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14x More Inspired: The Leadership Practice Most Teams Skip in January
Your team crushed 2025. But if you're not helping them set personal development goals for 2026, you're setting them up to drift. Here's the research-backed leadership practice that keeps winning teams engaged.
Unlock the Playbook
The first framework built for competitive people trapped in a comparison-obsessed world.
Beat Yesterday is a system, not just personal development motivation. My first book shares a proven daily framework for winning the one game you actually control: you against the person you were yesterday.
Read it once, and you'll have a process to quit keeping score against everyone else. You start beating the only opponent who shows up every single day - you.
The Two-Minute Drill
One framework. One challenge. One question. Every Tuesday to help you compete every day.
I was 35,000 feet above Denver when I realized I was being an idiot. I'd spent an hour beating myself up for not having something I didn't even want. Most leaders burn out not because they work too hard, but because they're working toward someone else's definition of success. Competition begins with clarity: What game are you actually playing? Here's how to stop competing in arenas you never chose and start winning games that actually matter to you.