The Bed Head Chronicles

 Seeing that we're at the beginning of 2021, I want to talk about manifesting our greatest desires. Now in life, we all have goals, things that we dream of accomplishing. Now that could be like for me in my younger years, wanting to become so good at the sport of triathlon that I could win a world championship.

And I manifested that with all my heart. And more recently, when I got diagnosed with AML, I wanted to manifest getting healthy, surviving and thriving on the other side. Whatever it is you want to manifest in your life. It could maybe be the perfect relationship or building a business or being a part of something amazing. Making money.

Here's the thing, when you want to manifest these desires, you have to come at it with amazing energy, good energy, powerful energy. If you're coming from a place of fear or scarcity or worry like I have to get this job because I need to make enough money to survive. That's coming from a place of fear and worry.

But if you look at it, I want this job because it's going to challenge me. I'm going to grow. I'm going to be able to use my talents and abilities. I'm going to touch lives. I'm going to make a difference in this world. That's coming from a much more positive place that has more of a whole energy.

In order to manifest your greatest desires, you've got to bring great energy to the manifestation process.

How do we get good energy? Well, we can connect to why this matters to us. Why do you want to find that perfect relationship or manifest that perfect relationship? Because you have so much love to give so much energy to share.

You want to share adventures. That's a positive high energy state that you're bringing to the manifestation process. So try to get out of the scarcity mindset. Try to get out of a fearful mindset and instead think about what you want to create in your life and bring to that, incredible good energy and the energy that empowers you and serves you because the universe will match your energy.

When I was trying to heal, I wasn't thinking about I have to survive. I have to survive. I was thinking I want to survive. I've got so much loving to do. I have so much to give to the people around me and to the world around me. I have so much to learn, so much to share, so much work to do in this world. And that was coming from this energy of I want to live life.

So, as you try to manifest, and remember, we don't just sit here and say, okay, I'm going to manifest. I'm going to manifest wealth in my life and sit and wait for it. You've got to go out and take action, but you've taken action with an energetic, positive mindset, with an energy of why this matters to you, how it's going to not only change your life but the people around you and the world around you. Bring that good energy into manifesting your greatest desires.

And I know that you will be able to create anything and everything that you dream of. When I was training for triathlon, and remember, I sucked when I started. But I wanted this so bad and the only time I fell off the tracks on my way to becoming a world champion, is when I lost touch with the real reason why I was doing this. In the beginning, I remembered I was just so passionate about wanting to become proficient.

In this sport that inspired me. In this sport that was so challenging and beautiful, and how people found themselves through the process. And I just love challenging myself every day and learning more and more about myself and learning how to overcome obstacles and I embraced that.

But somewhere along the line, I started thinking that making the Olympics was the be all end all and I had to get sponsors and I had to make money and I lost touch with what really mattered to me. I started having some real big obstacles when that happened. But when I reconnected to why this mattered to me that I loved this sport, I was passionate about finding myself and discovering what I was made of.

I started winning and I started achieving and I started making such incredible progress. So bring great energy to manifesting your desires. Believe in you. And most importantly, know that you deserve it. You deserve to manifest your greatest desires. You deserve to live the life that you dream of.

You deserve it.

So give yourself permission to receive what you so dream of creating so everybody manifests your greatest desires in 2021. I know you can. Anything and everything is possible. Bring great energy to it. Know that you're worthy, feel that and have the universe match your amazing energy and see everything that you dream of start coming into your life, but you have to work for it.

Remember. It takes energy. It takes effort and it takes always staying connected to what your deep emotional reason why you want to make this happen.
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Today, I want to talk about linking our every thought, to our purpose in life. You may not know what your purpose is in life, but this is something that I encourage you to think about.

What is it that you want to create in this lifetime?

What do you want to feel?

Who do you want to be surrounded by?

What impact do you want to have on the world?

This would be your purpose.

It may be a huge goal that you want to accomplish, that you would do anything in the world to achieve. This is your purpose. When we link our every thought to our purpose, we become so much more powerful, in every moment, every decision we make or every thought we have, we can ask, is this helping me get closer to accomplishing my purpose?

