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05/22/2026

New episode of Thinking with Dr. Steve is live.
The random topic generator gave me: Soup Kitchen.

Which somehow turned into a reflection on:
environment,
RV life,
family,
New York City,
performance,
momentum,
comfort,
and how different places shape different versions of ourselves.

One of the biggest takeaways:
Your environment may be influencing your energy, habits, motivation, relationships, and goals more than you realize.

Some environments promote growth.
Some promote rest.
Some promote creativity.
Some promote comfort.
Some help us evolve.
Some quietly keep us stuck.

None are inherently good or bad —
but becoming more intentional about where we spend our time can completely change the trajectory of our lives.

This series is intentionally unscripted and reflective — part psychology, part philosophy, part coaching process, part creative exploration.
The goal isn’t perfection.
It’s learning to think more clearly about life and what it means to live intentionally.

And if this kind of reflective conversation resonates with you or you want to discuss how YOUR environments are shaping you, learn more about The Room — my one-session-at-a-time coaching space designed to help people think clearly when life gets heavy.
→ www.experiencetheroom.com

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05/20/2026

New episode of Thinking with Dr. Steve is live.
The random topic generator gave me: Volcano.

Which somehow turned into a reflection on:
motivation,
timing,
pressure,
readiness,
and why some goals in life never quite happen… while others eventually erupt into reality.

One idea that emerged:
Maybe it’s not a motivation problem.
Maybe it’s a timing problem.
And sometimes the opposite is true.

This series is intentionally unscripted and exploratory — part psychology, part philosophy, part coaching process, part creative reflection.
The goal isn’t polished perfection.
It’s learning how to think more clearly about life, performance, identity, pressure, and being human.

And if you’re navigating you’re own challenges with motivation, timing, readiness, or other demands that need clarity, check out The Room: www.experiencetheroom.com

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Modern life is loud.Heavy.Fast.Most people are carrying far more than they let on.The Room is a space to pause, organize...
05/19/2026

Modern life is loud.
Heavy.
Fast.
Most people are carrying far more than they let on.
The Room is a space to pause, organize the noise, and reconnect with clarity, perspective, and intention — one conversation at a time.
www.experiencetheroom.com

05/18/2026

I just released the first episode of Thinking with Dr. Steve — a new experimental series where I take a completely random topic and work it through my coaching and reflective process to uncover a practical insight about life, performance, and being human.

Today’s topic?
…Laundromat.

Oddly enough, it led to a conversation about why seemingly “simple” tasks can sometimes feel surprisingly heavy.

One of the core takeaways:
“The task isn’t always the task.”

Often there are hidden obstacles, upstream demands, emotional friction, and invisible layers underneath the thing we’re trying to accomplish.

The format is intentionally unscripted, exploratory, and reflective — somewhere between psychology, coaching, philosophy, and improvisation.

This is a creative experiment, but also an attempt to give people a more honest feel for how I think, how I work, and how insight sometimes emerges from unexpected places.

And if you’re navigating pressure, transition, overthinking, burnout, or complexity in your own life/work and want a more direct space to think things through, you can also learn more about my coaching work at The Room here: www.experiencetheroom.com

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Here’s a tighter Instagram version that still sounds like you and preserves the soul of the message:The Room is back.Ove...
05/13/2026

Here’s a tighter Instagram version that still sounds like you and preserves the soul of the message:

The Room is back.

Over the last few months, I’ve experimented with different ways of helping people:
big coaching packages, structured programs, scalable offers, frameworks, strategy, all of it.

And honestly?

I kept circling back to the same realization:

I do my best work one conversation at a time.

Because life is messy.
Pressure is real.
People get tangled.

And sometimes what we actually need isn’t another productivity hack or 12-week transformation package.

Sometimes we just need a grounded hour with another human being to slow down, organize the noise, untangle the s**t life throws at us, and figure out what actually matters.

That’s The Room.

It’s not really therapy.
Not exactly coaching either.
More like:
part strategic thinking session,
part psychological untangling,
part honest human conversation.

No guru culture.
No empire building.
No pressure.
Just meaningful conversations with thoughtful people navigating meaningful pressure.

Athletes.
Leaders.
Creatives.
Performers.
Overthinkers.
Humans trying to hold it all together while figuring life out in real time.

I stepped away from The Room briefly.
But honestly…it never really left.

And now it’s open again.
One session at a time.

If it resonates, reach out or visit:
www.experiencetheroom.com

04/09/2026

Small Shifts. Big Outcomes.

One of the principles of excellently average performance is this:
Be incremental.

When people think about change, they tend to go big.

New plan.
New routine.
Massive overhaul.

And for a week or two… it works.
Then it fades.

But performance doesn’t usually come from massive swings.
It comes from small, intentional shifts
done consistently over time.

When I was learning to sail, one thing stood out:
You don’t need to turn the boat 90 degrees to change direction.
Sometimes it’s just a 1–2 degree shift.
But over time?
That puts you in a completely different place.

Same thing here.
A slightly better decision.
A slightly different response.
A small adjustment in how you approach the day.

It doesn’t feel like much in the moment…
But it compounds.
That’s the game.

Not dramatic change.
Incremental progress.

So today, don’t overhaul everything.

Just ask:
Where can I make a small, intentional shift?

Then do that.
And let it build.

P.S. Picking out what I’m putting down? Let me know how you are leveraging the Incremental in your life?

04/08/2026

Less Cure. More Curious.
Yesterday I brought up the influence of mindset. Not as the sole contributor of performance, but as one of a few.

And today I want to offer an example of a scenario I have a leader I worked with, that effectively leveraged mindset in her work.

