Not your one‑dimensional coach

Nobody’s life comes in separate boxes.

Your body, your work, your relationships and the stories you tell yourself all spill into each other. Fix one on its own and the others usually drag it right back.

Coach Stian

How it connects

It all spills over.

It usually starts small, and it almost never stays where it started.

Most coaches look at one area. I look at all of them, then find the 1 thing that moves the rest.

The method

Today it comes down to 3 things.

Think about a punch. It needs power to land hard, precision to land where it counts, and thousands of reps before it gets any good. Your life works the same way.

POWER PRECISION PROGRESS ONE LIFE
POWERyour fuel

Your mental, emotional and physical energy. When your head or your heart is running on empty, no workout fixes it, and everything else pays for it.

PRECISIONyour skills

Skills are what you do with what you know, and part of that is knowing where to aim. Most people try to fix everything at once. Precision is picking the 1 thing that moves the rest.

PROGRESSyour compound

Get 1% better at that 1 thing every day. It barely shows this week, and that’s exactly where most people quit. Keep stacking the days, and in a year it’s a different life.

These 3 apply to everyone. One life, all connected.

Real stories

Different people. Different problems.

STORIES1/13

Same question every time.

What’s really in the way? Sometimes it’s the body. More often it’s everything around it.

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STORIES2/13

MIND

She kept people at arm’s length on purpose.

Sarcasm was Bernice’s armour. Her workouts didn’t change. The work happened everywhere else.

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STORIES3/13
“Mommy did you know you are so nice lately and you are not fighting as much.

Bernice’s daughter, 4 weeks later

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STORIES4/13

LIFE

She looked after everyone except herself.

Linmari was a school counsellor with her own practice, studying for her honours at the same time.

It helped me get results in ALL areas of my life, by making small changes.

Linmari (translated from Afrikaans)

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STORIES5/13

BUSINESS

She was about to quit fitness.

Shimone’s fix was reconnecting with the friends she’d stopped making time for.

When I started connecting with ‘old’ friends the result was breathtaking. They all started signing up and joining my classes.

Shimone, who now runs her own gym

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STORIES6/13

LIFE

The dream of being free kept stalling.

I have always had this dream to be free and I could never quite move forward. Stian helped me take the steps.

Jandrie

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STORIES7/13

MIND

She was doing everything right in the gym.

I might work hard in the gym and eat right but I have neglected everything else.

Mandy

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STORIES8/13

BODY

He hadn’t moved properly in 2 years.

What mattered most: John could sleep in his own bed again, and started planning to coach his son’s rugby team.

302.6kg to 165kg

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STORIES9/13

BODY

Then he became the coach.

Etienne went from heart tablets to helping people who stood exactly where he used to stand. One of them wrote this:

A person in the flesh, real and in front of me who could relate. No TV ads, photoshopped magazines or magic pills.

Shaun

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STORIES10/13
“If you told me I’d walk 41km in one night I would have thought you are seriously joking.

Mara, 18 months in

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STORIES11/13

YOUTH

From barely making the team to captain.

7 years, around 600 young athletes a season. One boy could barely get into the rugby side. He finished school as first team captain.

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STORIES12/13

ENDORSED

“His capacity to help you create changes in your life will astound you.

Brian Grasso, Mindset Performance Institute

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STORIES13/13

ENDORSED

“When he says that he’s going to do something, you better damn well believe him.

Gary Swarni

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None of them started where they expected. That’s usually where the real work is.

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The podcast

The Daily Strive.

I started it in Cape Town in 2020, while I was trying to find my feet again. Some of those episodes were really for me. Real, raw and unpolished. Start with 1.

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A short series of real stories about how Power, Precision and Progress show up in your body, your work and your relationships, and how to find the 1 thing that moves the rest.