Going Further: The Coaching Newsletter

Happy New Year All! We’re excited to launch our first issue of 2026. I’m going to come straight out with it: You DO NOT need another year of planning, dreaming, resolutions, Pinterest boards and motivational videos. You’ve got them all. Everything we need is already in our inventory. So what do we need?

We need bricks. We need blueprints. We need that first concrete pour. We are building the foundation of the homes we wish to live in. I’ll be clear, I started working toward the end of 2025 to lean into action. I am putting my hands in the soil and getting them dirty as growth isn’t always clean and frankly…it’s gritty and often unsexy.

2026 isn’t about wishing for a better life…it is about building it.
From the ground up. With intentional foundations. One courageous decision at a time.

So here’s my invitation to you:

• Not to make a resolution. (Forget them. They’re not as effective as we think).

• Not to “manifest” your dream life. (The vision is key, the action is essential).

• Construct your life. With calloused hands and a clear heart. (Today)!

Let this be the year you finally trade in potential for progress. I’ve found potential is useless if we don’t take action with it.
Here’s the inescapable truth: dreams don’t build themselves. But you? You can.

Tools to Go Further: The Odyssey Plan

The Odyssey (aside from being Christopher Nolan’s next huge film) is an epic poem by Homer that details Odysseus’ decade-long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. While this plan is nowhere near as difficult as Odysseus’ trek home, it’s an amazing exercise that pushes you to ask yourself bigger questions about how you want your life to look.

The Odyssey Plan is comprised of three key questions.

1) If you stay on this path, where will you be in five years?

Where will you be with work? What does your inner circle look like? How do you feel?

2) If you created a life that looked totally different, where does that version of you end up?

Maybe you’ve made a huge career switch, moved to a new country, picked up a new passion.

3) If nothing was stopping you, what life would you create?

What if money wasn’t an object? If people’s opinions didn’t matter?

By asking yourself these zoomed-out questions, you think about how your life could look if not for the routines we’ve become comfortable with. The Odyssey Plan shows you how many options are truly available to you, and what might be worth pursuing.

🗣 Laurence‑ism: How Failure Built My Foundation (And Might Build Yours Too)

I used to think failure was the thing to avoid at all costs.

You know the drill: don’t fumble. Don’t show weakness. Don’t let anyone see you sweat. Don’t show the cracks. Smile. Perform. Get it right.

Yet, I’ve recently embraced a truth, not in a TED Talk or a coaching manual, but in real life. Failing doesn’t make ME a failure.
Failure wasn’t the thing to avoid. It was the thing that taught me how to stand.

I’ve failed more times than I can count.
In business, in love, in ventures that looked good on paper.
In moments where I thought, this has to work, only to watch it crumble…in public and in private.

But somewhere along the way, I stopped asking “Why did this happen to me?”
And started asking:
“What is this trying to teach me?” One of my favorite leaders of all time, Nelson Mandela, said “we win or we learn.” Failure is the foundation on which we build our success and lesson.

This is why I now define failure differently:

This is what failure has done for me.
It didn’t knock me down, it handed me the materials to rebuild, better, stronger, wiser and with integrity.

And once I stopped resisting that process, I realized something wild:
Every major leap in my life came right after a fall.

Not before. After.

Think about that.

The most grounded people I know didn’t avoid failure.
They learned how to embrace it, not fear it. Speak to it. Let it shape them without letting it shrink them. FEAR is false evidence appearing real. So fearing failure isn’t grounded in reality.

If you’re entering 2026 with big goals, new plans, and bold dreams…here’s your reminder:

• You will mess up. (It means you’re trying).

• You will feel doubt. (It means you care).

• You will fall. (It means you’re climbing).

• You WILL fail. (It means you’re building).

And when you do, not if, when, ask yourself:
What am I meant to learn here? What new foundation is trying to form beneath me? How can I stand on this foundation and build better?

Most people see failure as the end of a story. Failure’s not a dead end.
It’s just the part of the story where the foundation gets poured.

And I don’t know about you, but I’d rather build something that lasts, even if it means learning the hard way, than stay stuck on the surface.

So here’s to falling forward.
To failing intentionally.
To building better.
And to a year where the cracks aren’t endings…
they’re invitations.

Let’s Go Further…Together.

— LA

Coming this Winter: I’m hosting a free webinar on How to Fear Less!

60 minutes of interactive fun, discovering how we can harness our fear to accomplish our wildest dreams. Registration information coming soon!

Go Further 🚀