Earn Your Good Day

We get to this time of year with loads of cheer, friends, family, events, plans, going out, changing seasons, fun, and also LOTS of food. Some of which isn't very conducive to our health and fitness goals. It can be incredibly tempting to break your plan, throw in the towel, and say you'll start back up at New Year with everyone else. Let's be honest, though... do you really want to do...

Where are we going? Are we there yet? How much longer? All of us ask these questions when we are going places. But how do we even know where we are going? We have a destination in mind and a roadmap, or Google maps, to get there. This week's episode lays out the road map for the rest of the year for the Earn Your Good Day Podcast. We talk about where we are going, what we will learn along the...

Finally, I have reached base camp. In the month of September, I accomplished one goal I spent 18 months preparing for, a second goal I have been working towards for the past 6 years, and I turned the ripe age of 25. Growing up I always thought 25 was a special birthday. I viewed it almost as the year you were expected to be an adult. When you're in your early 20's everyone kind of expects...

Not so long ago, I believed I was negatively buoyant and only ran to get my abs to show. This year on my 25th birthday I competed in, and completed, IRONMAN Chattanooga 2023. There is not much else I can say about it other than it was an incredible and eye-opening experience that I will never forget, and likely never get to experience again. The Ironman is the ultimate triathlon and test for endur...

17 months ago, I was competing in my first-ever powerlifting competition. A few weeks later I got a phone call half asleep where I committed to doing this insane event called an Ironman. At the time, I really wasn't sure what I had committed to. I was just excited about my next adventure. I started changing up my training routine. At first, I just started adding a bunch of reps to my normal weight...

There is a young man from the mid-west. He is smart, driven, ambitious, kind, thoughtful, hardworking, generous, and always wants to do better for himself and those he loves. He goes out on these adventures and comes back a "Changed man," a more "sophisticated" man. Since he was a young child, he has always given his all and has typically been at the top of his class or group. He grows up some, go...

When was the last time you had a big event or presentation or game you needed to perform exceptionally well at? Were you nervous? were you excited? Did you adequately prepare? How did you feel walking out to perform? What if I told you that a state of being could allow you to perform your best? To break through that glass ceiling? Would you want it? If you do I have the answer for you in this week...

"I got it." "I don't need any help on this, thanks though." A young man would say these things rather frequently. He meant no disrespect by it but simply wanted to do things by himself, his way, and produce the result he knew he could. He was a capable young man. One who showed lots of promise in his field. He worked very hard, had learned the skills he had by himself through hours and years of wo...

We've all been here before. Where you've been working on a project or taking a class, and you're no longer excited about it. when you first started you were full of sunshine and bursting at the seems with excitement. Yet, now it has become a chore, it is something you HAVE to do rather than WANT to do. Let's face it. If you could walk away you would. But you made a promise to yours...

Have you ever set out to do something that would challenge you? That would grow you? Then part way through it, things get hard, and you want to quit, change course, or give up? What's the point of adding more difficulty to your life anyway, right? There's enough of that as is; no need to make things harder. Yet we do them anyways. One question will make or break your ability to do somethin...

Going from homeless and a drug addict to a professional athlete in 5 years, Colin Mechaelsen and I talk about training, the internal world of competing, accountability, being your best self, and why we as athletes push ourselves so hard each and every day. to my surprise, Colin flips the script and coaches me on how to approach training. If you're looking for a deep insight into how to train a...

This is a wrap on the series that has span the last 7 weeks of the podcast since I came back from the biggest adventure I have taken in my life. It was one of joy, adventure, inspiration, hard work, some pain, and a lot of grit and proving to myself that I am who I say I am. Many of us go through life telling ourselves and others these things about us, with such confidence. Yet when we are alone w...

70.3, 6:07, 1.2, 56, 13.1. These numbers represent what I did yesterday, July 30th, 2023. I ran a half-ironman triathlon. I traveled 70.3 miles by my own power, in 6 hours and 7 minutes, swam 1.2 miles, biked 56 miles, and ran 13.1 miles. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life, and yet one of the most empowering things I have ever put myself through. I never would have...

