November 13, 2025
Train Your Brain For Calm
Happiness is not our default setting. Survival is. Once I understood that, so much made sense. The restless urge to scan for problems. The way a quiet week in business can feel unnerving. The habit of replaying old conversations. None of this is evidence that we are broken. It is simply ancient software doing its […]
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November 6, 2025
Reclaiming Clarity: How to Stop Doom Scrolling and Start Living
We live in an age of endless information. Our phones deliver it by the second, and we consume it faster than we can process it. The problem is not the content itself—it’s our lack of context. Without purpose, all that information simply becomes noise, and over time, the noise becomes a habit that numbs our […]
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October 30, 2025
The 7 Hidden Costs of Creating a Life by Design
When we talk about building a life by design, it sounds inspiring. It feels empowering to imagine becoming the best version of ourselves, living with purpose, alignment, and clarity. But what most people avoid talking about is the cost of that transformation. Everything meaningful in life requires an exchange. Growth demands something from us. It […]
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October 23, 2025
Why Self-Mastery is the Missing Link in Personal Growth
For much of my life, I believed personal development was about doing more, learning more, and achieving more. I read the books, attended the seminars, and built the systems that helped me grow my businesses, my mindset, and my resilience. All of that mattered, but over time I discovered something deeper. There comes a point […]
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October 16, 2025
From Distraction to Focus: A High-Performance Playbook
Clear the Clutter, Find Your Podium: The MindShui Way to Perform Under Pressure When I think about peak performance, I do not think only about athletes on a podium. I think about leaders in boardrooms, parents at the kitchen table, creators in a studio, and investors making the next smart move. Performance is universal. The […]
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October 9, 2025
Five Psychological Truths That Fast Track Self Mastery
I have learned that the mind is a brilliant storyteller. It protects, persuades, and sometimes misleads. When I finally understood that my brain can present distortions as facts, I stopped treating every thought as truth and started treating thoughts as data. That shift opened the door to real self mastery, emotional regulation, and the clarity […]
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October 2, 2025
Courage, Clarity, and the Space Between Stimulus and Response
In a world filled with noise, division, and constant demands on our attention, the ability to pause and choose our response is one of the most valuable skills we can develop. I call this response ability. It is the ability to respond thoughtfully, rather than react impulsively. Viktor Frankl wrote that between stimulus and response […]
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September 25, 2025
Five Barriers That Destroy Discipline and How to Overcome Them
When people ask me what separates those who achieve extraordinary results from those who stay stuck in cycles of frustration, my answer is simple. Discipline. Not the kind of discipline that feels like punishment, but the kind of discipline that is fueled by vision and supported by structure. I believe discipline is the bridge between […]
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September 18, 2025
How to Align With Your Values When the World Feels Divided
Every day we witness the growing divide in our world. Whether it is politics, media, or social conversations, the gap between perspectives seems wider than ever. It can feel overwhelming to watch the polarization unfold, especially when we recognize that we all share the same planet yet live in very different worlds. For me, this […]
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September 11, 2025
Is Coaching a Scam or a Path to Real Transformation?
