Now, it’s time for all of that to live in one place.

I’ve folded everything, the tools, the letters, the conversations into a single body of work.

It’s called The Modern Day Pirate Guild.

And it’s built for solopreneurs who are done drifting and ready to build with intention.

If that sounds like you, come aboard. The new map is here:

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Geoff x

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I don’t want to hurt you with these words.

But if you read them honestly, they may cut you just a little.

Have you given up on yourself?

I’m seeing it everywhere lately. People quietly surrendering the dreams they once had for their own lives.

Brave people, beautiful people, laying down their fire… settling into an endless gray couch of “I guess this is just how my life will be now.”

Even the thought of this for you makes me want to cry.

The acceptance of average is so sad. So small. So wrong for you.

I know how this feels, because I lived there for years.

Unmotivated.
Undisciplined.
Disconnected from my own aliveness.

As a father, I was convincing myself I was being “responsible” for others, when really, I was just giving up on myself.

I believed things that were never true:

I thought at 49 I was past my physical prime.
I thought I would never run again.
I thought I was “being a good dad” by abandoning my own dreams.
I thought I was stuck in the same tired relationship forever.
I thought I had already become who I was going to be.

I was wrong.

Painfully wrong.

Humans can transform at any age. There are people breaking world records in their eighties.

Falling in love for the first time at sixty.

Building new bodies at fifty.

Starting new careers at forty.

Coming alive at thirty.

Reborn at twenty.

Life is not over for you. You are not done.

I am stronger now than I have ever been now.
I can run like the wind again.
My business is expanding.
My friendships are deep and real.
My dreams are coming back to me.

And I want that for you too.

So please, do not give up.
Do not surrender your hope.
Do not say you are too old or too tired or too broken.

You are not done yet.

If this hit something inside you, if something moved, even a little…

Message me here on Facebook and tell me that you liked this post.

We are gathering a group of people committed to living a fully transformed life in 2026.

Don’t spend another year numbing your pain.

There is so much life waiting for you.

I love you.

G. x

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Answer this question first…

Did you move your body today?

If not, hit play and then go move.

This is how I think about it.

Whenever I feel stuck, lost or overwhelmed, which is often…. I draw a triangle.

The triangle helps me regain my clarity. At the base of the triangle in my body and at the peak is my purpose.

I used to try and skip the bottom, and run straight to the top and it never worked.

Eighteen months ago, I collapsed on a rock when I was out walking with my son and I realized that I had everything wrong.

I had not prioritized my own life and my own health. I was dying inside.

Since then, I’ve lost 20 kilos (50 pounds) and I’ve got my life back, work is flourishing, and I am a much better dad.

It started with me, and getting motion into my body.

I don’t know who needs to read this, but your physical health is not a side project… it’s the foundation. In our 3-word goals heirachy, your health is your number one goal

No body = no life

Half a body = half a life

An unhealthy body = unhealthy life.

If you only have one hour today, make it sacred, go for a walk, run up a mountain, skip with a rope… do something good for your body.

Fuel your body.

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Then come join the 3 Word Goals™ Ecosystem — we’re naming our mountains and taking the first steps toward them together.

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Your life matters. Your body is important.

Let’s get everything in motion.

G.x

Most people quit right on the edge of success, simply because they can’t *see* the next step.

I put together a short teaching video for you here. Please don’t quit.

If you want 2026 to be your breakout year, comment “Masterclass” below and I’ll send you a guest pass to our event this week (on me).

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You deserve success.

G. x

P.S. I’m building a community of 1000 people who are using our 3-word goals to scale their lives and pursue their dreams. Ask me about it if you are ready to go big.

P.P.S The 3-Word Goals ecosystem does: it creates a pathway from where you are now to the fulfillment of all your goals.