If it's not, don't do it or do less of it, but have your purpose be the centralizer of all your thoughts. And along the way, I mean, I know in my life I failed over and over and over again, before I achieved some of my ultimate dreams. But you don't look upon that as failure because when we fail, that's how we become strong.

That's how we overcome our weaknesses. That's how we learn and that's how we grow. So the ultimate indicator of success when that's happening, when you're on this path of trying to achieve your purpose, but you're failing over and over again. I want you to determine the amount of success you've had by the strength of character that you've developed within yourself.

Because along that journey, when you are failing, you're learning, you're growing and you're becoming even more inspired to make this happen. Ultimately, you are developing a strength of character, which is so incredibly important as far as everything else that you're going to come across in your lifetime.

So rather than waiting. To feel successful, to feel like you've succeed only when you've hit that ultimate target, or you have the exact life that you're dreaming of creating.  Embrace the journey. Be able to recognize the strength of character that you're building throughout every failure, throughout every disappointment and have that fuel you along the way.

When you stay connected to your purpose, to your why, nothing will stop you. Nothing will get in the way no matter how many times you fall down, you will get back up again. You will dust yourself off and you will find another way and you'll make it happen ultimately. But when we fail, that's us overcoming weakness, getting stronger and learning something new.

That's going to lead us to that ultimate victory and accomplishing our purpose. So stay connected. Every thought you have stay connected with your purpose. Every decision you make, stay connected to your purpose, and every step along the way, recognize how you are becoming stronger and better able to take that one step closer to achieving your ultimate dream.

Have an amazing day, everyone.

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I just finished an amazing jog in these beautiful mountains here at Hall Ranch in Longmont, Colorado. My wife came with me for 45 minutes and then she went on and did another 45 minutes. But the whole time, of course I was feeling so deeply grateful and I was thinking about Christmas and the holidays and how it's such an amazing time where we all give one another so much love and kindness, and our presence.

It's such a beautiful time of year. But what I'm thinking is don't save all your love and all your presence for the holidays. They only come around once a year. How about every single day? You show your love. You give a hug. You give your presence.  You give your time and you give your energy and share that love every single day let's make every day, a beautiful holiday to celebrate ourselves, to celebrate one another.

Celebrate this beautiful gift of life and to give love in abundance, to give love with no boundaries, to be kind to the people you love and to perfect strangers, let's extend that kindness and that love every single day of the year, because we know we all need it. We all need that love. We all love it when people are kind to us and it feels so good to be kind to others.

Let's make every day a beautiful holiday of love, gratitude, giving, and grace. 

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 Today, I want to ask you, is there someone in your life that frustrates you, they frustrate you because you are not living in life, the way you feel they should be? They frustrate you because you feel like they're throwing their life away. Now in this situation, you have to understand that you're placing a judgment on that person.

You're assuming that unless they live life the way that you think they should live life, that they're living life wrong. And that's a big mistake. And what usually happens with us when we have someone in our lives like that is that we try to change them. We try to fix them. We try to do something to show them the way and it never works.

And we get frustrated and we get angry and we end up resenting that person. What if the solution was to love that person for exactly who they are? And to not try and change that person, but learn from that person. What is their presence in your life teaching you about you? I know for me, this person has shown me that I am someone that likes to fix things.

I like to fix things, but in that situation, it's not my place to fix. Because in their opinion, there's nothing to be fixed. They are living life in a way that feels right to them. They are living life in a way that feels authentic to them and I have no right to judge that and decide whether it's right or wrong because that's their path, that's their journey.

And so what I realized, going in to just learn from this person, Is that the reason why it upsets me so much is that I want to change it. I want to fix it. I want to make it different, but it's not my place to do so. So if you have someone in your life that you have a situation like this with don't go into change that person.

Learn from them, appreciate them for who they are and the way they want to live their lives. Because maybe for them, they're living the life of their dreams and it's good for them. We all should live the lives of our dreams. Don't go in to judge, go in to appreciate, go in to learn from them.

What are they teaching you about you? And the change comes from within us, removing that judgment, removing that belief that things need to be a certain way for everyone that's in our inner circle. That's just not the way it is. Everyone who comes into our lives is there for a purpose. I believe they are there to teach us things about ourselves, teach us things about life and the world around us.

