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🧭 The 45-Minute Practice Ritual That Made Kobe Unstoppable

Aug 17, 2025

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9 min read

🧭 The 45-Minute Practice Ritual That Made Kobe Unstoppable

The one thing Kobe did above game speed that separates championship players from everyone else and how to get your players to adopt his intensity

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Sep 14, 2025

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🧭 John Madden's 4 rules for coaching that made him a legend

🧭 John Madden's 4 rules for coaching that made him a legend

John Madden retired 45 years ago, but Hall of Fame players still get emotional talking about him. It wasn't his wins (though he never lost a season). It was his controversial 4th rule that broke every coaching commandment...

Sep 13, 2025

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11 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Greg Harden

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Greg Harden

Tom Brady's mental performance coach giving some of the greatest lessons on mindset, peak performance, and adversity.

Sep 11, 2025

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5 min read

🧭 Thursday Storytime: Coach K

🧭 Thursday Storytime: Coach K

The Day Coach K Walked Out Before the Championship Game.

TRENDING


🧭How Athletes Use Self-Talk To Improve Performance

🧭How Athletes Use Self-Talk To Improve Performance

The power of negative self-talk and 3 ways to improve your self-talk and performance goals.

Focus

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🧭 The 45-Minute Practice Ritual That Made Kobe Unstoppable

🧭 The 45-Minute Practice Ritual That Made Kobe Unstoppable

The one thing Kobe did above game speed that separates championship players from everyone else and how to get your players to adopt his intensity

Mindset

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🧭 What Great Leaders Do That Average Leaders Avoid

🧭 What Great Leaders Do That Average Leaders Avoid

It’s not talent. It’s not leadership. It’s something far more underrated...and more powerful.

Culture

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Brad Stevens

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Brad Stevens

Brad Stevens on how to be the best leader you can be, the power of vulnerability, and how to bring a team together.

Teamwork

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🧭Andrew Huberman's Breathing Hacks to Reduce Stress

🧭Andrew Huberman's Breathing Hacks to Reduce Stress

6 breathing tips to improve your health and specific breathwork techniques on how to reduce your stress and improve your performance.

Focus

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: NZ All Blacks

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: NZ All Blacks

What we can learn from the New Zealand All Blacks on culture building, teamwork, and the mindset of excellence.

Mindset

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🧭 Scientists Discovered How Young Brains Actually Get Motivated

🧭 Scientists Discovered How Young Brains Actually Get Motivated

The real reason that people don't listen to your feedback and why it's more complex than you think.

Culture

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🧭The Hidden Advantage Behind Peak Performance

🧭The Hidden Advantage Behind Peak Performance

We break down how character, clarity, and internal alignment drive peak performance from the New Zealand All Blacks to high achievers in every field.

Mindset

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TOP READS


🧭 What Grit Really Looks Like

Apr 20, 2025

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9 min read

🧭 What Grit Really Looks Like

What science, Steve Young, and elite performers teach us about staying committed when it gets hard.

Grit

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🧭 The One Type of Thinking We Know That Works

Today, we talk about how saying negative thoughts out loud will increase the probability of them happening by 40-70 times...

Jan 13, 2025

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10 min read

🧭 Where Does Self-Discipline Come From

Today, we talk about the power of self-discipline, where it comes from, and how to develop it in your daily life.

Oct 13, 2024

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7 min read

🧭 The Ideal Team Player Defined

The Three Most Important Attributes to Look For in a Team Player and Why It's Important That They Have All Three.

Jul 15, 2024

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7 min read

DEEP-DIVES


🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: NZ All Blacks

What we can learn from the New Zealand All Blacks on culture building, teamwork, and the mindset of excellence.

Mindset

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Michael Jordan

What we can learn from Michael Jordan’s mindset, work ethic, and leadership and how to apply it to ourselves and our teams.

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Urban Meyer

In today’s deep dive, Urban Meyer talks about how to build committed teams, what he looked for in recruits, and the science of motivation.

LEADERSHIP


🧭 What Great Leaders Do That Average Leaders Avoid

It’s not talent. It’s not leadership. It’s something far more underrated...and more powerful.

Culture

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🧭 How to Be the Leader People Actually Want to Follow

This one mindset shift changes how your team sees you. Today, we get inside the playbook of how to master servant leadership.

Servant Leadership

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🧭 A leadership pyramid that rewires how you lead

This 6-part model will reframe leadership, explain why it's action-based, and help you lead with clarity, consistency, and action.

Leadership

HOW-TO


🧭 The ONE mindset shift that separates peak performers from everyone else

A Stanford researcher shows the surprising reason that some people thrive under pressure while others crumble.

Mindset

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🧭 A 9-Time Olympic Coach on Confidence and Pressure

What Ken Ravizza discovered after working with hundreds of Olympic athletes will forever change how you handle pressure.

Focus

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🧭 Saturday Deep Dive: How to Motivate Young People

Research on the adolescent brain and how you can motivate young people by balancing two things.

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