Be Yourself
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.
Dream Big Dreams
The power of the magic begins with the audacity to believe you can and will accomplish your biggest dream.
Don’t Beat Yourself
Your lifestyle must protect the three most valuable areas in your life; your mind, your body, and your spirit.
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 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 other […]
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.
99% Effort Is Not Enough
One of the greatest lessons I have learned from the sport of wrestling is that the outcome isn’t the goal.
Your output is.
You can’t control the outcome.
You can control your output.
Bye, Bye …
As much as I don’t want it to be, we both understand that this may be your last Mother’s Day in your physical body.