Trade. As Tony Robbins says, and this applies to just so many things in life, trade your expectation for appreciation and watch your world change in beautiful ways. When I decided to approach this person in my life with love and appreciation and acceptance, and just thinking, what can I learn from the way they live their lives?

It's improved our relationship, monumentally. And has brought both of us so much joy. I hope this helps everyone or at least helps you to look at things a little bit differently. And I think that that will help you a lot. Note, not only in the peace inside of you but peace within that relationship with that other person.   Have an amazing day.

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I want you all to have an amazing week this week, and I'm going to give you one tip on something I do with every single thing in every moment.

And that is using the power of intention.

Before any meeting, I will take 30 seconds and think about how I want it to proceed.

How I want to present. The impact I want to have, the message I want to share. I'm very intentional about every single thing that I do in my life. It starts with literally opening my eyes and feeling grateful. For the gift of being able to see with these two eyes and thinking about the things that I'm grateful for in my life, which puts me in a really great state where my energy is such, that I know I'm going to have a great day.

And then I think about what I want to accomplish on this day, whether I have meetings or athletes that I'm coaching or a project that I'm working on. I decide I'm going to put my heart and soul in to it. I'm going to be fully present in every moment. And when I have time with my wife, I'm gonna be fully present in the moment with her so we can truly experience the richness, the depth of our relationship.

I'm intentional about every single thing that I do throughout the day. I'm not just leaving it up to chance if it's going to be a good day or a bad day. I go in intending to make it a great day, to make it a great week.

I'm gonna show up authentically with all my heart and soul. I'm going to be open. I'm going to be loving. I'm going to be kind. I'm going to give of myself, of my heart, of my soul, of my time, of my talents.

Be intentional about what you want to create in your life on a daily basis. Just using the power of intention is going to see you being so much more effective, so much more authentic and experiencing so much more of the richness of this beautiful life that we are so blessed to live.

So be intentional.

When I talk about presence, that is something that you do need to set up in advance. I am going to be fully present for my work, when I'm working, for my partner, when I'm together with them. For my friends, when I'm together with them. For my family. For my workout. If I'm working out, I'm going to be intentional about what I want to get out of this workout today.

I want it to help strengthen me and help me heal and help energize me and lead me to be even more efficient and effective in my work. Be intentional and be present in everything that you're doing. And I know that you're going to have an amazing day, an amazing week. And if you continue to do this on a daily basis, an amazing life.

Thank you everybody.

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Today, I want to talk about asking for what we need in life and asking for what we want in life. If you're not willing to ask for what you need and what you want, you're never going to get it, unless you just get lucky. So often it's like we sit and we think that the other person or people will know exactly what we need and give it to us.

That is not the case. In life, you have to go after what you need and what you want. As a professional athlete years ago, I used to ask if I had a question about why I was doing something or why wasn't I doing something? I would ask that question so that I would know, am I missing out on something, or am I not doing this for a reason?

Or what can I do? That's gonna make me that much better. And with my athletes, I demand that when they have a question about something that they come to me immediately and ask that question so that I can give them the answer and we can both be that much better and that much more successful. Imagine, if I had an athlete and I gave them a program and they had some kind of a niggly injury that they didn't want to tell me about and they kept training through it and eventually they get injured and they're out for three months.

What if, when they first had that niggle, they came to me and they said, Hey, coach, this is kind of bothering me a little bit. What should I do about it? My answer would be to take two to three days off. Let's do some self-massage. Let's do some kinds of treatments and they'll be back in a week training again, both of us ended up being successful because they can achieve their goals.

And I can achieve mine as a coach if we don't ask for what we need, and that can be in a relationship as well from your partner. If you need something that you're not getting, give them the opportunity to give you what you need by asking for it. Give him that opportunity. No one is a mind reader. We can't guess what any other person wants or needs.

But when you're going after something that matters to you, when you want to achieve something or you want to have a certain amount of love or happiness in your life, you've got to ask for what you want and what you need. Don't wait for things to fall into your lap because they're not going to, you've got to step out, believe that you deserve the answer you deserve to ask for what you need and what you want and go out and get it.

