Tom Foxley Get Your Plan

Journal

Field notes on mental performance.

Plain essays on training the mind like the body: capacity, clarity, and composure for people the business now rests on.

26 July 2026 Why Your Brain Will Not Switch Off at 2am (and How to Train It To) Lying awake at 2am running the same loop? Here is why a business owner's brain will not switch off, and how to train it to settle, not just suppress it. Read → 19 July 2026 Why Hitting Your Goals Feels Like Nothing You hit the goal and felt nothing, so you set a bigger one. Here is why success feels empty for high performers, and how to actually feel the win. Read → 12 July 2026 The Knowing-Doing Gap: Why You Know What to Do but Are Not Doing It You know what to do and you are still not doing it. Here is what actually causes the knowing-doing gap for business owners, and how to close it. Read → 5 July 2026 Why Discipline Is Not Your Problem If you are disciplined everywhere except the thing that matters, discipline is not your problem. Here is what actually is, and how to fix the real cause. Read → 28 June 2026 How to Stop Being the Bottleneck in Your Business If your business only grows as fast as you do, you are the bottleneck. Here is how to stop being it, by training capacity rather than adding more systems. Read → 21 June 2026 What Is Antifragility? Why Resilience Is the Wrong Goal for Founders Antifragility means growing from stress, not just surviving it. Here is why resilience is the wrong goal for business owners, and how to train the better one. Read → 16 June 2026 Mental Performance Coaching for Business Owners: What It Is and How It Works Mental performance coaching trains the mind of a business owner like an athlete trains the body. Here is what it is, how it works, and who it is for. Read → 16 June 2026 Mental Fitness Coaching vs Therapy: Which One Do You Actually Need? Mental fitness coaching vs therapy: one builds capacity, one heals what is hurting. Here is how to tell which you need, and why many people do both. Read → 9 June 2026 How to train emotional capacity (the way you train your body) Stimulus, recovery, adaptation. Your mind grows under load like your body does. A practical primer on building capacity. Read → 26 May 2026 The founder bottleneck: why ‘go harder’ stopped working The operating system that built your business is the one now capping it. What to do when effort is no longer the lever. Read → 12 May 2026 Mental fitness, not mental health: the difference that changes everything Therapy treats what is broken. Mental fitness trains what is undertrained. Here is the distinction, and why it matters for business owners. Read →