One of the approaches I use with many of my athletes in sports and life is to not care so much.  Care less.  Not to be “careless” but to “care less”. Why? Well, for most of the people who come to my work, they don’t have a problem of being lazy. They are usually the people trying to really make it happen.  That’s why I call them “athletes”.  They want something bad and they are applying their physical, technical, and tactical know-how to make that thing happen. But here’s the deal…if you are “efforting” you’re probably not in your sweet spot and things just don’t feel ve ..read more

Wouldn’t it be great if every minute of every day just felt so inspiring and uplifting that you just wanted to jump out of bed every day and get going!? You wouldn’t want to sleep! Yeah… Sure. We’ve all had moments when things just…flow.  Time stands still.  Results are effortless and the thought of stopping or even reconsidering what you are doing seems so absurd it quickly leaves your mind. The act of flow is addictive.  No…really…it actually IS addictive.  When your body is in flow you’re actually becoming addicted to the neurochemicals your body is producing.  Th ..read more

Why You Procrastinate If there is one thing we can beat ourselves up about over and over and over again it’s not doing the things we know we need to be doing. Take this article for example… I’ve been meaning to write it for a few weeks but opted to write other articles that grabbed my attention first. Why is that?  Why do we procrastinate? Well…it turns out that there is a lot of great research on this topic that people just don’t know about.  You are going to be relieved as you read this because you’ll finally know why you’re putting things off. So it turns out that there are seve ..read more

The road to your dreams can look long and hard and twisty and difficult. But in your heart you know exactly what you want and what it would look like once you achieved it. That same road also looks filled with traffic filled with competitors all looking to achieve the same destination. There seems to be so many people. Thousands of them. Who want the same thing you do. But how do you set yourself apart and get yourself in that top 1% who actually go on and make it happen? And do it fast enough so that you are rewarded with your progress and avoid getting frustrated by the lack of progress an ..read more

While you may have set some goals for 2018, you don’t think they’re really going to happen do you? I mean, really.  The one’s you set last year didn’t stick either…or did they. When you set goals for this year it’s easy to get hung up on the one’s that didn’t come true from last year.  Dwelling on this fact for too long can even cause a fair bit of “beatyourselfupedness.”  But I can guarantee you that when you look back on last year you will see…something positive.  And probably a lot positive if you give yourself some time.   Rarely do people keep a really good accoun ..read more

Why You Procrastinate When it comes to procrastination you can either beat yourself up about it or realize that everyone procrastinates.  Here’s why. [00:00:00] Hey guys it’s Jonathan and welcome. Listen today I want to talk about why we procrastinate.We All We All Procrastinate [00:00:08] First thing is that we all procrastinate. OK, everybody does. The truth is that if you the only way you don’t procrastinate is if you don’t have any goals you don’t have any ambition to be or do or have more than what you have now. If you think about it, if you wiped out anything every you every ambiti ..read more

As an Olympic athlete in a timed event I know one very important thing about a ticking clock… It won’t stop ticking. Time is like grabbing water.  The harder you squeeze it the more it slips away.  And while people like to think they can “manage” time, they can’t.  They can only “manage” what they do within that time. Back in the 1990’s Stephen Covey got us all to think that we could drastically manage our time.  With A tasks and B tasks and C tasks, etc. we were taught that if we just put the days tasks into nice little To-do lists that we’d be fine. We weren’t. And while ..read more

If you’re going to be successful in anything, you have to believe that you are capable of making it happen. But if your focus on the end result then you might not get started at all. Why?  Because when you only focus on the end result it can seem really overwhelming.  It seems that there are so many variables.  So many things to do.  And so many things to go wrong. But if you just focus on the next step, it seems possible.  All you really need to believe is that you can do that one next step. Maybe it’s to make a phone call to call a potential partner.  Or invest ..read more

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One of the approaches I use with many of my athletes in sports and life is to not care so much.  Care less.  Not to be “careless” but to “care less”. Why? Well, for most of the people who come to my work, they don’t have a problem of being lazy. They are usually the people trying to really make it happen.  That’s why I call them “athletes”.  They want something bad and they are applying their physical, technical, and tactical know-how to make that thing happen. But here’s the deal…if you are “efforting” you’re probably not in your sweet spot and things just don’t feel ve ..read more