Author: Mike Schott

I will never forget the day I met Kitty Allen. We were about two weeks into the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic and the whole world had just shut down. My wife was pregnant and I had just quit my job to jump into the deep end of becoming a Built to Lead builder. On … Continue reading Day 181: Stretch your strengths…

Why is it so hard to esteem yourself? That is a deep question and one that needs to be unpacked at a personal level.  For me, the inability to esteem myself and staying hard/down on self for too long manifested in anxiety.  I had a breakthrough when I gained more clarity on a key worldview … Continue reading Day 180: Praise…

Initiate. What’s jumping off the page about today’s writing is that leaders initiate. Win or lose, they are going to initiate learning how to improve. Win or lose they are going to initiate studying and learning about themselves and their process. Win or lose they are going to apply the learning immediately. Leaders don’t stay … Continue reading Day 179: Loss to learning…

Am I enough? Am I good enough?  The answers that I have told myself to those two tricky questions is the script I am trying to flip.  My ego and conditioning has told me all my life that the answer to these questions are no.  It has not necessarily been a bad thing as it … Continue reading Day 178: Begin to believe…

We can all agree that everyone in our life values when we are showing up our best.  The million-dollar question in how do we consistently produce the high-quality presence that the world needs from us? Let’s start with writing out our dream state for our own presence.  For me its freedom from my mind and … Continue reading Day 177: Presence…

What is the melody line of building intuition?  Reps.  Chester outlined a Mothers reps. How did BK build his? Driving the streets, speaking with people from all walks of life, studying micro and macro trends, testing and iterating for 20 years and voila Gravity sprouts. Reps. How has Tom Brady become one of the greatest … Continue reading Day 176: Intuition…

I just finished up a nine hour offsite being with a team that’s led by a leader who embodies the definition of one who can be with and be the man.   He listens with an open mind and heart in a way I have rarely seen in rooms such as this. He empowers his … Continue reading Day 175: Be with and be the man…

Identity is one tricky beast isn’t it?   I had a powerful practice with a team this morning that is struggling with their identity as a team. They are managing through a “divorce” of a legacy product they put their whole heart behind to fully focus on a fresh bigger, bolder vision.   They identified … Continue reading Day 174: Genuine objectivity…