Dream Big Dreams
The power of the magic begins with the audacity to believe you can and will accomplish your biggest dream.
JohnA Passaro
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.
Don’t Beat Yourself
Your lifestyle must protect the three most valuable areas in your life; your mind, your body, and your spirit.
September 12th
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 […]
Prioritize or Agonize
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.
Don’t Let One Loss Beat You Twice
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.
A Letter to My Ten Year Younger Self
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. […]
Arete
Arete It is about looking into your own soul and not only discovering what it is that can make you great, but also identifying the source of that greatness and activating it every single day of your life. It’s the well you draw from when there is no […]
Faith
What is faith, though, if not exercised during times of impossibility. Nancy Stephan The Truth About Butterflies
Your Confidence Will Be In Direct Proportion To Your Preparedness
Wrestling Rules for Life Rule #27 Your Confidence Will Be In Direct Proportion To Your Preparedness Every position is my best position. Kyle Dake Confidence is belief in oneself. Belief in oneself comes from knowing. Knowing comes from being prepared. Preparation comes from putting in the work, doing […]
Be the Guy Who Sets the Bar
Decide not to be a product of your environment, commit to having your environment to be a product of you.
