1: Jeff recently got divorced.
“He was not expecting that divorce at all,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success. “He was 100 percent committed to his wife and loved her with his whole soul.
“But she decided she wanted a different lifestyle, one that went fundamentally against the belief and value system they had … continue reading
1: “Comparison is the thief of joy,” Teddy Roosevelt said many years ago.
Dr. Ben Hardy learned it’s still true today on his family vacation to Disney World.
It was lunchtime. One of the meals they had ordered came with a cookie. Ben’s wife split the cookie into four pieces so each of their four kids would get a part of the cookie.
“After eating his piece, my son complained … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
Imagine a sheet of paper.
At the top of the page is the word “Ideal.” At the bottom is the word “Start.”
The word “Achieved” is in the middle … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
Let’s say our goal is 30.
We start at 1. Now, we are at 22.
If we measure ourselves against our goal of 30, we are eight short.
However, … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
There are two ways we can measure our progress, Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy tell us in their book The Gap and the Gain.
The first way is … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
Twenty-five years ago, driving to and from work, I listened to a set of cassettes I had purchased from the Strategic Coach, the world’s #1 entrepreneurial coaching program founded … continue reading
1: The rowing team from Great Britain had not won an Olympic gold medal since 1912.
“By all measures, they didn’t have a good rowing program,” Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy write in their book The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
Then everything changed.
During the training for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the members of the British rowing team began … continue reading
1: One evening, author Ben Hardy had a realization.
He and his wife, Lauren and their six children lived in Orlando, Florida.
“In my mind, we would live in Orlando for the next 2–3 years until I reached a certain place in my career, and then we’d move on to the next place,” Ben reflects in The Gap and the Gain, which he co-authored with Dan Sullivan.
He … continue reading
1: There are two ways we can measure our progress.
The first way is to compare where we are now against our ideal, Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain.
“Ideals are like a horizon in the desert,” the authors write. “No matter how many steps we take forward, the horizon continues to move out of reach.”
When we measure this way, we are living … continue reading
1: Trevor Lawrence was one of his generation’s outstanding high school and college quarterbacks.
He had 52 wins and 2 losses as a high school five-star recruit. As the quarterback at Clemson during the 2018, 2019, and 2020 seasons, he won 34 games and lost only two.
In April of 2021, as the projected #1 NFL draft pick, he told Sports Illustrated he didn’t “need” football to feel worthy as … continue reading
