Sim Van Daele

I built this membership section largely out of the frameworks I built for clients.

When I was all over the world on these retreats it dawned on me and on them that there were very few sources that deal with structuring the info on the intersection between neurology, biology, psychology, and philosophy.

So in the interest of bridging this gap, the membership section provides the ecosystem of frameworks and an ecology of practices to close the gap between understanding and behavior.

Helping others understand and change their behavior is arguably the most key part of coaching, so I've poured all of my experience into this membership section to provide you the tools to do so.

Membership — Sim Van daele MEMBERSHIP Are you ready to gain self-mastery by understanding the deeper forces that shape your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors? Welcome to the membership section of my coaching site, where you’ll gain access to the exact tools, frameworks, and protocols I use with my clients to create real, las...

Are you actually consistent?

As a coach with over 11 years of experience, you see a lot of consistently inconsistent people.

The cliché consistency is key rings true on so many levels.

12 weeks already sounds like a long time to most people. Let alone if the time extends from there, a total non-starter.

The paradox, in a sense, is to create a process you can do each day without the timeframe ever really becoming a focus.

Consider a diet as an example. If it has an end date, it becomes about the outcome and the duration ticking down to zero hour.

That's not a process, it's not a system nor a lifestyle orientation.

Structuring your system towards something you can be consistent with regardless of the circumstances, that's where the real magic is.

There's no way to hack consistency. It's the beauty of this type of behavior, you just have to do without supplements, tips, tricks, or hacks.

What can you do in 3 months?

These are Michael's results after 3 months of following my systems approach. Of course, coaching occurred, however, the central idea was to give him the systems so he can put in the work, and he did.

So let me run you through my systems approach, consider it a late Xmas present ⬇️

1. A Braverman test doesn't tell you the whole story, it's a big-picture overview of neurological dominance that demonstrates itself in certain behaviors. As I put forth in point 5: counterbalancing behaviors is still important.

2. Figure out your biological rhythm. How? Stop fu***ng with your biology. All joking aside, all the after-dark bright lights, stimulating media, activity, eating, and drinking booze are biological rhythm killers. There's no space to feel tired, and the hormones are suppressed.

3. Unless there are serious metabolic issues, it is not rocket science. Most people will do well with eating local, seasonal, and organic and increasing their animal protein.

4. In terms of exercise, a structured program with progressive overload, enough rest days, covering all movement patterns, and hitting all reps and sets schemes did the job.

5. Leveraging his strengths and fortifying his weaknesses. In terms of balancing neurotransmitters, relying on supplements is a short-term tactic, but not a strategy. The strategy for behavioral change is to have balancing behaviors. They're generally quite simple, it just takes time, attention, and effort to implement as they "go against your nature".

Consider neurological balance like an arch. If I had only one part of my arch, it would fall over and collapse. The counters (antagonists like GABA) are needed behaviorally to complete the arch, then an individual balance is created.

A system is a process you can adhere to:
1. It's easy to do
2. Becomes enjoyable
3. Gives you what you need
4. Is flexible in scale
5. Changes according to your needs

Approaching a habit as a process takes away a lot of willpower and thinking.

If you can cut out decision fatigue, that leaves a lot more energy.

If you don't constantly need to use willpower for it, because it's so small, that drastically changes the energy cost.

In the end, systems are about energy and perceived effort, if you start them small enough, and allow them to compound, they'll take you to where you want to go.

Do you even evening routine?

Although we could talk about a whole lot more when it comes to sleep, this is what I tend to start clients off with.

1. Bright light wakes us up and supresses our sleep hormone. And tells your internal clocks it's noon.

2. Too much stimulation just leaves you wired before bed.

3. The digestive process needs time, if you eat right before bed, a lot of food just sits there undigested and will impact your sleep quality.

Start here, and enjoy the benefits of better sleep!