────────────The Growth Note | Sight vs. VisionRead it. Feel it. Do something with it.────────────Hey you,Helen Keller once said,“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”She lost her sight and hearing at 19 months old — ye...

────────────The Growth Note | Premeditated PresenceRead it. Feel it. Do something with it.────────────Hey you,People always brighten a room.Some do it when they enter — others when they finally leave.This week, I was determined to be the first kind.A...

────────────The Growth Note | People Buy Stories, Not ProductsRead it. Feel it. Do something with it.────────────Hey you,Jesse Itzler tells a story from his early days that has always stuck with me.In the 1990s, Jesse was hustling to break into the m...

The Growth Note | Leaders Are ReadersRead it. Feel it. Do something with it.────────────Hey you,Some stories don’t just inspire — they convict. They remind us of the gap between where we are and what we could become.This one is about Ben Carson.Ben C...

The Growth Note | Storytelling is the Shortcut to TrustRead it. Feel it. Do something with it.────────────Hey you,This week was awesome!I had the honor of MCing and speaking at the BNI Tampa Annual Summit 2025, standing in front of more than&nbs...

────────────The Growth Note | Personality Always WinsRead it. Feel it. Do something with it.────────────Hey you,This past weekend my family and my buddy Seth went on a Royal Caribbean Cruise. One afternoon out at sea, we were on the pool deck when th...

The Growth Note | High Agency ThinkingRead it. Feel it. Do something with it.────────────Hey you,History is full of experts who said, “That can’t be done.”And it’s also full of people who ignored them.Take the Wright Brothers.They weren’t trained eng...

The Growth Note | Becoming ReferableRead it. Feel it. Do something with it.────────────Hey you,Here’s the thing: most people don’t struggle to do great work — they struggle to get others to talk about their work clearly.Think about referrals. You’ve...

────────────The Growth Note | The Invisible BarrierRead it. Feel it. Do something with it.────────────Hey you,George Bernard Shaw once said:“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”That illusion is everywh...

Hey you,Last week in Orlando, I had the chance to meet Dr. Benjamin Hardy in person at a large youth event for my church. , let's just say it was a dream come true!If you’ve read any of his books, more specifically his newest boot: The Science o...