Author Archives: Matt Mayberry

Overcoming Adversity

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Effectively overcoming adversity is a crucial skill that must be learned. Imagine reaching the top of your profession after dreaming about it since you were a child, then all of a sudden have it completely taken away from you in an instant. That’s exactly what happened to me when I got hurt in my first…

When Faced With Adversity, Focus on Solutions

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All too often, the first thing we do when adversity appears is focus on the negatives and all of the problems in our lives. Failure and adversity are only present in our lives to help us, not hurt us. It’s extremely important to never lose sight of this truth. To turn failure into a gift…

Don’t Let Others Degrade Your Potential

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“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” Whether you believe in those sayings or not, an absolute truth that entrepreneurs and business owners can never lose sight of is that it really does matter who we spend our…

Create a Support Group That Will Push You

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A mastermind group with the right people can do incredible things for your personal and professional lives. You can have a mastermind for every area of your life. There are masterminds where business owners and CEOs get together quarterly or yearly to discuss their current challenges and ways they can enhance their companies’ growth. Then…

Joe DeFranco From Struggling to World Renowned

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One of the most amazing things that I do every week is talk with world-class achievers. These men and women work in different industries, but they are people who have reached the top of their professions and overcame an incredible amount of hardships to get to where they are now. The one thing I love…

Silence the Negativity and Fight For Your Dream

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Fight for your dream. Just because someone tells you that you are out of your mind or that you’re dreaming way too big, it doesn’t mean you have to listen! As an ambitious entrepreneur and business owner, not everyone is going to be on your side and believe in your vision. You will probably have…

Don’t Wish to Be Successful. Expect to Be.

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We all hope to be successful, but most people don’t expect themselves to reach a level of extraordinary achievement. Rather, they hope and wish for that to be the case someday. Hoping and wishing will never be enough to get you to where you want to go. Going into business for yourself and hoping and…

Don’t Forget the Importance of Living in the Now

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Have you ever got so excited about what’s to come in the future that you completely forgot to live in the present? I certainly have, and I know many others that deal with the same problem. It’s easy to forget about living in the present and direct our focus and energy towards the future, or…

20 Quotes to Help Motivate You

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Building great businesses, achieving massive goals and rising to the top of your profession doesn’t just happen by accident. It happens through a ridiculous work ethic and consistently showing up every single day. Here are 20 quotes to help motivate you to hustle like never before: 1. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a…

What Matters Most in Life and in Business

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What matters most in life and in business? Building great, sustainable, and meaningful relationships is arguably one of the most important things we can do during our time here on Earth. All too often, we see men and women who think it’s perfectly fine to neglect their relationships just to move up the corporate ladder…

Why Talent Alone Will Never Be Enough

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One of the great mistakes of life is to think that talent alone is enough to be great and become a high achiever. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen talented people get cut from the sports team, go bankrupt after a few years in business or just completely get flat out…

10 Things the Best of the Best Do Differently

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Something that has always fascinated me over the years is what are some of the things that the best of the best do differently than everyone else. While there are many different qualities and habits that the best possess, here are 10 of some of the most common things that I have found that have…