Category: Unstoppable Sundays

If you’re a high achiever and can’t figure out how to get ahead or get promoted at work, you’ve got to watch this week’s Unstoppable Sunday episode.

By the end of this week’s episode, you’ll have THREE STEPS to follow to to get promoted and grow faster in your career.

After having managed hundreds of people (and promoting many) and after having sold 2 companies and becoming an employee myself, I’ve seen this exact strategy in play COUNTLESS times. It’s time for you to put it to work and get promoted and grow your career faster.

Lastly, here’s the link to join our 45-Day Unstoppable Challenge.

 

 

I’m a high achiever, and the one thing I’ve always struggled with is my ability to focus in on ONE goal.

At the same time, I’ve also found that when I focus in on ONE goal, I’m able to deliver 10x the amount of results.

This is one of the reasons I started to do 45-Day Unstoppable Challenges to advance ONE goal at a time.

Recently, I did a 45-Day Challenge with a group, and on this episode, I’m going to teach you how it worked and how you too can join my legion to accomplish anything you want in life.

A 45-Day Beast Mode Challenge is when you:

• Commit to crushing ONE specific and measurable goal

• You talk to your family and friends to gain social capital

• You decide how you will reward yourself when you accomplish your goal

• And finally, you create an action plan for your 45-days to make sure you CRUSH your goal

I’ve done these 45-Day challenges to change the trajectory of my life countless times over the past decade.

This time around, I decided to invite others to do one with me.

This was the first time I did it in a mastermind form.

It was daunting at first, but it was also incredibly inspiring as I saw all these people flow in and commit to doing a 45-Day challenge.

As part of the process they talked through WHY it was important to them and how their lives would change if they accomplished it.

And so as a group of us kicked it off.

Through the course of the 45-Day challenge, I checked in with the group every Sunday, I sent a video every other week to help navigate the 45-Days, and we all held each other accountable on our progress by filing a weekly report.

For me personally, it was one of the most incredible 45-Days of my life. During that 45-Day challenge, I buckled down and finished my book How to Punch the Sunday Jitters in the Face (link below).

As we rounded out the challenge, I ran a survey to understand what worked well for our group, how people did, and what we would do differently if we did another group challenge.

Over the past 10 years, I’ve consistently used these 45-day Unstoppable challenges to change the trajectory of my life, and our mission here at Unstoppable is to help YOU do that.

I’ve taken everything I know about doing these 45-Day challenges, the feedback from this group that went through my mastermind and turned it into a course and mastermind.

If you are a high achiever, and you want to kick off a 45-Day Unstoppable Challenge, follow the link below for my webinar where I share 3 more secrets on how to do them, and also tell you more about my Legion of Unstoppables who do these together.

 

 

In this episode, I’m going to walk you through the three steps you need to take to change your life around completely in a 7 day period.

There was a moment of my life, where I finally acknowledged I needed to make a change.

I was in the wrong job.

There was a moment in my life where I was in the wrong relationship.

There are two problems that come up when we come to this realization, and I’ve fallen for both of these…

First, even if you might feel this, you may not truly embrace reality and accept it.

There were times when I made excuses and chose to escape my reality instead of doing something about it.

Second, even if we accept reality, we’re not able to bring change to our lives.

You see, we as human beings are creatures of habit. And it’s so FRIGGIN’ hard to break these patterns.

If you’re watching this, you’re probably in a similar spot.

You FEEL a change needs to be made.

If that’s you, can I get a YES in the comments. I want others to feel how common of a feeling this is.

You WANT to see a change.

But you don’t know how.

I was there 10 years ago, and then I discovered these three secrets that helped me unlock my life.

Now look… Obviously you won’t be able to completely change every aspect of your life within a 7 day period, but if done right, you can make significant mindset changes within a 7-day period that can lead to massive changes in your life over time.

Step 1 — Acknowledge where you are.

I did this by starting to practice this thing I call Unstoppable Sunday. Doing this immediately changed how I felt over the coming seven days of my life and it will change it for you too.

I do this on Sunday afternoon because that is when my anxiety used to really hit me HARD about needing to make a change in my life.

