how can you go somewhere if you don’t
know where you’re trying to go and what
you’re trying to achieve
I always like to say that the secret to
success is doing a lot of little things
consistently over a long period of time
like people to see the headline the 50
yeah but they don’t realize there was a
decade that went into that of training
and building up to it everything you
know you can only get so physically fit
for a challenge and that at that point
in time you’re mining your body have to
come into alignment and then the mind
takes over and you know one of the
biggest questions I get is how do I come
or become mentally tough and you know a
lot of people say oh you’re either born
with it or is it something that you can
develop and I’m in the the camp of its
it’s a development process it’s anybody
can do it and I mean it started for me
in seventh grade I grew up as a wrestler
in Canada and I lost my very first match
in fact I lost almost every match after
that the NA the entire season
why did you keep going yeah I just you
know I’m the type of person that I don’t
I don’t love to be defined by those
moments it was like the fought the 5k
that I have fun or the form of fun
I don’t like the word fun and run
together but either yeah yeah how many
people do you see running around smiling
yeah but but for me I I don’t I don’t
enjoy those moments to define me and and
I want to I want to overcome that and
and so I I would wake up and study the
sport and and show up and you know the
EOS here is show up early and stay late
and I really did that and by the time I
hit my senior year went undefeated and
it’s not because I had any talent it’s
because I was willing to show up and so
me for me that’s where it’s everybody I
says I have bad knees and I say you have
bad knees because you don’t run and
because that guy right there in that
Stadium that couldn’t get up and walk
after his marathon shouldn’t have had
gone
did what I did which means also that I’m
not town that are gifted it was it was a
process that I went through and figured
it out I was I was obsessed with was not
with that not being my defining moment
right a marathon was the pinnacle of
running at the time and I only gave
myself five months to get ready for and
I I coached full-time now with athletes
and one of the biggest things I try to
get people to do is back down off of the
hints variation and let’s build a
foundation because because having a
giant goal is phenomenal and you should
but as long as the timeframe associated
with it is has the proper balance
because when I when I did the first
world record had I had the idea to do 50
consecutive it still would have been a
great goal but not in that year I had to
go through the process and take my
knocks and learn and evolve and grow to
get to that point where I could even you
know toe the line for fifty how much of
the learning and growing was your body
growing and getting stronger and more
capable and how much was knowing how to
deal with what you were gonna go through
mentally yeah both play a very pivotal
role because the amount of volume that I
was doing it’s the smaller stabilizers
ligaments tendons that that don’t
develop as fast as as muscles do and
that’s why a lot of people get hurt
because they go too quick with the
development of these things and their
muscles will always grow faster than the
smaller stabilizer sings and people
aren’t paying attention to those details
and they just get so excited with with
the the enormity of the journey that
they’re not paying attention to those
small things and if you overlook those
you’re gonna get injured and you’re
gonna be sidelined mentals obviously
huge and that is the sword that you have
to continually sharpen so again the goal
would have been great
in 2010 I wasn’t nearly mentally tough
enough I had to go through that process
to where I could wake up and and do it
it’s just it’s like a muscle it’s like a
cardiovascular system it’s it’s
something that you
you can develop but it takes time
confidence builds confidence and success
builds success and having not taken the
right steps I would have I would have
ultimately failed come come time for the
51 reason was not enough for me to get
back on my bike and do 20 more ironmans
but as I started going through the list
of everything that I was doing and why I
was doing it it’s interesting I would
gather them all together and I’d focus
on this this big ball and I would bring
it in close to me and as soon as I
focused on that I started to experience
a rebirth because now I was focusing on
the very very next moment that I had
control over and everything that I was
trying to accomplish and why I was there
and and I call this process now looking
back on it both a rebirth and putting on
my uniform which was the alter ego and
my uniform is those yellow sunglasses
you’ve seen me wearing some of my
pictures and when I put those glasses on
that’s when the iron cowboy comes out
and that dude is a bad bad man and
there’s nothing that’s gonna get in his
way and and I do a lot of speaking from
