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Your ritual should support your performance, not control it.Things won’t always go according to plan.You might be runnin...
10/22/2026

Your ritual should support your performance, not control it.

Things won’t always go according to plan.

You might be running late. Your schedule might change. Something unexpected might happen.

That’s okay.

The purpose of a ritual isn’t to create perfect circumstances.

It’s to give you something familiar to return to when circumstances aren’t perfect.

The more flexible you are with your ritual, the more useful it becomes.

Tag punched 👊🏻 Mathews Archery Beast Broadheads Easton Archery GAS Bowstrings
10/19/2026

Tag punched 👊🏻 Mathews Archery Beast Broadheads Easton Archery GAS Bowstrings

Asking for help is often easier said than done.For athletes, high performers, and young adults, there can be a lot of pr...
10/18/2026

Asking for help is often easier said than done.

For athletes, high performers, and young adults, there can be a lot of pressure to figure things out on your own. You may think you should be able to handle it, push through it, or simply try harder. Sometimes, that mindset can be useful but there are also moments when trying to do everything on your own can keep you from moving forward.

Knowing when to ask for help isn’t a sign that you’re falling short. In many cases, it’s a sign that you’re self-aware enough to recognize when a different approach could help.

Opening morning I went out and shot a doe out of the blind at 7am. No shoulder pain. Clean shot.For someone who spent mo...
10/15/2026

Opening morning I went out and shot a doe out of the blind at 7am. No shoulder pain. Clean shot.

For someone who spent months not knowing if he’d ever feel right behind a bow again, that moment meant everything.

But the real payoff came that afternoon.

Mason is 8. He’d been asking to come hunting with me and opening day felt like the right time.

I told him we’d go out in the afternoon. Trying to keep an 8-year-old still and quiet in a blind is its own kind of mental performance challenge, but we got it done.

Nine months of PT, bands, ice, deliberate choices, small wins stacking on small wins and it all led to that afternoon in the blind with my kid.

That’s why you put in the work. Not just to get back to where you were. But to be able to share what you love with the people you love.

Recovery doesn’t happen in big moments. It happens in the ones that don’t look like much from the outside.Early in my sh...
10/12/2026

Recovery doesn’t happen in big moments. It happens in the ones that don’t look like much from the outside.

Early in my shoulder recovery a win was getting through the day - doing my PT exercises, icing, stretching, and making the right choices all day long.

Not opening the fridge with my draw arm. Not reaching for something I shouldn’t. Little things that seem insignificant until you realize they add up to months of progress.

Then it was asking my PT for what felt like the hundredth time if we were ready to start a draw motion with a band. When he finally said yes I had a party in my head.

Not because I was back. Because I had taken one more step in the right direction.

That’s what a small win looks like. And small wins stack.

All along that process I was doing the same things I help athletes do - practicing gratitude for what I could do, reflecting on the progress I was making, and visualizing myself reaching the next goal.

Not the end goal. The next one.

Confidence isn’t rebuilt all at once. It’s rebuilt one small win at a time. And over months, those wins become something you can stand on.

Coming back from injury is one of the most underestimated mental challenges in sport.Most archers and bowhunters know wh...
10/07/2026

Coming back from injury is one of the most underestimated mental challenges in sport.

Most archers and bowhunters know what to do physically: rest, PT, follow the protocol.

But the mental side of recovery is just as real, and it’s rarely talked about.

Research on sport injury shows that athletes’ psychological responses to injury, the frustration, the fear, the self-doubt, are as important to address as the physical ones.

How you think about your recovery directly shapes how you come back.

And one of the biggest factors in how well athletes recover? Their support system.

For me, it was my physical therapist getting me back to daily life, then Christian Williams at Archery Strong getting me back to pulling a bow, because those are two completely different things.

It was setting realistic goals together and having people around me who understood the process.

You can’t rush physical healing.

But you also can’t navigate the mental side of it alone.

Having the right people around you, who understand both sides, makes all the difference.

That’s exactly what I help archers and bowhunters build.

Coming back from injury is one of the most underestimated mental challenges in sport.Most archers and bowhunters know wh...
10/07/2026

Coming back from injury is one of the most underestimated mental challenges in sport.

Most archers and bowhunters know what to do physically - rest, PT, follow the protocol. But the mental side of recovery is just as real and it’s rarely talked about.

Research on sport injury shows that athletes’ psychological responses to injury - the frustration, the fear, the self-doubt - are as important to address as the physical ones. How you think about your recovery directly shapes how you come back.

And one of the biggest factors in how well athletes recover? Their support system. For me it was my physical therapist getting me back to daily life, then Christian Williams at Archery Strong getting me back to pulling a bow - because those are two completely different things. It was setting realistic goals together and having people around me who understood the
process.

You can’t rush physical healing. But you also can’t navigate the mental side of it alone. Having the right people around you, who understand both sides, makes all the difference.

That’s exactly what I help archers and bowhunters build.

January 8th I went into shoulder surgery not knowing what I was waking up to. Best case - a cleanup job. Worst case - bi...
10/04/2026

January 8th I went into shoulder surgery not knowing what I was waking up to.

Best case - a cleanup job. Worst case - biceps tenodesis, labral repair, bone spurs and impingement.
It was the worst case.

Less than a week later I was in PT. Months of ice, bands, daily exercises, and saying no to almost everything. No bow. No shooting. Nothing.

By April I was pulling 15lbs on a Diamond Prism. Four months post-op I was at 30lbs.

In May my brother and I did the annual Total Archery Challenge in Vermont. I wasn’t going to miss it. Worst case I’d hike the mountain and watch. But I shot. 30lb Prism with a whisker
biscuit, rainbow trajectory trying to reach 50 yards, unsteady left arm, sore shoulder, barely able to hike the mountain. I lost a couple arrows. I didn’t care.

That day didn’t build my confidence, it confirmed it. The confidence was already being built in the months before - every PT session, every band exercise, every time I picked up that 15lb bow not knowing what it would feel like.

I treated my recovery the same way I help athletes approach performance - realistic expectations, process goals, and small wins that stack into confidence over time. I didn’t try to
shoot 70lbs in April. I shot 15lbs and was proud of it. That’s not settling. That’s smart.

The goal was never to come back at full speed. It was to come back the right way.

Asking for help is often easier said than done.For athletes, high performers, and young adults, there can be a lot of pr...
10/01/2026

Asking for help is often easier said than done.

For athletes, high performers, and young adults, there can be a lot of pressure to figure things out on your own. You may think you should be able to handle it, push through it, or simply try harder. Sometimes, that mindset can be useful but there are also moments when trying to do everything on your own can keep you from moving forward.

Knowing when to ask for help isn’t a sign that you’re falling short. In many cases, it’s a sign that you’re self-aware enough to recognize when a different approach could help.

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A ritual is a routine that has intention and meaning behind it.It’s not just about completing a series of actions. It’s ...
09/27/2026

A ritual is a routine that has intention and meaning behind it.

It’s not just about completing a series of actions. It’s about using those actions to mentally prepare yourself for what comes next.

For example, putting on your headphones before a workout might simply be part of your routine.

But if you use that moment to take a breath, block out distractions, and remind yourself to be fully present, it becomes something more.

It becomes a ritual.

The difference isn’t necessarily what you’re doing.

It’s how intentionally you’re doing it.

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