Why “Tips and Tricks” Don’t Work: Coping with Performance Anxiety Part Two
I get it. Sometime you're in a pinch and you just want a quick fix! I feel the same, believe me. However, here's the annoying part: if we want lasting effects, we need to make significant change. Ugh, how demanding. But this is how life works. The simple and easy path rarely leads to deep, enduring results. I guess it's life's way of making sure...
My Performance Anxiety: Where it all started, unhelpful coping mechanisms, and flashbacks
This week's video was a therapy session in and of itself! There's just something about actually verbalizing past events that really brings the lesson home. I share a bit about my first experience with performance anxiety and how I've had to deal with it throughout my career as a professional basketball—from the Olympics to overseas life, it has...
The Struggle Surprise: Why we should be just a little more pessimistic (Read: Realistic)
A lot of life stirs up uncomfortable emotions. It’s an unfortunate truism. We like to think that life is meant to be solely pleasant. It’s not. There are wonderful moments of beauty and awe and joy and love, but there are moments of pain and sadness and anger and ugliness. Life is full of both kinds of experiences and the existence of one...
The Feeling of Failure
We all struggle with the feeling of failure from time to time, but we don't often talk about it. It can be especially smothering when it starts to become part of your identity—your past mistakes start affecting your present decisions and reactions. The first step in creating a more peaceful, intentional life is acknowledging that emotional state!...
Asking Why: How one, simple word can help you fail better
If you’re a parent, you’re familiar with this ubiquitous word in children’s lexicons. It seems to make an appearance every other sentence: Adult: “We need to put this bottle in the recycling bin.” Child: “Why?” Adult: “Because we want to help the environment.” Child: “Why?” Adult: “Because we need the environment in order to live.” Child: “Why?”...
My Failure Scripts…Setting Myself Up to Fail
We all do this: behaving or reacting in a way that we KNOW set us up to fail. And since learning to fail better is essential to growth and success, in this video I share two of my personal failure scripts.
Capital “F” Failure: Why the small stuff matters
How we deal with the small stuff matters. It may seem trivial, but our body and mind often reacts to our missteps like they’re capital “F” failures while we ascribe a lowercase “s” to our success. More importantly, we brush aside failures like they're not meant to be there, like we're aiming for a 100% failure-free life. What does that even look...
owning your success
Why are there so many definitions of success and how can you define yours? Let's start by taking a look at what we find valuable.
Resilience Testing: How a software test can make you more comfortable with failure
Resilience testing is a type of software testing that observes how applications act under stress. It’s meant to ensure the product’s ability to perform in chaotic conditions without a loss of core functions or data; it ensures a quick recovery after unforeseen, uncontrollable events. Interestingly enough, the "chaotic conditions" tested are less...
Envisioning Your Ideal Self: Tapping into your inner badass
What kind of expectations do you have for your life? Put aside the goals and results and achievements for a moment…What do you want your life to look and feel like in 10, 20, 50 years? While we can’t control exactly what will happen, we can control the general direction we’re going and what type of person we want to be in that eventuality. “If...
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I'm a 2x Olympian passionate about turning our flaws and failures into powerful opportunities for growth.
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