Sports Motivation Podcast

Whether you're chasing a personal best on the pitch, perfecting a golf swing, building a content brand, mastering a recipe, or showing up as the best parent you can be, the desire to be great at something is righteous. It's wired into you. But desire alone doesn't close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
In this episode, I break down the one habit that separates people who train hard from people who actually get great: writing it down.
Too many well-meaning athletes and professionals think they're maximizing progress by just showing up and doing the work, training hard, experimenting, winging it. That effort is good. It's not enough. Time is your most valuable asset, and every session you don't log is a session you can't learn from.
I walk through why this matters using something as simple as baking bread, how skipping the notes cost me weeks of re-learning what I already figured out, and why the same principle applies directly to your training, your reps, your sets, and your goals.
If you want to move from good to great, stop winging it. Start writing it down.
In this episode:
Why "just doing the work" isn't the same as mastering it
The real cost of not tracking your training and progress
How writing things down builds the awareness you need to adjust and improve
Why a clear, tracked plan is non-negotiable if you're serious about your goals
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The bigger the beef, the longer the clip you need.
Conflict is not a sign something is wrong. It is the size of what you are trying to accomplish. Your goal, your problem, your obstacle... that is the beef. And the clip is your capacity to handle it. More bullets. More action. More time and thought. More energy and focus.
Most people underestimate what it takes to win and then wonder why the world feels like it is working against them. It is not working against you. You just brought a short clip to a long fight.
I break down why respecting your opponent (the goal, the competition, the challenge) means loading up before you engage, not after you get caught short. Load the clip. Unload it. Attack. Reload. Repeat until you have what you came for.
Then I ask you the only question that matters right now: what is the ONE goal that if you nailed it in the next 90 days would make this year a real win for you?
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James Allen wrote it over a hundred years ago, and it's still the truest thing I know: "Whatsoever you harbor in the innermost chambers of your heart will, sooner or later, by the inevitable law of reaction, shape itself in your outward life." Your thoughts, your beliefs, your unhealed pain, they don't stay hidden. They show up as your life.
In this episode I get into what's actually driving your repeated patterns of failure and frustration. It's not the market, not your team, not bad luck. It's your fear of failure. It's the belief that you're worthless underneath it all. It's your fear of being rejected. These are the roots, and until you dig to them, nothing changes.
Your only job right now is honesty. Follow your feelings and ask yourself what actually feels true in this moment. That's uncomfortable, and it's the only path to real growth. The new tools, the new plans, the new team, the new relationship, the new job, the new body, the new money, none of it fixes what's underneath. Only facing the roots does.

Your ego is running way more decisions than you think, and it's not trying to help you win. In this episode I break down how the ego operates, why bad choices feel right in the moment and good choices feel wrong, and what to actually do about it.
The ego isn't the enemy. It's part of being human, and you can't kill it off. What you can do is make it flexible instead of rigid. Right now it's probably running stiff, defending itself, convincing you that comfort is the same thing as correct.
Here's the trap. When you flash out at someone, when you eat the fries on the diet, when you go for revenge instead of growth, that feels right because your ego is chasing comfort, not chasing what's actually good for you. And on the flip side, the moves that could change your life, a new team, a new contract, a new relationship, those feel wrong because your ego reads change as threat. It creates false urgency to get you to bail before you have to sit in the discomfort of doing something real.
I give you a simple filter for this. Anger, pressure, urgency, those are ego signals. When you feel them, force yourself to wait. Take no action for 1-2 days and watch what actually needs to happen once the noise clears. And after any decision that blew up on you, ask yourself what the real motivation behind it was. If the honest answer is pressure, urgency, or need, that's your ego talking, not you.
If you're ready to stop letting your ego run your decisions and want direct, personalized coaching to build real self leadership, book a call with me at imnotyou.com/coaching.

At 20, I found out my ex girlfriend was pregnant. I stared at the ceiling for an hour, drowning in guilt, shame, and the fear of what my church going family would think.
I ended up back with her. Had another kid. Spent almost 10 years in an on and off toxic relationship, three failed engagements, all because I was chasing my dad's approval instead of building my own life.
He was a devoted Christian who wanted me married, and he never seemed to care that we weren't right for each other. I wasn't even living my own beliefs, I was living his.
In this episode I break down why so many of you are still doing the same thing: running your adult life on programming you inherited and never actually chose. I get into why re-evaluating everything you were taught isn't disrespect, it's required. And why living like your parents are dead, no longer needing their approval, is the only way you build a kingdom that's actually yours.
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