goals Archives - Jake Thompson | Dallas Keynote Speaker and Peak Performance Coach

09 Jan

How to Make 2019 Your Best Year

Hope isn’t a winning strategy when it comes to making this year better than last. You need to take action, with a big picture plan - and a daily process to get there. Here’s a formula I use to get crucial WINS each year and if applied, can make 2019...

03 Oct

Until You Can Do What You Want

I tore my Achilles almost seven weeks ago during a men’s basketball league game. As anyone who has gone through this recovery process can attest, it has not been a fun seven weeks. I’ve been actively doing physical therapy 2-3 days

06 Jan

My Three Words for 2017

What will define your 2017? Each year, I anxiously anticipate Chris Brogan’s “My 3 Words..” blog post. It’s become tradition to read the post, meditate, and set the theme for my own key words of 2017. It also become my

15 Oct

Courage Over Comfort

Courage or comfort? What will you choose? Do you want your life to be remembered as one represented by courage, or as one represented by comfort? The best stories – and lives – are those dictated by courage. Here’s how

10 Oct

How to Set – and CRUSH – Big Goals

How do you set a big goal and just smash the shit out of it? You’ve got to have accountability. Every big dream, every big goal that you set requires accountability in order to reach it. So, let’s break this

20 Sep

Action Trumps Perfection

Why do so many of us fall into the lie of waiting for a “perfect” time? It’s as if we’re waiting to believe we suddenly receive inspiration, like an epiphany that comes to us. In all reality, we find inspiration

11 Jul

Who Says You’re Not Ready?

Who writes your permission slip? I remember when I was in school the permission slip was the key to getting out of class (and occasionally escaping boredom!). Sometimes you got a doctor’s note, sometimes the counselor would help you sneak

12 Nov

Being Realistic

“Be realistic.” Those two words are the most damaging to your dreams. “Being realistic” is accepting things as they are and lowering your goals. “Being realistic” means changing your dreams to fit inside their expectations of what you’re capable. “Being realistic”

21 Jan

Success In Life Mainly Comes Down to This

Every blog article & social media post you see in regards to success all claim to have the “one magic formula” to transform you from tired goal-setter to successful goal-crusher. Each one subscribes to a different methodology. It’s quite easy

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