Well, to be literal, I took a plane from Denver to DC, a train to NYC, and a rental car to Lake Placid, NY, for the deferred 2021 edition of Ironman Lake Placid. But planes, trains, and automobiles are not how you make it to your first or tenth Ironman race. As the old joke goes about making it to Carnegie Hall, it takes "Practice, Practice, Practice." Nobody finishes a full Ironman by accident. Long-distance triathlon is not so much a sport or an event but an ever-present fa

The road is full of possibilities. I am ready to fly again after 15 months of staring at the blueish dull glow of the computer screen talking to people all day in a flat two-dimensional plane. I finally get to punch my ticket for a flight to SFO. It is ironic that the year I finally achieve lifetime gold status on United for a million miles flown, I would be grounded. No longer. I think the great American author, Jack Kerouac said it best. “Nothing behind me, everything ahea

This is Alex Cooper. Welcome to The MindsetCEO. The MindsetCEO is my practiced and proven coaching model for setting and achieving meaningful goals in your life. Anything is possible if you put your mind to it. Last Friday I was busy trying to close out my week. I was taking calls, on conference calls, and trying to send contrast out at the same time. I screwed up big time, I sent out three contracts that had big mistakes. My boss caught it and I had egg on my face. So what

Mindset does not have a start date, and frankly, it does not have a finish line. It's my lifelong pursuit of learning and self-improvement.

Winning isn’t everything and losing is not the end of the world. I don’t race to compete; I race to complete. Every race I finish, I win.

It's a new year, finally. It is easy to look back at all your "numerical accomplishments." I know that I certainly am guilty. I proudly display the annual data from my Strava app and believe it's a real achievement. I have Recorded over 6,000 miles of swim, bike, run, ski, and hike on Strava Also, I have accumulated over 5,000 followers on LinkedIn and posted over 50 video blogs on my website. It sure sounds impressive! But don't be fooled by people that accumulate followers

Education is steeped in old habits that change slowly. Standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, AP exams were still taken with paper and pencils, until the pandemic changed everything. Throw away your No. 2 lead pencil, protractor, and TI 84 graphing calculator! For two decades, Matt Sherman has been creating a test prep curriculum and teaching thousands of students while waiting for the market to signal that it was ready for a transition. “The transition is about to happen. LS

Maybe you are not ready to be the next Zuckerburg. Maybe instead of becoming an entrepreneur, you want to be a solopreneur. Perhaps you still have a full-time job a career, but there is a side hustle that you want to pursue. Dave Buzanko is all these things. He turned his side hustle into an amazing coaching career teaching people resilience while also working as a business development professional for a worldwide managed training services provider. “Right now, we are runnin

If you have ever written even a single line of software code, you know that that there will be bugs. Liran Haimovitch has both a personal and company mission to eliminate the frustration and productivity crushing task of debugging software. Liran looks at this problem both with the preciseness of an engineer and an abstract, almost metaphysical perspective. “The mindset of cyber engineering is figuring out how an application works from the ground up. Going back down all the w

Yosh Eisbart, is a serial entrepreneur who exemplifies one of the many paradoxes that burst the glamorized image of a startup founder. He has grit, determination, and the perseverance to ignore all the naysayers to plow ahead and start a new business right as the peak of the Covid19 Pandemic. He is also mindful of his “monkey brain” getting in the way and the doubts that creep in. “[I] try to practice mindfulness and yoga and meditation. It’s really quieting that monkey mind