I’ve written extensively about Jesse Itzler’s Misogi Challenge and how I’ve woven it into my life over the past few years. For those unfamiliar, here’s a quick overview of Itzler’s Misogi Challenge… Every year, do one thing that is so challenging that you’ll remember it for the next 364 days. It needs to scare you, [...]
Listening to a podcast the other day, James Clear was being interviewed. The author of Atomic Habits, James was sharing his thoughts on habits and mindset. Having read the book, most of what he shared was very familiar, until he mentioned this exercise. I did it, and it changed the story I've been telling myself. [...]
Too often, there's a disconnect between the goals we want and why we really want to achieve them. Until we connect the dots between our WHAT and our WHY, we'll always struggle to finish what we start. Barriers will appear in our way, challenges will materialize, and boredom will set in. Our goals will all [...]
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill / Abraham Lincoln ... Churchill or Lincoln? Do a little bit of research, and both are mentioned as the origin of this quote. It doesn’t matter who said this the first time. There is immense truth in [...]
"Dreams die in execution." - Jocko Think about that for a moment. Turning a dream into a reality is often challenging and, for many, rarely successful. Starting can be easy, especially when we're excited and fired up about our goal, but what happens when we've left the starting gate and are on mile thirteen of [...]
A coworker or teammate experiences a success or breakthrough in their life, and you catch yourself asking, "Why not me?" You watch someone in your circle launch a new business or accomplish something big, and that same question sneaks back in. "Why not me?" A friend gets back into shape or makes a positive change [...]
What code do you live by? When I ask that, you may think that you don’t have a code that guides how you show up each day. I would argue that you probably do have a code that guides your life, but you’ve probably never slowed down long enough to think about it. Like breathing, [...]
It's been said before that "Success leaves clues." As I was preparing for the beginning of this new year and thinking about the person I want to be in 2023, I reflected on this concept. If you study the successes of others, you can learn from their experiences and apply their techniques and approaches to [...]
Coming back from my October 2022 trip to Nepal, I wanted to document the gear I brought with me and my experiences, both for myself and for others as well. Overall, I came back from five days on the trail very happy with what I chose and feeling prepared to go back again next year. [...]
When I launched the Grit Meets Growth podcast eighteen months ago with Chris Cathers, we had bold ambitions for what we wanted to build. Chris and I had bits and pieces of a plan put together, but the reality was that neither of us had ever built a podcast before. It took a ton of [...]
