You Have Value
Important Jumps You have the courage to commit to your vision and your dreams, but we all have things we need to clear, and areas we must hurdle in front of us. This is where my passion lies in getting people to make those courageously important jumps in their lives. You have value! Your vision has value and what you desire to do and the outcome that you are pushing yourself towards has great...
Finding Focus
Attention What are the rituals you have in place to create a rhythm that will create a strong foundation for your New Normal? How will you use your trials to elevate your own existence? Attention is the currency of performance. Sometimes we must unlearn to learn. What is your mindsight and how will you get there? Is there a pathway? I believe resilience comes from the times we look back at...
Always Follow Your Path
Throwback Thursday Memory! I used to get teased by some jocks in high school for singing in high school choirs. Some years later I was invited to sing the National Anthem at Double Day Field at MLB All-Star Game. Ken Griffey Jr. came up afterward and said, “great job,” and took a photo with me. Always follow your path. Other people’s opinion of you is none of your business. -JR #dream...
Olympic Model
Best Efforts Can we be satisfied knowing we have given our best efforts? Everyone is going to try and win. But is there something we have learned to earn the top spot the next time around? In my business and personal philosophy, I often come around to the Olympic model of, Citius, Altius, Fortius: swifter, higher, stronger because these words are written in the superlative of the word. They...
Thought Leaders
Many of you are committed to elevating your own existence. You are consistently or trying to consistently create a rhythm that leads to a rise to committing to a courageous life, to carving out a space and life for a New Normal Mindset. This is not a journey for the weak or one you can go alone. When you think about your circumstances or moments of trials, or your reckoning moments and see the...
Courageous Acts
Only you can make the jumps in your life. You have made courageous acts throughout your life. You may not have noticed some of these courageous acts as they have been in the micro space. You cannot argue against the practical application of lived experience because it is yours. I encourage you to keep doing the work and recognize the wins along the way. It comes to the point when our truth...
Echo Moments: Forging a New Normal
Many of us are seeing who we are without the noise. We have shifted. We have etched new paths for our success through creating space for grace, mindset shifts, and allowing our reckoning moments to lead our transformation to a new normal. We have embraced the process of what we are going through. My hope is our old mindsets have changed so much that we realize our lives are worth much more...
We Earn What We Earn
There is a famous 30-second Nike commercial featuring the great WNBA player, Lisa Leslie, titled, “You don’t win silver, you lose the gold”. When I first saw this commercial I was like, “Yeah!” But, then after I won the silver medal in Sydney, Australia in the Long Jump at the Paralympic Games, I was a bit more reserved in my enthusiasm about the commercial. I realized that I put a...
