Reading Time: 30.5 seconds to your best year yet! Real quick, because it's Christmas week and I have about a zillion presents to wrap: Hope is only a tiny piece of goal achievement. I talk all about this in Vision to Reality. The rest of your success lies in strategic action, accountability, and habits. The STMA 100-Day Program was designed around the concept of taking intentional action. It was designed with five points of accountability so powerful, the only way to fail is to stop showing...
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Reading Time: 28.5 seconds to your best year yet! A year to achieve a goal feels long (like, why would I start now long, because a year is forever). A month feels too short (as in, how could I climb such a tall mountain in such a short time?). But 100 days? That's your sweet spot of time for maximum achievement, Reader. It's enough time to build real momentum, but short enough you'll maintain your focus and feel the right amount of urgency. And every single day is exactly 1% of your goal—no...
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Reading Time: 51 seconds Welcome to all of the new Empire Builders Summit members! I hope you love each and every interview (and hope you'll email me about your favorite). On to today's message ... It's the most wonderful time of the year--the time when we ink our goals for the following year. There's something incredibly fun and exciting about a brand new Bullet Journal with shiny new goals. Am I the only one who is giddy about the promise of a new year? While 2025 has been pretty good from...
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Reading Time: <47 seconds As each year winds down, I always find myself reflecting on the past few years. This year is no exception. I'm contemplating just what kept me "so busy" (was I actually productive?) and what actually moved me forward in my empire-building pursuit. (This is an annual practice I highly recommend, by the way.) I look at what I created, including what compounded (and what didn't). What I'd do again -- and what I surely would not. What I need to start doing, stop doing,...
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Reading Time: 21 seconds The holiday break is, blessedly, almost here. We're taking Mrs. Claus (Byron's mom) on a pre-Christmas vacation and it's going to be so fun! Now, for most people, it'll be a blur of Netflix, leftovers, and "I'll figure it out in January." But you are not most people! You're looking for ways to accelerate your growth and build your empire and you want to use this downtime strategically so 2026 doesn't just happen to you. These are exactly why I wrote Tall Order! I...
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Reading Time: 33.33 seconds 🤩 Thanks for all of the lovely book birthday wishes for Tall Order! Organize Your Life and Double Your Success in Half the Time -- y'all are so cool! I woke up at 2:30 a.m. this morning and wondered, "Is it time to get up yet?" Yes, I'm that person, excited and ready for the day to begin. If you're anything like me (maybe not the 2:30 a.m. part, and to be transparent, I didn't actually get up until 4:30 a.m.), you're always looking for ways to accelerate your...
9 days ago • 2 min read
Reading Time: <32 seconds 🥳 It's a book birthday! Ten years ago today, the 10th Anniversary of my first book, Tall Order! Organize Your Life and Double Your Success in Half the Time was published. When I wrote that original Tall Order! (at Mark Victor Hansen's urging), I thought it would be my one and only book. I legit had zero idea it would become the first of many books (or that I'd get the "book writing fever"), or even that my readers would still be telling me two decades later, "This...
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Reading Time: <18 seconds I know AI and CRMs are all the rage, but I'm more of a visual person. More than 20 years ago I created a tool I still use to this day, the 12x12 Matrix. (Hear me out, sometimes analog and visual works wonders!) It helps me see who is in my network and the next time I need to check in, follow-up, or reach out to them. If you've never heard of it and you want to be a more efficient, effective networker, here's a little of the skinny: You identify 11 complementary...
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Reading Time: <30 seconds We've all heard, Ask and ye shall receive. (Matthew 7:7). But what about: Give, give, give, and you'll receive so much you'll need a bigger place to put it? That's how the Law of Reciprocity works. It's sometimes hard to need something (money, clients, goods, services, opportunities) and yet focus on giving to others. And yet we know all about it (sometimes it's called karma). In business networking, it's an easy concept to remember and do: discover what someone...
13 days ago • 1 min read