This will accelerate your rise to the top or your rise to achieving whatever goal or dream that you have. And it shows that you've got respect for yourself and respect for the people that you're working with, or that you're in a relationship with. When we ask for what we want and need, we not only give ourselves the opportunity to be the best that we can be, but we allow others.

We give them the gift of being able to share their expertise or be their best selves within that relationship. So guys, step up, step up for yourself, back yourself, believe in you and know that you are worthy of asking for anything and everything that you want and need in this lifetime.

 
Have a great day.

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Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.  Today, I wanna talk about identity. Who we believe we are. Oftentimes our identity is tied to our job. For example, when I was a triathlete, you know, my dream and my goal was to become a world champion triathlete. Now that could have become my identity.

But the fact of matter is that identity is so much more than just what we achieve or what we do in our lives. When I retired from triathlon in 2002, I was number one in the world and people couldn't understand why are you retiring? You're still winning races. You're you're number one. This is crazy. But the thing was that I had found what I was looking for.

I had found my true identity. That comes from within me. And that is the identity that I am someone who can have a dream and will throw my heart and soul and everything I have in to making that dream come true. I am resilient. I am, I am passionate. I could fall down and be disappointed and fail, but I would get back up every single time and do whatever it took to achieve my dream.

I am resilient. I am brave. I am courageous. I am strong. And I love with all my heart and soul. My identity doesn't come from what I do or what I have achieved. My identity is who I am on the inside. I love deeply. I care about others. I not only wanna bring out the best in myself, but I wanna bring out the best in everyone around me.

I want to inspire, I want to empower. I want to. I want to teach. I want to take everything that I've experienced in my life and share that with the world and, and teach through my own experiences and through what I've learned along this amazing path of life. I'm an animal lover. I love my wife. I love my family.

I love my friends deeply, and I love this life. That's my identity. So when you're struggling with your identity, when you're struggling to maybe let go of something that has defined you for most of your life. Remember that that's not who you are. You are so much more than what you do on a daily basis.

Your identity comes from within.  It's how deeply you love, how deeply you care, how much you give to the world around you. Find your identity in those things, because those are the things that really matter. And that is truly who you are. Have an amazing day everybody.

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Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.  Today, I want to talk about celebrating and embracing the journey.  So much of a set goals for ourselves, and it's like, we don't allow ourselves to be happy until we reach the pinnacle until we achieve that goal. And it's so very important in order to maintain momentum, to celebrate each small step along the way.

Even if it's baby steps recognize the progress that you're making recognize the work that you're putting in to make your dream come true, but celebrate every single step forward, celebrate your progress, celebrate each day and where you're at now, because if we're only going to allow ourselves to be happy when we achieve that ultimate goal, we're missing out on so much joy in our lives.

So much richness. And so much celebration. So please celebrate every single step of the way celebrate you appreciate every step forward. Appreciate every lesson learned, even when we're disappointed or we fall short. Celebrate the lesson in that, what you realize, what you need to do better or how you need to change your approach, whatever it is, but appreciate that.

Embrace that as a part of this journey. And then when you do finally achieve that ultimate goal, you will have known that the whole entire process was so enjoyable, so enriching. So please celebrate you in every moment, every step forward, every lesson learned. And when you reach that magical space of achieving your ultimate goal, it will be the most extraordinary feeling in the world. Have an amazing day.

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Welcome to the Bedhead Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about the difference between force and flow, forcing things to happen, or to create things or kind of doing it from a place of flow. When I think about my mission to become a world champion in triathlon, that was very much forced.

Because I was desperate to prove to myself that even as a gay woman, I could achieve something spectacular that I could inspire people that I could make a difference. And I pushed to make a point. I pushed to prove something and that was coming from a place of force and yes, it worked and I had amazing results and I became a world champion.

And that kind of force has definitely led to amazing results in my life. But things don't necessarily have to be done from a place of force. You can achieve just as much, if not more from a place of flow from being pulled to do something, not pushed to do something. The difference is enormous. And what we don't realize is that we don't always have to suffer to create amazing things in our lives.

