Jake Thompson | Keynote Speaker on Grit, Sales, & Leadership
This past Sunday, future Hall of Fame NFL quarterbacks Drew Brees and Ben Roethlisberger went down with injuries. Multiple other starters are battling injuries and out for a game or the season, including Cam Newton, Nick Foles, Sam Darnold, and Trevor Siemeon. Every NFL team’s fate lies in the hands of their quarterback, the most […]
Most of us become quite frustrated because unlike that fictional movie character, the process to growing our own confidence takes much longer than two hours.
And most of us quit trying, believing the lie that “it’s just not for us.” But the truth is, it is for you.
Are you getting distracted by worrying about what everyone else is doing, believing they’re your competition? Or are you focused in on your finish line and what you’re really up against?
I explore what you need to do with last year before you can make 2019 your best year yet.
Learn the mindset that Competitors have when heading into a new year, and how you too can take this mindset to set yourself up for unparalleled growth in 2019.
“Compete every day? No, that’s not me. I don’t like to compete.”
Does that response sound like something you’d say? I used to hear it quite often at tradeshows with the Compete Every Day team. Visitors would be walking the expo floor, stop in the booth to shop the apparel and then see the brand name and give me that line.
They believed that if they didn’t join a fitness competition or play competitive sports that they, in fact, weren’t ever competing.
It’s not that they weren’t competing against something, it’s just that they didn’t realize they were.
But there’s nothing special about my story. I remember telling my coach that early in our time working together. I was new to public speaking and had hired his team years ago to help me elevate my craft to better serve my audiences. I had goals of becoming a household name as a speaker, but […]
Six years ago this past Friday I sold my very first item online for Compete Every Day. What a ride. I’d almost forgotten our anniversary until Friday night when a Facebook memory showed up in my feed, reminding me of the importance of May 26. I gave pause and began to reflect on the last […]
It’s funny how our mind works. When many of us face obstacles, we tend to believe we’re the only ones facing that obstacle. So we don’t talk about it. We internalize everything. And because of that, we feel alone in a battle with a Goliath we can never beat. In all reality, there’s hundreds – […]