You ever get that feeling on a Sunday? If YES, then can I get a YESSS in the comments below? I want other people to see how we’re not alone in this.

I talked more about how to practice this and plan out my week and immediately feel BETTER about the next 7 days of my life on THIS video.

Once you get momentum over your next 7 days, and once you keep doing this every Sunday, you’re going to start to feel the energy to do MORE. That’s where Step 2 comes in.

Step 2 — Figure out where you want to be 5 years from now.

Cast a BIG wide vision of where you want to be, what you want to be doing, completely separate from where you are now and how you’ll actually get there. I call this my 5-year YOU exercise, and I talk more about how to do it on THIS video.

Step 3 — As I started to get control of my life one 7-day period at a time, and now that I established a North Star for my life, I started doing 45-Day Beast Mode challenges to focus on specific areas of my life to change my trajectory and start pointing it to my North Star.

So you should pick a specific area of your life you want to change, and do a 45-day beast mode challenge on it.

I’ve done these 45-day challenges countless time in my life and they’ve helped me dramatically transform my life.

If you want to punch the Sunday jitters in the face, if you want to take control of your life, if you want to become the BEST version of yourself. Follow the link below for our FREE Unstoppable Life Planning Guide.

These three simple steps have changed my life completely over the past decade, and I teach the principles that helped me do it here on this channel. So if you want to learn more, be sure to hit the SUBSCRIBE button and the little bell so you get notified about my video every Sunday.

And remember… everyone needs a strategy for their life… YOURS NEEDS TO BE UNSTOPPABLE!

 

 

Whether you call it the Sunday Scaries, the Sunday jitters, the Monday dread, or the Sunday afternoon “What am I even doing with my life” — I FRIGGIN’ HATE THEM and on this episode I’m going to talk about the three reasons you get them.

I always describe my life in two distinct versions.

There was the BEFORE

And there was the AFTER

In both parts of my life, I had big goals for myself, I always wanted my own business, and I wanted to become the best version of myself.

But in the BEFORE part of my life

I always struggled with getting on the right life path

I had a finance job I didn’t love

I was in a relationship I wasn’t happy in

And most importantly, every Sunday, I would get hit HARD with the Sunday Scaries

And then there’s the after

I ended up starting my own business, growing it, then selling it

I started this channel, wrote my book, and started to talk about how to live a more proactive life

And over the course of a decade, I figured out how to live life proactively and punch the Sunday Scaries in the face

Having thought about this for nearly a decade, here are the THREE key reasons why you get the Sunday Scaries:

#1 – You’re avoiding thinking about it

There’s a rule in racing. You need to LOOK at the direction you want to go. Even if the car is spinning out. LOOK at the road and the direction you want to go. Here’s the thing though, when your car is spinning out of control, where are you looking? The wall you’re about to hit. Where are you supposed to look? The road where you’re supposed to be headed!  The same goes for Monday. You’re spending so much energy worried about Monday, that’s exactly where you’re being pulled… a worried Monday and a stress filled Monday night.

#2 – You don’t have a plan for your week

No one ever freaks out when there’s a plan. Can you imagine if you stared Monday in the face, looked at your whole week, and created a plan for yourself? Even if there are tough days ahead? The thing is in the absence of a plan, our mind drifts. It goes crazy. It starts creating all kinds of unlikely scenarios in our mind. And that’s what’s going on on Sunday. You’re out of the game and out of flow for two days — and you’re going back to your routine with no plan. It’s no wonder you’re mind is freaking out!

#3 – You’re on the wrong path in your life

This might be the toughest one. You may have some legitimate reasons to be scared. It’s your subconscious mind, maybe your heart, maybe your soul, the universe, god, whatever you believe, telling you that you’re on the wrong path. What you’re doing Monday is not what you’re meant to be spending your time on.

I’ve had a ton of Sundays where I experienced the Sunday jitters and then I DECIDED I didn’t want them anymore. Be sure to check out my other video about how I battle the Sunday Scaries here.

Also..

