There is always a gap between the life we live and the life that's possible for us. If you find yourself looking for ways to improve or have a life-long interest in personal development then this is the podcast for you. Over the last two decades I've had the privilege of speaking all over the world to over 400,000 people on the topics that really make a difference in their lives. We all need some encouragement from time to and this podcast is designed to help you in the areas of mindset, motivation, inspiration, business, relationships and much more.
You Grow by Solving Larger Problems. Most People Solve the Same Ones Forever.
My day started at 2:51am — not a recommendation, but there's never a traffic jam on the extra mile — and in that quiet hour, working through my notes from West Palm Beach, one line stopped me: we grow by solving larger problems. Think about that. We develop our capacities by doing progressively harder things — and the vast majority of people, with total freedom to live otherwise, never do this deliberately. We gravitate to what's predictable, what we've done before, and we rinse and repeat — then wonder why life stays the same size. In this episode: the six-hour presentation in a room of 3,500 people that confronted nearly everyone in it, the business problem I brought home and why hard is the point; how solving bigger problems changes your identity — David Goggins' cookie jar, and why every difficult thing you do is a deposit you draw on later; and the honest cultural diagnosis: we live in an age of avoidance and medication — food, Netflix, the fog of drifting — that exists to help you not face the problems that would grow you. The audit is one question: are you doing harder things than you were a year ago?
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29 Aug 2026
Uncommon Results Require Uncommon Things. There Is No Exception.
Let's talk about the uncommon life — because the logic is almost embarrassingly simple: if you do what everybody else does, you tend to get what everybody else gets. If you want uncommon results — in health, finance, relationships, business — it follows that you must do uncommon things. In this episode: what I was doing at 3:30 this morning (jet-lagged, praying, reading complex financial documents — not for a gold star, just because different requires different); the story from last week's masterclass of a telephone-company worker who saved half his income for decades and retired on roughly seventy million; and the audit question that starts everything: in which ways am I acting exactly like everybody around me? If you want anything in your life to be uncommon, you must start — today — doing uncommon things. Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co. A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep.
28 Aug 2026
Stop Setting Goals. Start Setting Standards.
Another insight from the US trip: a speaker who said he doesn't have goals — he has standards. It's a profound nuance. Instead of writing down outcomes you want, you delineate who you intend to be — the body, lifestyle, relationships and work that are simply non-negotiable — and you live to that standard. Fresh off two weeks of travel, I'm back in the studio with training and nutrition dialled straight back in. Not because of a 30-day goal — because the way I eat and train is central to who I am. That's the identity piece: once your identity switches to "this is who I am, I do these things," you stop relying on willpower — which is a finite, neurochemically depleting resource. Willpower is booster fuel; standards are the engine. So: what are your standards? Do you have any at all? Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co. A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep.
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