Episode #153
Greatness requires intentionality—curate your inner circle, inputs, and a no-excuses mindset.
Elite teams win consistently by feeling a collective sense of purpose in service to others.
Use failure as a catalyst; pause, ask hard questions, take responsibility, then act with clarity.
We all have a finite, time is a finite gift. What do you do with it? Every moment that you're blaming someone else, you're wasting your gift.
You don't let people wander into your inner circle. You're intentional about who's there.
Ask your team, who are we in service of? Why does what we do matter? And if we fail to deliver on our commitment to those who we're in service of, what happens to them?
Why does what you do matter?(43:16)
Don Yaeger is a nationally acclaimed inspirational speaker, longtime Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated, and author of over 30 books, eleven of which have become New York Times Best-sellers. Don left Sports Illustrated in 2008 to pursue a public speaking career that has allowed him to share stories learned from the greatest winners of our generation with audiences as diverse as Fortune 10 companies to cancer survivor groups.
More than a quarter-million people have heard his talks on “What Makes the Great Ones Great.”
