December 05, 2025 | Read Online “You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.” – Andrew Murphy I’m Not in Sales Most of my adult life, I’ve told people, “I’m not good at sales.” That’s not actually true. While I’m not confident or comfortable with sales, that’s not the same thing. The challenge is that while I’m telling this to other people, I’m also saying it to myself. Last week, I thought about the Memphis Americans. One of those memories your brain randomly serves up. Like a...
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November 28, 2025 | Read Online “Food should be fun. Food should be happy.” – Dorcas Reilly Marketing Casserole Happy Thanksgiving! If you ate Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, you probably tasted Dorcas Reilly's legacy. Her story also happens to be a great recipe for timeless marketing. In 1955, Reilly worked as a supervisor at Campbell’s test kitchen. She was tasked with creating a recipe based on ingredients any home cook would have, including green beans and Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom...
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FYI - We're navigating some tech issues with thetwentypercenter.com and our article archive may be temporarily unavailable. Thanks for your patience as we sort this out! November 21, 2025 “The short timeline literally forces out all false paths…And it forces out complexity. That's the point.” – Dr. Benjamin Hardy Deadline Magic Eleven days and 160 years ago, Captain Henry Wirz was hanged for war crimes. Wirz served as the stockade commander at Andersonville prison at Camp Sumter during the...
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November 14, 2025 | Read Online “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” — Dr. Seuss From Lesson to Lighthouse Over 2,300 years ago, Sostratus of Cnidus designed the first lighthouse on the island of Pharos near the port of Alexandria in Egypt. Stretching over 300 feet into the sky, it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Only the pyramids were taller. Atop the circular tower was a gigantic mirror and fire to serve as a beacon...
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November 05, 2025 | Read Online “People think focusing is about saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.” — Steve Jobs No-vember – The Power of No Welcome to No-vember! Just as the trees shed their leaves in Autumn, we should drop our...
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PSA: Last chance to join me at The ONE Thing Summit, Nov 8-9 in Austin. Click here for final seats. See you there! October 31, 2025 | Read Online “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” – Lao Tzu Never Enough Syndrome The recipe for a life of discontent is equal parts ambition, drive, and an ambiguous definition of success. Authors Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller once attended a party thrown by a billionaire on Shelter Island in New York. Vonnegut teased Heller that the...
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PSA: Speaking of permission slips… When’s the last time you had two full days to work ON your life and business instead of IN it? Join me at The ONE Thing Summit, November 8 - 9, in Austin, TX. The urgent will still be there on Monday—but you’ll handle it differently. Click here to claim one of the final seats. I’d love to see you there. October 24, 2025 | Read Online “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt The Permission Slips You've Been Waiting For This week on...
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PSA: Before we dive into today's story: if you've been chasing the same goal for too long and it's still not done, come to Austin November 8-9. We're hosting The ONE Thing Summit—two days of real implementation work to help you get clear and finally follow through. Tickets are almost sold out. Click here to get yours now. October 17, 2025 | Read Online “Being challenged in life is inevitable. Being defeated is optional.” – Roger Crawford Setbacks, Skunks, and Scotland My bag ditched me in...
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October 10, 2025 | Read Online “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein The High Achiever's Paradox We'd like to believe that everything gets easier with success. More money, more resources, maybe a team to help, and everything just clicks into place. Sometimes that's true. But there's a strange paradox – some challenges actually become harder with success. They compound. Think of it as a chronic problem or chronic mistake that, if...
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