Lessons. Life experiences give you plenty of lessons, what you do with those lessons is up to you as to whether you learn from them or push them aside. 

Lessons come from failure, winning, and general experience. They show what worked, what didn’t, what you could have done better and what you didn’t do at all.

Desire. Have you ever had a desire to do something, to achieve something or challenge yourself where you’re committed to do everything it takes to achieve what you’re set out to?

Teamwork. We can’t do anything alone. There are often moments in business, sport and life where we’ll draw on the support of those around us.

Colleagues, teammates, family, friends as well as others who will assist with our growth and pursuit to achieve what we’re trying to.

Baseline. What is the baseline or foundation you’re working from? Is there something specific you need to work on to improve or is it an overall improvement that’s required?

How is your baseline measured? It could be a test, a weigh in, the speed in how long something takes or just something you can measure against to gauge results from. 

Compounding impact. Compounding impact is the cumulative impact of small, consistent actions, decisions or investments over a sustained period that lead to a result.

Compounding impact can also be known as the snowball effect. 

Pursuit. Pursuit is the drive or act of chasing or setting out to achieve something or engaging with someone that’s meaningful to you.

What are you in pursuit of? Is it a dream, a mission or a goal? Why is it meaningful for you to chase it?

Accountability. How are you held accountable for doing what you say you’ll do?

Do you have a friend group, colleague or family member that you can rely on and who will let you know you haven’t done what you said you would do?

Are you willing to do what it takes to back up what you say with action? It’s easy to say we’ll do something, but what happens when we don’t? What are the consequences? We don’t like letting other people down, but what is more important, is not letting yourself down.  

Approach. How do you approach your day, a challenge, a task or something you haven’t done before? Do you put it off by delaying doing what you have to, or do you tackle it head on?

It could be a conversation you don’t want to have with a colleague or partner, or it could be completing something that’s well outside your comfort zone. 

Adapt. Throughout periods in our personal and professional lives we’ll need to work through planned and unplanned changes including, challenges, injury, varying market conditions or some sort of adversity.

Everyone will go through something, it’s inevitable. 

Integrity is a core business value of Run Rocket Run.

It’s a key component of our mission to help enhance the performance of those we work with and those around us – the commitment we make to ourselves, each other, and the standards we hold as we pursue them.

At Run Rocket Run we call setting a business plan, a Battleplan, and goals, they’re Missions. Battleplans and Missions are something we each set out to plan and achieve both personally and professionally.

Determination. What are you working towards? How determined and committed are you to achieving what you’re setting out to?

There will be times when the odds are stacked against you, you may not be the first, second or third option, and the path to getting to where you’re striving towards isn’t easy.

Standards. What standards do you set yourself? Do you sacrifice your standards to take an easier option?

Reducing a rep in the gym, cutting a corner on a run or not proofreading an important email before it’s sent. Lowering your standards for ‘ease’ ends up costing you more in the long run. It may lead to instant gratification now, which is very short lived.

2025 was a year of change and laying the foundations at Run Rocket Run.

We followed our passion to put service before self and assist with enhancing the performance of others, because we are all capable of so much more.  

Gratitude.  What are you grateful for? Family, friends, health, career? Opportunities to look forward to? 

Living in Australia we have so much opportunity with the choices we can make and so much to be thankful for.

Awareness. How aware are you of yourself, others and what’s going on around you?

Having awareness enables you to think outside yourself, consider others perspective and heighten your senses of your surroundings.

Throughout 2025 Rodney has competed in several Ultra races and challenges.

From 27-29 November he embraced the hurt of the Ultra-Trail Kosciuszko by UTMB 100mile race through the Snow Mountains of NSW. 

Drive. What’s your approach to closing out 2025? Are you limping to the finishing line or are you going to continue to push yourself to meet your goals and targets?

Choice. We are constantly given several options or paths to choose from, or how to respond in order to achieve an outcome.

Grit. There will be times and experiences throughout life where you hit a roadblock, are faced with adversity, or for some unknown reason a problem out of the ordinary happens.