PUSHING MY LIMITS WITH A 35-MILE ULTRA-MARATHON RACE

35 miles of running. 10,000 feet of climbing.  9.5 hours of one foot in front of the other.    For the first time since the Rio Olympics, I wanted to be tested again physically. That’s why I signed up for an ultramarathon in Whistler B.C. When I first committed to this race, running four miles felt like hard work. I had
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High Performance Mindset

WHAT IS A HIGH PERFORMANCE MINDSET?

How do we achieve more? Live with passion and purpose? Be our authentic selves and find our best?  That’s been my life effort – to study (and hopefully inform) both science and applied innovations of how people flourish; living life to its fullest.   There is no singular path, no one right way, no hacks, secrets
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GOAL SETTING: 8 STRATEGIES OF ELITE PERFORMERS

If you are actively working to live a high performing life, there will be internal obstacles, external setbacks and plenty of success. It’s part of the process. It’s part of the make-up for those pursuing mastery.  The way you respond to life’s mysteriously nuanced and complicated interconnected flow of micro-events is a combination of your
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PROJECT RECONNECT: CATALINA CHANNEL, EPISODE 3

Project Reconnect was designed to reconnect to the purpose-driven and nature-connected life that many of our ancestors exceptionally lived.  So I set out to stand-up paddle across the Catalina Channel (~30 nautical miles) to reconnect to mother nature, and to raise money for a non-profit that is working on ridding the ocean of plastics. I knew it would be hard –
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MAXIMIZING YOUR INVESTMENT IN MINDSET TRAINING

By taking the Finding Your Best course, you’ve made a decision to live a life of deep meaning and purpose. It’s not the path for everyone. By definition, you are an outlier by investing in yourself and pushing the edges of your comfort zone to pursue what’s possible. There is a commitment you need to
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PROJECT RECONNECT: CATALINA CHANNEL, EPISODE 2

STEPPING INTO THE UNKNOWN The day was finally here for me to attempt to cross the Catalina channel (a 26+ mile stretch of open water from Catalina Island to Redondo Beach, California).  Depending on currents and ocean conditions, I was anticipating it to take 6-8 hours of paddling for me to successfully cross the channel. The
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Project Catalina Dr Michael Gervais, compete to create, michael gervais, paddle boarding

PROJECT RECONNECT: CATALINA CHANNEL, EPISODE 1

WHAT IS PROJECT RECONNECT? Most of us have a deep desire to live a life of purpose and meaning, and to understand what we are capable of. Each of which is incredibly challenging and at times so overwhelming that we find ourselves slipping into the daily rut of to-dos rather than designing a life to explore
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