Tag Archives: Gold medal life

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Okay princess yours is neater and mine is bad ass, bigger and longer – I’m talking about scars of course! Both are beautiful. I hope this story shows anyone self-conscious about scars you are still beautiful, it is just...

I was excited to be invited by Universal Studios to premiere of #firstman – a movie about Neil Armstrong’s family and story behind that famous flight. Loved seeing the memorabilia when I visited NASA in Houston for the IWF...

Still pinching myself at the honour of carrying the Queen’s baton on the Sunshine Coast in front of my family. Wonderful to see so many generations from school kids to grandparents out cheering and all sectors of the community...

Olympic champions of the future were created in living rooms across the Sunshine Coast this week, as children sat transfixed front of televisions and mobile devices watching their sporting heroes winning medals and competing for Australia in Rio. As...