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there was no goal setting program on the market that satisfied me…

they were too dense…

too complicated…

or worse still…

too emotional and flimsy.

i wanted something that was tangible, simple, practical and real.

i wanted something that embraced AI but did not forget the power of the pen and paper.

but mostly I wanted something that transformed me…

i had been beat up by life, and “Father Time” was beginning to take his toll on me.

i refuse to accept this “this is just life”

i wholeheartedly reject that a human being needs to stop dreaming and start settling down.

life is far too short for any of that nonsense.

your years on earth are an invitation to start living a great big adventure.

who cut in on you?

who pushed past you on the dance floor of life and walzed off with your dreams.

fuck that.

i am cursing to show you that this is the real Geoff writing from his heart and not some beige AI monkey.

the time for chasing your dreams is always now.

that’s what I love about our entire 3-word goals ecosystem.

it’s real.

it’s designed to get you in motion now.

you can get climb further up the mountain in the next 30 minutes than you ever thought possible.

you can message me right now (do it) and in 30 minutes (with the help of AI) I could have you racing towards your best life.

this system has transformed me utterly and so I have complete confidence that it will change you also.

you need to be in motion…

you need to see a more impossible future…

it’s time to stop banging your head against the same old ceiling.

how long will you wait?

message me the word “goals” here - https://m.me/geofftalbot

let’s go after it… together…

you will get lifetime access to everything if you join today.

do not hesitate.

G.x

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Our world is obsessed with content. There’s an avalanche of information. It’s hard to stand out and hard to connect.

Unless you do one thing…

Offer us your life in a truly magnetic way.

Not what you know. Not what you say but how you truly live.

In the video today, I shared my own journey into living one of my most powerful 3-word goals, which is to be a Fully Alive Dad.

What this looks like…

We’ve probably all talked to our kids about the importance of kindness… and yet the real question is, do they see you being kind…

On the weekend, Rose recounted a story from last Christmas.

I gave $50 to a man in a shopping mall, who was eating leftover food from food trays. “That was so kind,” she said.

Kindness is best modeled and not taught, but so is just about every other lesson in life.

Caught and taught.

People see a trait or a way of living, and they catch it and they make it theirs.

Call to Action: If you want to transform your life, I can share what has worked for me. Comment “GOALS” below, and I’ll share the framework.

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I was at a sports game yesterday.

No one wanted to umpire (except me)… everyone else was just watching.

When you tell:

• Your kids to get physically fit - Are you still moving your own body?

• Your kids to study hard - Are you committed to your own learning?

• Your kids to follow their dreams - Are you still setting your own big beautiful goals?

We must lead by example if we wish to leave a real legacy.

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Old things have to die.

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This photo is from October, 2009. It’s me in a suit with a beard I had cultivated for 12-months.

I was proud of that beard and a tailor had personally tailored that suit to fit me perfectly.

I remember this photo well. I was standing on the edge of what I believed at the time would be the fulfilment of a lifelong dream.

I shaved off the beard a few months later.

I have never worn a suit again.

And the dream I once had was cruelly extinguished becoming nothing but embers.

But don’t cry for me.

For beards come and they grow.

Suits can always be retailored.

And a good dream maybe reduced to embers but it never dies.

Perhaps you feel like you’ve lost your dreams?

That the life you once wanted is no longer possible?

But none of this is true.

You’re just trying to wear an old suit that doesn’t fit anymore.

You’re staring at an old photo.

Wishing for that majestic old beard, rather than cultivating a new one.

The fire still burns though.

Way down deep the spark still lives.

It is time to dream again.

Of something old and something new.

Believe.

You are standing on the edge of another breakthrough.

G.x

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You say harsh words and you are filled with an ocean of regret..

You set a goal and you fall on the ground with disappointment when you fail…

Negative emotions are a sign of health.

They show that you are a human being who wants more.

You are a person who desires a more perfect whole.

You care enough to know that “better” exists.

Your disappointment is actual a symptom of positive belief.

Get back up. Keep striving for more.

G.x

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Do you know what kills people’s dreams most often?

The number one culprit?

There are several villains.

Of course, there is Mr. Toxic, who will encourage some bright young entrepreneur to hook up with a toxic cynic and marry themselves to another person whose dreams are always dark and whose outlook is always negative.

There’s also old Mrs. Apathy with the fat belly and an endless supply of delicious cookies. “Just have another one, my love,” she says as she shovels the cookies down your throat. You can chase those big dreams tomorrow.

