MY MISSION STATEMENT
Help struggling athletic people reconnect with their internal ‘user manual’ and inspire them to change by leading by example
We are all different and we all have ways to function that are unique: we all have a specific ‘user manual’. However, we live in an environment plagued with so much background noise that we have lost contact with our own self. In the process, most of us have also got disconnected from our internal wisdom.
Our body sends us signals when it gets into distress, but we tend to ignore them. Our mind sometimes cripples us with fear, doubt, guilt, for days, years, decades… until our body gets sick, really sick. Only then, we take notice, only then, we start to look for solutions. Often, it is late, very late. We are already so deeply entrenched into our physical and mental black hole that it then takes years, tons of energy and money to finally get back to normal. Sadly, it would have taken just a few steps if we had dealt with it at an early stage.
I am here to warn you of the danger of exercising too much, working too hard, living too fast, without having first laid solid mental and physical foundations. I am here to help you deal with issues that may steal years of your life, kill your joy, destabilise your identity, before things get out of control.
Our society prides the winners at all cost and oversimplifies the success stories, creating overnight heroes. We tend to think that we should be like these fabricated icons. Deep down though, we all know that life is more complex than this, but we tend to bury this obvious truth.
I want to show you the real side of success and failure, that one can be a world-class amateur Triathlon Ironman athlete, have a great career and a wonderful family, and be eaten alive by mental demons and have crippling health issues. By sharing my own vulnerability, I want to create the climate of confidence that is necessary to initiate changes.
I am an athlete who can endure a lot of pain and I can be really strong. I am also a man who faces internal demons and sunk into depression where all willpower and energy got annihilated.
I want to leverage on my image of ‘Ironman’ and show my ambivalence. Courage is not what we think, strength is not a physical thing, self-centeredness leads to nowhere.
Sparks of awareness in people can be instantaneous: sometimes it’s just a sentence, a one minute movie, a gesture, that starts the journey. The more I expose myself and share, the more chances I have to help trigger changes and be an actor of transformation.