stage now and I want to encourage people
to find whatever their uniform is find
whatever their alter-ego is because when
you discover that and and how to flip
that switch that that’s when nothing
gets in your way and that’s where you
shift your focus and you realize what
your purpose is and I knew if I had the
courage to get back on my bike and
finish that day and then do the 20 more
my life would be different that you’re
thinking that while you’re there on the
ground and this whole process was about
eight minutes the whole thing from
complete meltdown to breaking all of the
purposes and wise down to the
realization the rebirth and getting back
on and going and keep it can happen that
quick and we’re we’re moments away every
day from a decision that’s going to
completely change your life but every
single moment of every single day has a
massive impact on where you ultimately
end up and so that was a huge turning
point but it was all the decisions
before and after that led to that moment
if the journey you’re on is big enough
and it’s gonna have enough impact and
and changed your life and other people’s
lives one reason it’s not gonna be big
enough and you need to put a lot of
thought in a lot of preparation and a
lot of meditation into all of the
reasons why because at some point in
time you’re going to need to gather all
those little bad boys up and then and
intently focus on it to have enough
courage to get back up and do 20 more
irons after everything that we went
we’re surrounded today by people being
satisfied with mediocre and and for me
as soon as I realized that I I could
believe in myself and I had a supporting
crew beside me and around me that it
opened up a lot of the doors and the
moment I used someone else’s standard of
excellence that was just enough to get
me moving and then you need to put that
person aside or look past that person
and create or do you create your own
lane and so so for me you know once I
stopped looking at what everybody else
was doing and then truly believed in
what I could do that you know combining
with all those character traits that I
that I talked about before that
that’s when human potential is truly
truly can be found and experienced how
did you develop the belief in yourself I
think just over over a long period of
time again it’s that whole mental aspect
of sharpening that tool and putting
yourself in in situations where you can
learn and grow success field success and
confidence builds confidence and just
over time as I started to do things I
was I was becoming successful at them
and I was taking I’ve done a lot of
little things consistently over a long
period of time and that’s what allowed
me to build the confidence to take on
the next the next the next and so it’s
just it was learned it was learned by
doing it taking massive amounts of
action you have to you have to
immediately act and and go after it the
only thing I’m trying to do is to get
people to open their minds as to what is
possible we’re just we’re living in an
age where we’re limiting what we think
is as possible we’re getting in our own
way and and my my thing that I want to
get people to do and you’ve probably
heard somebody say before but motion
creates emotion the hardest thing to do
is
start moving engaging once you start to
move and engage you realize two things
one it’s not it’s not as scared as you
thought it was and two you actually
start enjoying what you’re doing it was
the only thing that was scaring you was
the the first moment the first action
dude I’m I’m just like every ordinary
dude that’s out there I just have
learned to put myself in the game I’ve
learned to show up every single day
the moment you realize the next step
isn’t going to kill you and that next
step is the first step to evolving
changing growing and learning and
becoming literally the best version of
yourself that’s the most beautiful thing
it’s not going to kill you and putting
yourself in the game you’re giving
yourself an opportunity to achieve
something that everybody else said was
impossible what do you say her as a
speaker what do you say to somebody who
they don’t know what they want I’ve got
a friend right now who’s massively
struggling and it’s the exact question I
asked him I said what do you want what’s
your passion what are you trying to
accomplish he could not answer the
question and so my next question was
this is what you have to do first you
have to find out what you want and where
you want to go then we can start
formulating the plan you can’t formulate
a plan and figure out the steps unless
you know where you’re trying to go
you’ll just spin around in circles and
then probably move backwards how can you
go somewhere if you don’t know where
you’re
trying to go and what you’re trying to
achieve and here’s here’s what people do
is they get dead set on the journey that
they want to take and they’re so rigid
with how they’re gonna get there that
they don’t see the door over here and
they don’t see the bend in the river and
they try to cut because they they know
they’re going right here and they try to
