Being Human - Human Performance Mental Fitness Coaching

11/30/2025

Shh… slow down and listen.

I'm talking to you. And I'm talking to myself.

I jump to conclusions. I assume I know intent. I react before I truly understand.
Most of us do.

At best, it wastes time, energy, effort.
At worst, it damages trust and relationships.

So today — I slow down.
I listen.
I ask questions before I think I know the answer.
Before I take action. Before I assume the worst.

If we just pause long enough to understand, to explore, to hear the full story — we may not need to fix anything at all.

How much energy would you save if you got it right the first time?
What would it do for your relationships?
Try it today. Shh. Just listen.

11/29/2025

Get Out of Your Head — Come Back to the Present

We live in our heads—reliving the past, forecasting the future, missing the moment we are actually in.
The past is gone. The future isn’t here.
The only place you can live, connect, perform, lead, love—is now.

Get into the body to get into the present.
Feet on the ground. Breath in the lungs. Sound in the air.
Simple. Not easy...

Give it a try today—five minutes.
See how much more life is actually happening when you arrive for it.

11/28/2025

11/27/2025

Thanksgiving. Slow down. Notice.

The day is loud — food, tasks, opinions, old tension.
In the rush to make it perfect, we miss what matters.
Decide whether they would know you are right, or know that you care.

Notice who’s at your table.
Notice the moment you're in.
We don’t choose what happens —
only how we respond.

Happy Thanksgiving.

11/25/2025

Keep Digging and Do the Work.

We all know the feeling—wishing we were somewhere else, doing something else, with someone else. But the job still needs to get done.

No one looks to leaders for complaining their way through the task. Leaders bring a steady hand. Leaders focus. Leaders do it right the first time.

If the work today is digging a ditch, then the ditch gets dug… cold, wet, frozen, miserable—doesn’t matter. Complaining never makes it faster. Misery never makes it better. And everyone feels the energy you bring to the job, including your kids, your partner, and your team.

I’m not interested in being the person who drags everyone down.

I’m not interested in teaching my kids to be that person.

I’m not interested in wasting my life being miserable doing the things that simply need to get done.

How much time and energy do we lose fighting the reality of the task?

How much better, faster, cleaner would the work be if we just dug the ditch?

Show up. Do the job. Do it well.

11/24/2025

Stop Complaining — Start Solving

We complain way more than we realize—about the weather, people, situations, tone, emails, money, driving, stress… even vacation.

What problems has complaining ever solved for you? It doesn’t improve relationships, build trust, or move us forward. It keeps us stuck.

Today, I’m looking at what I complain about and what I can do about it.
Be curious.
Understand.
Solve.
Move forward.

Pay attention today to your internal and external complaints.
How much energy do they take?
What do they cost you?

11/23/2025

Everything Else Falls in Order: Guard Your Time, Guard Your Life

If I guard my time — really guard it — everything else in my life falls in order.

Better father.
Better husband.
Better businessman, CEO, and coach.
Better physically.
Better mentally.

All because I didn’t give in to the urgent or waste energy on the unimportant.

When I ruthlessly guard my time, I make room for the important.
And everything beneath that starts falling in line — my relationships, my work, my growth, my self-mastery.

If I don’t?
My time drifts toward things that don’t matter.

This isn’t about eliminating fun or downtime.
It’s about making sure the majority of my days go to what brings real returns — the things I value and care about.

Is your life falling in order?
Where does it fall out of order?
Where does your attention go?
How much time is spent on what doesn’t matter?

There’s a war for our attention.
Guard yours ruthlessly.
Give it to what matters — and your life will fall in order.

11/21/2025

What Power Are You Chasing?

For years I chased the power of “more” — more money, more success, more status.
But that kind of power is unstable. It can be bought, sold, taken, or lost.

The power I’m focused on now is the only one that can’t be bought or stolen: The power of me. My thoughts, emotions, values, behavior, purpose.

That power makes me a better father, husband, partner, and human being. It’s a power that compounds for life.

If you stopped chasing external power and focused on your power of self-mastery — what would your life look like?
Your relationships?
Your happiness?

11/20/2025

What holds you back? What fears keep you from starting?

We all avoid.
We all procrastinate.
We all try to control or perfect.
We take on too much.
We aim to please.
We see all the ways things can go wrong.
We stall because it’s not perfect — so we never start... or never finish.

But whatever it is — look past the fear.

Find the love of exploring the new and creating the possible.

Simply start. See where it leads you.

11/18/2025

It Is About Me — Because I Choose What I Do With It

Yeah… it’s not about me.
But it is.

Most frustrations in life are choices:
• staying angry
• trying to control everything
• wanting people to do it your way
• wasting time and energy in negativity

You can choose something better.
You can choose to understand, explore, create, decide what's important, and act.
You can turn negativity into opportunity.

You can let go.

This is the practice of Mental Fitness.
This is Self-Mastery.
Choose well.

11/18/2025

It's not about me. How to Stop Taking Everything Personally.

Most of the things that frustrate us every day… aren’t actually about us.

People’s tone, their attitude, their driving, their beliefs, the noise, the weather, the way things go right or wrong — we think it’s directed at us. It’s not.

When you stop taking everything personally, you take your power back.

You stop reacting.
You stop wasting energy.
You stop making other people’s chaos your burden.

Try this one shift:
It’s not about me.

Watch how much lighter your day becomes, how much more patient you are, and how much peace you gain when you stop personalizing every frustration.

Self-Mastery is built one rep at a time.