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I used to think my edge was intensity. Work harder. Earn more. Push longer. Sleep less. Figure it out later. And to be fair - it worked. For a while. Intensity gets results. It creates spikes. It can pull you out of holes. But intensity without structure eventually becomes volatility. High highs. Low lows. Big months. Flat ones. All gas. No rhythm. And volatility looks like momentum, until it doesn’t. The last month has been different. Not louder. Not bigger. Not dramatic. Ju

For a long time, I thought being “on” all the time was a strength. Always available. Always training. Always thinking about what’s next. If I wasn’t moving forward, I felt like I was falling behind. And to be fair - it worked. I performed well. I delivered. People relied on me. I stayed productive even when things were heavy. But here’s the part we don’t talk about enough: The real cost of always being “on” isn’t immediate failure. It’s slow erosion . The Invisible Cost No On

Not the glamorous moments - the repeated ones. The reps no one claps for. The work that doesn’t announce itself. The days where progress feels slow, quiet, and unremarkable. I’ve been reminded lately that most meaningful progress happens on a longer timeline than we’d like. We live in a world that rewards speed. Quick wins. Immediate results. Loud milestones. It’s tempting to measure progress by what’s visible - what can be posted, shared, or validated. But the outcomes that

There’s a particular kind of year that doesn’t show up well on paper. No obvious wins. No clean before-and-after story. No highlight reel. From the outside, it can look like stagnation. From the inside, it often feels like effort without payoff. But I’ve come to understand that some years aren’t designed to move you forward quickly - they’re designed to steady you. The misunderstood seasons of performance In sport, we understand this instinctively. Not every training block is

This is where the theory gets tested. Infinite thinking sounds clean and inspiring when life is stable - when time, energy, and focus are mostly yours to allocate. But eventually, every high performer hits a collision point. A point where: ambition stays the same standards stay high but capacity quietly shrinks Not because you’ve lost discipline. Not because you’ve stopped caring. But because other responsibilities expand. Family needs more presence. Work demands more cogniti

If there’s one thing sport teaches you, it’s that not every phase is meant to feel fast. Some training blocks are electric - the heavy sessions, the peak weeks, the moments when you feel the strength building in real time. And then there are the quieter phases. The weeks where nothing looks spectacular from the outside, but everything meaningful is happening underneath. Lately, I’ve realised life works in exactly the same way. For the first time in a long time, I feel like I’

There’s a lie we tell ourselves. We walk around saying things like: “I want to change.” “I’m ready to level up.” “I want more out of life.” But most of the time…that’s not true. Most people don’t actually want change. They want comfort with better results . They want the outcome, not the discomfort. They want the growth, not the stretch. They want the breakthrough, not the friction. I see it every day: in execs who feel stuck in athletes who want a PB in parents trying to res

There’s a very specific type of pressure that shows up in life. Not the pretend stuff. Not the “stress of a busy week.” Not the “I’ve got a few things on.” I mean the real kind. The kind that hits without asking. The kind that doesn’t pause for breath. The kind that strips you back to who you really are, not who you say you are. And I’ve had plenty of that kind over the last couple of years. Financial pressure. Family pressure. Identity pressure. Performance pressure. Trying

Last week knocked me around. Training dipped. Coaching dipped. Energy dipped. And for a few days there, I genuinely felt like everything I’d been building - fitness, mindset, coaching, momentum - had slid backwards. It wasn’t catastrophic. But it was enough to rattle me. And if I’m being completely honest, it wasn’t just the training. I wasn’t firing at work. I wasn’t as patient with the kids as I’d hoped to be. And I wasn’t showing up the way I normally pride myself on showi

There’s a stage in life where everything runs on fuel made of pressure. Proving you can. Proving them wrong. Proving to yourself that you’re not done yet. That kind of energy burns hot - and for a while, it works. You outwork people. You push through fatigue. You say yes to everything because you can’t stand the thought of slowing down. It’s powerful. But it’s also fragile. Because the day always comes when that fuel stops working. When you wake up and realise you’re not chas

There’s a point most men hit somewhere in their forties. Life looks stable. You’re earning well. The family’s good. You’re training when you can. You’re doing everything right . And yet…something’s missing. You wake up, do the routine, deliver at work, tick the boxes - but that edge, that spark, has dulled. It’s not that you’ve become lazy. You’ve just lost that sense of why. For me, it crept up quietly. On paper, everything looked solid - career humming along, training ticki

For a long time, I chased PBs on the track. Split times, medal positions, national standards - whatever the next marker was, that became the goal. It shaped how I trained, how I thought, how I lived. And I loved it. Now, at 41, I’m still chasing - but the lanes look a bit different. These days, I’m chasing better systems in my business. I’m chasing financial momentum after a few hard years. I’m chasing deeper connection in my marriage, more patience with my kids, and that elu

Most people admire high standards. They rarely talk about what they cost. When I was younger, I thought high standards were the whole game. You worked harder, pushed further, refined until it was perfect - then moved the bar again. It was simple: if you cared, you gave everything. That mindset built a lot of the good in my life. It got me jobs I probably wasn’t ready for, kept me training when I could’ve stopped, and created opportunities I wouldn’t have had otherwise. But ov

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