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I lead driven individuals to find direction, create strategies and accelerate toward the greatest ve I help driven individuals to fulfil their true potential.

To create a robust, strong and durable body. To forge a tough, resilient and flexible mindset. And to effectively lead and communicate with those around them, and those who would depend on them. If you’re reading this.. The chances are that you feel like you’re currently living to 10% of your true potential...

If you have no interest in expanding on that, living life on your terms, challenging yourself and breaching the door of your true capability, then stop reading here. This is not for you. But if you're the person who knows they can achieve more.. Who has worked hard, professionally. Who has shown, in a former life, you have the fortitude and capability to be a physical specimen.. But has, for some reason, fallen in to bad habits, negative self talk and a state of low-self confidence? Then this is for you. We can lead you to not only re-gain your former glory, but surpass it. Send me a DM to find out more.

16/01/2026

“We take more from any challenge than we allow it to take from us”

Third and final training camp. All repetitions complete.

In 24 days - we will toe the start line of the most feared expedition race in the world.

Ahead of us will lay 293 miles of wind blasted mountains, deep snow drifts and icy frozen lakes.

We must traverse the entirety of it towing 100lb pulks, on skis and completely self supported - against the clock.

Each other is all that we will have for the 228 hours the race permits to complete it. Eating, , erecting tents, sleeping - all of it is against the clock.

Statistically - we have a 2% chance of success.

There has bee a 98% attrition and failure rate on this course in the last 3 years.

It will test sinew, synapse and soul alike - to breaking point and beyond.

Will we have done enough - when that day comes?

You can follow our journey on YouTube.

15/01/2026

The brain feels wired even when the body is exhausted.

This isn't normal tiredness. It's nervous system dysregulation.

Your sympathetic state has become the default.

Fight or flight mode running permanently.

You can't think your way out of this. Better planning won't fix it. More discipline won't solve it.

The problem isn't psychological.

It's physiological.

Without deliberate down-regulation practices, the pattern continues indefinitely.

Here's what actually works:

Creating contrast.

Hard days and easy days.

High activation and deep rest.

Not balance. Rhythm.

Most people are stuck in constant medium-intensity grinding.

No real rest. No real intensity.

Just noise.

The solution isn't doing more. It's creating closure and installing recovery like a skill.

Start tracking your nervous system the way you track your business metrics.

13/01/2026

You go through a familiar process before you accept how comprehensive the problem is.

Men have a tendency to try and ‘ignore, avoid or endure’ a problem.

Refusing to go to the physio, not going to the Doctors, as two simple examples.

But there’s also denial when there’s something wrong with how you feel, internally.

That’s the first step. Try and push it down.

The second step is an over correction.

You intensity your efforts to adhere to an outdated, or failing, plan.

This gives way to stage three…

A unique blend of frustration, avoidance and boredom drives you to a ‘new thrill’.

It could be anything from drinking too much, to impulse spending…

And anything in-between.

Excessive screen time. Increased caffeine. ‘Program hopping’. Becoming outwardly cynical. Sc****ly clad women on social media…

Really anything that will create a soothing distraction from one’s internal environment.

When, and only when all this fails, do people tend to admit they need to change the way they think about living their life.

It feels like defeat and it’s extraordinarily unpleasant.
I call this the ‘Dickens’ moment…

Inspired by Scrooge, who only changes his ways when he’s faced with cold, hard evidence of his future.

There is never a right, or wrong, time for your Dickens moment.

But if this is yours, I suggest we act quickly - unless you want to repeat the cycle in 2026.

12/01/2026

Is your mind free?

Of course, no one has a gun to your head.

To the greater extent, no one is forcing you to do anything.

But with that being the case…

Do you want to do what you spend most of your time doing?

I’m not talking about going to work, for example.

But perhaps how you behave, how you talk, and how much you burden yourself - when you’re there?

Do you genuinely want to do the race, or BJJ comp…

Or do you feel like you need to - in order to feel good enough?

Do you feel like you need to satisfy others' opinions of you - just to be valuable?

Psychological and even emotional freedom can only be achieved when you stop using external validation as your motivating force.

Many avoid this work because they feel it will disarm them.

Make them softer, weaker, less successful.

I disagree vehemently.

You think you have a champion’s mentality by bullying yourself.

All that this line of thinking produces, in the end; is restlessness, resentment and burnout.

It’s the fate of Conor McGregor versus that of Khabib.

Dark energy and proving others wrong gets you off the start line.

But it cannot and will not keep you in the race, long term.

If you’ve got this far on dark energy and chaos…

Imagine how far you could go with a vision and control.

11/01/2026

Comment the word ‘YouTube’ and I’ll show you how we get rid of the self-applied pressure of letting people down.

08/01/2026

You don't have a discipline problem.

You have a measurement problem.

Track projects obsessively. Monitor communications religiously. Look for ball-drops, constantly.