cut through well they didn’t know had
this Bend of the river there was a
paradise and a picnic waiting for them
that would have opened up a door maybe
their sweetheart was waiting there for
them don’t be so rigid with how you’re
gonna get there because that’s how
you’re gonna discover what your passions
are and who and who’s who’s supposed to
be on your journey that’s that’s how
truly you’re going to discover what your
passions are by showing up every day
digging grinding hustle whatever you
want to call it and being open to all
the opportunities for sure one thing
I’ve learned is I can’t I can’t change
anybody they have to be in a space and
ready to do it and do it for themselves
and so for me to hold somebody to my
standard I think is somewhat unfair now
I hate excuses
I hate entitlement I want to hold people
to that standard but it’s not fair
because they’re on their own journey and
I and I I’m not living from their
perspective everybody’s heart is
different and for me to judge somebody
else to my standard is unfair because I
don’t know where they are in their
journey and they could be at the
beginning stages and it would have been
unfair to judge me at 24:41 today
learned a lot and I’ve grown a lot so my
standard at 41 is different than my
standard at 24 so if I’m trying to hold
a 24 year old to my standard probably
not realistic maybe I’m cautioning
people that are listening to take a step
back
and to understand take a minute to
understand what that person’s heart
possibly is and where they are on their
journey in retrospect to where you are
in your journey
that’s really really insightful I love
that a lot and knowing what somebody’s
heart is I think is I’m gonna use that
that’s really really interesting what is
the impact that you want to have on the
world and the impact I I am NOT here
today to change anybody and we just had
a good conversation about people at
different times of their journey and for
me I literally just want to have people
understand that you have to move to
start feeling something and if you move
and start feeling something you’re on
your way to the best version of yourself
and the impact that I want to have is
just to have the ability to get you to
live outside of the existence that
you’re in and to open it up to what’s
truly possible and if I can just get
people to understand that you’re in your
own way and to open up Pandora’s box per
se then you’ll truly find what your
limits are and I hope that you don’t
find your limits that you exceed your
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know where you’re trying to go and what
you’re trying to achieve
I always like to say that the secret to
success is doing a lot of little things
consistently over a long period of time
like people to see the headline the 50
yeah but they don’t realize there was a
decade that went into that of training
and building up to it everything you
know you can only get so physically fit
for a challenge and that at that point
in time you’re mining your body have to
come into alignment and then the mind
takes over and you know one of the
biggest questions I get is how do I come
or become mentally tough and you know a
lot of people say oh you’re either born
with it or is it something that you can
develop and I’m in the the camp of its
it’s a development process it’s anybody
can do it and I mean it started for me
in seventh grade I grew up as a wrestler
in Canada and I lost my very first match
in fact I lost almost every match after
that the NA the entire season
why did you keep going yeah I just you
know I’m the type of person that I don’t
I don’t love to be defined by those
moments it was like the fought the 5k
that I have fun or the form of fun
I don’t like the word fun and run
together but either yeah yeah how many
people do you see running around smiling
yeah but but for me I I don’t I don’t
enjoy those moments to define me and and
I want to I want to overcome that and
and so I I would wake up and study the
sport and and show up and you know the
EOS here is show up early and stay late
and I really did that and by the time I
hit my senior year went undefeated and
it’s not because I had any talent it’s
because I was willing to show up and so
me for me that’s where it’s everybody I
says I have bad knees and I say you have
bad knees because you don’t run and
because that guy right there in that
Stadium that couldn’t get up and walk
after his marathon shouldn’t have had
gone
did what I did which means also that I’m
not town that are gifted it was it was a
process that I went through and figured
it out I was I was obsessed with was not
with that not being my defining moment
right a marathon was the pinnacle of
running at the time and I only gave
myself five months to get ready for and
I I coached full-time now with athletes
and one of the biggest things I try to
get people to do is back down off of the
hints variation and let’s build a
foundation because because having a
giant goal is phenomenal and you should
but as long as the timeframe associated
with it is has the proper balance
