THE GRIP
One principle, once a week, to help you take hold of The Plenteous Life.
Get a grip on CREATING reality!
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RESPONSE ABILITY
Learn how radical responsibility empowers leaders to transform breakdowns into bold moves. This issue of The Grip reveals how to replace blame with ownership, fueling momentum, freedom, and sustainable leadership growth.
WHY ‘BETTER’ KEEPS YOU FEELING BROKEN
Many high-achievers unknowingly chase self-improvement from the belief that they’re broken. This issue of The Grip reveals how true transformation begins—not with fixing yourself—but by remembering you’re already enough.
YOUR BRAIN’S TEMPER TANTRUM PT. 3
Discomfort isn’t danger—it’s a sign that you’re growing. Learn to retrain your survival brain so discomfort no longer signals “stop,” but becomes the starting point for scale, leadership, and lasting impact.
YOUR BRAIN’S TEMPER TANTRUM PT. 2
Being wrong isn’t dangerous—it’s a survival brain reflex wired from childhood. This issue of The Grip reveals how clinging to being right is costing you growth, leadership, and joy—and shows how to reframe mistakes as fuel for transformation.
YOUR BRAIN’S TEMPER TANTRUM PT. 1
Your survival brain reacts to rejection like it’s a life-or-death threat, hijacking your clarity and confidence. But rejection isn’t fatal—it’s a perception error.
Learn how to reframe social disapproval, override outdated survival instincts, and take action without fear holding you back.
MASTER THE HIDDEN STORIES CONTROLLING YOUR RESULTS
Your mind is a master storyteller, constantly interpreting events and shaping how you experience leadership, relationships, and even your own identity. But here’s the thing: not all these stories are true. And the ones that aren’t? They could be limiting you more than you realize.
BLINDED BY STORY:
The second my vision went dark, my brain didn’t wait. It handed me one story: You’re in danger. It was instant, automatic, and utterly wrong—but I almost turned into the Tasmanian Devil because of it.
My experience in that moment is a picture of the challenge we all face in getting a handle on our default stories. Default stories are automatic and in turn, drive behavior. You always behave in a manner consistent with the story you’re telling. And the trickiest part is default stories are almost impossible to identify, unless you know where to look.
ONCE UPON A STORY THAT STUCK
The single biggest influence on your quality of life in any given moment is what you say about it—your story. This capacity is powerful, and how you use it makes all the difference in creating benefit or harm; both for yourself and others. Getting conscious of and intentional with your story will fundamentally transform your life.
STAGNATION: THE STEALTHY THREAT YOU NEVER SEE COMING
Stagnation is a state or condition marked by lack of flow, movement, or development. It is a death knoll for the human mind & body, relationships, businesses, economies, and countries.
Particularly for The Innovator Leader, one thing is clear: stagnation is agony. It consistently ranks in the top 10 struggles reported by entrepreneurs, founders, business owners, and creatives.
STOP OUTSOURCING YOUR INNER GAME
Your inner experience does get created, just not in the manner you’ve been led to believe. Who makes you happy? Who makes you mad?
In this issue of The Grip, we shed light on the true source of your inner experience and give you the tools necessary to intentionally cultivate and strengthen it. We introduce a practice that, if you’re willing to live in true freedom, will fortify your mental wellbeing like nothing else.
BEYOND VISUALIZATION
If you've done any amount of personal development work, you are already familiar with the concept of visualizing your desired outcomes. Why does it seem to work for some but not for others?
Harnessing the subconscious is the differentiator between visualization that propels your life forward and visualization that unintentionally creates more of what you don't want.
In this week’s issue of The Grip, we show you the next critical step for harnessing your subconscious: reprogramming it.
WHY YOUR BRAIN RESISTS CHANGE
In this week’s issue of The Grip, we contend with a harsh reality that arises when you attempt to reprogram your subconscious brain: either it works inconsistently or not at all.
What’s going on?
MEET YOUR HIDDEN SUPERPOWER
The subconscious brain operates in the realm of the unseen. It has access to options and information that never make it onto the conscious brain’s radar. Between it’s processing capability, it’s 24/7 operation, and it’s access to mind-boggling amounts of information, the subconscious brain is your own AI companion.
This is why mastering your subconscious brain makes such a difference in what you achieve in life—the more you move conscious desires into the domain of the subconscious, the more power gets behind fulfilling them.
THE ETERNAL WELL
In normal conversation, wellbeing is considered to be a temporary state. It’s something that, through choice, action, and circumstance, can be gained or lost. You can make yourself well; you can make yourself unwell.
What if wellbeing doesn’t work that way? What if being well is as constant as being human?
Living FROM Rest
Rest is not a place to get to; it’s a place to come from. Regardless of which day of the week you designate as your rest day, I’d like you to start seeing it as Day One from which the following six days will be fueled.
Seeing your rest day as the start rather than the end of your week fundamentally shifts it from being a day to crash in exhaustion to a day intentionally designed to support your wellbeing.
Doing Weekly Rest
For much of my adult life I thought a three-hour Sunday afternoon nap was getting the job done; nice try, but no.
What does it look like to “do” Weekly Rest? Today I’m giving you a snapshot of how I intentionally rest each week.
It’s not a standard of “perfect” or the “right way” to do Weekly Rest. It’s an example of what is working really well for me right now.
When Was Your Last Day Off…Really?
There was a time I viewed weekly rest as optional.
Like many leaders, I prioritized getting quality sleep every night, but I was “too busy” to carve out a day for nothing but rest each week—who’s got time for that??
Then a mentor challenged me to experiment with it for a couple of months to see if it made a difference.