If you want to punch the Sunday jitters in the face, if you want to take control of your life, if you want to become the BEST version of yourself. Follow the link below for our FREE Unstoppable Life Planning Guide.

 

 

 

I’ve taken on plenty of big goals in my career and in my life.

And because I took risks like quitting my steady six figure job, and because I took risky bets, because I started companies, because I took on projects that I had no business taking on….

I’ve been rewarded handsomely in life and I’m thankful for it.

But not in a single one of those endeavors did things go perfectly.

In fact in almost all of them, I faced massive amounts of adversity, self doubt, and seemingly insurmountable challenges.

There was this one time when my business, ToutApp was in trouble. We had just ended a board meeting, and it was SO bad that each of my board members gave me a HUG and gave me my orders: Cut the company down to 15 people ( we were at 80 people) and figure it out from there. God Speed.

Sometimes, adversity strikes us in our personal lives. There was the time I was going through my divorce, and while I was doing 80 hour weeks to build the company, the lawyer sent me a nice note saying “We’re coming for you… for your money and the company”

And then there was even the time when I was going through selling ToutApp and I suffered a Gout attack while having shingles along the side of my body.

You see. Successful people don’t talk about that.

Those moments when you’re closer than ever on your goals and things are going wrong in other areas of your life

Or the messy middle when things are all falling apart and you’re not even sure if you’re going to make it to the promise land.

For all the success that I’ve had, I’ve had moments when it was all falling apart.

And in those moments, we’re tired. We’re feeling defeated. We just want to give up. And we just don’t know how we can keep going.

I’ve been there multiple times along the path to success.

So what happened?

How did I get passed those terrible horrifying moments?

In my life, during those moments, I was able to work through it. I was able to turn my company around and get to a great outcome. I was able to overcome my divorce. I was able rebuild my health.

Common personal development advice would tell you to double down. To gather up more energy. You would think given that this channel is called UNSTOPPABLE I’d tell you RUN TO THE FIRE and GO FIX IT!

But take it from someone that has been there, it’s hard to get to that mentality when the shit is hitting the fan.

And so in those moments when I was feeling overwhelmed, defeated, hopeless, I did the ONE THING that no one will tell you to do.

I shut it all down. Even if for a half day or a weekend. I shut it all down, I told everyone I’d get back to them in a day, and I went to the movies. Or I went to the beach. I chucked my phone, I put it all away, and I went away.

Not to fight off the feelings that I was feeling, but to FEEL those feelings, to let it flow THROUGH ME instead of me fighting back. Even if for a half day.

There’s a strange thing that happens when it comes to adversity. The more you try to fight it, the stronger it becomes. But the more you let it just flow through you and feel it, the weaker it becomes.

So in each and every one of those scenarios, I shut it all down, I took the time to collect my thoughts, to feel the overwhelmedness and recollect myself.

Sure enough, a day or two later, I always came back with more energy, a fresh perspective, and a new way to attack and solve the problem.

And it worked for me every time. No matter how bad the situation. Because I gave myself that time to recharge even if just a little bit.

So the next time you’re feeling overwhelmed, DON’T FIGHT IT.

Take the day off and shut it all down.

Find a friend that’ll help you escape the current moment and laugh again.

And tomorrow, come back with a vengeance.

If you’re looking to take a more proactive approach to your life using strategies like this — be sure to SIGN UP for our Unstoppable Life Planning Guide by following the link below!

 

 

 

In my Unstoppable Life Planning guide (link) and also in my book which you can now pre-order (link), I talk about how it is SUPER important to pause and reflect on your goals every 90 days.

Why 90 days? Every 3 months just happens to be a GOOD amount of time to get a bunch of stuff done, and then stop to pause and reflect and course correct. Thats pretty much why even Corporate America lives and dies by the quarter.

Have you paused and reflected on your first 90 days of 2019 yet? If not, you should practice Unstoppable Sunday today.

On Today’s Unstoppable Episode, I pause and reflect on the past 90 days of my life.

