DAILY MINDSET **“Well done is better than well said.” - Benjamin Franklin** Talk is cheap. Anyone can talk. Only the few, choose to do. There will be a point today where we will feel compelled to express our thoughts to someone. Maybe it’s how something could be done better. Press pause in that moment. “Ductus Exemplo” is a Latin phrase that translates to: “Lead by Example”. Actions will always speak louder than any words. WD > WS. Strength & Power like a mofo! Back Squats Ev

DAILY MINDSET **"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." Ralph Waldo Emerson** Fate puts opportunity in front of us. Destiny is the result of what we choose to do with it. In turn, destiny is a choice. Not some predetermined thing of fairy tales and lore. We can sit and allow destiny to happen to us, or we can choose to have destiny happen for us. Don’t wait to be chosen… instead choose. Decisions = Destiny. Strength & Powaaaah! Overhead Sq

DAILY MINDSET **“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” - Peter Drucker** In business, this is ever important for leaders to fully understand. That the culture of a team is everything. Over any marketing plans, product launches… anything. The same mindset is true for us as athletes. We’ve all heard the line, “it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog”. And we believe it to be true. The picture perfect strategy, executed half-heartedly, wil

DAILY MINDSET **“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” - Scott Adams** How does an echo start? With a tiny sound. One that might not even be noticeable. But shortly thereafter, that soft sound brings a soft echo. Still, maybe nothing to turn heads. Yet, the echo then builds… doubling, tripling, several times over. Before we know it, it’s impossible to ignore. It’s called the “changing of the echos”, and it

DAILY MINDSET **“Champions don’t blame the tools they’ve been given. Champions sharpen them.”** Abraham Lincoln once wrote that if he had six hours to cut down a tree, he would spend the first four sharpening the axe. It doesn’t matter where you started, or even where you’ve been. All that matters is two questions: Where do you want to go, and... How hard are you willing to work to get there. We have what we need. Everyone does. The separation comes down to who is willing to

DAILY MINDSET **“Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.” - Epictetus** When something goes right, we’re relatively quick to point to the actions we took to get there. But when something goes wrong, we may find ourselves doing the *opposite*. In comes the “blame game”, where we use external events as excuses. A core tenant of mental toughness is responsibility. To accept that we played a role. But the purpose of that step, taking resp

DAILY MINDSET **"Live life on purpose" - Simon Sinek** As simple as this sounds, every action we take in our lives should have a clear and defined purpose. As an analogy, let’s use money. When we spend money, there’s a reason. Food for tonight’s dinner, a new pair of shoes, gasoline. It’s very easy to justify. We would never throw our money into the wind. Yet... we can often find ourselves doing so with our time. Unlike money, which can cycle back around on the next paycheck,

DAILY MINDSET **“I was complaining I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.” - Confucius** A short story to share. A man walked into a shop to order some flowers to be sent as a gift to his mother, living 200 miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, “I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars.” The man smiled

DAILY MINDSET **“I attribute my success to this – I never gave, or took, any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale** The terrifying thing about excuses, is that it blinds us to our next move. If we excuse or try to justify a misstep, we at a subconscious level tell ourselves that this is “out of my control”. That this was a fluke, or a chance event, and there’s nothing I could do differently next time. On the flip side, owning what happens is not about beating ourselves up or throw

DAILY MINDSET **“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but rather by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Lewis Stevensen** The definition of success is whatever we make of it. Many directly link results to success. And the lack thereof, to failure. But what if we reshaped that way of thinking. What we measured success, as the seeds we “plant for tomorrow”? What if we decide that a successful day is deemed so purely by how much we learned? We can view days as tests. Or we c