Day 5: Inky Johnson: Shift Your Perspective ... Courage Is the Commitment to Being, Without Any Guarantee of Success

Ok. I admit it. I do not know a thing about Football. But I feel that there are some great athletes out there that regardless of what life has thrown them, they are our great examples on how to proceed in life, work, relationships.

I came across this interview with Inky Johnson. For those that don’t know him, weeks away from the possibility of a major NFL draft, his hopes of taking care of his family for life were dashed in a freak accident in the last minutes in a game which led him to an emergency room fighting for his life.

When he woke up he and was given the news … that he would never play again, his story could have ended there. It doesn’t. I’m awed how and re-watch to summon his drive.

Watch below to hear the story from him. The more you get to know him via his stories you understand the underlying drive. He truly leads by example: how to show up in life, how belief in the unknown can lead you eventually to where you are supposed to be, and how to build character and happiness in the midst of challenges. It’s a choice.

He is the real deal. And if you have some time, get to know him and his words and perspective and adding value to the life of others.

“SEE SOMETHING, BELIEVE IN IT AND GO GET IT!!!!!!!! ”
— Inky Johnson

Quotes by Inky Johnson

“Press through the struggles and appreciate what they, too, have to contribute to who you become.”
— Inky Johnson
“Show up. Don’t quit. Live it. Don’t quit. Appreciate it. Don’t quit.”
— inky Johnson

More About Inky Johnson

Bio: “Motivation” is often nothing more than forcing people to do something they don’t really want to do. In contrast, inspiration affects people from within, giving them the ability to accomplish what would otherwise be impossible. Through his walk and his talk, Inky embodies and imparts a truly inspirational message.

Not that Inky’s injury turned him into an inspiration. It just showed the world the inspirational life he’s been living all along. Executives, sports teams, church members, and young people all benefit from the raw energy of his charismatic speaking. Whether the topic is leadership, teamwork, or perseverance, Inky inspires his audiences to embrace the challenges of life. (Via: inkyjohnson.com )

Website: inkyjohnson.com

Day 4: "If you don't take care of what's going on the subconscious … you're going to be the greatest version of your limited self." ― Peter Crone

Day 4: Peter Crone: These are all my gifts to people . . . to remove what's in the way of them being exposed as our inherent nature. And that's a powerful things people understand.

Peter Crone could have had a history that would have given him many reasons to not do anything with his life and just give up. How he proceeded in life however is what is amazing and attainable in our own lives if we so choose it. I came across him when I needed to hear that. It has been hard to acknowledge that for decades I lived in a prison in my own mind and its a daily battle to wake up and realize YOU deserve what is best for you. Mr. Peter Crone speaks lovely about living in a prison and opening a window to freedom. “Do we inherently allow ourselves to be free?”

“Life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal where you're not free meaning if you get triggered by anything and triggered All I'm saying is you get upset you get pissed off you get scared wherever there's some kind of emotional response to external stimulus person or event that is showing where you're not okay with the situation. I'm not okay with the situation means I'm scared at some level I feel threatened. When you're not threatened you're a piece and that's so freedom and peace and vitality. These are all my gifts to people not because I have them to give If I would never have that audacity, but I do have the gift to remove what's in the way of them being exposed as our inherent nature. 

And that's a powerful things people understand, I make the distinction between that which is inherent versus that which is inherited. So the codes the programs I was talking about in the subconscious and then all the behavior adaptations there on top of the freedom that already exists, which is your birthright. I'm revealing that and to me, there is no greater gift to a human being can experience.”  -Peter Crone

WATCH HOW TO CREATE THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE

One of my favorite podcasts is of the interchange with Dr Chatterjee, Architect of your Health discussing “Creating The Life You Were Born to Live” with the Mind Architect, Peter Crone.

If you don't take care of what's going on the subconscious of people's minds, at best the term I use is you're going to be the the greatest version of your limited self. If you really get that statement it's very profound right so you you're stuck within the parameters of your blind spots, right these beliefs of inadequacy and security and scarcity which to me a universal their prime or they're very deep, then we develop survival mechanisms. Adaptations compensate And then on top of that our physiology is going to just by natural cascade reflect whatever's going on internally, which is as you know, as a doctor, usually a mild state of fight or flight, sympathetic nervous system, cortisol, adrenaline, noradrenaline, that whole storm of hormones that really is doing us a disservice. It's affecting people sleep and weight gain, all of the things that people are dealing symptomatically on the surface, to me are a byproduct of the fact that human beings currently are designed to survive. Everything is a potential perceived threat, whether it's being what your boss is going to say, or your spouse is going to say, well, your parents are going to say, or am I going to be able to pay rent? Or am I going to be okay in the future? Am I going to realize my dreams? Am I ever going to quit smoking? Am I going to lose weight? All of these sort of unanswerable questions inspire this internal sort of fight and battle that people have. That to me is the disease the absence of ease that then manifests over time into some physical symptoms. So that's why I get super passionate about this because you can do all the work externally . .  if you don't address what's going on mentally and emotionally for somebody, at best, you're just making the window dressing look good, while the back of the shop is just on fire.” -Peter Crone

Peter Crone’s Favorite Quotes

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
““Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.” ”
— Wayne Dyer

More About Peter Crone

Bio: The Mind Architect Peter Crone is a writer, speaker and thought leader in human potential who works with world-class entertainers, professional athletes, and global organizations. Peter redesigns the subconscious mind that drives behavior to inspire a new way of living, from limitation and stress to freedom and joy. (Via: petercrone.com) 

Website: https://www.petercrone.com
Instagram - @petercroneofficial

Day 3: “Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Day 3: Just Jump as a Wolf, Read Any Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

She is a storyteller. She wrote everyday for her work to be found and be found. I love how she takes the oral tradition into the written word and reminds us not to lose our child-selves. She is a great example of continuing your work, telling your stories, inspiring others and finding awe. Everyone on this earth has a destiny - as long as you are moving onward, “my time of being spellbound by rocks on the road is now done” and i choose to move forward.