It’s a bit of an unusual episode this week… I didn’t script it…

I didn’t try to get ONE big principle in…

I kind of just got in front of the camera to pause and reflect live on what a crazy 90 days its been…

In our Unstoppable Life Planning guide (linked below), we teach you how to use tools like Unstoppable Sundays, and 45-day challenges to drive consistency and discipline in achieving your dreams and getting to a proactive mindset in both life and business.

 

 

 

If there’s one thing I value in myself and the people in my life, it is those that have a sense of urgency. Having a sense of urgency is the single thing that can help you accomplish your goals, to stop procrastinating, to finally get moving on that side project or business you want to build. Let me explain…

So often in life, we struggle to find the motivation, the energy, and even the inspiration to do what we know we need to do in life.

Even if there is that one project we’ve been meaning to take on at work…

Or that side business we’ve been hoping to start…

It’s alway so easy to delay it.

We say things like…

Tomorrow.. I finally will.

Or next weekend, I’ll spend the WHOLE weekend on it!

And quickly that turns into… One day… or Maybe… I’ll finally do that thing.

I realized early in life that there is one key characteristic that motivates people to make changes in their life. To take action. To get off their butts, stop watching Netflix and go pursue that project that they know will be good for them.

It’s also the same characteristic that every single top performer I’ve ever worked with has exhibited.

It’s having a sense of urgency.

People who have a sense of urgency about their goals are friggin’ unstoppable and I love them. They overcome all kinds of obstacles, inertia, and they don’t need much “inspiration” or “motivation” to get going.

The question becomes, how do you get a sense of urgency. I have a very simple method for this, I simply do the math on how much time I have left on planet earth.

Now look. I’m not here to make things morbid. But the reality is we are all here on this planet living for a certain amount of time. And while we’ll never know exactly how much time we have, we also fail to do the math on how much time we probably have.

We don’t do the math becomes it makes it easier for us to pretend we have infinite time and make excuses like “tomorrow…I’ll get to it.”

I’ve found that people who have a sense of urgency have a deep understanding of just how much time they have left and what a finite resource it is.

Over the past few years, I’ve followed this simple trick to keep reminding myself how much time I have probabilistically.

If you google “average life expectancy” you’ll find that the average human in a relatively stable country lives to be 79 years old.

If you subtract how long you’ve lived from that 79, then you get how many years you probabilistically have left.

In my case, I’m 36 years old which means that I have 43 years left. Again, probabilistically. There may be other factors that significantly reduce this number, and scientific breakthroughs that significantly increases it, but basic math says that I’ve got 43 years.

Now here’s the trick. FORTY THREE YEARS feels like a long time. But here’s where the trick comes in. I don’t look at it as FORTY THREE YEARS or look at it as the roughly FIFTEEN THOUSAND days that it represents.

I look at as the distinct events I’ll experience during those 43 years. To ME, I get a sense of urgency in everything that I do because I’m constantly reminded by my math that I’ve got
43 Birthday Parties to experience
43 New Year’s Eve celebrations and Days to experience
43 Christmases
43 Summers
… and 43 4th of July Barbecues

This simple math and mental trick reminds me just how short life really is and how it is our duty to make the most of that time we’re blessed with… with a sense of urgency.

So the question becomes, are you going about life with a SENSE OF URGENCY?

What is the thing that you are putting off?

Are you living life in a proactive fashion to make the most of the time that is given to you?

In our Unstoppable Life Planning guide (linked below), we teach you how to use tools like Unstoppable Sundays, and 45-day challenges to drive consistency and discipline in achieving your dreams and getting to a proactive mindset in both life and business.

 

 

 

Over the last few years of my career, I’ve come to be known as “The Fixer” of sorts.

Whether it was turning around a company that wasn’t doing well, or fixing a sales region that was falling apart, or fixing an entire department that never actually hit their numbers, I’ve constantly been airlifted into tricky situations to turn things around.

Needless to say, these were all incredibly stressful business situations.

The thing about when you’re starting a company is that you get to pick your own team, your own circumstances, and you set your own rules. You’re in control of the stress you bring into your life in more ways than one.

