Author Archives: Matt Mayberry

Personal Growth

What the Greatest Achievers Have in Common

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high achievers

Something that has always fascinated me is what separates the world’s greatest achievers from everyone else in the world. What do they know that we don’t? I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Lewis Howes, New York Times bestselling author and host of the wildly successful podcast, The School of Greatness. Lewis has…

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Excellence

3 Things That Will Rob You of Your Full Potential

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potential

Working to get better every day of our lives and striving to reach our full potential should be a major life goal for us all. Whether it’s complacency, the fear of failure, bad habits and plenty other factors that come into play as to why most never fulfill that major goal — that doesn’t have to be the story…

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Personal Growth

Stop Playing the Blame Game

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blame game

One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever done, both personally and professionally, was to decide and commit early on to not playing the blame game and to create my own personal growth plan that would force me to grow every single day. The reason for this monumental decision all transpired when I was having…

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Health

15 Things to Do When You’re Feeling Stressed

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Have you mastered stress, or is stress mastering you? Between work deadlines, bills, and family and friend obligations, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. And if it goes on for too long, you’ll find yourself struggling to merely survive instead of thrive. I know firsthand how brutal it can be when you don’t make an effort…

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Personal Growth

Setting Goals vs. Achieving Goals

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setting goals

Learning the incredible power of goals has forever changed my life. At 16 years old, I was a full-blown drug addict that was completely throwing his entire life away by living a life with no meaning and surrounding myself with others who degraded my potential and ability to become the best version of myself. It…

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Personal Growth

5 Ways to Drastically Increase Your Productivity

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Regardless of how successful they already are, most entrepreneurs and business leaders would like to become more productive and efficient. Of course, the busy-ness of running a company and managing others can create a great amount of stress, which leads to exactly what we don’t want: decreasing productivity levels. Here are 5 proven ideas and…

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Business Success

3 Business Lessons Learned in the NFL

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nfl

Making it to the top of any profession requires an insane amount of hard work, perseverance, belief, preparation, and precise execution. Being a former professional athlete in the NFL required everything I thought it was going to take and more. And yet my football career didn’t last all that long; in 2010, I was injured…

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Personal Growth

A Book by Matthew Kelly on Fulfillment

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book by matthew kelly

This book by Matthew Kelly is a powerful and practical guide to living a fulfilling life. A sad truth that becomes an everyday norm for millions of people is to go through life without any passion or purpose. They let their age become an excuse as to why they can’t embark on a new dream,…

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Productivity

Don’t Lose That All-Important Sense of Urgency

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sense of urgency

The secret weapon that is often overlooked to your personal and professional success is what is a sense of urgency and how to consistently cultivate it. Creating a sense of urgency is rarely talked about when discussing all of the required characteristics that make up the highly successful, but without a doubt, it’s a prerequisite…

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Success

Habits the Highly Successful Have Mastered

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habits

Whether it’s a famous CEO, professional athlete, superstar entrepreneur or anyone who is thriving at the highest level of their profession, chances are they didn’t just wake up one day and be in that position that they are in. There is no doubt about it that there are some who are ridiculously gifted at what it…

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Personal Development

Transformational Mindset Shifts

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transformational mindset shifts

As the saying goes, football is a game of inches. For all of you football fans, you know exactly what I mean by this. Some of the biggest and most painful losses throughout the course of my football career came directly from either being a second too late, a second too soon or an inch away…

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Excellence

Failing to Prepare is Indeed Preparing to Fail

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failing to prepare

How many of you have heard the famous Benjamin Franklin quote, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail?” If this is your first time seeing it, read it again. I cannot stress the importance of these wise words enough. People often talk about how they are waiting for their big break or that…

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Happiness, Health, Success

3 Ways to Win the Morning and Save the Day

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I am a firm believer in how we start our day determines how the rest of our day goes. If you go to bed late, hit the snooze button multiple times, roll out of bed later than you were supposed to, get stuck in traffic, and then end up being late to work, that’s a…

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Attitude, Motivation

8 Things Exceptional Thinkers Do Every Day

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lifelong learner

Everything that we are and everything that we are not is an end result from our current level of thinking. Every great achievement in history came from exceptional thinking. Every man or woman to ever rise to the top of their profession had exceptional thinking that played a major role in getting them to where…

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