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Real World Stress Inoculation

Course 001 · 7 Day Reset

Pain to Power

Seven days. One lesson per day. Learn how to manage stress using the same tools as Red Bull athletes and elite military operators. Taught by someone who’s been there and done that.

$49 PDF course + workbook
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Next step is a secure Stripe page for your card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. The PDF lands in your inbox the second you pay. 30 day refund, no questions asked.

Cover of the Pain to Power 7 Day Reset PDF
41 pages, letter size
Day 1 course page: Concepts and How to Apply, the six step process for naming your alligator
Day 1, the course
Day 1 workbook page with blank lines for naming your alligator and a 1 to 10 rating scale
Day 1, the workbook

Seven days. One small task a day.

Every day has four parts: Concepts, How to Apply, Examples, and a Workbook exercise. Print it, write in it, keep it.

  1. Intro & Overview. We’ll find where you are on a stress map and plan our way to your best life.
  2. Rules & Tools. Learn the fundamentals of how the best in the world manage and beat stress.
  3. Chop It Up. Learn to use goal setting to take you from where you are to where you want to be.
  4. What Did You Just Say? We’ll build the core of a powerful self talk regimen, take it to the dojo, and put it on repeat.
  5. What Does Success Look Like? You’ll learn 3 modes of visualization and 2 ways to actually use it the next time you need it.
  6. Keeping It Under Control. I’ll show you how to use common tools to quickly manage your stress and redirect your energy to win, not sin.
  7. Execute Execute Execute. Learn where and how to start, giving you a day by day and play by play book for successfully managing stress.
Day 3 course page, Chop It Up (Goal Setting), lower half blurred
Day 3, the course. Chop It Up.

What do people say about my work?

public comments on IG

  • “10 hours in. Found many alligators. this technique is working for me. Thanks”

  • “I listened to this so many times. I took this: you don’t control the storm. You control how you stand in it. Powerful.”

  • “Yesterday I started doing and easily I’ve been reminding myself 20 times... It has helped me a lot, thank you very much sensei”

  • “The way he breaks ‘overwhelming stress’ down into one small, visible action is powerful.”

  • “I find your advice enormously helpful.”

  • “Thank you for keep showing up on my ig. I needed this”

Who this is for

Get it if

  • You’re stressed out and don’t know how to handle it.
  • You have ten minutes a day to work on this.
  • Doesn’t matter if your stress is solvable or unsolvable.
  • You want the tools, not just a lecture.

Skip it if

  • You want someone else to fix your problems. This is work you do on yourself.
  • You’re looking for videos or a live group. This is a PDF you can go through at your own pace or follow the schedule I give you.
  • You need clinical help. If you’re in danger, call someone today. This is training, not treatment.

What you get

The course
Seven lessons across 22 pages. Concepts, how to apply them, real examples from the Navy, Red Bull and my own kitchen sink.
The workbook
14 pages of fill-in exercises, one set per day, plus a Day 7 grid to rate your week. Print it single-sided and write on it.
The pocket card
Rules, Tools, NFAT, 4-4 for 4 and the stack on one page. Fold it, carry it.
Two versions
A color PDF for your screen and a black and white PDF that prints clean on any printer.
Seven mornings of starting right
Everything arrives the second you pay. Then a short email each morning to keep you on the day you’re on.
Thirty days to change your mind
Not for you? Reply to any email within 30 days and I refund you. No form, no questions.

Who’s teaching this

I’m Nik Hawks. I joined the Navy out of high school, became a SEAL and deployed overseas. I competed on the US Navy Pentathlon team at Worlds and placed 5th in both swims. Later I taught swimming at BUD/S, made the open water test harder and raised the pass rate about 20% at the same time.

Red Bull brought me in to talk about assessment and selection, and that turned into building stress inoculation camps for their athletes. I’ve run this stuff with 8 year olds at summer camp, D1 soccer players and some of the most extreme performers in the world.

Not all tools in this course were invented by me. I’ve developed some and gathered others from experts and giants in the field as I learned and practiced. My job is to pass them on in a way you’ll actually use.

Questions

How do I get it?

Put in your first name and email, pay $49 on Stripe’s secure page (card, Apple Pay or Google Pay), and the PDF is in your inbox within a minute, attached to the email. Download buttons are on the very next screen too.

Is it a PDF, videos, or a live course?

A PDF, 41 pages, letter size. You get a color version for screens and a black and white version for printing. No videos, no logins, no app.

Should I print it?

Yes if you can. At least print the workbook, single-sided, and write in it. Page 2 of the PDF tells you exactly which pages to print for course only, workbook only or both.

What if what I’m dealing with can’t be fixed?

The course splits stressors into solvable and unsolvable from the first page and treats them differently.

What’s the refund policy?

30 days, no questions asked. Reply to any email from me and say “refund.” Full details at /refunds.

I lost the link.

Go to /course-access, put in the email you bought with, and I’ll send the links again.

We’re here to win, not to quit.

Start the 7 day reset

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