“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl It’s been one hell of a week. Right now, it’s likely to get worse than better. The whole point of mastering your physical limits is so that you can master your mental limits. So while everyone is having a meltdown, this is a good time to put that theory to practice. Right now, It’s likely to get worse before it gets better. So here’s what ...
It Doesn’t Matter
I wrote this after the 4x4x48 challenge Goggins threw down this weekend. If you're late to the party, you can catch up on the fun on instagram here. Short version: 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours. There are so many people…that never undertake things that they would like to do because they are afraid they can not carry them through. It doesn’t matter. You’ve been there. You see a challenge, your brain lights up, but you immediately think of how ...
5 Things I’m Doing To Be More Effective
Everyone talks about productivity. Productivity is great, but being "productive" doesn't always mean you're getting the right things done. A lot of people spend their entire day trying to answer their email faster. That doesn't mean you're productive. It just means you're good at email. What I'm interested in is becoming effective. Here's a few things I'm doing to help with that. Weekly, Monthly, & Quarterly Reviews I started doing this a ...
How to Create Your Alter Ego to Do The IMPOSSIBLE
A long time ago, in a blogosphere far, far away. A small nerd named Steve Kamb wrote about a post about becoming a comic book hero. It’s woefully out of date, and he’s the worst person I know, but surprisingly it’s a decent concept - so I thought I’d update it with an IMPOSSIBLE take on the concept as it’s one I’ve used a lot over the years - one that comes especially helpful in the midst of an impossible challenge. How to Create Your Superhero Alter ...
2019 Year In Review
Better late than never... 2019 was a kick in the ass. It was probably the most different year I’ve had to date in the last 5 years. I traveled a lot less, worked a ton, worked more, and stayed more quiet than usual. I got out of some bad habits and built some better ones - even if they are 11pm runs. A lot of things changed this past year, but if I boil them down to 2 key decisions. The Two Primary Shifts I Made in 2019 Moving to ...
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Over the last 3 weeks, I’ve been running a 2020 challenge to reset people’s baselines and kick off the decade with their strongest mindset to date. We have about 400 people in this specific challenge. If you want in, join up here to get notified in the future. The dirty little secret of these challenges is that when I host them, they tend to do was much for me as for the people taking it on. Part of the challenge this time through is to “raise ...
Heidar Logi Surfs The Arctic
Heidar Logi is a real life Viking.As Iceland's first professional surfer - he's got a knack for doing ridiculous things to find the perfect wave - even in arctic temperatures. You might have heard his name before (he was featured in the Netflix movie - Under An Arctic Sky with Chris Burkard). We went out to Iceland and shot a short IMPOSSIBLE film with Hediar last year and I love his take on finding adventure, dealing with adversity and finding ...
Nobody Cares. Work Harder.
Cam Hanes - Nobody Cares. Work Harder. Cam Hanes has a saying "Nobody Cares. Work Harder." When you set out to do something impossible, there's a thing that happens whenever a challenge is sufficiently difficult. Your subconscious rises up to try to fight and keep you in stasis - to push you back to comfort and back to your old, safer ways. You'll hear a lot of people talk about haters. This is typically before they ever start. When you ...
Selling Options for Traction
I’m doing this year-in-review a little bit different. 2019 was quite a shift in how I've done everything - from life to fitness to business - over the last 5 years. One of the main concepts I’ve focused on over the past few years is optionality. It was done subsconsciously for a few years, but Taylor Pearson put together the optionality framework that made me realize that had been exactly what I was doing. Taylor breaks this concept down to ...
Turn The Page
Turn the page. Have you ever read a certain book or passage so engaging that it stopped you on the page? Maybe it was so awesome you had to re-read it. Maybe it was so boring that you couldn't even get through it. Maybe it was so terrible that, like a car crash, you just got stuck scanning it over and over. Maybe you hated it so much you put the book away and tried to not think about it, but it wormed its way into the back of your brain and ...
