The School of Greatness

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

Steven Kotler, would later define greatness as “waking up every day and saying ‘Okay. Today I’m going to move mountains.’” That’s what I wanted. That’s who I wanted to be.

This starts with a series of questions.
How do I want every day to look?
How do I want to feel every single day?
What am I creating daily?
Whom am I spending my time with?
What places am I exposing myself to?
What passions am I fulfilling?
Take out a blank piece of paper or open a new document on your computer and fill the first half of the page with the answers, in broad terms, to these questions.
Here was mine from my first time completing the exercise.

’s extremely important to find some head space for whatever your ritual may be.

“Greatness means having pride in yourself, being happy with yourself, knowing you’ve worked for something and couldn’t have done anything more. That is greatness itself.”

One of my teachers, the author and journalist Steven Kotler, would later define greatness as “waking up every day and saying ‘Okay. Today I’m going to move mountains.’” That’s what I wanted. That’s who I wanted to be.

Greatness is a voluntary degree. Its study is self-administered. That means it’s all on you. And you get out of life what you put into it. I hope you pursue it with everything you’ve got. I hope we bump into each other learning from the same master. Actually, I hope one day I might even take a course from you, and you a course from me.
We’re in this together. It’s time to go out there and do something great!

From Scooter Braun I learned the critical role of building and leading a winning team to the pursuit of any kind of great achievement. Strong relationships with great people who have positive energy are fundamental to that team.
From Adam Braun, I learned the power of being in service to others. I learned that you don’t have to wait until you make it to serve the world. In fact, being of service, in any number of different ways, can be the path to making it.

From Rich Roll, Chalene Johnson, Aubrey Marcus, and Shawn Stevenson to many other wellness masters I’ve studied with, I learned the importance of physical health to greatness, no matter what the dream or the vision. You have a choice—to move, to eat well, to sleep right—and that choice, if you don’t make it soon enough and completely enough, will stand in your way on the path to greatness, no matter what else you bring to the table.
From my old buddy Graham Holmberg I learned that it’s never too late or too insignificant to develop and practice positive habits, no matter

The way you do this is by first becoming an All-Star player yourself. Do the work, improve your attitude, hustle, and sharpen your skills so that everyone else wants to make you a starter on their team! When you become a valuable asset to the world, then the world starts giving you what you dream of. It’s that simple.