I have committed myself to the mission of doing everything in my life, from a place of flow, from a place of being pulled to do something from a place of passion and love and commitment and desire and mission, but not to prove something or because I should do something, but I want it to flow.

I want it to come from my heart. I want to be pulled to achieve these things. I wanna be pulled to make these things happen. The difference is enormous and I think one of the key points is to love yourself enough to know that achieving great things or finding greatness in you or greatness in your life doesn't have to come from a place of suffering or force or should.

It can come from a place of love, of commitment, of desire, of passion, wanting to make something happen in your life, to create something beautiful in your life, to express the greatness of the beauty, the strength, the power that is inside of you. I believe that when we're pulled to do things, not only can we achieve that much more.

But what we create is going to be more magnificent than it ever would be coming from a place of pushing or forcing it.

Believe in you.

Believe in the fact that you are more powerful than you could ever imagine.

Believe in your greatness and believe in your worthiness, that yes, you do deserve to achieve and create great things in your life. From a place of passion and love and flow. You don't have to prove anything. Just be you.

 Thank you everyone. And have an amazing day.

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welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about being vulnerable. Being vulnerable is often looked upon as weakness. In my opinion, I believe that being vulnerable is one of the strongest, most powerful things you can do. And being vulnerable, you can often free people, liberate people.

From their fears, from their anxieties, from problems that they're having, because they finally know that they're not alone and that someone else has shared in that experience or shared in those feelings. I remember as a kid, I suffered from extreme anxiety and extreme fear all the time. I was just overcome with these horrible feelings of anxiety and fear, and I developed this extreme case of OCD.

That made me feel like a crazy person and I thought that I was the only person on the planet that felt this way. I thought I was the only person on the planet that had this OCD, these things that I did to try and free myself from these horrible thoughts I was having. In that day, nobody spoke about anxiety. Nobody spoke about fear. Nobody spoke about OCD.

So I felt very alone. I felt afraid and I felt crazy. What I focus on now is when I speak around the world, I talk about how I had that anxiety and fear as a child. I talk about how I had anxiety and fear on my path to becoming a world champion triathlete. I talk about how I still have moments of anxiety and fear.

But I talk about the tools and the strategies and the things I learned to overcome those states to overcome the fear. To get myself out of a cycle of anxiety. So in speaking about what truly made me struggle as a child. Yes, that's being vulnerable. But it's also empowering all those around me and empowering myself to find this great gift in what happened. It led me on a path to where I wanted to discover more about who am I. You know, what makes me tick? What are the things that are holding me back and what are the things that will see me soar in my life?

And in sharing this I'm freeing others. Others that may think they're the only ones that are overcome with anxiety or overcome with fear. Now they know they're not alone. I talked to my athletes often about my failures on my path to become a world champion triathlete. I failed miserably so many times over and over again, but it's through those failures that I learned so much, and that's where I grew the most.

And then sharing that they don't become so afraid of failure. If I didn't share these things, they may think that the first time they failed, they should just give up because that's it, there's no hope. But no, they understand that for someone like me, I failed over and over and over again, before I succeeded and achieved my impossible dream of becoming the best in the world.

They understand that that's a part of the process, but you have to be willing to fail in order to succeed. So when we're vulnerable and when we share our deepest secrets or insights into what has made us who we are. We are empowering so many others around us. We're liberating them. We're freeing them and letting them know that it's okay to be imperfect.

We are all totally imperfect. Life is not a straight line. You are going to be disappointed. You're going to be afraid. You're going to be anxious, but it's how you respond in those moments. And I'm here to share my story, to help them respond in a way that's gonna truly see them thrive and not be paralyzed by their fear or anxiety.

So everyone be vulnerable! and that doesn't just mean in instances like what I'm talking about, it means to be vulnerable in sharing your love. Don't be afraid to love with all your heart. Don't be afraid to be all of who you are. You are spectacular, just the way that you are. Feel confident in that and know that the people that love you are gonna love you for who you are. Be vulnerable. Express yourself. Share yourself with your world.

And you'll find that this absolutely makes your life the masterpiece that it's so meant to be. Thank you.

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