12/05/2026
5 lessons that apply equally to training and to business
Most of what I know about building a business, I'm relearning while spending time outside building up kilometres ahead of my half-marathon.
1. Consistency compounds
Show up three times a week, every week — and the progress becomes undeniable. One run changes nothing. Fifty build a new baseline. Same logic applies to sales, content, or any skill you're building.
2. Discipline beats motivation
Motivation is a feeling. Discipline is a system. The training plan doesn't negotiate with how you feel and neither should your work habits.
3. Do the hard work, not just the comfortable work
Interval runs are brutal. They're also what actually move the needle. The business equivalent is whatever you've been putting off this week.
4. Strategy before steps
I mapped 16 weeks backwards from race day before I laced up, including recovery time. Without the architecture, you're just busy and improvising. That's how you get injured, in running and in business.
5. Learn to love the grind
The discomfort doesn't go away. Your relationship with it changes. When you stop waiting for the hard parts to end, you start making real progress.
The race gave me a deadline. The training gave me a system. Both matter more than talent.
Same rules apply to everything worth building.