because when I when I did the first
world record had I had the idea to do 50
consecutive it still would have been a
great goal but not in that year I had to
go through the process and take my
knocks and learn and evolve and grow to
get to that point where I could even you
know toe the line for fifty how much of
the learning and growing was your body
growing and getting stronger and more
capable and how much was knowing how to
deal with what you were gonna go through
mentally yeah both play a very pivotal
role because the amount of volume that I
was doing it’s the smaller stabilizers
ligaments tendons that that don’t
develop as fast as as muscles do and
that’s why a lot of people get hurt
because they go too quick with the
development of these things and their
muscles will always grow faster than the
smaller stabilizer sings and people
aren’t paying attention to those details
and they just get so excited with with
the the enormity of the journey that
they’re not paying attention to those
small things and if you overlook those
you’re gonna get injured and you’re
gonna be sidelined mentals obviously
huge and that is the sword that you have
to continually sharpen so again the goal
would have been great
in 2010 I wasn’t nearly mentally tough
enough I had to go through that process
to where I could wake up and and do it
it’s just it’s like a muscle it’s like a
cardiovascular system it’s it’s
something that you
you can develop but it takes time
confidence builds confidence and success
builds success and having not taken the
right steps I would have I would have
ultimately failed come come time for the
51 reason was not enough for me to get
back on my bike and do 20 more ironmans
but as I started going through the list
of everything that I was doing and why I
was doing it it’s interesting I would
gather them all together and I’d focus
on this this big ball and I would bring
it in close to me and as soon as I
focused on that I started to experience
a rebirth because now I was focusing on
the very very next moment that I had
control over and everything that I was
trying to accomplish and why I was there
and and I call this process now looking
back on it both a rebirth and putting on
my uniform which was the alter ego and
my uniform is those yellow sunglasses
you’ve seen me wearing some of my
pictures and when I put those glasses on
that’s when the iron cowboy comes out
and that dude is a bad bad man and
there’s nothing that’s gonna get in his
way and and I do a lot of speaking from
stage now and I want to encourage people
to find whatever their uniform is find
whatever their alter-ego is because when
you discover that and and how to flip
that switch that that’s when nothing
gets in your way and that’s where you
shift your focus and you realize what
your purpose is and I knew if I had the
courage to get back on my bike and
finish that day and then do the 20 more
my life would be different that you’re
thinking that while you’re there on the
ground and this whole process was about
eight minutes the whole thing from
complete meltdown to breaking all of the
purposes and wise down to the
realization the rebirth and getting back
on and going and keep it can happen that
quick and we’re we’re moments away every
day from a decision that’s going to
completely change your life but every
single moment of every single day has a
massive impact on where you ultimately
end up and so that was a huge turning
point but it was all the decisions
before and after that led to that moment
if the journey you’re on is big enough
and it’s gonna have enough impact and
and changed your life and other people’s
lives one reason it’s not gonna be big
enough and you need to put a lot of
thought in a lot of preparation and a
lot of meditation into all of the
reasons why because at some point in
time you’re going to need to gather all
those little bad boys up and then and
intently focus on it to have enough
courage to get back up and do 20 more
irons after everything that we went
we’re surrounded today by people being
satisfied with mediocre and and for me
as soon as I realized that I I could
believe in myself and I had a supporting
crew beside me and around me that it
opened up a lot of the doors and the
moment I used someone else’s standard of
excellence that was just enough to get
me moving and then you need to put that
person aside or look past that person
and create or do you create your own
lane and so so for me you know once I
stopped looking at what everybody else
was doing and then truly believed in
what I could do that you know combining
with all those character traits that I
that I talked about before that
that’s when human potential is truly
truly can be found and experienced how
did you develop the belief in yourself I
think just over over a long period of
time again it’s that whole mental aspect
of sharpening that tool and putting
yourself in in situations where you can
learn and grow success field success and
confidence builds confidence and just
over time as I started to do things I
was I was becoming successful at them
