The Upper Echelon Gang

13/03/2023

Are you at war with your body?
Are you at war with your mind?
Are you at war with yourself?
Are you at war with your life?

Many of us go the gym, sign up for programs, go on diets because we are at war with our bodies, because we are at war with ourselves.

Please body do as I tell you, come on body look like I want you to, damn you stomach get skinnier, come on you weak shoulders

How come I always let myself down? How come I can never stick to the demands?

Rip that page out

Hey body, meet mind
Hey mind, meet self
Hey self, meet body

Nice to meet you
How are you today?
I’m here to help
I’m here to support
Perhaps we can do this together

But I have one condition
Let’s support each other
Let’s respect each other
Let’s not put each other down
Let’s not be abusive
Let’s work together
Let’s grow together

Workouts are not punishment
Exertion does not mean harm
Effort leads to growth
Energy flow is life giving
Energy flow builds love
Building takes effort
Effort creates love
Love unlocks Freedom

Which do you choose

Effort for War
Or
Effort for Love

???

01/01/2023

I flipped over the years…

These days I’m a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions, Goals, Changes, Commitments…whatever you want to call them.

Yes, you can do this anytime of the year…..but this is a special time, there’s a special energy around this time.

I believe it’s worth taking advantage of that.

Here’s 3 key areas that have significantly impacted my clients and myself

Hope they may help.

30/12/2022

I often like to communicate on here in riddle and rhyme for various reasons

I like to be creative
I like to challenge
I like to provoke
I like to encourage thought
I like to respect the reader
I like to be open to individual perspective and interpretation
I like to play with words

This is not one of those times

The world is in the midst of a very exciting time
Where the layers are getting peeled at a faster rate than ever before
And thank God
Because so much has been wallpapered over and over
Hiding the flaws, the cracks, the crimes, the disease, the sickness, the greed, the trauma, the pain, the confusion, the broken.

We have been told to hate this but you can’t hate that
This is good, that is bad
Worship this, destroy that
Idolise them, don’t listen to her
This brings status, this should be shamed

Be guilty for this, you’re bad for that
Trust us but not them
This person is good, this person is bad, crazy or evil
But we all think we are impartial, (we think) we think for ourselves, have freedom of thought and make our own independent choices

The behavioural science rules supreme
When it is understood how individuals, groups and masses behave when exposed to particular stimulus, trauma, fear and the like, it’s scarily powerful

Tribal and survival characteristics used to manipulate and control
80% of people follow the trend
The trend is easier to manufacture than ever before

Going against is tough, ridiculed, shamed, guilted.
This also can be easily manufactured

Marketing on steroids lies beneath the surface….not just for goods and services

It’s spiritual war-fare
It’s soul invasion
The heroes are the villains
The evil wears a fashionably curated mask

Education based on memory of the statements and beliefs of others
Passed through emotional manipulation and funnelled focus to see only what we are told to look at, to hear only what has been force fed to us.

An intellectual class of superiority ….the most easily controlled
Trained and tightening their own collar

What we see and hear is easily manipulated
What we think even more so

It might be time to tune in to how we feel

01/12/2022

30/10/2022

At the start of 2020 (up to the current day)I made a COMMITMENT to myself that I would step up as a FATHER and as a MAN in the biggest way I ever have in my whole life.

Whilst I have had many “successes and achievements” in my life, I wasn’t quite nailing the things that were absolutely the most important partly because I never had full clarity and partly because I wasn’t being honest with myself and therefore wasn’t showing up as what I and who I knew I was capable of truly being.

Is this something you think about?

There was fear, there was a lack of true authenticity, there was a definite lack of alignment within my life.....

Was this going to be it, was I always going to play small and justify my “ok” behaviours ....just meandering forward, just being ok because it was easier, I could get enough wins to move me forward with the masses so I could “cope”, hide enough that I wouldn’t be called out, be an OK Dad, be an OK Partner, be an OK Business Owner, Be an OK Coach

Screw that, I knew I could be better

Spruiking courage and health and stepping up but not doing it myself....NOT IN THE WAY I KNEW I COULD, not in the way I was capable of...just enough to not scare me.

