Posted: April 5, 2022
Photo by Husna Miskandar on Unsplash “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama XIV Do a search right now on Amazon books on the topic of “Happiness” and you will be returned page after page of titles, all claiming to have the secret to finding it. Why […]
Posted: January 18, 2022
*I wrote this post a few years ago, and ugh, sadly it seems like I just wrote it today. We will forever have “Blue Mondays”. Read on…. And I still find it so hard To say what I need to say But I’m quite sure that you’ll tell me Just how I should feel today” From […]
Posted: November 16, 2021
“Will I end the semester? Or will the semester end me? Stay tuned.” ~ Rahib Ali Mazari After a long, long school year, the semester is finally drawing to a close. While this should spell good news, most students are really just hanging on by a thread. For many student-athletes, the constant struggle to keep […]
Posted: October 11, 2021
“Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” ~ Jana Kingsford Being a student-athlete is challenging in so many ways. Not only are you expected to excel in your sport, but you also have to do well in the classroom. It’s even more difficult if you have to maintain a specific […]
Posted: October 4, 2021
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw In athletics, (as in life) one thing is predictable. Athletes peak performance is at a certain age, (depending upon the sport), and then performance starts to decline. There’s a particular period we can refer to […]
Posted: August 23, 2021
“Acknowledging the good you already have in life is the foundation for all abundance.” -Eckhart Tolle The rigorous and challenging process that elite athletes go through during training is very trying. For many of them, it’s something they have done from very early on in their lives, so much so that it’s become second nature […]