But when was the last time you measured your energy levels? Stress markers? Recovery quality?

You can't optimise what you're not measuring.

And here's the thing: most high performers are working harder whilst achieving less. More effort. More hours.

Less output.

The irony is brutal.

You're burning furniture to heat the house. It works temporarily. Then there's nothing left to burn.

Smart operators know their numbers across all domains.

Exhausted ones only track what makes them money.

Which one are you?

06/01/2026

Systems are your achilles heel. Here’s why…

Performance is about goal achievement.

But the best performers aren’t solely focused on what helps them achieve a singular goal…

As they say in Chess:
“A winning move is not a winning game.”

There’s a big difference between winning a game and winning the league.

Between one great performance and an outstanding career.

Most people have the capacity to pull it out of the bag, once or twice a year.

But if you’re red-lining just to make that one success happen…

It’s not sustainable, by definition.

Systems build resilience and repeatability into your process for goal achievement.

In my experience, top performers & professionals aren’t always the most knowledgeable.

They're the most effective at organising their existing knowledge into operating systems.

Systems support availability.

Availability underpins consistency.

Consistency delivers goal achievement, reliably.

Where are you looking for more knowledge…

When what you actually need is better systems?

05/01/2026

Happiness is not the absence of pain…

But the meaning we derive from what we’re going through.

I believe that all plateaus are self inflicted.

We have stopped learning, stopped executing or most often…

We are protecting a level of comfort.

If you’re avoiding discomfort…

You will not have the opportunity to experience growth.

Frustration, confusion & discomfort are always the down payment for something in the future.

The problem, though…

Is we’ve been lead to believe you can avoid these trials and tribulations and reap the reward anyway.

It does not work like that…

Contrary to the ‘proprietary blueprints’ sold to the desperate by the greedy.

I never said what you want was going to be easy to attain…

But I have long said that pursuit it will bring a fulfilment and satisfaction that cannot be matched.

“What a privilege it is, to be tired from the work you once prayed for...

“What a privilege it is, to feel overwhelmed by growth you used to dream about”.

Is it time to stop playing to ‘not lose’.

And start playing to win, again?

04/01/2026

Comment the word ‘YouTube’ and I’ll send over the full video.

They said it cannot be done. We are about to embark on the impossible…

31/12/2025

End of year thoughts 💭

I don’t really ‘believe’ in the ‘New Year’ that much anymore more.

I think it’s been commoditised.

However…

I appreciate that the end of the year provides an opportunity to reflect.

But I don’t believe there’s anything more to it than it’s the only time of year with enough space to fully zoom out.

If you gave yourself the same space in July, you’d see the same effect.

It is not the changing of the year that changes us.

The ability to reflect, change and evolve is innate to you.

That’s why I think about that scene from the Matrix when the little boy is bending spoons in the oracles office.

“Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead only try to realise the truth.

There is no spoon. Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”

YOU change you.

There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, quicker, smarter, more compassionate or even more loved.

Everything is within.

Everything exists.

That lesson has taken me 34 years to understand…

But 2025 was simply the year it crystallised.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence it’s been the most challenging, turbulent but fruitful and fulfilling year I can remember.

Thank you to everyone who played a part in it.

2026 already has a lot in the calendar, and lots of space for that which cannot be planed.

Yours, in strength and freedom.

Marc

30/12/2025

When you experience anxiety…

It’s often because you're avoiding something.

That avoidance becomes a debt.

It compounds…

Until you stop avoiding it.

Difficult times are the best teachers, if you can appropriately re-deploy your attention.

Most, cannot. Yet.

Every advancement in your life has come at the hands of difficult, demanding and frustrating situations.

Stop avoiding them.

Stop succumbing to meaningless distractions and focus.

Distraction doesn’t always come in the form of social media…

It can show in any one of a number of ways.

Impulsive spending.

‘Blowing off steam’ at the weekend.

Starting fires with team & colleagues in the office.
The list goes on.

Challenging experiences result in a higher foothold on the mountain.

The ability to think accurately, strategise and execute is a super power…

And teaching men how to do this is exactly why I built Uncharted Performance.

29/12/2025

The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle.

The global ‘leadership development’ industry is worth $60 Billion…

Yet the return on investment is still embarrassingly weak.

The system doesn’t work.

The only way to create change and betterment…

Is to work on the individual level.

People do not have professional problems.

People have people problems that turn up in every aspect of their life…

Including how they operate at work.

Out sourcing that to someone who has a vast vocabulary of middle management buzz words…

Whilst your people sit, bleary eyed and desperately fighting the urge to yawn in a fluorescently lit room…

Is an outdated, inefficient & redundant means of creating change.

A team, a business or an organisation will never outperform the capacity of its leaders.

You must lead by example.

Out of shape, emotionally avoidant and desperately close to burnout is not good enough.

That is a hill I am willing to die on.

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