definingmoment

Have you ever made a decision and then later thought... What on earth was I thinking?

 

Been there.

 

In this message, Pastoral Associate Brittany Feldott explores how to avoid those embarrassing (and sometimes destructive) moments of regret. In Proverbs, we find three key questions that help us cut through the fog, make better decisions, and ultimately build a beautiful life.

 

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John Register joins Pro Mindset host Craig Domann as he continues his story beginning with the defining decision of his life which was to amputate his leg or not. John shares that the decided to amputate his leg because the pain was too unbearable, and he believed amputation would alleviate the pain. He stated he did not realize that the pain would not go away and that he would endure the additional agony of phantom pain.

John’s decision to amputate his leg also was a decision to save his life and begin anew. John adapted to his new normal and went back to what he knew best which was competition. He competed in the 1996 Paralympics in swimming which was a key component of his physical therapy. He also earned a Silver Medal in the 2000 Paralympics in track and field.

John shares his belief that inspiration is the catalyst to motivation, motivation in turn causes actions, actions then lead us to transformational results. Those results inspire us, and they allow someone else watching to catch the vision.

He states his belief that we all are an inspiration to someone. Whatever part or stage of life that you're in right now, you are inspiring somebody. Somebody is watching your actions, your motivation, the words that you are saying and communicating and somebody is aligning with your actions because they have caught your vision and want to align with you and follow you to the degree that your actions and words are in congruence.

John loves COURAGE! He says that having courage doesn’t mean that fear is not there. Instead, courage is when you act despite fear being there. Courage is acting on the hope that life on the other side of fear is greater than the fear you may feel in the moment.

The unintended consequences of his leg amputation are the positive impacts he has made on other people’s lives. Just like Dolphins in the water who use sonar waves of echoes to locate and to know where they are in the water because the signals they send out bounce or come back to them. John resonates with this analogy as he has found the same thing with people he has shared his story with.

John also discusses the following topics:
•What does “New Normal” mean?
•His son taught him that it wasn't about the race but instead it was about the relationship
•Redefining Moments - There's no book that tells you how to jump

Olympic hopeful and track star, John Register joins Pro Mindset® host Craig Domann as he shares his story beginning in high school athletics, running track at the Univ of Arkansas and his journey chasing his vision of competing in the hurdles in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. After college, John joined the US Army’s world-class Olympic program that allowed athletes to train up to three years before the Olympic Games, so that he could get compensated to train as a member of the US Army.

The Gulf War interrupted his training plan as he was deployed overseas. When he returned to the US, he was too out-of-shape to compete in the 110-meter hurdles, so he experimented with the 400-meter hurdles. His time for his first race was only two seconds off the world’s best. At this moment he caught the vision of competing in the 1996 Olympics and standing on the medal podium in Atlanta.

On a very windy day in Hays, Kansas, he was competing in a track meet leading up to the Olympic Trials and during his race he was injured attempting to clear the 3rd hurdle. This injury was not only a career-ender but also lead to the defining moment in his life. The doctors assessed his condition and gave John a simple but unimaginable choice, and the most difficult decision in his life to that moment. The doctor’s options were (a) amputate his leg and he would have to use a prosthesis for the rest of his life or (b) keep his leg and he would be relegated to a wheelchair or walker the rest of his life. This was a “rest of his life” decision.

John also discusses the following topics:
•How your vision for your life is yours and don’t expect others to catch it
•How it’s impossible to measure elite athletes from different eras and therefore it is unfair and unrealistic to compare Usain Bolt and Jesse Owens, or Michael Jordan and Lebron James
•How he wants to have control of his life and not have other people’s decisions control his life
•His experience competing for the University of Arkansas powerhouse track team in their heyday
•What does “new normal” mean?

Now that you are thinking about John and his decision, take a minute to look at your life and what is holding you back, what is dead weight in your life, and/or who or what relationship is keeping you from growing, elevating, graduating into your best self?

John’s decision and the impact of his decision on his life and other people’s lives will be discussed in the next episode of Pro Mindset.