But when you’re part of a larger organization, or you’re being airlifted into an already running organization, it is stressful as hell to figure out who you can trust, who’s a great worker, and who can help you put out the burning fires in a troubled organization.

Whether it was running Europe, or running Australia, or fixing Alliances, or even turning ToutApp around when it wasn’t working well, I started to embrace this ONE framework to understand who I can count on to get us to the promised land.

Given a stressful situation, or a fire, or multiple fires that needed to be put out, I always get 1on1 with each of the people (including myself) into one of these three buckets:

• There are ones that run to the fire
• There are those that stand and complain about the fire
• And there are those that run away from the fire

This single framework, not only gave ME clarity for myself when dealing with stressful business situations, it also gave me a framework to evaluate the people on my team.

First of all, let’s talk about what this meant for myself. SO often we’re placed in stressful situations in life and business. This framework allowed me to realize, I always have a choice. When faced with a fire or a stressful situation, I have three choices:

• I can run to the fire and help fix it
• I can stand and complain about it
• Or… I can run away from the fire and remove myself from the situation

Let’s take the easy one first.  I NEVER WANT TO BE THE PERSON that stands and complains about the fire.

I don’t want to be that guy. I don’t want someone on my team that is that person. I have zero tolerance for it.

So the first decision that I commit to and I expect the whole team to commit to is to have Option B be a NON-OPTION. These are the worst kind of people and the kind of people that probably created the mess we’re in in the first place!

And then for myself, I figure out whether I’m choosing Option A or Option B.

Now, let me just say. I’ve gotten the biggest breaks in my career, the most incredible opportunities for advancement, and have won the most lucrative deals when I’ve run to the fire.

Fires / Problems / Stressful situations are often opportunities in business and life. They are opportunities for growth, they are opportunities for making something work incredibly well and reaping the rewards, and they are opportunities for advancement.

So if a fire or a problem is a bad situation but there is room for growth and advancement and it’s not a fool’s errand, I’m all for running TO the fire.

But while you’re considering Option A, it’s also important to consider Option C.

As much as I pride myself in being the person that ALWAYS runs to the fire, there has been times where I’ve walked away. And I actually have a TON OF RESPECT for people that explicitly walk away (instead of just standing around and complaining about the fire).

In my experience, there are always three great scenarios where you should just walk away:

• The situation is toxic and there is no upside (life’s too short)
• You’re on a fool’s errand
• Or, Your opportunity cost is too high

Once you’ve clarified Option A, B or C for yourself, in every stressful business situation I did 1on1s with my core leadership members.

I assessed them for whether they’re the type of person that runs TO fires or will just stand and complain, and then I set up incentive plans to ensure the right people are aligned to help me fight the fire and win.

And needless to say all of this worked so well because I went into each and every meeting, each and every situation with clarity for MYSELF that signaled – NO, I’M IN IT TO FIGHT THE FIRE. AND I WILL NOT TOLERATE ANYTHING LESS so you better pick which side you’re on… which quickly weeded out the problem children and the weak ones.

I look at every challenge in life like a bank heist. I take a proactive approach to solving these challenges and I’ve consistently reaped incredible rewards for it. This framework has been crucial for my own clarity and my team’s clarity.

So the next time you and your team are in a stressful situation, you need to lead and decide: will we run to the fire? Will we stand and complain? Or will we gracefully leave the situation. 

In our Unstoppable Life Planning guide (linked below), we teach you how to use tools like Unstoppable Sundays, and 45-day challenges to drive consistency and discipline in achieving your dreams and getting to a proactive mindset in both life and business.

 

 

 

There’s this one problem I’ve always had in my life.

I always accomplish goals.

But as I’m about to crush a goal, as I’m about to get a big win….

BOOM.

I’ve moved on to the next goal.

Because I’m that excited about continuing to grow in life.

This is a common thing amongst high achievers.

We constantly move the goal post as we’re about to score the goal, because we want more from ourselves.

And because we do that, we then have a tough time realizing why we haven’t had a WIN yet…

…even though we’ve had wins and we just haven’t allowed ourselves to celebrate.

This leads to all kinds of things like the Sunday jitters, it leads to burnout, it leads to us wondering where we’re even headed in our life.