and I was taking I’ve done a lot of
little things consistently over a long
period of time and that’s what allowed
me to build the confidence to take on
the next the next the next and so it’s
just it was learned it was learned by
doing it taking massive amounts of
action you have to you have to
immediately act and and go after it the
only thing I’m trying to do is to get
people to open their minds as to what is
possible we’re just we’re living in an
age where we’re limiting what we think
is as possible we’re getting in our own
way and and my my thing that I want to
get people to do and you’ve probably
heard somebody say before but motion
creates emotion the hardest thing to do
is
start moving engaging once you start to
move and engage you realize two things
one it’s not it’s not as scared as you
thought it was and two you actually
start enjoying what you’re doing it was
the only thing that was scaring you was
the the first moment the first action
dude I’m I’m just like every ordinary
dude that’s out there I just have
learned to put myself in the game I’ve
learned to show up every single day
the moment you realize the next step
isn’t going to kill you and that next
step is the first step to evolving
changing growing and learning and
becoming literally the best version of
yourself that’s the most beautiful thing
it’s not going to kill you and putting
yourself in the game you’re giving
yourself an opportunity to achieve
something that everybody else said was
impossible what do you say her as a
speaker what do you say to somebody who
they don’t know what they want I’ve got
a friend right now who’s massively
struggling and it’s the exact question I
asked him I said what do you want what’s
your passion what are you trying to
accomplish he could not answer the
question and so my next question was
this is what you have to do first you
have to find out what you want and where
you want to go then we can start
formulating the plan you can’t formulate
a plan and figure out the steps unless
you know where you’re trying to go
you’ll just spin around in circles and
then probably move backwards how can you
go somewhere if you don’t know where
you’re
trying to go and what you’re trying to
achieve and here’s here’s what people do
is they get dead set on the journey that
they want to take and they’re so rigid
with how they’re gonna get there that
they don’t see the door over here and
they don’t see the bend in the river and
they try to cut because they they know
they’re going right here and they try to
cut through well they didn’t know had
this Bend of the river there was a
paradise and a picnic waiting for them
that would have opened up a door maybe
their sweetheart was waiting there for
them don’t be so rigid with how you’re
gonna get there because that’s how
you’re gonna discover what your passions
are and who and who’s who’s supposed to
be on your journey that’s that’s how
truly you’re going to discover what your
passions are by showing up every day
digging grinding hustle whatever you
want to call it and being open to all
the opportunities for sure one thing
I’ve learned is I can’t I can’t change
anybody they have to be in a space and
ready to do it and do it for themselves
and so for me to hold somebody to my
standard I think is somewhat unfair now
I hate excuses
I hate entitlement I want to hold people
to that standard but it’s not fair
because they’re on their own journey and
I and I I’m not living from their
perspective everybody’s heart is
different and for me to judge somebody
else to my standard is unfair because I
don’t know where they are in their
journey and they could be at the
beginning stages and it would have been
unfair to judge me at 24:41 today
learned a lot and I’ve grown a lot so my
standard at 41 is different than my
standard at 24 so if I’m trying to hold
a 24 year old to my standard probably
not realistic maybe I’m cautioning
people that are listening to take a step
back
and to understand take a minute to
understand what that person’s heart
possibly is and where they are on their
journey in retrospect to where you are
in your journey
that’s really really insightful I love
that a lot and knowing what somebody’s
heart is I think is I’m gonna use that
that’s really really interesting what is
the impact that you want to have on the
world and the impact I I am NOT here
today to change anybody and we just had
a good conversation about people at
different times of their journey and for
me I literally just want to have people
understand that you have to move to
start feeling something and if you move
and start feeling something you’re on
your way to the best version of yourself
and the impact that I want to have is
just to have the ability to get you to
live outside of the existence that
you’re in and to open it up to what’s
truly possible and if I can just get
people to understand that you’re in your
own way and to open up Pandora’s box per
se then you’ll truly find what your
limits are and I hope that you don’t
find your limits that you exceed your
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