One of my favourite questions... “If I had a magic wand… what would I want instead?” Why it works... It bypasses the critic and opens the channel to creativity. Your nervous system relaxes when it feels free to want again.

AI doesn’t hold you accountable. It may coach you. It may give you great insights. (It has for me) But without action... you’re just getting cute little dopamine spikes.

Stuck? Ask yourself this... “What would my Future Self do to solve this?”

7 minutes of skipping, 7 minutes of walking backwards on the treadmill, 10 minutes of fairly intense plyometric hopping and lunges, followed by a 5k walk through the ravine. Sweaty afternoon for Steve

“No one’s coming to save you!” Really??? I've been saved many times...

You’re not burnt out from working too hard. You’re burnt out from working against yourself. No alignment. No joy. Just survival-mode execution. The problem isn’t your workload. It’s the weight of who you think you have to be. Let that sh*t go.

It's common knowledge that: If you have the wrong goal or an unclear goal, then your system will produce either the wrong outcome or an undesirable outcome. So rather than jumping from system to system or idea to idea... Start at your foundations... what is it you truly want?

You gotta love the fact that lessons are repeated until they are learned... you're always being shown the way forward.

When you’re in a rush to arrive, you rarely stop to ask: “Am I even going the right way?”

I’m mostly a black coffee guy. But if I do have cream, I’m going full cream. Four creams. There’s no in-between. It’s either straight-up black… or full chaos.

I regularly have ChatGPT analyze my longer posts/emails once I’ve written them, and I end them all with the phrase “Big love, ST” Recently, my chat started ending a lot of its feedback and posts to me saying “Big love right back at you” or just “Big love” I find that hilarious

If you’re always trying to prove yourself... people won’t see you. They’ll see the performance. And connection doesn’t happen through performance.

What clouds your mind isn’t the fear itself... It’s the pattern that’s built to avoid it.

Good Old Parkinson's Law... If you give yourself 30 days to do a project - it will take you 30 days. If you give yourself 1 week - you will get a lot done (if not complete it) in 1 week. This is a universal law. You need to crash those timelines in your life and biz.

Power vs. Force is the shift every founder should make Force is “Discipline = Freedom. Action Always Wins” Power is alignment-clarity-trust If force worked, every grinder would be winning. They’re not. Because force burns out... Power breaks old patterns and creates momentum

Just hit 325lbs deadlift for 3reps… not so long ago I was struggling to do two plates for reps. As they say…. Something something something consistency…

A dangerous trap is to treat every setback like a verdict on who you are... when really... it's just data. And when you see failure as data, it changes everything. Because you escape the pattern of taking failure personally.

Getting my ass kicked by hay fever in the afternoons here in Vancouver. Nothing like those late June, cloudy, humid, slightly damp days to pollen-bomb your sinuses. I’m at war with nature right now... and from what I can tell, there’s no ceasefire coming anytime soon.