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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.

31/01/2026

This isn’t all of it… I’m just not tall enough to get the rest in the frame 😅

Most of the food, clothing, medical kit & camp equipment required for a 293 expedition race 200km above the Arctic Circle.

This should keep me comfortable in temperatures down to -40c, allowing for around 5,300kcal per day [which will still be a morsel, as we expect to Ski for 17-20 hours per day for the 9.5 days]

In addition to this will be my -40c sleeping bag + Hilleberg 4 man tent - all to be towed by pulk…

“Chat; how can I stay really warm and eat lots without having to carry it?” 😅

30/01/2026

The hour is nearly upon us… Comment “YouTube” and I’ll send you a link to watch the series so far.

29/01/2026

“Set goals that scare you”. Here’s why that’s a mistake.
The reason setting goals scares you…

Is primarily because you’re attaching your entire sense of worth to said goal.

“If I don’t achieve X, then I have failed. Ergo, I am a failure”.

It’s a distorted line of thinking that affects so many of the men I work with.

Here’s a truth you need to know.

You will avoid things in direct correlation to how deeply they challenge your identity.

Read that again.

Visible metrics, or goals, deaden you to the true meaning of your life.

You cannot ‘achieve’ an identity.

You become a type of person based on held values and lived behaviours and over time.

If you’re a runner…

You may run some races. But that’s not what made you a runner.

If you start a business, you can tell people your team size or revenue.

But that’s not what makes you an entrepreneur.

You can work in high finance…

But that alone does not make you a ‘high performer’.

You are not your job title, team size, bank balance or post code.

If ‘visible achievements’ are the main thing in your life…

I would strongly encourage you to step back and zoom out for a moment.

You are heading for a volatility that can, and will, derail you entirely.

You are going to fail, at some point. That is a certainty.

What you believe to be true about yourself in that moment…

Is what determines your health, happiness and long term success-trajectory.

You cannot afford to overlook the power of mental performance.

27/01/2026

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

We live in a world where we’re lead to believe we must do everything, perfectly, immediately.

You’re asked to care, about everything, with maximal intensity.

There’s no longer ‘a priority’.

There are ‘7 key priorities’ in one Teams Call alone.

The advice I’m about to give you seems totally counter intuitive.

Rather than play along with this facade…

Sacrificing your sleep, physical health and mental wellbeing to keep up appearances…

You must accept your limitations.

Acceptance is the foundation of all health…

And health is the pillar of all performance.

You are a flawed human being.

So am I.

So is your boss that’s making demands.

So is the social media creator pretending they’re omnipotent.

When you accept you have only a finite amount of time and energy to give…

You realise how truly important it is to concentrate it on the right things.

You can begin a logical process of evaluating your operations.

Eliminating things that, actually, have little consequence…

And executing on those which do, with purpose and intention.

The more battles you try to fight…

The more thinly spread your resources are.

And, sooner or later, you will be overwhelmed - if you’re not already.

You may feel, upon reading this, that you are simply far too important…

Or far too busy - to employ such an ‘indulgence’.

I would contest that belief.

Not because you don’t matter…

It’s precisely because you matter that you must be more scrupulous with what you give your limited focus on this earth to.

Do less, better.

26/01/2026

I thought I was in debt.

Or at least that’s how it felt waking up every day.

Waking up with a vague but vivid sense of ‘being behind’…

Not knowing precisely what you’re behind on, but you simply must ‘do more, faster’.

Some I speak to think they’re behind on the promotion ladder.

Others, the property ladder.

Perhaps you feel that you should have it all figured out by now...

And the fact you haven’t means it’s all going to come crashing down, imminently.

It’s exhausting, anxiety inducing and most importantly…
Unnecessary.

It’s also what’s driving a cyclical pattern of burnout and feeling of being deeply unfulfilled.

Like nothing is ever good enough.

It’s as if every achievement feels futile and fails to gain your recognition.

And even if you were to recognise it…

It serves only to raise some imaginary bar, which pushes you further into your imagined debt.

The bitter irony is that when you believe, and behave, like you’re behind…

You will be.

Your fixation with speed, and focus on being ‘less than’, will become a compulsion to give up.

To quiet quit.

You will tell yourself you can’t do this - and you’d be right.

No man can thrive, grow and excel under these conditions.

Vision, motivation and ex*****on is not maximised by bullying yourself.

You can’t shame yourself into productivity.

Trust me, I tried.

Success is an inside game.

24/01/2026

“If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

As part of doing hard things - you are going to experience fear.

Namely, fear of failure.