There is the Master of Distraction, the Mistress of Delusion, and so many other “evil doers” whose primary job is to keep your life boring, ineffective, and small.

But there is one villain who is much, much worse than all of these fiends.
He moves under the cover of darkness, and when he enters rooms, no one even notices him. He has no name, no face, no body, and no soul.

He is the Great Vanisher…

He plays the smallest and greatest trick of all. He does not try and steal your dreams, or turn them dark, or pry them out of your cold, dead hands.

The Great Vanisher is an illusionist. His sole job is to make you forget your dreams so that you will not remember ever having them at all.

Have you met him? Did you use to have big dreams? Did you ever wish to be something else? Are those days almost forgotten?

It’s why I’ve created “3 Word Goals”, so we can defeat this terrible villain who, while you’re sleeping, attacks your life and surgically removes your dreams.

3 Word Goals are so powerful because they change you from the inside out.
When you use them, you render the Great Vanisher powerless.

If you are brave and you want to dream big again, then join our 3-Word Goal Program below.

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I hopped in my car, drove to the closest gym to my house, and hired the very first personal trainer I met.

That was the only criterion in my decision-making process:
Closest gym. First trainer.

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I couldn’t afford to fuck around anymore. The gravity of my situation—the pain of being so horribly unfit—forced change upon me.

Surely any trainer is better than none? Any form of exercise is better than being physically inactive.

When we make our decision-making process overly complex, we obstruct and slow down our ability to change.

Pontification is a form of procrastination.

If you truly want to change, make your decisions quickly and bravely.

Your life is precious.

Here’s the thing about setting goals:
Often, the goals we set are too small. Not big enough. You simply have to stretch out your hand and reach a little further than you did last time.

Your goals need to be so big that the attainment of them changes everything.

Your life is transformed, and you will never be the same again.

I’ve been teaching my system of 3-Word Goals™ to some incredible people in my world, and I see this all the time.

Robert, an ex-marine and now Realtor—who looks like he could still go 12 rounds with Manny Pacquiao —wants to run a 7-minute mile every week.
When I ask him, “Why so slow, brother?”
He replies, “Well, I know I can do that easily, without hurting myself.”

Or Susan, another Realtor in Minnesota, tells me her goal is to do one transaction a month. When I ask if that would truly change her life, she admits…
“It would help me survive.”

And so we wonder why we don’t leap out of bed in the morning? Why don’t we stand out in a marketplace increasingly crowded with competitors?

Because our goal was never to stand out. Our only goal was to avoid pain. To simply survive?

Ye of little faith, what has happened to the child inside you?

The one who used to dream? The one who believed anything was possible?

And don’t give me that “disappointment” or “past failure” crap. Those things don’t dent your willpower or steal your dreams.

That was a choice. A decision. An act of will when you actively decide to let the events of your past rob you of your future.

Unfortunately, that one choice has stolen so much more.

You are not your dreams. You are not your successes. You are not your dashed hopes or your failures.

You are one thing or the other: A human being who chases their dreams, brave and hopeful and alive. Or a human being who is despondent, disillusioned, and afraid.

What kind of human being will you be?

That’s really the choice I was making while sitting on that rock.

Would I wake up to life? Or simply remain sleeping?

And let’s be real: trying not to piss the bed while you’re sleeping is not a very big life goal.

Choosing to wake up, to dream big in every single dimension of your life—that is everything.

Because it’s you choosing to become fully alive.

Tomorrow, for our paid readers (support below), I’ll talk about how to set really compelling, get-you-out-of-bed, scary 3-Word Goals in every area of life.

I’ll also introduce you to our 3-Word Goal Architect™, a powerful AI tool that is changing lives.

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So I just had a big disappointment.

One of my 3-Word Goals is Fittest at Fifty — and part of that is to run 1500m faster at 50 than I did at 16. That means four minutes and 40 seconds. I’ve got until March, my 50th birthday.

Today was a checkpoint. My target was 6:28. I ran 6:39. Missed it by 11 seconds. And I was gutted.

Here’s what I realized:

• I didn’t put in enough miles. Arrogance.

• I didn’t fuel properly. Arrogance.

• And when it hurt, I slowed down. Again… arrogance.

