Acheive the Green Beret Way

Former Green Beret Mike Martel focuses on helping individuals, entrepreneurs, and small businesses get results and improve productivity. For more information and a free Green Beret Productivity Toolkit, click here.

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Don’t Put Too Many Things on Your List

Don’t Put Too Many Things on Your List

When it comes to lists, you may think that the more, the merrier. Not so! In fact, after about 10 items, your list starts to decrease in productivity. The vast number of to-dos actually discourages you, and you fall into the old, “I’m never going to get it all done, so why bother?” mindset.

Then you end up not following your list at all, tackling the small, easy tasks (instead of the important…

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Why Experience Matters

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Predict Your Success for 2014

It’s the beginning of 2014 and it’s pretty likely that you have set some goals for yourself this…

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The Single Most Important Factor in Success

I have taken inspiration from a post by Dan Kennedy.  These words ring true for so many people.

  I…

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Merry Christmas– Gift Giving

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Broken Promises

When you look at failed goals, dreams, interpersonal conflict, problems at work; the number-one…

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15 Ways to Be an Awesome Leader

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results…

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The Human Condition

Sit back, relax.

Close your eyes. Listen to my words:

You have a great need for other people to…

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Those you that know me, know that I love baseball.  Even though my team the Mariners continually disappoint I love the strategy and explosive action of the game.

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It’s natural to want to blame someone or something for your failure. We blame the holidays for a weight gain, we blame our ex for their lack of understanding

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During an AAR we would have an environment where we put aside the competition, ego, and personality and openly and honestly discussed what happened in enough detail that everyone understood what did and what did not occur and why, what worked, and what did not work.

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After a failure to achieve a goal or a project, especially a large, painful one it’s common to ask yourself, “why did this happen to me?” many people will tell you that it –  whatever “it” is — is part of some master plan.

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