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Have you ever heard the saying by Jim Rohn that ‘You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with’? In my career as an athlete, I have found this to be especially true. I believe there are five types of people we all need in our social circle to be successful. 1. The role model I always ask myself,...
Marayke
athlete, disability advocate, goal setting, Gold medal life, keynote speaker, life goals, marayke jonkers, mindset, motivational, motivational speaker, paralympian, success, support, team
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When New Year’s Eve comes around, I don’t set New Year’s resolutions – I set GOALS. This story in the Sunny Coast Times (January 2022) by Michele Sternberg explains how you can realise those resolutions, whether it’s losing weight, giving up smoking, exercising more, getting a new job or spending more quality time at home with your children. I share a few tips and...
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Journalist Caitlin Zerafa interviewed me for a story in My Weekly Preview magazine and I shared my story, how I set up the Sporting Dreams charity to help support future athletes with a disability and how I am continuing to inspire people from all walks of life through my corporate motivational speaking events....
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What would you do if you knew anything was possible, if you knew you couldn’t fail? There’s a photograph of me as a child climbing up a slippery dip using just my arms. You see, no one told me that a paralysed girl in a wheelchair couldn’t go on the slippery dip. Children don’t know about ‘can’t’ because our minds aren’t programmed that way...
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I have an overarching question in my life and it’s not just one I use when I’m running through one year goal setting.It’s all the time because human brains are wired for answering questions and the quality of our life is determined by the quality of the questions that we ask ourselves.I start off with my overarching question; “If I was the gold medallist...
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I knew I wanted to go to the Paralympics from a very young age. I didn’t just wake up one day, decide I wanted to go to the Paralympics and hoped it happened. It took years of hard work and I followed a plan. It’s so important to be in the present moment, but still follow the steps to get to where you going....
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SMART versus HEART To have a gold medal winning life, we need to have a gold medal winning mindset and I have a few tips to achieve this. My first tip is to set a HEART goal, not just a SMART goal. In this Covid era, that’s a really important thing because if we’re setting goals that we think we should, that are someone else’s goal, or we think look impressive to someone...
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I was honoured to be invited to the premiere of King Richard in Brisbane on 13 December 2021 at Reading Cinemas Newmarket. King Richard reminded me of the time I tried tennis as a child amongst many activities such as piano, chorale singing, Girl Guides and, of course, swimming. It was at a time when Coles supported Queensland junior tennis so there was a...
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Excited to be working for ABC radio until December using my journalism degree. Have already covered the welcome home ceremonies for the Paralympians and Olympians in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast doing live crosses and pre-recorded interviews....
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Today I’ve pondered the notion of selecting to label an action a Choice versus sacrifice. As the Qld swimming state championships started, I was shopping 🛍 nearby as a retired athlete. I completed every year since I was five to a shy teen in a pink wheelchair – winning my first ever medal 🏅 for swimming. From school student on an ambulance stretcher to...