“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.”

 Dr. C.P. Estés' is a lifelong activist in service of the voiceless; as a post-trauma recovery specialist and psychoanalyst of 48 years clinical practice with the persons traumatized by war, exiles and torture victims; and as a journalist covering stories of human suffering and hope.

 She is Mestiza Latina [Native American/ Mexica Spanish], presently in her seventies. She grew up in the now vanished oral tradition of her war-torn immigrant, refugee families who could not read nor write, or did so haltingly, and for whom English was their third language overlying their ancient natal languages. 

I’ll just let her quotes speak for themselves, possibly one speaks to you. And if you want to learn more read: “ Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype”

““The best land to plant and grow something new again is rock bottom. In that sense, hitting rock bottom, although extremely painful, is also the ground to sow new life on.””
“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
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“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.”
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Day 2: Any Shaking of Your Beautiful Hips with Shakira and J.Lo

DAY 2: ANY SHAKING OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL HIPS WITH SHAKIRA AND J.LO (Medley of Songs) + WATCH a Video of J.Lo Dealing with Self-Worth

Today let us just feel the greatness of 2 women taking over this mega stage of the Super Bowl halftime.
2 women over their 40s. Well actually … J.Lo is 50!

2 diverse women.

2 women coming together to bring a message, some thoughts about womanhood, about our country, a multigenerational call to all women that NOW IS OUR TIME.

… and lets just have some joy and shake our beautiful hips.

Shakira and J.Lo's setlist

What is your favorite song?

Set I - Shakira

  • She Wolf

  • Empire

  • Kashmir (Led Zeppelin cover)

  • Ojos así

  • Whenever, Wherever

  • I Like It (Cardi B cover, with Bad Bunny)

  • Chantaje (with Bad Bunny)

  • Callalita (with Bad Bunny)

  • Hips Don't Lie

Set II - Jennifer Lopez

  • Jenny From the Block

  • I'm Real

  • Get Right

  • Waiting For Tonight

  • Booty

  • Love Don't Cost A Thing (with J Balvin)

  • Que Calor / Mi Gente (with J Balvin)

  • On the Floor

  • Let's Get Loud (with Emme)

  • Born in the USA

Finale - Shakira and Jennifer Lopez

  • Waka Waka

 
“…I’m going to keep going. And I did. And that’s all I did. I just kept going. And I just started working harder and harder than everybody else. And I saw that I was working harder than everybody else, and, and I started paying off. But more than that, I started believing in myself, I started believing in the fact that I wasn’t imposter that I wasn’t a fake, that there was a reason, I kept doing this and people kept hiring me it was like okay, I’m good at this. It took time. And it took me to believe in myself. Maybe that was happening because deep down I didn’t believe. 

But once I started believing. And it was different people in my life, different times were like you are good at….. And it’s moments that that you remember that people just a plant a seed for you to look at yourself in a better way. And it’s those moments that just make you keep going. ~ J.Lo.”

… and today I fell upon this video posted by @ArianaHuff talking about what we go through every day: testing our belief in ourselves, because deep down we don’t believe in ourselves.

And how we need people in our lives to help us dig deep. We can’t all do it alone. We have to find the strength but we need to remember to plant a seed for others. [Updated]

…I'm going to keep going. And I did. And that's all I did. I just kept going. And I just started working harder and harder than everybody else. And I saw that I was working harder than everybody else, and, and I started paying off. But more than that, I started believing in myself, I started believing in the fact that I wasn't imposter that I wasn't a fake, that there was a reason, I kept doing this and people kept hiring me it was like okay, I'm good at this. It took time. And it took me to believe in myself. Maybe that was happening because deep down I didn't believe. 

But once I started believing. And it was different people in my life, different times were like you are good at….. And it's moments that that you remember that people just a plant a seed for you to look at yourself in a better way. And it's those moments that just make you keep going.

Day 1: The Genesis of 1 In 400 Trillion. Thanks to many, but first thanks to helping getting unstuck with Mel Robbins, and to Jeremy Warmsley for a special song called Moments.

DAy 1: The Genesis
Mel Robbins, How to Stop Screwing Yourself 

This is where the genesis of 1in400trillion.com was born!

Most times i love silence. But most times i like music in the background. This song is my go to. I think its special. I hope you find something special in it too.

Day 1: Song
Moment by Jeremy Warmsley

Moment, enshrined
Always, always
Truth speaks, no rust
No fade - no dust

Your sense, hintness
Adieu my blood!
Freedom flowing
Your strength - journey

(The vessel
Was broken)

The sea withdrew,
The gallows blue.
The crescent moon,
Her distant bloom
A single star
From nature's heart,
And sundown rest,
A sparrow's nest.

An orchid pose...

Songwriters: Jeremy Warmsley