Coach JP’s Blog
The Performance Pressure Cooker
An anonymous $10,000 donation pushed the Solstice Run fundraiser beyond anything I imagined. Alongside relief at exceeding my fundraising target, I found myself facing a different challenge: the pressure to perform. A reflection on expectations, ego, Stoicism, and finding the fun when the stakes feel high.
You Don’t Need a Reset, You Need Direction
Reset culture is seductive, but it’s brittle. If you want real change this January, focus on direction, not perfection. Learn how to build consistency that survives weekends, holidays, and low motivation, using permission, resilience, and a simple plan you can repeat.
You Don’t Need to Be “On Track” This Week
You do not need to be “on track” this week to be making progress. Learn how to loosen structure during holidays, travel, illness, or overwhelm without guilt, all-or-nothing spirals, or punishment, and how to return to your routine calmly when life settles.
The Mask Men Wear: Why Hiding Struggles Makes Us Weaker
Many men still believe strength means silence, but hiding pain doesn’t make us tougher, it makes us weaker. This Mindset Monday explores why vulnerability is real strength, how misunderstanding Stoicism feeds isolation, and what it takes to drop the mask and start living authentically.
Race Recap: Around The Lake Give'R Take 30K
Read a raw, start-to-finish recap of the 2024 Around The Lake Give'R Take 30K, featuring brutal weather, challenging trails, and mental grit. Join me as I push through fear, anxiety, and pain to beat cutoff times and conquer personal limits. Discover insights on pacing, race-day strategy, and why doing the hard things is always worth it.
Doing Stuff Anyway
I'm facing a tough race with challenging weather and terrain, and I'm not sure I'll make the cutoff. To succeed, I'll need to sustain a pace I've rarely managed before, and there's a real risk of failure or injury. But it's not just about finishing—it's about pushing beyond my comfort zone, testing my limits, and seeing what I’m capable of, even if it scares me. Sometimes you just do stuff anyway.
Fear of Failure / Fear of Success
As part of a program I was going through when this blog post was originally written, we were asked to examine our fears with regards to the program, and that got me thinking about the nature of fear when it comes to failure or success of achieving goals or tasks we set ourselves.
There will always be things that are genuinely beyond our control that can influence our success or failure at something, but here we are talking about the things we CAN control – our own behaviours and choices.
So, what do “Fear of Failure” and “Fear of Success” really mean?