When life changes, the mind often starts working overtime.
What should I do? What if I make the wrong choice? What if things get worse? What am I missing? What happens next?
Thinking can be useful. Overthinking is different. It creates activity without necessarily creating clarity.
When the conscious mind becomes overloaded, decision-making becomes harder. You may replay the same possibilities repeatedly, search for absolute certainty, or become so...
Life transitions can challenge even the strongest people. Retirement, divorce, career changes, becoming a parent, losing a loved one, starting a business, relocating, or entering a new stage of life can disrupt the routines and identities that once felt familiar.
During these moments, resilience becomes essential.
Resilience does not mean pretending change is easy. It means developing the ability to experience uncertainty without losing your ability...
Russ McElyea joins Dawn Grant on Clay Mastermind: Mental Excellence and Industry Insights for a deep conversation on Sporting Clays, mental discipline, flow state performance, instruction, competition mindset, and the evolution of one of Montana’s premier shooting facilities. Russ is a longtime competitive shooter, instructor, outdoorsman, former judge, and board member at Gallatin Sporting Clays near Bozeman, Montana.
In this episode, Russ shares...
Video: Your Results Are Lying To You
11 Sep, 2026
Your results may be lying to you.
Not because the number is fake.
Because the number you are looking at today may be telling you more about what you were doing weeks or months ago than what you are building right now.
In this video, I explore one of the most important principles behind habit change, performance, mental training, wellness, business, and personal growth: your current results are often lagging measures.
Your body today is not a perfect...
The fear of the unknown is one of the most common forms of mental stress. When we do not know what is going to happen, the mind often tries to protect us by imagining possibilities. Unfortunately, it does not always imagine the best possibilities. It may create stories about failure, rejection, loss, embarrassment, or everything going wrong.
The problem is not simply uncertainty. The problem is what the mind does with uncertainty.
Mental training...
Video: You Were Never On Trial
04 Sep, 2026
What if the reason achievement never feels like enough is that you have been using it to answer a question that was never supposed to stay open?
In this episode, Dawn Grant explores the difference between contingent self-worth — worth that depends on achievement, approval, appearance, comparison, or performance — and a more secure sense of worth that does not rise and fall with every new result.
Dawn unpacks how people can learn early in life that...
