Hey friend, Real quick, I've got an idea for coaches, so if you are on, check this out. Anyway. I found this neat little trick you can use when your mind starts spiralling — when you’re anxious, under pressure, or frustrated. Most of us, when we feel overwhelmed, get swept away by our emotions. We start running on autopilot. Thoughts get loud. Rational thinking disappears. And we spiral. One way to stop that spiral is to disassociate — to create just enough space between you and what you’re...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey friend, I think we witnessed one of the greatest sporting finals in a long time — if not in history. But more than that, we witnessed something that can teach us a lesson in life. Carlos Alcaraz was 5–3 down in the third set against Jannik Sinner. And while many in that situation — after a long tournament, a long journey toward something they desperately want — would throw in the towel, Alcaraz didn’t. He showed us how sport is a mirror to life. Because if you can bring yourself back to...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi friend, One of my flaws has always been thinking the grass might be greener somewhere else. I’ve thought about it for a long time — to the point where it chewed me up. I’d sit with decisions for far too long, caught in the spiral of what if I waited? what if the better option is just around the corner? It held me back. For years. I struggled to make choices that felt truly mine, because I was too afraid I’d miss out on something better. That I’d commit to something good, but not great. I...
2 months ago • 1 min read
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,...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
3 months 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,...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago • 2 min read