Over the years, I have had countless conversations with people who ask me if coaching really works. Some even go as far as to say that coaching is a scam. I understand why they feel that way. They invest money, they feel motivated for a short time, and then the energy fades. Their results stay […]
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September 4, 2025
Why Certainty Is an Illusion and What to Focus on Instead
As I reflect on the world we live in today, one truth becomes more evident than ever: life is uncertain. From global events that shift economies overnight to personal challenges that arrive without warning, uncertainty surrounds us. Yet many of us spend our days chasing certainty, believing it will bring peace, control, and stability. The […]
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August 28, 2025
The Road to 200: What We’ve Learned About Resilience and Growth
Over the past several years, I’ve learned that growth and transformation rarely come in sweeping, dramatic moments. More often, they happen brick by brick. Small steps, practiced consistently, shape something far greater than the sum of their parts. When I reflect on my own journey, both personally and professionally, I see how discipline, clarity, and […]
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August 21, 2025
What If You’re Not a Fraud? Recognizing Your True Value
Imposter syndrome is one of the most common, yet least discussed mindset traps. It doesn’t only affect those starting out or stepping into new arenas. In fact, I’ve seen it most often in people who are already achieving great things. Entrepreneurs, leaders, artists, and athletes — people who look like they have it all together […]
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August 14, 2025
Living Your Truth When the World Prefers Comfort
In a world that seems increasingly noisy, divided, and emotionally reactive, I’ve been reflecting on a question that continues to surface in my conversations, my coaching, and even in my own moments of clarity: Does the world punish honesty? And if so, what does that mean for those of us committed to living and speaking […]
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August 7, 2025
Clarity Equals Velocity: Why Getting Clear Changes Everything
In both life and business, one truth continues to reveal itself over and over again: clarity equals velocity. It’s a phrase I return to often – personally, professionally, and in my work with clients. At first glance, it sounds like a catchy motivational slogan. But in practice, it’s a powerful framework for change. Without clarity, […]
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July 31, 2025
The Michelangelo Effect: Removing What’s Not You
We often talk about growth as something we build on. We add habits, set new goals, adopt tools and strategies. But what if real transformation is not about addition, but subtraction? That’s the question we explored in a recent Mindset Matters episode, and it led us to what I now call the Michelangelo Effect. The […]
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July 24, 2025
The Real Reason You’re Exhausted (And How to Fix It)
Have you ever had one of those days where you feel completely drained, even though you haven’t done anything physically exhausting? I’ve come to realize that it’s not always about what we do — it’s about what we leave undone. Those small, unresolved tasks, thoughts, and distractions are what Steffany and I call energy leaks. […]
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July 17, 2025
MindShui: Clearing the Mental Clutter to Create a Life That Flows
By Patrick Francey Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring mindset, performance, and personal growth. But something shifted for me when I started looking at it differently. What if we treated our thoughts the way we treat our living space? What if we cleared and organized our mental environment the same way […]
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July 10, 2025
Partner With Your Ego: 5 Lessons to Master Self Awareness
In this week’s Mindset Matters episode, Steffany and I unpacked a topic that lives rent-free in all of us: the ego. Over the years, I have wrestled with my own ego countless times. What I’ve come to learn is that instead of trying to kill it or conquer it, what if we simply partner with […]
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July 3, 2025
Health, Freedom, and Purpose: It’s All an Inside Job
We often hear people say they’re searching for their purpose, their freedom, or a sense of peace. But here’s the truth I’ve come to know through decades of personal development, coaching, and lived experience: purpose doesn’t need to be found—it needs space to emerge. That insight came to me during a quiet meditation. You don’t […]
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June 26, 2025
Small Shifts, Big Change: How Kaizen Turns Tiny Habits into Quantum Results
Last week on Mindset Matters I sat down with my brilliant co-host (and wife) Steffany Hanlen to explore a simple idea that keeps paying compound interest in every corner of my life: tiny, continuous improvements—Kaizen—create quantum-size results. After twenty-five years watching Steffany guide elite skaters with her Quantum Speed method, and nearly a decade of […]
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June 19, 2025
Helicopter Parenting vs. Resilience: Lessons from Mindset Matters
When Steffany and I hit record for Mindset Matters Episode 190, I wanted to celebrate Father’s Day—but the conversation veered into a hard truth: despite our best intentions, we parents lay down the very limiting beliefs we spend adulthood trying to uproot. Watching my grandkids grow while coaching thousands of young athletes and entrepreneurs has […]
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June 12, 2025
Why Being Here Now is the Ultimate Competitive Advantage
I woke up at 4:30 a.m. this morning—no alarm, just the nudge of curiosity. Before the sun spilled over the Rockies, I grabbed my journal, breathed in the stillness, and asked myself a question we explored in Episode 188: “What problem do I have right now—this very second?” The answer, of course, was none. In […]
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June 5, 2025
Mastering the Lonely Chapter: A Roadmap to Personal Growth & Clarity
I used to picture growth as a smooth ascent—new habits, sharper skills, higher goals. Lately I’ve realized the terrain is much messier. When you commit to genuine personal growth, you enter an in-between space where yesterday’s identity no longer fits and tomorrows hasn’t fully formed. It feels like standing in a doorway with no familiar […]
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May 29, 2025
Trapped by Comfort: Why “Not That Bad” Might Be Your Biggest Problem
I recently came across a fascinating concept called the Region Beta Paradox, and it instantly put language to something I’ve seen—and personally experienced—for decades. It explains why people often stay stuck in situations that are “not that bad” but are far from fulfilling. In short, it’s the idea that sometimes worse situations lead to better […]
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