Nobody really sees themselves as a victim or as playing the victim

I certainly didn’t anyway,

I would read about playing the victim in personal development books and I’d just skim over it thinking it wasn’t for me.

Grabbing your phone on waking doesn’t guarantee overwhelm

But it is a common step on the path to overwhelm.

Over the years of working with leaders, founders and C level folks I’ve seen a bunch of things that seem to move them towards or away from overwhelm.

STOP telling people to JUST be consistent

It’s said by the exerciser who exercise daily

It’s said by the writer who writes daily

How many times have you told yourself the future is going to be great if you just get the the other side of the present hell?

Unfortunately that’s rarely true.

The future isn’t bright, only the present can be bright.

7 things I love about working with founders

As a coach I help my clients to gain clarity, direction, focus and strategy to create the business and life they want.

But I truely believe that in order to do that I need to focus on creating that for myself.

“After months of trying on my own and failing I had one session with Ed and changed 8 habits literally overnight”

What the hell happened there? 👇🏻

Neuroscientist Dr Lisa Feldman coined the term “body budget” and it stuck.

You wake up in the morning with a sense of deep peace. You slowly become aware of your body as you breath deeply in appreciation naturally filling you with energy and anticipation for the day ahead.

Your recent dive into meditation has been different

Do Less

Read the same book again. All learning is associative. This means if your intent is to integrate the knowledge in the book you’re reading into your life then your best bet is to read it again.

Things that DON’T make unhappy employees happier

More money
More celebrations
More time off
Less “boring” work

I sold my gym and healthcare business in 2017 and decided to quit the hustle

I didn’t want to work 13 hour days any more.

I spent a lot of time reviewing my approach back then which could be best described as Do everything you can think of to achieve I don’t know what… success?

Stop calling it procrastination and just tell the absolute truth

I’m not saying you’re lying, but…

Don’t say I’m procrastinating say,

Trying to STOP thinking about work doesn’t work

Here’s what to do instead

If you’ve tried to stop thinking about work you…

3 Secrets Zen Business Leaders Know That Overwhelmed Business Leaders Don’t

Want them? Here they are… 👇🏻

1. Zen business leaders know

Discover how Jacob went from Overwhelmed B player leader to A player in less than 3 months

^^^ that’s a big thing in the start up community, often, you’ve either got it or you don’t and I get it.

Things move fast in the start up world and you have to be ready for that.

STOP 🛑 Starting with Why


It’s not helping your mental health


That not a dig at Simon Sinek.

It’s about mental health.

You are struggling with your mental health because you are making all the WRONG choices.

Make better choices… is that really true?

That’s the narrative around health and mental health right now and it’s hard to dispute.

This is what I do

In hopes of answering that, what is it you actually do question…

I help leaders to improve how they feel and perform in every area of life.

That’s the 2 second pitch.

I was told in my late teens and early twenties by enough people for it to get to me that I was arrogant.

What I thought it meant was something like unsubstantiated confidence.

I didn’t want to come across that way so to be sure I looked it up.

The definition was something like

This is me…

I’m an entrepreneur at heart and always have been. That is to say learning has always been the result of the trial and error of trying to make something happen in the world more than studying to gain knowledge and becoming attached to that knowledge even when it doesn’t create the desired change.

Success

It could be hard to achieve if you don’t know what it means to you.

Or perhaps you already have it defined but your definition is causing you to suffer?