These are the kind of things we tackle as part of our Unstoppable Life Planning guide.

One of the special exercises that I’ve used over the few years of my life, that we get YOU to do to overcome this is called Your Five Year self.

Here’s how it works.

Imagine you’re witnessing a coffee meeting between two people.

The first person is YOU today.

The second person is YOU from 5-years ago.

The YOU from 5-years ago, walks into the coffee shop and joins YOU from today. They don’t know each other but were introduced through a mutual friend who thought YOU today would be a great mentor for YOU from 5-years ago given your values, dreams and goals for yourself.

YOU from today starts to introduce yourself. You explain what you do. How you spend your days. What you’re excited about. And the recent wins you’ve had.

YOU from 5-years ago intently listens. There’s something that feels familiar about the person across, you can’t quite put your finger on it. But as YOU from 5-years ago listens to YOU today describe her accomplishments, his wins, her day, as YOU from 5-years ago observes his clothes….

YOU from 5-years ago starts to get excited and inspired.

Here’s the thing. No matter how hard the last 5 years has been for you, no matter the roadblocks, the obstacles, the losses, and the wins, you’re watching this channel because you’re a growth oriented person. And that means that UNDOUBTEDLY you’ve grown a ton over the 5-years.

It’s just that because we constantly move the goal post, we tend to forget just how much we’ve done in the span of the past 5 years. Only when you from 5-years ago meets a stranger that represents you today, do you really realize how far you’ve come.

Now just imagine where you can be 5-years from now if you’re proactive about it!

In our Unstoppable Life Planning guide (linked below), we teach you how to use tools like Unstoppable Sundays, and 45-day challenges to drive consistency and discipline in achieving your dreams and getting to a proactive life.

 

 

 

I often get asked by people. How do you keep your energy up?
How are you so positive about life and work?
How do you keep your calm even in the worst situations?

It’s because of my most favorite mantra in the world:
THIS TOO SHALL PASS.

The biggest lie we’re ever told in life is that we’ll reach a point where we won’t have to deal with any problems.

What we’re striving for in life is not to get to a point where we don’t have problems, it’s where we’re tackling BIGGER challenges with even BIGGER rewards and impact.

I learned at one point in life that we never stop having problems, we never stop having good times or bad, we just take on bigger challenges.

I believe the road to unstoppability is wrought with road bumps, challenges, and life lessons, our job is to get good at overcoming those problems.

In fact that ethos is baked right into our logo for Unstoppable.

And so when people ask me why I’m so positive. Why I always keep my energy up. Why I’m calm even during bad situations….

It’s because I learned early in life to EXPECT problems.

I learned early in life that the better we get at conquering road bumps we encounter, the quicker we learn to get back up when we’re down, the more positive of an attitude we employ at the face of adversity, the more unstoppable we become.

One of my most favorite mantras that I learned in life that I ALWAYS repeat in my mind.

THIS TOO SHALL PASS.

This saying was originated by Persian Sufi poets and then every religion, philosopher and orator under the sun has utilized it all the way down to Abraham Lincoln.

It simply means, if you’re having a great day, this too shall pass. If you’re having a bad day, this too shall pass. It’s the impermanence of things. The mantra taught me that we should revel in the moment because it will not last forever, and prepare for the next moment.

It’s why NO MATTER THE SITUATION, I”VE GOT A SMILE ON MY FACE because if it’s good days well I’m reveling in it, and if its BAD DAYS I just know I’m about to go punch that problem in the face.

The business version of this saying is something I say to my team every time we’re going after a challenge:

THESE ARE JUST PROBLEMS.
PROBLEMS HAVE SOLUTIONS.

Having a mindset that enjoys the moment for what it is, recognizes the moment for its impermanence, and having a mindset that prepares you for no matter what is next — is the mantra I follow in my life and what I believe Unstoppable is all about.

In our Unstoppable Life Planning guide (linked below), we teach you how to use tools like Unstoppable Sundays, and 45-day challenges to drive consistency and discipline in achieving your dreams and getting to a proactive life.