In other words, I got the result I deserved.

But here’s the thing. The temptation when you miss a goal is to make the next one easier. Lower the bar. Tell yourself a nice story. I’m not doing that. Next month, my target is 6:00 flat. Harder, not easier.

Why? Because small goals don’t change your life. Boring goals don’t inspire you. And the only way I’m going to get to 4:40 in March is if I keep raising the standard, not lowering it.

I share this not because my 1500m matters to you. But because the way we process disappointment does.

So if you’ve missed a goal recently, ask yourself: did you set it small enough to be boring? Or big enough to actually matter?

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However, I am convinced of one thing: my words mean very little to my children.

My actions.
The way I live.
The way I treat others.
The energy with which I embrace life.

This has a far greater effect on my children than anything I might teach them with words.

Modeling Matters

No parent wants their kid to:

• Lack energy

• Have no ambition

• Struggle to make good friends

• Live in poor physical health

And yet sometimes, in the busyness of life, that’s exactly what we model.

What you want for your children, you must also desire for yourself.
That’s the way it works.

That’s why in our 3-Word Goals™ system, one of my headline goals is to be a Fully Alive Dad.

Breaking It Down

I could succeed in all other areas, and yet if my children don’t see me in the best possible shape, charging after life, taking on big challenges, getting up when I fail, then I would have failed them.

When we set our headline 3-Word Goals, we then have to break them down.

What does it look like for my kids to see me as “Fully Alive”?
What targets must I hit for this goal to be true?

Here are some of my micro-goals:

• 12 close friends

• Model financial strength

• World class body

• Pursue bold dreams

• Warm fatherly presence

• Live fully unstifled

Looking at this list, I realize one thing: I’ve got work to do.

The Best Gift You Can Give

It’s not selfish to chase your goals.
It’s the best thing you can do for your kids.

Be the best and bravest version of you.
It matters so much.

Love,
G. x

Note: If you want to access our 3-Word Goals™ system, type GOALS below. It’s the best thing I’ve ever created.

I was talking to Jennifer about this, and maybe you’ve thought about this before as well. People will say, “But your goals have to be attainable, right?”

And the thing that makes a goal attainable is not the enormity of the goal. Every now and then, someone will pull out a goal that looks utterly unrealistic. But even then, there’s always a way of finding your path to it.

The most important thing is time. Do you give yourself enough time? Just enough time to reach that goal?

If it’s too short of a timeframe, then it’s just brutal and mean to try and achieve it.
If I decided that I wanted to become the world’s biggest bodybuilder in one week… it’s not the fact that I want to become the world’s biggest bodybuilder that’s unrealistic, it’s that I want to do it in a week.

If instead you said, “I want to become one of the world’s best bodybuilders in five years,” hey, let’s create a plan, create a program, and go after it.

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Time is your greatest asset.
But it’s also your greatest liability.

Because you only have so much of it. And every day, every week, every month, every year that you spend not chasing your goals? That’s a wasted opportunity.

Your life is so precious. It’s such a gift to be able to live and breathe and explore and love, to connect, achieve, build, create, and do amazing things.

No matter your current situation, being alive is a great gift. Even being able to taste some food, breathe fresh air, feel a hand on your hand, or write a poem that expresses how you feel, good or bad, is an incredible gift.

Any moment spent not living is a wasted moment. Any moment spent stuck in the drudgery or just trying to get by is a wasted moment.

And for the longest time, the reason I didn’t chase some of my goals was that I had young children or I didn’t have enough time. But that was all bullshit.

It was lies.
And just because you believe a lie doesn’t mean it’s true.

In fact, a lie that’s believed is worse than a lie that isn’t, because a believed lie has power.

What I’ve discovered is this:

The very best thing you can do for those closest to you, the very best thing you can do for a world in chaos, the very best thing you can do is pursue your goals and the life you want with 100% determination, joy, and life.

Because when you do, others around you are inspired. Others grab hold of that joy. Others grab hold of that determination. And suddenly, you’re creating a world full of people around you who are also going after their goals.

That’s the power of 3-Word Goals.

