COMING UP CLUTCH™

How does it make you feel when you have a much better understanding of something vs. the person or people around you?  If you’re anything like me, you feel confident. You may even feel like your leadership got a jolt of fuel. If you’re really like me, you want to help those people around you […]

What are you measuring yourself up against? Sadly, for years, I was measuring myself up against so many other people. That’s why my life and path looked like a dang heart rate monitor. Up here, down there, over there, back down, back up. It’s dizzying just thinking about it.  The shift happened when I started

Is celebrating wins part of your yearly goal-setting process? If you’re like most people, that answer is NO. If that’s the case, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to set more informed goals that are aligned with the best version of you. Because I’m aware that most high achievers aren’t celebrating their wins regularly,

“That won’t ever happen to me.”  Ever catch yourself saying that? You know, you hear a news story about the smash-and-grab in a city parking lot…or the car following a lady home from her grocery store trip…or the drunk dude who just randomly landed a punch on an innocent pedestrian, sending him to the hospital

The way you pursue big goals matters. I’m watching too many people burn themselves out because all their focus is on WHAT they’re pursuing. What about you? Are you more focused on the WHAT or the WAY?  In today’s 5 Minute Drill, I’m going to dig deeper on how to stay elite when going after

When you hear phrases like, “The mind-body connection,” what do you think?  Seems pretty simple to interpret, right? The mind is connected to the body and the body is connected to the mind. But as simple as that seems, there’s still a ton of mixed messages on how we align our mind and body so

Why is persevering worth it?  In Romans 5:3-5, we get one of the main reasons why. The verse says, “…suffering produces perseverance and perseverance produces CHARACTER.”  Great. One HUGE benefit to persevering is you get character. I get it – you desperately need character to not only keep in the race you’re in, but also

When’s the last time you bet on yourself?  When you DON’T bet on yourself, what gets in the way? Typically, it’s the same old culprits: *Fear of the unknown *Lack of confidence *Confusion  They could be paralyzing, therefore keeping you stuck in status quo. In many cases, you feel like the gap between where you

How easy is it for you to dwell on your lack of progress towards a goal? …then, next thing you know, you’re sucked into the vortex of negativity and all the symptoms that come with it.   We hear things like, “Embrace the suck” or “Honor your struggle,” but how the heck do you do that?  

FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real When I first saw this acronym, a BIG light bulb went off. For the first time, I realized that there’s absolutely ZERO truth behind the door of our fear. Although WHAT we fear isn’t real, the WHY behind our fear is. …and a lot of it has to do