I am no exception to that, as I prepare to embark on the Arctic Spine.

No amount of prior success inoculates you from fear, or self doubt, in any domain of life.

Historically, “tough” men have compensated for this by way of bluffing and boasting.

“Nah not worried about it, I’m gonna smash it”.

This, and other such BS, doesn’t fool anyone. Least of all the person saying it. If anything, it acts to increase internal pressure.

Instead - I’ve found it helpful to build an honest relationship with fear.

Acceptance is the foundation of all health, and health is the bedrock of performance.

Once you accept you could fail, you could get hurt, you could be “embarrassed…”

It opens the door to both objective solutions - and emotional regulation.

Upon realising how much you actually care about succeeding, and why, you can lean into the energy that fear produces - rather than pretending you don’t feel it.

You can prevent a great deal of turmoil, anxiety and stress by simply having these frank chats with yourself.

It’s not about the will to succeed. Everyone has that.

It’s about the will to prepare to succeed…

Including looking at the darkest recesses of your mind.

The breakthrough is in the embarrassment.

I’ve done all I can to prepare. The rest is in the hands of the Gods.

T-16 days.

22/01/2026

Workaholism is surprisingly effective….

If the goal is to distract yourself from personal, emotional or even spiritual problems.

You lose your sense of agency…

Because the rungs of the professional ladder dictate your schedule…

And determine your life course.

It gives you brands to attach yourself to…

Your company, your job title and other status markers…

All of which you view as a replacement to answering the questions of who you are.

When you have nothing but your job title to rest on, you find yourself constantly comparing to others.

Your brain is moving and your status is rising but the heart and soul are never fully engaged.

And you continue to wonder why you feel lost, unfulfilled and dissatisfied with any level of achievement.

Workaholism, then, is remarkable at helping us become excellent sheep.

I’m not, for a moment, condemning achievement and the pursuit of professional excellence.

All of my adult life has been dedicated to the pursuit of mastery within my field.

Long may it continue.

But what I am saying…

Is that there is more to success, and high performance, than exhausting yourself at your work…

Hoping for a future where it will all become clear and easy.

You have to intervene. You have to create that.
You may refer to this as ‘balance’.

I refer to this as the truest definition of sustainable high performance.

Knowing who you are.

Knowing what you want.

Exercising agency over attaining it.

20/01/2026

Few things are more appealing, when you want to change your life…

Than a step by step system for making it happen.
That’s the problem.

False promises of ‘optimisation’ are distracting you from the real answer that you don’t want to hear.

You just need to do the thing.

You uncover something you care about, and then you do it.

It really is that simple.

It’s just that we’ve forgotten that, thanks to a couple of decades of very clever people creating very clever quips to make us believe they have the magic elixir for productivity and prosperity.

They don’t. They’re full of s**t and, usually, haven’t achieved a damn thing other than selling you a product you didn’t need.

I’m not saying there aren’t systems that can help refine your operations.

I built one inside Uncharted, in fact.

But what I am saying is they’re not the main thing.

All they do is help identify what’s important and what’s not, so you don’t descend into paralysis by analysis and waste time, energy and precious mental bandwidth.

So the skill we need to train is often not that of ‘optimisation’…

But of executive functioning.

Of identifying the ‘right next thing’, and then doing it.

There is zero sense in wondering what colour to paint your skirting boards…

If the roof is on fire.

19/01/2026

Freedom sucks.

Political freedom is important.

But personal, social and emotional freedom…

When it gets treated as ‘the end goal’, is terrible for you.

It leads to a random life filled with ‘busy-ness’ but no actual purpose.

There’s no discernible direction, no firm foundation and no alignment with values.

“Freedom is not the ocean you want to spend your life in…

Freedom is the river you want to get across, so you can plan yourself on the other side…

And fully commit to something.”

Most men I speak to are searching for that something to commit to.

Their set of values which will become their guiding compass.

The problem, though…

Is that the mind, without guidance and accountability, wants to wander from the meaty big questions.

They seem too daunting, too unanswerable - and we’re obsessed with ‘getting it right’ - instead of attending the classroom of life.

So we divert and distract ourselves.

Jumping head first into too much work, at all hours, so that those thoughts can’t permeate.

Creating physical exhaustion, so that the mind is too full to wander.

Or to the reward, right here in front of you, right on your phone.

The tiny dopamine lift that keeps you obsessed with the aesthetic…

And void of purpose.

The answers you want lay behind better questions.

That’s what coaching is all about.

18/01/2026

I’ve never let cameras into this part of my life before. Comment “YouTube” and I’ll send you the full episode.

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.

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