Are people conspiring behind your back to help you? — A few weeks ago, my friend, Greg, sent me a list — 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known — created by Kevin Kelly, founding Executive Editor of Wired, with the following message: “A good list to start your day.” Little does Greg know, I’ve started my day…

What do you have to lose!?! — May 7th, 2022. The Ironman World Championships in St. George, UT. Up at 3:30am. 2.4 miles of swimming in 60 degree water. 112 miles of biking with over 7000 feet of elevation change. 26.2 miles of running in 90 degree heat. 13 hours. 57 minutes. 38 seconds. To bed at…

Push off your quit by using play to lean into your goal — “Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.” ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce We all have a quit point. In writing this article, admittedly, I’ve hit that point a few times. When doing things that are BIG, SCARY, and HAIRY, you’re bound to run into that point. Unfortunately…

Play encourages contingency testing — “The playing adult steps sideward into another reality, the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery” ~ Erik H. Erikson It’s time to nerd out a bit. On play research. I’m a huge proponent of play. It’s helped me tremendously. However, lately, I haven’t felt too playful. …

Swim Better | Swim Faster | Speed Wars: P500 vs. P200 — A Guiding Principle At Steele Coaching, we believe in deliberate practice: being systematic, purposeful, and attentive to details. When you do this, you focus your attention on specific goals that will improve your overall performance. Deliberate practice opens the door for you to focus on the process rather than the outcome. When you…

Be the rider and the horse — “Your attention is pulled this way and that, and without the rational standard to guide your decisions, you never quite reach the goals that you set.” — Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature On Monday, I was ready to give up on my BIG, SCARY, HAIRY GOAL. Because it’s…

Try these three ingredients — Ingredient #1: Inertia in • er • tia /i ‘ nərSHə/ noun A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged I had a graduate school professor who always reminded me, “Getting over inertia is the hardest part.” It is. It’s easy to stay the same. It’s easy to do nothing. …

Swim Better | Swim Faster | The Bee — A Guiding Principle At Steele Coaching, we believe in deliberate practice: being systematic, purposeful, and attentive to details. When you do this, you focus your attention on specific goals that will improve your overall performance. Deliberate practice opens the door for you to focus on the process rather than the outcome. …

Start today by answering three questions — Life satisfaction and wellbeing are active processes. To jumpstart your improvement on these two states, start by answering three questions: What is a SINGULAR goal that I want to pursue? How can I clearly DEFINE it? Why and how is that goal MEANINGFUL to me? (Note:if you can’t honestly answer…