From the Command Center of the Impact Nation “If you want to move fast, move clean.” — SEAL Maxim In the Teams, room clearing isn’t just about moving through a building—it’s about removing threats, securing space, and creating freedom of movement for the mission ahead. The same principle applies to your life, your work, and…
Are you hard on yourself? Many of us are. Many people, especially in our Photoshopped-fake, image-based, high-performance-obsessed culture, tend to beat themselves up for any little mistake. And what happens after a beating? Performance may show a temporary uptick…but morale certainly does not. Low morale equals low quality of life. Low quality of life inevitably leads…
“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.” — Yogi Berra Most people aren’t lazy. They aren’t weak, undisciplined, or unmotivated. We’re just scattered. Most have never been shown how to define “enough,” or how to organize their day around what really matters. So most people live in survival…
Too often, we treat our life dreams like a credit card balance — giving just enough attention to keep them alive, but never truly paying them off. Just like making minimum payments on a credit card can trap you in a cycle of debt, doing the bare minimum to go after your life goals will…
This is for everyone, of any gender. And this is because, as with other important topics like national security and corporate effectiveness and personal relations among individuals, we must hold ourselves to a much higher standard to be honest, authentic, and effective. Gender: Yes, it absolutely exists — AND, experiences may vary We need to…
You’re the boss. Congratulations! You’ve done a great job, at your job, whether as a startup founder or mailroom-to-executive success story. That’s great news. Here’s the bad news: now the real work begins. As I was dismayed to learn upon attaining the rank of black belt in a traditional Japanese dojo, all your hard work…
Exciting things are just around the corner with Impact Actual. New Lion Journals in stock, new journal bundles to include signed copies of Powerful Peace and Impact challenge coins (“our program in your pocket”), and much more. It all starts July 1, because that’s the final half year of this first quarter of this century….
Father’s Day is a particularly appropriate time to talk about masculinity. Between my most recent weekly “Impact Coaching” Call (ICC) with John (not his real name), and the more recent weekly “Accountability Coaching” Call (ACC) with Bob (not his real name), I realized I need to take a beat and speak directly to my fellow…fellows….
Today I’m sharing our “Impact SITREP” (the Situation Report, our regular Impact Actual email newsletter) for Memorial Day week. If you’d like to receive the SITREP and other updates straight to your inbox, click over to ImpactActual.com and sign up for our list.) In this week’s SITREP, we pause to reflect on the meaning of…
[CONTINUE TO THE END TO JUMP IN ON OUR DECEMBER CONTEST!] At the end of every year, I think about…everything. The year ahead, the year behind, what I’ve done to win, and what I’ve done to LEARN. And I say it that way because if you think about your failures right, that is often the…
