Some people in your life have never seen you at full capacity. They met you in a hard season, a transitional moment, a version of you still being built. Don’t let their limited experience of you become your ceiling. You are more than the chapter they witnessed.
The bounceback isn’t free, bro. It costs pain, sweat, blood, isolation, discipline. When you rise, guard it like your life depends on it. You didn’t climb just to fall.
I just love seeing people put the work in for years and finally have their moment. Everything is so fast paced now, and no one wants to wait for their dreams to come together, but meaningful work is supposed to take time.
Adulthood humbles you. It’ll turn you into a prayer warrior without you even noticing. As you grow, you start to understand that nothing in this life works without God!!
What a privilege it is to be able to walk.
What a privilege it is to be able to work out.
What a privilege it is to be able to eat.
What a privilege it is to grow.
Dear Lord, I'm grateful.
I was cooking dinner and the saying, “Heavy is the head that wears the crown,” came to me. It reminded me of the Bible verse, “To whom much is given, much is required.” It may feel heavy at times, but you were called for whatever it is God is calling you to do. You got this.
MENS MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS:
Legendary #Seahawks WR Doug Baldwin has talked about struggling with mental health post-playing career and the serious effects it caused to his family 💔
“I would say that I was clinically depressed for at least eight months. I’m tired. My first daughter, my whole world has shifted and changed in the blink of an eye, and I did not really have prior examples of discipline in my life on how to manage and deal with this properly. Even the guys who have retired before me. They all struggled, and I couldn't lean on them because I knew a struggle was coming. You can’t really plan for that. Eight months of pure hell.”
“I remember one day, and I was sitting down in the chair, and my wife was on the floor playing with our daughter, and I started crying. My wife was like: “Are you alright? What is wrong?” And I said: “I don’t know.” That was when I got my third counselor.”
“I can route you up and catch this ball, turn around and talk sh*t to you, and I am in control of that. That’s a really powerful feeling. When you don’t have that, you know? I am lost. I am completely and utterly lost. I don’t know which way is up, and I've got this baby in front of me, my wife, this house, and I’m 30 years old. I gotta figure this out. It was rough. It had a significant impact on my family.”
This is sadly something that many athletes go through 🙏🙏🙏