Life Doesn’t Come With a Playbook.
This One Helps.
Life gets busy. Pressure builds. Things don’t always go as planned.
Kick Butt, Stay Zen is a practical, easy-to-use guide for building calm, focus, and resilience in real life. It pulls tools from yoga, jiu-jitsu, breathwork, and everyday experiences to help you stay steady when things get tough.
You’ll learn how to:
Stay grounded under stress
Regain focus when emotions spike
Breathe through pressure instead of reacting
Recover faster after setbacks
Build mental strength you can rely on
This isn’t about fixing yourself.
It’s about training your response.
Whether you’re a teen navigating school and sports, a young adult figuring things out, or an adult juggling work and life, this book gives you simple strategies you can use right away.
No fluff.
No lectures.
Just tools that work.
Explore the Book
This book doesn’t ask you to sit still and read passively.
It invites you to move, pause, reflect, try, and come back when you need it.
Think of it as a guide you can flip open based on what life is throwing at you that day.
Some days, you’ll explore how your mindset shapes your reactions.
Other days, you’ll use breath to calm your body when stress shows up fast.
There are chapters that focus on bouncing back after tough moments, and others that help you find balance when life feels pulled in too many directions.
You’ll move through ideas about strength, courage, and flow, not as big concepts, but as things you can practice in real moments. You’ll explore how to stay present while moving through busy days, how to handle change without spiraling, and how the people around you influence your energy and focus.
Toward the end, the book helps you pull everything together into simple routines you can return to again and again, especially when things feel messy.
Each section includes:
Real-life examples you’ll recognize
Simple tools you can try right away
Moments to pause, reflect, and apply what you learn
A tone that takes growth seriously, but not itself
You don’t need to read this book in order.
You don’t need to “do it right.”
You explore it the way life actually works, one situation at a time.
What You’ll Explore Inside
Open this book like you’d open a playbook, based on what life is throwing at you today.
Start with Game Plan 1: Master Your Mindset, where you learn how to catch the mental spiral early and shift your response before things snowball.
Move into Game Plan 2: Breathe Like a Champ to calm your body fast and get your focus back when stress hits, before a test, a meeting, a roll, or a hard conversation.
Then Game Plan 3: Bounce Back Stronger helps you recover after a bad day, a setback, or a tough moment, without turning it into a whole identity crisis.
When life feels chaotic, Game Plan 4: Balance Your Way to Success brings you back to center, so you can handle your responsibilities without feeling like you’re failing at all of them.
From there, Game Plan 5: Flex Your Strength, Find Your Flow explores what real strength looks like, not just pushing harder, but moving smarter and staying steady when things get uncomfortable.
When you need bravery, Game Plan 6: Courage to Keep Crushing It is the chapter you open to keep showing up even when doubt, nerves, or fear try to run the show.
Life changes plans, always. Game Plan 7: Flow with Life’s Moves helps you adapt without freezing, quitting, or getting stuck in frustration.
And because who you surround yourself with matters, Game Plan 8: Build Your Inner Circle gets into boundaries, support, and choosing people who help you grow.
If you want more calm in motion, Game Plan 9: Mindfulness in Motion shows you how to stay present and grounded while you’re actually living your life, not hiding from it.
Finally, Game Plan 10: Create Your Winning Routine brings everything together into habits you can repeat, so this isn’t a one-time read, it becomes how you operate.
And when you want the quick version, the Bonus Chapter: Your Ultimate Resilience Power Moves gives you a fast reset you can come back to anytime.
This isn’t a book you “finish.”
It’s a book you return to.
