What do the world’s top performers do differently? In Virtuoso Tips, Mike Rayburn distills proven mindset strategies, performance hacks, and success habits into actionable insights for anyone ready to play at the next level.
Many of you know my “What IF…?” keynote is all about becoming more innovative by asking the question, “What if?” When you come up against the impossible instead of backing down, instead ask, “Hey, what if we could do this, how would it happen?”
Worldwide this message has resonated and exploded with great results.
Fail Faster, Fail Often Do you want to succeed faster? Then you need to fail faster. By now you certainly know that failure is an
You have the same 24 hours per day that Bill Gates, Stephen Curry, Oprah, Bruno Mars, and Elon Musk have. What will you do with them? Look, “someday” sucks, and all “buts” stink.
But that’s exactly what organizations are doing. Their cultural fear of being wrong is killing the very spirit of innovation they say they need. You, your teams, and your entire organization must learn that being wrong isn’t wrong. Not learning and growing from being wrong is wrong.
The Foundation of All Innovation, Problem-Solving and Growth… Is Simple My “What If…?” Keynote Explained As a ponderer and thinker of thoughts, I recently stumbled
The problem is your potential dwarfs your belief in your potential. There is a current of disbelief in ourselves running through the world, telling us we are less, that we were meant to fall short, to stop dreaming big… or stop dreaming at all. I’ll be blunt. It’s a LIE. You are a genius.
Great leaders give credit when things go well and take responsibility when they don’t. That’s humility.
(Yeah, it’s a selfie but I’m stuck on an island alone. Read below) This One Action Quintupled My Income and Changed My Life: Start a
Surround Yourself With Praise, Accountability, and Praise… It’s Called Grace. My wonderful agent and manager, Christa Haberstock recently wrote an illuminating LinkedIn post about the
What strikes me as amazing is that most people of any basic level of intelligence and education already know the basics of success. You can name them…Education (however you get it), Work ethic, Healthy diet, weight and exercise, Sleep, Living within your means, Low debt/no debt, Save your money, Take responsibility.
We’ve all been there: One day, for whatever reason, you’re down, unmotivated, but you’ve got stuff to do. Is it the Nike answer, just do it? Force yourself even though you feel like crap? Well… no. And Yes. I have a solution you may not have considered. First of all and obviously, if there is an important or mandatory task, you have no choice, you have to do it. This is called self-discipline which my friend, Brian Tracy defines as: “Doing what you need to do, when you need to do it, regardless of how you feel about it.”
My wife is amazed that almost every time we go somewhere, on the busiest day, I get a great parking space. The kids even ask, “Dad, how do you do that?” It’s simple: I see it before I get there. And now I believe it will be there waiting for me because it’s happened so often. And nine times out of ten, it is. I imagine most of us have heard of visualization, where you picture the thing you want, exactly as you want it, and it comes to you, or has a greater likelihood of coming to you.
