your phone!
People come and say “I don't know. They don't go the extra mile for me. They don't care about me. They don't support me.” Everybody's so multitasking. Everybody's on their phone the whole time. Do you know what you're communicating to someone when they talk to you and you're on your phone? You basically tell…
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Why your brain keeps you stuck
So our brain, your brain, takes about 20% of your overall body energy just to get by. Just to do what you know how to do already. So think about your morning today. You got up in the morning, you had a wonderful breakfast, or you didn't eat breakfast, you worked out, you didn't work…
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Drop your to-do list
I wanna talk to you about what the six percenters did differently that is extremely important. And I call it the law of specification. You know, everybody in the world says, yeah, I'm gonna do this thing. People create lists. I'm gonna do this and this and this and this and that. Drop it, very…
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The pause that changes everything
I want to talk to you about the power of the pause because the power of the pause really matters. And this is what we've all done together as a community just now. You paused. You're sitting there. You're thinking. You're thinking about your life. You're thinking about your teams. You're thinking about your goals,…
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Change starts with you
Whatever you want to see other people doing, the real change starts with you. So one of the things that is very characteristic of the six percenters is that six percenters are amazing at recruiting other people to work with them instead of against them because you can't do it alone. Every little kitten wants…
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First step beats perfect timing
It's never going to be the right time for whatever it is that you want to do. The right time is anytime it is. Just do it. When I finished the research and I published the research and I wanted to write my next book, my publisher told me, oh, you know, Michelle, nobody publishes…
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Why 20 minutes change everything
In the front of our brain, we have the prefrontal cortex, where we are amazing, and we strategize, and we are excellent. But unfortunately, we also have, in the limbic system, the amygdala, impulsive behavior. What we want to avoid is amygdala hijack. We don't want to take impulsive decisions, say things we shouldn't say,…
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You’re burned out and don’t know it
There is a huge problem across all industries with burnout. And people keep talking about work-life balance and people keep talking about their own burnout. And the main problem with burnout is that when you're burned out, you don't even know that you're burned out. You're so burned out, you're just trying to make it…
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