Writer · Speaker · Former pro violinist
Stop accepting small.
A normal life is a fine life. If that's what you want, this isn't for you. This is for the few who know they're capable of more and refuse to wait 40 years to prove it. It shouldn't take that long.
Free · 10 minutes
Where are you settling?
Take the Small Audit. Score yourself against your own goals, see what's really holding you back, and find out how much faster you could get there.
The method
Four moves from stuck to building.
Concert violinists don't get good by trying harder. They get good by practising the right thing, the right way. The same method works on money, fitness, family and purpose.
Wake up
Do the honest math on what accepting small is costing you in years, money and moments.
Start fixing
Pick one goal. Find the base skill that gives you the fastest visible win.
Stop blaming
Rewrite the story that's been keeping you small. Then keep one promise to yourself.
Start building
Deliberate practice, with feedback, every week. Mastery is just building on purpose.
Proof in progress
I'm not telling you it's possible. I'm showing you.
I'm doing this with a full-time job and three kids. Every feat gets documented in public, wins and misses included.
Professional concert violinist
Years of deliberate practice, and the method behind everything I teach.
Half marathon in under 1:59
Race day is February 13, 2027. Training logged weekly on Instagram.
Solving the money problem
Building income through real estate and business, so time stops being for sale.
Full marathon and Ironman
Endurance feats that most people my age decide are out of reach.
Five languages
Conversational, on a timeline most people would call impossible.
The Renaissance Challenge
Opening the board so you can take on feats alongside me. See how it works
What I write and talk about
Start where it hurts most.
Writing
Books in the works.
Written from inside the work, not looking back from the top. Join the newsletter to read early chapters as they're written.
What you want in the moment, comfort, normal, the safe path, quietly costs you the life you actually want.
How "good enough" becomes a cage, and the way out.
Pain is loudest in the moment. This book teaches you to stop living there and keep your eyes on the payoff at the end. It's how runners keep going mile after mile, how ordinary people pull off feats that look superhuman, and how you can do the hard things that build the life you want.
Speaking
Bring "Stop accepting small" to your people.
Keynotes and workshops for teams, conferences, schools and faith communities. Honest, practical, and built to leave people moving.
Stop Accepting Small
Why capable people settle, the five reasons it happens, and how to stop.
It Shouldn't Take That Long
From the practice room to the boardroom: deliberate practice for busy adults.
Five Lifetimes in One
Everyone wants more time. The answer isn't living longer. It's doing more with the life you have.
Speaking inquiry
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About
Hey, it's Jared.
Before insurance and real estate, I was a professional concert violinist. Thousands of hours in the practice room taught me one lesson: mastery isn't about talent or time. It's about how you practise.
I studied the work of Dr. Anders Ericsson, the researcher behind deliberate practice, and even got to email with him before he passed. Today I work full time in commercial real estate insurance, invest in real estate, and raise three kids with my wife in Alberta.
And I'm using everything I learned in the practice room to build a bigger life, faster than the 40-year default most of us are handed. I share all of it, so you can do the same.