This system we’ve set up keeps you connected to your goals in a way you cannot forget. And the reason most people fail at their goals isn’t a lack of motivation or determination, and it’s not because the goal is unattainable.

It’s because they lack clarity.

They’re not absolutely sure what their goal is. They’re not absolutely sure of the steps they need to take. And when there’s an absence of clarity, we get distracted.

So here’s what we do with 3-Word Goals:
We create them across six or seven dimensions — physical body, financial life, reputation, relationships, fun, creativity, and business.

And yes, sometimes those goals compete. That’s why people say, “I don’t have time.”

But that’s not the truth. They just don’t realize how to integrate their goals.

For me, one goal is to be a Fully Alive Dad.
Another goal is to be the Fittest I’ve Ever Been at 50.

How do I marry those two? When my kids need me, but my body must work out?
I communicate. I set clear boundaries. I tell them, “This is what Dad’s doing now, and here’s why.”

That’s the beautiful tension — the competition between goals. That’s where we get to choose and design our day based on the life we want to build.

When you have clarity, and when you have flexibility, you can live this way. You can move pieces around. You can still fight for your right to live the biggest and best life.

And you’re not fighting other people. You’re fighting your own choices, your own bad thoughts, your own disillusionment.

That’s the power of what we’ve created.

I’ll be honest: the AI helps. It makes it simpler.
But you can do it without the AI, too.

I am clearer, more certain, and more sure about my future than I’ve ever been in my life. And it’s all down to 3-Word Goals.

And guess what? Every day I use the system, I get clearer. I get more certain. I get more sure.

And I get closer to being the human being Geoff was designed to be.

And I want you to get closer to being the human being you were designed to be.

Full of life.
Full of joy.
Full of laughter.
Full of kindness.

Nothing in the outside world has the right to stop you from being you — and from going after the life that you want.

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That’s my encouragement today.

If this makes sense, type Makes Sense.
If this is interesting to you, type Interesting.
And if you’re ready to build your goals with me, type Goals.

Because together, we must be the people who go after our dreams.

This is the fuel in my engine. It’s what drives me every single day.

Much love. Go after your goals.

G.x

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I want to talk to you today about the reason why so many people give up just before they see success. They never find out just how close they were to succeeding, and I want to tell you how you can avoid it if I were able to draw in this Facebook Live. I would draw success in two different ways.

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The first way I would draw it is I would say, this is your starting point here, and this is where you want to be up here.

And we'll draw it linear almost, but a series of steps. And the reason people give up. They may make the first two steps and then that third step feels like a big jump, whatever it is, the way they feel like they need to show up to the world, the thing they need to overcome to get to that level of success, the step is too high and they feel like, fuck, I can't do it.

I've tried before and I keep failing. I gotta give up. And so they give up, and it's because you're seeing success as a linear process from point A to point C, if you like, with a few steps in between. And because you see it that way, when it gets hard, you feel I've been here before and I just can't break through and so I'm screwed.

If this makes sense, please put 'making sense' in the comments below. The way that success would be drawn out is more like a target right in the middle here, and you are starting at the top here or down the bottom here, off to the side. It doesn't matter. And you are circling the target.

You're circling the target, and you're circles are getting closer and closer and closer and closer to the target. Sometimes they're almost on the same line. It feels so familiar. The reason is. That success is this way, is that success is a series of iterations, repeatable behaviors performed over and over again with lots and lots of failure.

And when you come back around to this point of the circle, it feels familiar. It feels the same, but familiar is not the same as identical when you get to this point right here. You've never been to this moment, at this point in your life, even though you are coming to a similar obstacle, you know a little bit more, you're a little bit wiser, you're a little bit older, you've learned a little bit more about yourself.

You have new people in your life or a new person in your life. You have a little bit more resource, a little bit less resource, a little bit more creative, a little bit less creative. And so the lie that keeps you stuck and makes you give up. I've been here before. You have never been there before. In fact, once somebody close to me in my life said, you're going to fail, and I said, I won't.

And they said, you've been here before. And I got really annoyed and I was like, I have never been here before. I've never had this moment in my life before. I've never been at this point in time right now. I've never had so much knowledge. I have not been here before. You do not know my future. And do not let yourself or other people tell you that you've been here before; you haven't.