This person I was working with was a leader who had done everything right.

Started as a strong individual contributor.
Crushed her role.
Got promoted… and promoted again.
Now she’s leading a team.

But there was a subtle problem.

She was still operating with an individual contributor mindset.

So when her team came to her with challenges…
she’d jump straight into fixing.

Offering solutions.
Solving problems.
Moving things forward.

On the surface, that sounds like good leadership.

But over time, it created two issues:
Her team wasn’t developing
She became the bottleneck

Because if she’s always the one with the answers…
everyone else stays dependent.

So we didn’t overhaul her leadership style.
We didn’t send her to a Tony Robbin’s retreat.
We made one small shift:

Less cure. More curious.

Before meetings.
Before one-on-ones.
Before responding…

That became her mindset.

Instead of:
“Here’s what you should do…”

She moved toward:
“What are you thinking?”
“What options have you considered?”
“Where are you stuck?”

Did she still step in and solve when needed?
Of course.

But it was no longer her default.

That one shift did two things:
Her team started thinking more independently
She got out of the weeds and back into leadership

This is what I mean when I talk about mindset.

Not hype.
Not slogans.

Just small, intentional shifts
that make performance… work better.

If you tend to be a fixer,
Try it today:

Less cure. More curious.

What’s a mindset that has particular served you well in your pursuits?

04/07/2026

Mindset Isn’t About Becoming a Different Person.

It’s a beautiful (but chilly) day—about 37 degrees.
And the sun’s out.

It doesn’t suddenly make it 60…
but it makes the day feel a little more tolerable.

That’s how I think about mindset.

In my field, mindset often gets framed as mental toughness.
Confidence.
Intensity.
“Killer instinct.”
Usually paired with a quote from Michael Jordan or Lindsey Vonn.

And sure—that has its place.

But let’s be honest…
That’s not how most of us are living day to day.

Most people I work with are:
Busy.
A little overwhelmed.
Juggling work, relationships, health, life.

They don’t need a hype speech.
They need something… usable.

So here’s the reframe:
Mindset isn’t about transforming your entire state.
It’s about making your current state
a little more manageable.

Like the sun on a cold day.

It might sound like:
“I’m going to give myself a little grace today.”
“I don’t have it all figured out… and that’s okay.”
“I’ll just take the next step.”

Is that elite, highlight-reel mentality?
No.
But it’s excellently average.
And it works.

So if today feels a little cold…
You don’t need to become a different version of yourself.
Just bring a little more sun into the moment.
See what happens.

P.S. Is your mindset a little less sunny these days? All good. It happens. But don’t feel like you have to navigate it on your own. Give me a shout...and we can chat it out.

04/06/2026

Go Be Excellently Average.

I share this idea a lot in my coaching, and at first glance, it sounds contradictory.

“Steve… aren’t you a high-performance coach? Why would we aim to be average?”

Fair question.

But hear me out.

⸻

Imagine your goal is simply to hold a water bottle.

You could squeeze the hell out of it—
tight grip, tense, locked in.

Or…

You could just hold it.
Light, steady, controlled.

Either way, the task gets done.

⸻

But that tight, white-knuckle grip?

That’s where we see:
• burnout
• exhaustion
• anxiety
• overwhelm

And yet… that’s the approach that often gets celebrated.

Go hard. Push through. Grind it out.

⸻

Here’s the reframe:

Performance isn’t about how hard you squeeze.
It’s about how well you can execute—consistently.

And consistency doesn’t come from tension.
It comes from rhythm. Space. Flow.

⸻

You can still:
• pursue big goals
• do meaningful work
• perform at a high level

But the intention shifts.

Less grind for grind’s sake.
More groove.

⸻

So maybe this is your permission slip:

Stop white-knuckling everything.

Hold it a little more gently.

Trust that you can still achieve—
and often, achieve better—
without squeezing the life out of it.

Go be excellently average today.

P.S. Does this resonate? If so I want to know. Shoot me a message.

04/03/2026

Happy Friday folks! Here is a lesson from Performance Design this week:

“Compass vs GPS”

I was talking with a client yesterday and his diagnostic uncovered something that I think a lot of us deal with.

Direction can show up in two different ways:
a compass and a GPS.

Sometimes you’ve got a really strong compass.
You know what you want. You know the kind of life you’re trying to build.
But you’ve got no clue what the actual steps are to get there.
And that gap? It feels like you’re stuck. Like nothing’s moving.

Other times it flips.

You’re busy. Productive. Doing a lot of things right.
But if someone asked, “Where is all of this going?”
You’d probably pause for a second, scratch your head, and say “Sh*t, I don’t actually know.”

And honestly, neither one is terrible.
There’s nothing wrong with meandering.
There’s nothing wrong with getting locked into the day-to-day.

But if you want to feel a little more aligned… a little more intentional…
you probably need both working together.
A compass to point you in the right direction
and a GPS to help you take the next step.

What was interesting with this client is that he had the compass. He had a clear end game. He KNOWS what he wants.
But he did not have the GPS. No play-by-play. No step by step path to get there.

And it was frustrating the hell out of him.

What we ended up talking about was this:
Exploration is part of the GPS.

Curiosity. Trying things. Testing ideas.
That’s not wasted time—it’s actually how you build direction.

But I think a lot of us try to skip that part.
We want to jump straight to certainty.
Like we’re supposed to just know the path.
And it doesn’t really work like that.

R&D is a real step. A productive one.
Even if it feels slower… or less certain… than having a clean plan.

Sometimes the next move isn’t knowing exactly where you’re going…
It’s being willing to explore long enough to find out.

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