Resilience

We can do better. We can work harder. We must, and we will.

Terrifying though it may be. I will lead without apology. There is to much good to be done to hide behind timidity.

Breathe

What a gift it is to be alive.

The struggle is for your mind.

I will not fear. Fear is a mind killer. I will continue. The past does not own me any more than the future. The past is gone. The future is fickle. The present is now. And I will meet now with all I am. What a strange battle for the mind. The game of life we play. So filled with perplexity and unknowns. It is almost imperceivable that so much of it is a war for mind control. For the mind controls the material. So to control the material, seize your mind. If you don't, others will. And most often you will thank them for it. I refuse. I choose freedom. It is terribly liberating. And worth it.

Live your own life. Play your own game. Everyone else’s is taken.

When things start working, FEED THE MOMENTUM!

When you face tragedy. Look for the helpers. There will always be helpers. And they will be WayMakers. And where there are WayMakers. There is hope.

It’s wild how if you take control of the story you tell yourself. You can rewrite your experience.

Your loyalty to the past is best served by evolving to better meet the ever present future.

Think of the last person who mocked what you are building. Now ask one question: are they where you want to be? They never are. The people ahead of you do not hate you. They remember how hard the first steps were, so they either cheer you on or stay quiet and keep working. Hate does not come from above. It comes from beside you and behind you, from people who feel your movement as a judgment on their standing still.

The time is now. It always has been, And always will be, now. So, Replace fear with faith. Despair with hope. Anxiety with excitement. Confusion with clarity. Assumption with curiosity. Discontentment with gratitude. Weariness with joy. It is all a choice.

“Opportunity follows difficulty.” -Jim Rohn

Harmony and flow are stronger than brittle balance. Balance tries to preserve a fixed position. A hard enough force topples it. Flow receives new information and reorganizes around it. The practitioner adjusts tactics, not the target. Conviction remains. The method moves.

Harmony and flow are stronger than brittle balance.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

Full force, no strain.

Emotion becomes dangerous when it is mislabeled as reality. Pain may teach, but pain also interprets. Fear may warn, but fear also writes fiction. Desire may reveal direction, but desire can inflate evidence. The discipline is not to stop feeling strongly. The discipline is to stop giving every strong inner feeling the authority of fact.

It all comes together if you never quit and don’t die.

I LOVE GRAPPLING. but boy oh boy there is something exceptional to being punched in the face

Stop being confused that life is hard.

Crisis tells the truth.

Friction Feeds Freedom

Steve is a gift and the first to earn an Iron Ranch Murder Club hammer from Forge Grappling that ranks above myself. Grateful to share the mats with you brother. Thank you for your fellowship and consistent partnership in suffering. Forge Forward.

People who know precisely what they want of life rarely submit to fear. They are too busy expressing their self-reliance and faith.

people who wine and beg god to assume responsibility for all their troubles and provide them with all the necessities and luxuries of life are too lazy to create what they want and translate it into existence, through the power of their own thoughts and actions. it takes faith to act.

Learn to recognize the difference between temporary defeat and failure.

We have developed a level of suicidal empathy that makes us afraid that everyone has paper thin skin. We must foster truth and radical candor. Then we can create the solutions we so desperately need.

Failure rhymes. Success is unique.

Practice the discipline of converting failure into a stepping stone to achievement.

You drift your way to hell. You forge your path to heaven. And I am talking about this life. Not the next.

freedom is hard earned. peace is protected.

Negligence operates like a slippery slope, a gateway drug, and a slow boil. It starts small and inconsequential, and grows until it destroys everything it touches. Unless you secure the standard, and protect it relentlessly.

Do not be anxious about anything.

Your excuses have become your family, you feed them, clothe them, and protect them. Yet, you wonder why your discipline starves?

you get free by moving, not by waiting to feel clear

THE ASSAULT RAVE Bonus points for when the gym is 90 or hotter. Better bonus points when rocking that trip digit heat!

“There is no peace for the man who has seen who he can become." Sir William Walker

There is the equivalent seed of advantage in every adversity.

If you were to step back, what you change when you step forward again?

If it doesn’t feed you, then your what it eats.

“One of the biggest mistakes we make in our stories is confusing our circumstances with our thoughts about those circumstances.” - Jim Murphy

“The day you decide you're in charge of what happens to you, there is suddenly opportunity all around you.” -Shane Parrish

Suck less.

Being “ready” is a feeling. Prepare to the best of your ability. Do it anyway.

Feel the nerves, respect what they’re telling you, and SEND IT!

We are not saved by perfect plans but by the reaching of our hands.