And if you keep going, you'll start to form and keep learning a tighter and tighter circle until you hit your goals and you hit your target. The key is to keep on going, and there are a few reasons why you don't keep on going. One is this lie. This lie, that success is linear and that you've been here before.

Those two lies, the third. The reason why you don't always keep going is that you are not clear enough on the target. You don't have focused laser vision, both in your mind and in your heart. It needs to be an emotional reason for succeeding. Not somebody else's goal for your life, but your goal, the thing that you want, that you think, man, that would be absolutely fucking fantastic.

If I could do that'd be amazing. That'd be incredible. Right? And it excites you a bit. And you have a system for keeping you connected to your goal. 'Cause we can set goals, but we lose connection with them, 'cause they're too complicated or they're not specific enough, and they're also not short enough.

If this is making sense and you want to reach your goals, you know that you must reach your goals this year, in the next 12 months, very shortly, very soon, that you don't leave your life. With your goals, unreached, and your goals can be very broad in very many different dimensions of your life.

In fact, they should be. But if you need to be the kind of human being and to do the kinds of things that are in your heart and in your mind to do, then I want you to type goals underneath this video. 'cause I want to invite 12 people to something very special for the next 30 days to make certain, to make absolutely.

Certain that you hit your goals because if you can conceive it in your mind and your heart and it can mean enough to you, and you can stay connected to it, and we can keep you on that circular path of getting closer and closer to it, you will undoubtedly achieve your goals. I promise I give you my guarantee.

Put goals underneath this video. I'll talk to you soon.

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• are a realtor or solopreneur

• determined to push through to the next level

• are ready to get action

• want success in every area of your life.

• and you don’t enjoy sales calls or managing a sales team

…this could be a killer fit.

We kick off on Tuesday, and I have 3 places left.

It'd be cool to work with you, so if you’re keen, go here and see if it’s a match.

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Once you’ve saved your seat, message me here.

Geoff

I need to warn you of something important now.

I don’t make sense

I don’t fit nicely into any compartment

I am a G on the world-famous DISC profile.

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There is no recipe or formula behind me.

I am mysterious.

More like a G-spot.

Forgive me, that was a joke too far, and I just lost my evangelical readers.

Forgive me. Stay with me. These writings, although irreverent, are holy.

I can feel it as I write. Typing furiously with my thumbs still as I walk the treadmill under my standing desk, the words are flowing out of me.

These writings are holy because your human life is sacred, and the 3-word goal system I have created here is going to unlock the life you were designed to live.

Let’s talk about rejecting your current reality (after first accepting it)

Disillusionment. Disappointment. Dissatisfaction.

These 3 D’s can be powerful drivers for change.

As I sat on that rock, I had to accept that my life was a failed experiment.

I was fat

I was unfit

I was not happy

I was failing in my role as a father

We’ve got so precious in hearing the negative.

When a friend tells us that they’ve fucked up, failed, or done something wrong.

The first thing we want to do is minimize

Ameliorate their pain.

Tell them they are still good.

Empathize, telling them we did something similar 15 years ago.

And yet pain is an incredible driver for change.

Maybe you are not being a true friend when you say these things?

Perhaps you're trying to avoid feeling the same thing?

Maybe a real friend says…

“Yeah, bro, you fattest and most unfit, I’ve ever seen you.”

Or

“ Yeah, you are setting a terrible example for your kids. At this rate, they won’t even have a dad in 10 years.”

Or

“I get it. You could be doing so much better.”

The trouble is, you are probably reading these words coldly, and they probably sound mean.

And yet, every line here could be said to a friend with love and with tears in your eyes.

My acting teacher used to say…

“The truth will set you free, but first it will really piss you off.”

If you have a piece of paper or a journal with you right now, I’d love you to jot down 5-10 things that you really don’t like about your life at the moment.

As I sat on that rock 18 months ago, mine were:

• Physically very unfit

• Unable to play with kids

• Not practicing what I teach

• Involved in a toxic relationship

• Inconsistent revenue streams

• Way too passive in my life

I don’t feel particularly good about any of these things, even now.

