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Forge. Evolve. Overcome.: Nine Pillars of Mental Toughness
When life puts you under pressure, what keeps you moving? Mental toughness isn’t something you’re born with. It’s a skill, built through deliberate, consistent practice.
In Forge. Evolve. Nine Pillars of Mental Toughness, Phil Kornachuk gives you a field-tested framework for building resilience, acting with purpose, and performing when it matters. A retired U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel with 22 years of service and 12 deployments, Kornachuk is also an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University. He has spent a decade coaching business executives, athletes, first responders, and non-profit leaders around the world. This book is where combat-tested experience meets research and real-world coaching practice.
Through personal stories, research, and practical exercises, Kornachuk breaks mental toughness into nine interconnected Purpose, Values, Habits, Mindset, Team, Physiology, Adversity, Rest, and System. Together, they give you a framework for the challenges you face in business, sports, relationships, and everyday life.
Inside, you’ll learn how Clarify your purpose and let your values drive hard decisions. Build daily habits that strengthen discipline and consistency. Shift your focus from problems to actionable solutions. Use your body, your relationships, and your recovery to fuel performance. Turn adversity into learning and growth. Build a personal mental toughness playbook you can put to work immediately.
With a foreword by performance coach Dr. Jason Selk, this book takes lessons proven in the most demanding environments and puts them to work on the challenges in front of you today. Applied Practice sections turn each pillar into concrete action, one deliberate step at a time.
Whether you’re leading a team, building a business, chasing an athletic goal, or finding your footing in a hard season, Forge. Evolve. Overcome. gives you the tools to respond with clarity, resilience, and resolve.
Learn. Apply. Grow.
In Forge. Evolve. Nine Pillars of Mental Toughness, Phil Kornachuk gives you a field-tested framework for building resilience, acting with purpose, and performing when it matters. A retired U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel with 22 years of service and 12 deployments, Kornachuk is also an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University. He has spent a decade coaching business executives, athletes, first responders, and non-profit leaders around the world. This book is where combat-tested experience meets research and real-world coaching practice.
Through personal stories, research, and practical exercises, Kornachuk breaks mental toughness into nine interconnected Purpose, Values, Habits, Mindset, Team, Physiology, Adversity, Rest, and System. Together, they give you a framework for the challenges you face in business, sports, relationships, and everyday life.
Inside, you’ll learn how Clarify your purpose and let your values drive hard decisions. Build daily habits that strengthen discipline and consistency. Shift your focus from problems to actionable solutions. Use your body, your relationships, and your recovery to fuel performance. Turn adversity into learning and growth. Build a personal mental toughness playbook you can put to work immediately.
With a foreword by performance coach Dr. Jason Selk, this book takes lessons proven in the most demanding environments and puts them to work on the challenges in front of you today. Applied Practice sections turn each pillar into concrete action, one deliberate step at a time.
Whether you’re leading a team, building a business, chasing an athletic goal, or finding your footing in a hard season, Forge. Evolve. Overcome. gives you the tools to respond with clarity, resilience, and resolve.
Learn. Apply. Grow.
172 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 14, 2026
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