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 Very often I hear the sentence : you have to find balance in your life.   Balance is relative but for most of us it represents doing a little bit of everything.  It means not pulling the cover all to one side.   I like the concept but at the same time I don't agree with it.  Being balanced everywhere is possible, but I will argue that it is not what top performers do.  If the goal is to simply go through life, being balanced will indeed be possible.  If the goal is to create a dent in the universe then being balance will be detrimental to our success.  Think about anyone that you admire, anyone that changed the world, anyone who made a difference in the world.  Study how they lived.  Read their biography or look at a documentary about them.  You will quickly realize they were not balanced.  The cost of being a top performer in one area of their life was to be sub part in other areas of their life.  Or at lease t...

My name is Matthieu Dubreucq.  At 18 years old (in 2000) I started to coach skiing and sailing out of necessity.  I wanted to finance my sailing project.  At that time my goal was to qualify for the Olympics and anyway to make money was welcome.   I cleaned dishes in Pointe-Claire, Quebec and in Miami, work as SEO salesman in Australia, but found it easier to use my notoriety and knowledge as a good sailor to coach younger athletes like the Canadian and Bermuda Youth National team or the Ontario Sailing Team.   This side hustle became my full time job when I started to plan my retirement from competitive sailing (I retired in 2012).  When it became clear that our Olympic campaign for 2012 would be the last one I decided to open a gym with Jacques Ambroise in summer 2009 : CrossFit Laval.  Starting to coach full time made me realize I didn't know much.  But my mindset was always to do things to the best of my abilities.  I started to...