Coach Prime and 99 year-old fan share key lessons for lifelong success

Coach Prime, Deion Sanders, and 99 year-old Colorado fan Peggy Coppom are bonding around winning.

Coach Prime and Peggy
Coach Prime and Peggy Coppom exult in faith that overcomes/Steve Blaising

Their discovery? Faith that doesn’t fail.

Winning faith is fueled by two characteristics.

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How Patrick Mahomes overcomes pain to succeed in life

Super Bowl 57 MVP Patrick Mahomes wraps the secret of success in one word.

Abundance.

Most folks see the world through scarcity or abundance.

Patrick sees abundance.

Even in pain.

On paper, the Eagles were superior on both sides of the ball.

They dominated the Chiefs 24-14 in the first half of Super Bowl 57.

But, in the second half, Mahomes played lights-out in pain.

Endurance by Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes plays through pain in Super Bowl 57/AP

His formula for success revolves around three principles of abundance.

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3 Great Habits of Wildly Successful People

The most wildly successful person I ever met said it all in his obituary.

“I really believe that people get in trouble in life not because they want too much, but because they settle for too little.”  Paul Markey

He developed one of the largest independent cities in the U.S., Stone Oak, north of San Antonio, TX.

But, Paul was especially known for epic refusals.

He refused to settle for less in . . .

  • ethics
  • family
  • business

Even after tragedies, the kind most folks never get over, Paul never settled in mediocrity.

Successful means not settling
Pinnacle of success at Snowdon mountain, Wales/Khamkor/Unsplash

Success may be as simple as doing the opposite of what settlers do. 

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A Daily Dose of Enthusiasm Makes Success Come True

The medal-winning German bobsled team shows how enthusiasm is the single trait for success.

The magic of enthusiasm
German bobsled team medal sweep 2022 Olympics/Michael Kappeler/AP Images

Six members of the German bobsleigh team sparked enthusiasm in an otherwise dreary, drug-laden Winter Olympics.

Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis, Johannes Lochner, Florian Bauer, Christoph Hafer, and Matthais Sommer captured more than three medals.

They captured the three great laws of enthusiasm.

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