Truly I tell you. It is a glorious gift to get punched in the face.

Fear only lies if I let it survive.

Kill fear. Fear is a cancer.

Familiarity inside a broken system is the strongest argument for keeping it broken.

If it doesn’t give you strength. It is weakening you.

Going to the same place over and over doesn’t change you

Progress is not achieved by luck. But by working on yourself relentlessly. Forge Forward.

Break the pattern today or the cycle will continue tomorrow.

We are not saved by perfect plans, but by the reaching of our hands.

Hold the line though small it seems it’s born from ashes fed by dreams. Hope is not a promise made It’s the courage to stay when all else fades.

I was fallen but not undone. Through the ashes I see the sun. Broken plans but a burning will. I rise again but I’m fighting still.

If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.

Hope is not a promise made. It is the courage to stay when all else fades.

You are not what broke you down. You are what still stands now.

Yesterday is over. Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. Today matters.

It’s in the waiting that we live.

I love the feeling of soreness that makes finding sleep challenging.

A lot of people are not conditioned for stress and yet they believe they will rise to the occasion. Are you sure?

What breaks the groove is strain. Deliberate practice requires operating beyond the current comfort zone, under high concentration, with immediate feedback and a precise target. This is cognitively expensive in a way that ordinary performance is not. It is also the only mechanism known to actually drive improvement. Nothing else substitutes for it.

The choice is never between hard and easy, only between which difficulty to endure.

Remember you are beautiful. You are strong. You are powerful.

Trying is a confession of absence

Even we who succeed fade into oblivion given to time.

Circling oblivion. Riding the paradox. We persist.

Pressure is energy, you can allow it to crush you, or you can channel it to propel you.

Time comes for us all

If you see the potential in something and the path to realize it, keep going. A lot of folks just walk away. There is something true to being the change you hope for. Being the reflection you want to see in the world.

It never gets easy. This is good news.

Plans rarely go as planned.

The attack will come when you least expect it, and feel least prepared. Breathe and continue.

If you choose not to find the joy in your struggles. Your life will be filled with much less joy.

There are no rules. Be careful what you choose to believe.

Conflict is real. The way is real.

Sometimes we have to allow ourselves the experiences that are horrifying so that we can more fully show up in the grace, in the gift, in the love, in the light of what is possible.

Grace is not acceptance of the diminishing of a standard; it's an opportunity to continue despite deserving something worse.

if you can't sleep, write.

peace is agnostic to your circumstances.

Now becomes the past, present, and future given time. I will not worry about the past nor future. Now has enough joy filled opportunity for me to invest all of my attention into.

The growth journey never ends. Learn to love the climb. It is the point.

Never underestimate the medicinal benefits of savagery.

Diligence will overcome all difficulties.

Now is the worst time for fear. Instead, get curious. Dive in.

It’s not some point in the future that you change. You change now, based on what you choose to do. Now is the future, and the past, given time.

This feels eternal. It is not.

Use your despair to find freedom.

The desire for change must meet the capacity to metabolize it.

Every time I fight someone new and they win. I want nothing more than to go again, again and again. Until I find my footing and win, or grind us both to dust. It is a great joy to me for which I am immensely grateful. Don’t mistake the loss for more than what it often is. An opportunity.

Willpower evaporates under extreme stress.

everything you want is waiting for you to stop trying to get it

do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. and in so doing, achieve everything.

we possess no more than this moment

you are not made of glass

comfort zones are poison forge forward

day by day brick by brick build stop at nothing

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Do you not realize? These are the best years…

difficulty is unavoidable, suffering is optional

it is wild absolutely wild how large the gap is between what folks say and what they do

stop running from your fear. embrace it, feel it, envision it in great detail. then let it go. on the other side of fear is your true form.

Persist.

Hear me out. The reason folks have terrible follow through is few folks farm any more. You don’t workout, no worries eat a Twinkie. You don’t put the chickens up at night? 1 is taken by an owl, another is eaten by a raccoon, and 13 more are killed by a fox.

it is all a game, play to dominate but don't forget, it is all a game

Chaos will often present itself as the perfect excuse to take your foot off the gas. Yet it is a far better reason to lean in all the more.

It’s incredible to me that joy feels fleeting but suffering feels like it will never end, and yet both change frequently. Stay the course, forge forward.

simply put, persist. adjust your aim and persist. simplify and persist. execute relentlessly and persist. oh and breathe.

It’s incredible how easily discomfort can rob us of joy in this present moment. It is critical to remain vigilant at all times. This too shall pass. And when it does, act now so that future you does not carry regret.