Are you being honest with yourself?

Are you being the best partner you can be?

Are you BEING THE ABSOLUTE BEST YOU that you can be?

Let’s be really fu***ng honest now.

Are you being the best Mother or Father you can be?

After reading this are you going to forever regret not making the changes to step up, not being courageous.

As time has gone on, and CoVid hit....something hit me really hard, an uncontrollable energy, a super-driven urge to really CONNECT more than ever, to SERVE better than ever before without fear of judgement, without expectation of return....to inspire, build, engage and SUPPORT others with all my will, knowledge, experience and resources at hand. To LEAD my tribe, my community and my family significantly better than ever before and make it my no.1 priority.

That meant.....

Dialling my health in
Setting strong boundaries
Being honest and clear with my values
Aligning my actions completely with those values
Regaining my fitness
Being the best coach I can be
Working with personal coaches to keep me accountable and further develop the areas I needed support in
Listening closer to others
Developing and offering more real and serious life-changing coaching services
Getting out of my comfort zone and hitting my fears head on
Providing more value and service to all that I can
...AND I’VE NEVER FELT BETTER
Never felt more proud of myself
Never been a better partner
Never been a better Dad
Never been a better business owner

My health and fitness is back on point
I feel inspired and focused almost every day

Never been a better coach
Never been more engaged
Never felt more connected
Never had so much impact
Never felt so in love with life.

THIS IS WHAT I WANT FOR YOU
THIS IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO FEEL

If you are feeling trapped, feeling tired, feeling heavy and defeated
If you are feeling like you are just treading water (or drowning), or just drifting along
If you know you are going to seriously regret not being what you know you are truly capable of
If life’s so what out of control, hasn’t turned out like you’d hoped, you carrying too much weight, you’ve let the health slip and the sh*tty behaviours creep in too much

If you keep hiding behind your own bu****it and need to be called on it and made accountable
If you want to be better and feel any of the things above

I CAN HELP
I’M HERE TO HELP

My team is here to help if needed.

The breakthroughs can start happening today

If you’d like to know more and how I can help,
quietly (OR LOUDLY) send me a DM now

Let’s do this.

2023 is going to be a year you never forget - the paradigm shift is ready to crack

29/10/2022

It's great to move the needle forward

💃 👯 🕺 💃 👯 🕺💃 👯 🕺

It's even better to GET THE NEEDLE IN THE GROOVE

and DANCE YOUR WAY THOUGH LIFE

28/10/2022

UPPER ECHELON COACHING
centres around, pivots from, and keeps coming back to these 3

EASE
'noun'
absence of difficulty or effort.
'verb'
make (something unpleasant or intense) less serious or severe.

FULFILLMENT
'noun'
a feeling of happiness because you are doing what you intended to do in life;
the act of doing something that you have promised or intended to do.

SELF LOVE
'verb'
a profoundly tender, passionate affection for self
a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection for self

27/10/2022

We all make mistakes (but are they really?)

It's what you do next that counts
How do you react?
What are you going to make it mean?
What will you learn?
How will you grow?

27/10/2022

The Art of “Ticking Boxes”

I must....
Eat protein with my breakfast
Take the right supplements everyday
Have an awesome positive morning routine
Be grateful all the time
Write in my journal daily
Practice Yoga
Do sufficient strength training
Connect with nature
Do my affirmations everyday
Be present in every moment
Meditate daily
Have a night time routine
Use only organic products
Eat only organic food
Manage my stress
Eat low fat
Eat low sugar
Eat less carbs
Think positive thoughts
Do pilates
Be socially active
Volunteer
Support Charity
Walk daily
Track my calories
Track my sleep
Track my steps
Turn off social media............
No, you don’t

26/10/2022

22/10/2022

A moment enjoyed is not a moment wasted

Coach after coach after coach

Make the most of your life
Push push push
Get up earlier
Grind, grind, grind
Outwork the others

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
You might win the rat race

What if you could break free of that game all together

I forgot why I even started

21/10/2022

Often this is the hardest part.....oh, the irony.