Author: Mike Schott

Truer not tougher is magic.  I believe people, including me, have struggled to hit people with hard truth in the moment because they bifurcate the decision to do so into two categories. Am I just being tough for tough sake? If so, why am I taking that path?Is the conversation tough because you truly believe … Continue reading Day 173: Truer…

It's Monday morning. A fresh week to win. Or is it? Look at your calendar for the next 7 days.  Look at everything you and others put on your plate for the week ahead. Take a minute and analyze, how many of these meetings/activities/to-do items are playing to your version of Messi’s left foot?  Are … Continue reading Day 172: Messi strong…

I remember the first time I took strengths finders and it spit out a term that resonated perfectly with how I wanted to spend my life: activator. I had never heard this term before but it now anchors my OPUS and is the strength I lean into above any other.   Activating people and ideas … Continue reading Day 171: Stronger…

This week a client and I circled back to some discovery work to go a layer or twenty deeper. We picked Question 17 at random that turned into 90 minutes of pure magic. What is question 17 in discovery? “What are your “internal questions” that you constantly ask yourself and how do they shape your … Continue reading Day 170: Learning…

How can you measure ones awakeness? How do you measure your orientation, or alignment? How do you stoke it to a 4x level? I just got home from an 8-hour round tripper up to Detroit to be with a team that is becoming awake and on fire.  We started by reorienting this team of 11, … Continue reading Day 169: Awake and oriented times four…

Slow down, be with.  Easy to say, hard to do. Our attention is our most valuable asset, which is why everything in our life is fighting for it.  As a small example, think deeply about the companies, apps, and products you consume the most.  Are they also where you spend a material amount of your … Continue reading Day 168: Attention is attractive…

I was with a client this morning who is trying to break a habit of half stepping. What is half stepping? Not putting your full weight behind a deep insight and conviction for where he and his team must go. Why do humans half step? Holding tension of others is part of the answer. As … Continue reading Day 167: Pass the tension

I have a strong worldview that life should be a consistent series of short to middle term experiments with limited downside until you find your match.  Then when you have deep conviction around something that’s a match for you, model the great investors and put your money where your match is. The greatest returns in … Continue reading Day 166: Match…