I always knew that I would write, I just had no idea how personal my first book, "6 Minutes Wrestling with Life", would be to me.
I love to inspire, motivate and show a different approach to dealing with or solving life's problems through my writing.
As a former athlete and current coach, I believe that in sports there are valuable life lessons that can have a tremendous impact on a young athletes life.
I pull these life lessons out from my own experiences in sport.
Hopefully I have touched you through my writing and have stirred your emotions enough to live life more fully.
Impossible odds Set the stage For amazing miracles. Jentezen Franklin Never let the odds be a deterrent to the achievement of your dream. As the odds are just other people’s success rate at what you are looking to accomplish yourself. They are not your odds. Understand many others […]
Is “your dream” more important to someone else than it is to you?
If it is, I hate to tell you it is not your dream.
It is theirs.
If you want to emulate a successful wrestler, emulate the fact that they used their body type to their maximum advantage and developed a style that was unique to their own.
Do the same.
The most important people in your life are the people who believe in you before confirmation of their intuition.
The power of the magic begins with the audacity to believe you can and will accomplish your biggest dream.
Your lifestyle must protect the three most valuable areas in your life; your mind, your body, and your spirit.
I was extremely fortunate on that dreaded day. Evil plowed into so many lives on a day the sky was so blue. I vividly remember the beauty of the sky on that day. I also remember asking myself a few minutes later: “Why does God let bad things […]
A Wrestling Life.
An Academic Life.
A Social Life.
As a wrestler, you get to choose 2 of the 3.
You can choose any 2, but never 3.
Like every coach, parent or any other person who has ever attempted to shake some sense into the wrestler during a semi-slide knows, witnessing a semi-slide is one of the most helpless feelings one could ever experience in the sport.
John, I’m watching you about to sit down on that couch, this is hard. Even for me and I’ve been through it. That foreboding feeling which has been gnawing at your soul for some time now is actually my indecisiveness of whether I should tell you, or not. […]
