09/03/2026
I nearly cancelled the whole thing.
The Wales trip.
The filming.
The videographer.
All of it.
Not because I didn’t want to go.
Because my nervous system didn’t want the discomfort.
I was sat in the car before leaving, chest tight, mind racing, that familiar anxiety building.
Part of me just wanted to stay where it was safe.
No exposure.
No uncertainty.
No being seen.
That’s the part most men don’t talk about.
We think confidence comes first.
It doesn’t.
Confidence comes after you stay with discomfort
I paused for a moment.
Grounded myself.
Noticed where the anxiety was sitting in my body and reminded myself:
“This is discomfort. Not danger.”
So I drove to Wales.
Something else has been happening recently on my long runs.
Three hours into the trails, sometimes I get this strange sense of dread.
For years I thought it was fatigue.
Now I’m realising it might be something deeper.
When I was younger I never really knew what I was walking into when I got home.
And the body remembers those patterns.
So when things feel uncertain or uncomfortable, the nervous system sometimes reacts like it used to.
The difference now is I don’t run from it.
I stay with it.
I breathe.
And eventually it passes.
Most men never reach that part.
Because they cancel the trip.
Avoid the conversation.
Delay the decision.
And slowly their world gets smaller.
This is exactly why I recorded the overwhelm masterclass.
Because most people think overwhelm is about having too much to do.
In reality it’s your nervous system losing its capacity to handle pressure.
If that sounds familiar, Drop me a DM and I will send you my new Masterclass for Free.
And if you’re ready for the deeper work, Relentless is where we build that capacity properly.