We started this series with the logistics of how to plan a backpacking trip, went into the mentality needed for a successful trip, and last week we talked about how to last longer during your trip. This week we are talking about a pair of lessons that will help us trust ourselves enough to even dare go on a backpacking trip in the first place. While these are lessons I learned while backpacking, t...

We've covered the preparations for a backpacking trip, the mentality and tools to build one that will fuel you to a successful trip and life. This week we are talking about the maintenance of your mind and body and how to improve your endurance for your big upcoming trip. How to reduce your risk for injury, chaffing, blisters and better enjoy the journey. That's really what it's all ab...

The first volume of "Lessons from the Mount" was about the myriad of ways backpacking is akin to life and how two weeks on trail can give you 2 years of life experience. This week we are diving deep into the mental side of backpacking with seven lessons spanning from swimming in the stream to head-down hiking. Having a strong mentality within your control at all times. While not easy, it...

The Day after this episode is released, we have one of the greatest holidays of the year. The Fourth of July. It's our birthday!! And just like your and my birthdays, it is a time to party like no tomorrow and to learn from the last year. We, as Americans, have, like any family, been going through a rough patch. We are more divided and separate than ever, it seems. We are called the laughingst...

The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. Yet for whatever reason, that step is almost always the hardest to take. My first few miles on trail were filled with fear, anxiety, uncertainty, and a desire to turn around. No, seriously! Those were the emotions I was feeling the first 4 miles I hiked on the Appalachian trail. I was constantly thinking I missed the sign to get on the trail or...

Well, the bears did not kill me! That's a blessing as I saw 6 of them over 10 days lol. This episode is a recap of the month-long trip I recently came back from. The next few weeks will be an in-depth dive into the lessons I learned and how to apply them to your life. Keep #EarningYourGoodDay! If you are looking to improve your health, fitness, and or mental state send me an email to PsychedUp...

Everyone talks about habits and the next best one you need. Yet how to organize your habits is never talked about. Can you have too many habits? Are there areas of life that need more habits, fewer, or ones I can skip over? Today I will tell you the 3 foundational areas of life you need to have habits in order to have a full and complete life with all your basis covered. Once these three areas are...

We all know those people at our jobs who seem to get the better gigs, tasks, leads, positions, extra perks, or whatever it seems to be. Everyone seems to like them, wants to be like them, or envies them, and their ability. Some will be jealous. Instead of emulating them to get the same sort of success, they will do the exact opposite just to spite them. Yet if you look at everyone who is successfu...

I don't know if I can do this? How will I get everything done? Will I ever be enough? Why me? What did I do to deserve this? Am I good enough? Can I do it? Will they like me? If you ever have these thoughts you have experienced anxious thinking. If these thoughts are constant or you've felt a giant sense of impending doom or felt like your heart was beating out of your chest, you may have...

If you're listening to this during the month of May or June, I am out in the middle of the woods at some point during a 300-mile backpacking trip. I have been thinking about this trip for over four years. Thinking about what it would be like to hike miles into the woods. Discovering new beauties in nature and new parts of myself. See, there are two parts to knowing yourself. One is to know who...

We ALL were birthed from one, and we all have one. Sometimes they piss us off and others they are the only ones to soothe you. Moms can do it all and for whatever reason or superpower they get when they become moms they do it better than anyone else. We hold a special place in our hearts for them, and we know that there is no truer love on earth than from our mother. The question is, how are we sh...

Every year during Christmas, the peanuts come on. There is one episode and one of the characters has a piano recital coming up. He's terrified of playing in front of a crowd. Throughout the episode, he is fretting about the recital. He puts it off as long as he can. In fact, he pushes it all the way until he is on stage. Everyone is watching him, and he is a ball of nerves. Yet he takes a brea...