Category: Life

The Untold Story of Walt Bond’s Baseball and Life Journey

If you haven’t noticed, I am a numbers guy. And I love baseball. I love the history, the backstories, and the struggles to reach the majors. I love the game. And I really love stats. As a kid, I slept with the National League Green Book. That was […]

Free Fall

I don’t think that makes me weak. I think it makes me human.

There Is No Gene for the Human Spirit

There is no gene for the human spirit.

Be Grateful for the Opportunity to Solve One’s Problems

The most important thing one can do before one’s feet hit the floor each day is to be grateful for the opportunity to solve one’s problems – And the realization that there will be more problems to solve tomorrow. And to find happiness within this.

When Circumstances Suddenly Change

When you’re winning, everything seems to go right.
When everything goes wrong, you fight.

Life on Earth

Maybe there are people on this earth who are undercover.
People who have been sent by a higher power.
People whose lives intertwine with ours for a brief time.
People who are sent into our lives at the exact moment we need them.

Today is my Birthday, but it is not the Day I Became Alive

Although I would do anything to change the circumstances that made me a member, I would never renounce my membership.

The Greatest Day of Your Life

Whatever day that may be in your life, will you know it at the time?

Check In on Your Athlete’s Mental State

Today, ask your wrestler how they are doing mentally, no matter how great they seem they be doing physically. Sometimes, superhuman athletes are far superior at being athletes than they are at being humans.

Change One Word and Change Your Life.

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Finding Belief Through Adversity: Insights from Ernie Johnson

A little more than a month ago life had finally kicked my ass.

A Letter to My Ten-Year-Younger Self

Every life has a “Before and After” line in it, where your life has been one thing up until you reach a specific event and it suddenly then becomes something totally different.
You are approaching your line today,

I Became a Wrestler, by LTC Matt Weingast

Perhaps the biggest pride I take in having wrestled is that I introduced the sport to my son.