And yet if I wish to grow, I have to accept their truth.

I don’t know where you are.

I am not sure what is disappointing to your soul.

But it is always there, and I am glad that you feel that way.

However fucked up and dark your life is, I welcome that truth. I celebrate that you are not pretending or minimizing the seriousness of your situation.

You deserve better.

There is so much more for you.

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Once we accept our current reality, we can finally reject it and, for the first time in a long time… proudly say.. this is not my future.

In my very first job, I was a Veterinary Surgeon in rural New Zealand.

As part of that work, I would perform pregnancy tests on cows.

For the ignorant among you (you are blessed), this involved sticking my entire arm up the cow’s anus and feeling to see if there was a calf or any signs of pregnancy in the uterus below.

It was a shitty job (no pun) and on some days I would test over 500 cows.

They were wild, back of the world, barely seen a human, cattle beasts also.

They would kick (rightfully), stomp, and crush you against the cattle gate.

It was exhausting, and I did not like it, and yet I persisted.

Until one day, a small wild cow pirouetted on her front legs and booted me with both hind feet right in the nuts.

It was my” yeah, fuck no” moment. I applied for a new job working with pussycats in the city and never went back to the land.

That is the transforming pier of the truth.

You get to imagine a new future.

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In general, I don’t love labels.

I don’t enjoy being categorized in any way. I prefer to be known only by the name my parents gave me.

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This name is Geoff. If you are reading these pages in an American accent, then I want you to know that Geoff = Jeff, it’s just spelled differently.

Every single Uber driver I had in my 13 years in Los Angeles called me Gee-off. I never corrected any of them; I found it highly amusing.

There’s one thing that I really loved about my time as an evangelical: the concept of redemption and new life.

That every single day was new.

That no matter the shit that went down yesterday, today you could start again.

That’s why the very first chapter of this book begins with me sitting on that fat rock in the middle of nowhere.

That’s my chapter one.

Not the years that went on before.

Not the failures and victories of yesterday.

Ever had a friend who could not help but tell you story after story of their past glories from years ago?

Ever been that person?

Stuck in the old story?

Never leaving the rock at the beach, slowly dying upon it, wishing that they were young again?

I like to wax lyrical.

I am half poet and half scientist.

You cannot begin a new story unless you let go of the old ones.

The old stories keep you stuck.

The new stories (driven by your goals) set you free to truly live.

Do not, I repeat, do not, try and recreate the past… You will find no life there, only shadows of disappointment at what used to be.

Did you know that the very best actors never try to do the same take twice?

They never try to repeat a performance.

Why?

Because it won’t have “life” in it. When you watch it, you will feel like they are stuck, not really listening, not really alive in their imagination.

A great actor knows that every moment is unique.

It is the same for you and me.

Do you want a fresh start?

Or are you trying to recreate what you have lost?

Imagine asking a new romantic partner to act exactly like the last one?

Weird right?

There could be no real connection.

Sally kissed me this way.

Rub my back like Bob used to?

Could you please try to make the lasagne just like Sarah did?

This would be a doomed relationship. No curiosity, no spontaneity, no fresh discoveries.

I guess I am asking you to consider the possibility that being stuck in the past is a form of early death.

A fixed commitment to a rigid belief that your life will never be that good again.

I hate pessimism.

I dislike control.

It really, really fucks me off when someone, anyone, tells me that something is impossible or that it cannot be done.

It feels dark, fearful, dreary, and easy.

I loved my father, but he was a pessimist, and it drove me crazy.

My single greatest quality rests in my imagination and my ability to conceive impossible things.

Conceive = conception and conception = new life.

As you read these words, written in this go-anywhere, riffing kind of style, I ask you to do one thing for me.

Wonder.

Just wonder. Not for me, but for yourself.

I wonder what great things you will do with the rest of your life?

I wonder what coming more fully alive might look like?

I wonder how you would walk through this world if you were living your best, boldest, and bravest life?

Don’t try to answer these questions yet.

In fact, refuse to answer them.

The power of the question is the consistent asking of it, not the answering of it…

Which brings me back to the rock at the beach, 18 months ago, and the birth of the new Gee-off.

