Vanguard Coaching LLC

04/24/2026

Quick Survey --

Accountability, obligation, surrender, and becoming a man who can sit in a room with his own thoughts. Click to read MA Kersgard – Wrestling with God, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

04/24/2026

What’s underneath will always get exposed.

04/06/2026

It Only Costs You If You Do Nothing – Stop the Loop –

Lets be honest - Mobile devices has hijacked our attention spans.

This day and age, we are bombarded with synthetic interactions, that serve as poor replacements for authentic connection.

Coming back from Lent, where I stepped away from social media, one epiphany I had was, many of us imprison ourselves into some virtual bubble, which offers homogenized synthetic sterile connections, but at a convenience.

The “Artificial” In Artificial Intelligence became even more glaring. Now I am seeing written content, that has grammatical mistakes and typos as actual human fingerprints.

https://open.substack.com/pub/makersgard/p/it-only-costs-you-if-you-do-nothing-9d8?r=7lll18&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

02/26/2026

The end game is simple.

Stop investing precious resources into what I need to be free from.

Attention is a resource.

Energy is a resource.

Belief is a resource.

Whatever I continue to rehearse, I strengthen.

If I keep mentally litigating the past, I water resentment.
If I keep rehearsing inadequacy, I wire inadequacy.
If I keep feeding distraction, I condition distraction.

The following excerpt is adapted from Author Unknown, Chapter 10, “Stop Watering the Weeds,” by M.A. Kersgard. The themes explored here reflect the broader framework of personal responsibility

02/25/2026

Recovery circles, allot of mention is on complacency.

Not dramatic relapse.
The slow slide.
Old thinking creeping back in quietly.

Last week I wrote about the high-tech, low-touch culture and how constant stimulation fragments attention.

You are not broken.

But attention can drift. Discipline can soften.

This session is a guided hypnosis reset designed to recalibrate focus before small shifts become bigger problems.

Don’t overthink it. Begin here:

Last week’s grumpy man TED Talk: the high-tech, low-touch crisis.

11/10/2025

10/08/2025

You have to see it before anyone else. Your discipline turns your wildest dreams into timelines. The future bends to those bold enough to believe. Keep going.

Follow me for more mindset and career education.

09/16/2025

🌟 Personalized Recovery Coaching 🌟

At Vanguard Coaching LLC, we know recovery isn’t one-size-fits-all. That’s why we focus on structure, accountability, and resilience—so you don’t just stay sober, you build a life you’re proud of.

💠 Coaching that meets you where you are
💠 Mindset tools rooted in NLP & hypnosis
💠 Support that’s personalized, practical, and real

Recovery is a partnership. We coach. You grow.

👉 Learn more about our programs here: https://vanguardcoachingllc.com/personalized-recovery-coaching/

08/28/2025

💡 Recovery Coaching with Depth & Experience

At Vanguard Coaching LLC, recovery coaching isn’t just about staying sober — it’s about building a life worth not escaping from.

With 30 years of sobriety, certification as a Master NLP Practitioner & Hypnotist, and mentoring over 200 men in recovery, I bring lived experience and proven tools to help professionals, executives, and high achievers thrive.

From one-on-one coaching to IOP support and subconscious reprogramming work, the focus is always the same: keeping the primary purpose, the primary purpose.

🎥 Watch my video on recovery coaching and learn more about our approach.
👉 Explore our profile on

https://demo.recovery.com/recovery-coach/vanguard-coaching-life-recovery-and-hypnotherapy-or-nlp-and-mindset-work/

08/28/2025

Leaving treatment can feel like stepping off a cliff.
Inside, you had structure and accountability. The second you walk outside, stress and old patterns rush back — and before long, you’re pulling into a bar or liquor store, wondering how it unraveled so fast.

That’s the gap too many fall into. Not because they don’t care. Not because they’re weak. But because the primary purpose — staying sober — gets drowned out by all the other purposes: career, family, fun, school, money. Those things matter, but they can’t siphon off the primary purpose.

That’s where recovery coaching comes in. A sponsor keeps you accountable to sobriety. A coach works with the whole person — body, mind, career, relationships, and purpose — so the main thing stays the main thing.

👉 Learn more about Personalized Recovery Coaching here:
https://vanguardcoachingllc.com/personalized-recovery-coaching/