“Of course, it’s the same truth for anyone, at any age, in any walk of life. You can’t become the best sales rep, the best manager, the best parent, the best spouse, the best anything, until you become the best person you can possibly be.
This message is more important today than ever as we watch this country, and the entire world, struggle with not one but two historic crises at the same time. …
Our ability to keep functioning, both together and as individuals, as everything gets turned upside down all around us—to focus on those things that we can control when everything else seems to be spinning completely out of control—is more valuable right now than it has ever been. …
In the end, all I’m trying to do is build you up, encourage you to stay positive in a negative world, and help you stay sane in an insane world.
I want you to become the best friend you ever had in your life, because your very best friend has to be you.
I want you to become the world’s greatest expert on yourself, so you’ll have the knowledge and the power to become the very best version of yourself.
As my amazing wife, Sheila Harden, likes to say, ‘I want you to live your best life now.’ …
So let’s get started.”
~ Greg Harden from Stay Sane in an Insane World
Greg Harden is one of the world’s greatest peak performance coaches.
He tells us that champions aren’t born. They’re built. He spent over 30 years building them at the University of Michigan where he worked with 400 future professional athletes, 50 NFL first-round draft picks, and 120 Olympians from over 20 countries. He gained national recognition when 60 Minutes Sports profiled him as “Michigan’s Secret Weapon.”
To put it in perspective, Harden has worked with seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady (who wrote the foreword to the book) and twenty-three-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps—two of the greatest athletes of all time.
As per the inside flap of the book, he teaches his students how to practice, train, and rehearse to give 100 percent, 100 percent of the time, and challenges them by asking: If you don’t believe in yourself, why should I believe in you?
In this great book, he walks us through the most life-changing Big Ideas he teaches his peak performers to help them go to the next, NEXT level while showing us how we can do the same.
I loved the book and highly recommend it. Grab a copy here. As you’d expect, the book is PACKED with Big Ideas. I’m excited to share some of my favorites so let’s jump straight in!
P.S. The book was published by Blackstone Publishing—the company with which we created Heroic Blackstone Publishing through which we published Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential and through which we plan to publish all future books, including our upcoming series of I Am Heroic kid’s books.
Their world-class team has been absolutely incredible. We’re blessed to have them as partners. High fives, Team Heroic Blackstone!
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