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“Do one thing everyday that scares you.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

In 1951, Solomon Asch devised a classic social psychology experiment that investigated whether social pressure from a majority could affect a person to conform. Amazingly, 32% of the participants conformed to the clearly incorrect majority. How could that be? Asch concluded that people conform for two main reasons:

Today’s success track is about turning a no to a yes. As a powerful influencer, whether it be sales or leadership, if you’re the recipient of a high percentage of “NOs,” then you are not asking enough questions to create the reasons for your customer to say yes.

“People may hear your words but they feel your attitude.”

~ John C. Maxwell

It amazes me that despite all of the powerful social technologies at our disposal (email, text, IM, blogs) we seem more disconnected than ever before. Electronic communication dominates both our business and personal interactions, yet social media often makes us far less social than the real thing.

Today’s success track is about increasing your effectiveness and your productivity by taking control – Las Vegas Keynote Speaker Dan Lier

User Experience (UX) is the king of the kingdom. It's what can make a mediocre product exceptional, and a great product terrible. The mistake is thinking just about the product itself, and not about how people around it are going to interact with it. It's also a common misconception that User Interface (UI) is the same as UX. While they definitely work together, they're not the same. UI is the new Ferrari sitting at a racetrack; UX is the feeling you get when you drive the Ferrari around the track. UI also tends to start and end with the user, while UX encompasses everyone who comes into contact with the product in any meaningful way, from salesmen to service people, from the person who buys it to the person who uses it. And as you become better at UX, it starts expanding out beyond just the product at hand into the whole experience.

Today’s success track is about your “success psychology” and keeping your goals alive.

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

~ Teddy Roosevelt

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it made me think about one of the biggest advancements that technology has brought to the fitness industry. At the high level is in data collection - and this data has in turn helped us to better understand not only human physiology in general, but how each individual can maximize their efforts. But for me, at the heart of this revolution (pun intended) is the ability to track an individual’s heart rate. It helps indicate physical fitness, recovery, perceived effort, and opened a new chapter in the way people trained. Before we go much further, let's talk about the two primary methods of getting heart rate data today, and what some of the pros and cons of each are.