#AMBERED and Thank-You
I sit and try to write this out, with such humble knowledge that I get to continue to Coach because I have a very strong following. I have said it before, without all of you there is no me. The funny thing is, I have tried to coach my entire career in such a way that I could build something bigger than myself. I have always wanted to make a community in which strangers come together and bond. My throwing squad knew that a sense of belonging and a feeling of family was most important to me as their coach. I try to this day, to make sure every single client that comes into contact with me feels valued, heard, and leaves me with a sense of accomplishment. Does this happen all the time for every single one, no. But it makes me better, and pushes me harder to become who I want to be when I coach you.
This whole #AMBERED thing, for lack of a better word, blows my mind and makes me push myself to represent that meaning of that #AMBERED shirt that I see almost everywhere I go now. In that, I asked a couple clients why, why did you buy my shirt? Every single one said because they support me and my dream of helping millions of people become better. Also that it represents a certain pride and feeling of belonging in a group in which everyone knows the pain and struggle it takes to make it through something tough. One friend said that it represents the strength, endurance and accomplishment of breaking through self imposed limits that we all put on ourselves. Someone else texted me from a flight out of spokane telling me that my shirt was on “some big dude” sitting a few rows up, that he was going to now talk to a stranger because he had been #AMBERED. Another told me about seeing my shirt on somebody in the same apartment complex, how she wanted to run out and give a stranger a hug just because she knew what he had accomplished by just seeing #AMBERED.
I realize that I AM slowly building what I have always said I wanted to. A group, a belonging, something way bigger than myself. I want to reach and help and have people believe in their self. I want them to choose to call me their Coach. I have had clients turn into trainers, who have told me that I inspired them to do those same thing that I get to do. How amazing and important is that? I have to realize that my wanting to be bigger than myself is happening, it is growing, every shirt that I see reminds me and makes me so proud. I just wanted to say thank-you, thank you for allowing me to motivate you and thank-you for supporting my goals.
Now if you see a stranger and they have a #AMBERED shirt on, go give them a hug....they probably need one!