Transformation happens when you simultaneously accept and refuse to accept your current circumstances.

For example:

I was fat, unfit, and a million miles away from living my best life. I had to accept this truth. To grow, I had to acknowledge the reality of my circumstances.

What about you?

What current truth are you denying?

How are you detaching from your present reality?

I don’t mind if you grab a pen and jot down notes and a journal as you read.

I pretty much detest self-help books that give you action items at the end.

Just pay attention to how my words might be affecting you.

If you are getting annoyed, please keep reading. I am like fine wine that gets better with age.

Back to my point:

Accept your reality. Reject your reality.

Geoff. x

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I have finally found the courage to write my story…

It is an unfinished story

Poorly written in parts

Marred by clumsy chapters and vile language that does not always speak of my very best character.

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As I stand here, slowly walking on my treadmill, typing on my phone, I wonder if this is the very first book ever written by only the human thumb.

I wonder how this book will finish, I wonder how my story will end.

Perhaps you wonder this about your life also.

What will you become?

How long will you live?

What mountains will you climb?

What struggles will you encounter?

What love will you find?

What memories will you create?

I am waxing too lyrical. I am asking too much from you. For surely this is my story, and this is my thumb, ferociously banging away at words that I am just finding on my phone.

I think this is the point, though…

This is why anyone reads a story, for the magnificence of the adventure, for the twists and the turns, for the great discoveries and surprising twists… we read stories and watch movies because we do not know how it ends, and there is a great joy and enthralment in both the wondering and the discovery.

The same is true for your life and mine.

The devil tells you that you have to stay safe, you have to plan, you walk the wide road with the masses… that you need to know how the story ends…

The devil may not exist

You might not believe in his wicked ways

I may have alienated you already by bringing up his name on the very first page

Like I said, my writing is very imperfect

You don’t know me yet, you’ve only just started reading…

But this is my unfinished story, and as you turn the page, you will discover me a little more.

The magic is in the reveal

The story is in my footsteps

And the future is in your hands

What kind of world will you create for yourself and those whom you choose to love?

Because as much as I want to tell my story upon these pages with my furiously typing fast thumb

It is my deepest desire that within these pages…

Upon these words

Written by a very ordinary and often insecure man…

You would find something else

A script. An energy. A model. A way forward.

A pathway to something new.

To the life that you know you were meant to have.

To the adventure that you’ve always longed to live.

To the freedom that can only be found by being you.

This might sound like a bunch of horse shit to you.

You might feel like your dreams fell away into the shadows a gazillion moons ago.

But you still have a shadow

And your dreams still exist.

I know this with absolute certainty.

I don’t care (harsh) how old you are, how young you are, how fat you are, how poor you are, how overwhelmed you are, how rich you are, how tired you are.

You may be terminally ill… we all are.

You might just be waking up to life itself.

None of this matters.

If you have breath now.

If you still have life in your bones.

There is great immeasurable joy to be found in your day.

Right up until the end. This is not the time to give up.

Which brings me back to my story.

Or part of my story.

18 months ago, in Huia, west Auckland, New Zealand, I was on a fishing trip with my then 12-year-old son, when I fell upon a rock.

When I say “fell,” I did not actually fall.

I sat my heavy ass down.

I had walked barely 300 yards across a few small rocks.

When I say “walk,” I mean stumble, red-faced and out of breath.

I couldn’t stand up.

My back hurts.

I had chest pains.

I felt like I was one single footstep away from a coronary and an early demise at 48 years of age.

The ignominy of dying on a rock in the middle of nowhere, with my son, stuck on his own without a soul to help him.

Yes… Something was wrong with my body.

But it was far worse than that.

My body was just a symptom.

There was a greater sickness.

My life was succumbing to the greatest disease of all.

I had become a man without a dream

A human without a goal.

Just another cog in a world of 8 billion people.

Another human being dying on a rock that he did not choose.

Little did I know…

This was a glorious moment.

It was the beginning of something new, something beautiful, the very thing that’s causing me to write these words to you right now.

It was my” fuck no, moment.

Life could not be this way.

I wouldn’t end on this rock.

Everything had to change

My life would be….

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