Hey friend, I’ve been thinking about progress a lot lately. Over the past year, one area I’ve seen real growth in is my gym work. I started following RP Strength on YouTube, downloaded their app, and the gains I’ve made in muscle and hypertrophy have been noticeable—to say the least. But none of it came quickly. It’s been slow, methodical, and structured. Week by week, session by session, I followed a plan. Reps went up, weight increased slightly, and over time, my body adapted. Not in days,...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Hey friend, You work for years. You sacrifice, obsess, chase. And then it happens. You win. You achieve the thing. You get exactly what you said you wanted. But then, once it’s completed and done, you suddenly feel a sense of emptiness. You’re left thinking — is this it? The glow of that ambition-fuelled, obsessive mindset—the one that carried you to the top—vanishes almost instantly. The state that once felt intoxicating is gone, and with it, the purpose that was driving you forward. You...
21 days ago • 2 min read
Hey friend, I've been thinking a lot recently about comparison. It's something that's come up a lot with athletes I've been speaking and working with. I even did a youtube video on something similar. Not the obvious kind, where we measure ourselves against people we don’t know. But the subtle kind—where we measure ourselves against who we thought we’d be by now. It’s easy to look at someone else’s story and think, Why isn’t mine going that way? Or to revisit the imagined future we mapped out...
28 days ago • 1 min read
Hey friend, Watch this as a video A few months ago, I moved to Spain. Not for work. Not for strategy. But because something inside me said, Go. My surroundings didn’t match where I was in life anymore. I’d always felt like the black sheep—and when I heard the line, “There’s this feeling that when you leave where you’re from, you don’t feel like you belong there any more, that you never really felt like you belonged.” from the film Aftersun, it hit me. So I listened to the pull. In Spain,...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey friend, I’m a huge fan of journaling. When you’ve got a problem and you can’t figure out what it is you need to do, getting it out onto the page is one of the best things you can do for yourself. I’m reminded of the phrase: “If it’s in your head, you’re dead.” Getting it out on paper is one of the most cathartic and simple processes that we, as human beings, have. While journaling helps us get the thoughts swirling around in our heads out, sometimes we also want an exercise that helps us...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey friends, If you’re human, you probably have an inner voice that, if we’re being honest, is probably not very nice. It’s the kind of voice that criticises everything. Not constructive. Not helpful. Just… cruel. It’s an internal voice that can feel like having a crazy, deranged stranger following you around all day—doing nothing but beating you up for everything you do. Yet, and somehow… we allow ourselves to just be totally okay with it. We carry on with our day as if nothing is wrong and...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey friend, I had something else planned for today. But then Rory McIlroy happened. His win last night hit differently. Not just for golf fans. Not just for sports enthusiasts. It landed because it was human. As he sank that final putt and fell to his knees—crying, screaming, overwhelmed— Millions felt it with him. Even I was choking up. Why? Empathetic resonance. The rare, beautiful experience of feeling someone else’s emotions as if they were your own. It’s especially powerful when we see...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey friend, If you’ve ever lifted weights, you know the moment. You walk up to the rack and find dumbbells scattered everywhere. Plates left on the bar. Machines still loaded with someone else’s effort. And you’re faced with a simple human test. Do you clean it up? Do you put things back, even when no one’s watching? At first glance, it’s nothing. Just another gym annoyance. But those small moments speak volumes. You don’t re-rack the weights for symmetry, or to satisfy some OCD need for...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey friend, Decision-making has been on my mind a lot this year. Not the big ones, necessarily. Even the small, everyday decisions seem to hold more weight when you realise how much of life is shaped by them. But there’s a single quote that completely reframed how I think about decisions. It came from Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer: “Instead of worrying about making the right decision, make the decision right.” That line hit me. Because we tend to obsess over which option is “right,” As if...
2 months ago • 1 min read