July 4, 2019
I
have always admired Victor's determination.
I met Victor D. Reynolds as an undergraduate in college. He had goals of mastering Japanese, playing
college basketball, and becoming a video game designer. Within four years, he had playing college
basketball and mastering Japanese under his belt. Not much time had gone by before he was
taking his skills of making video games that he had begun as a young teen to becoming
part of design teams for some of the top video games.
When he left the world of video game programming/designing I was blown away. What really stuck out to me was the description of his new reality. He talked about how free he felt. That is a beautiful thing. The icing on the cake is how his major life transition would have a direct effect on my family.
At
the center of my family is Althea; my Bride, my Sunshine. People often associate me as the teacher of
my family. But, if we are being honest,
it is Althea. I always knew Althea was a teacher. When we first met nearly 20 years ago, she
was in training to be an elementary school teacher. And while she had not been in traditional
teaching roles, she was always teaching.
As we began to have children, Althea was the one teaching our kids to
read. She was the one who did most of
the homeschooling with our kids. When
she was doing all of that, she still found time to tutor the children of family
and friends. Althea is great at teaching
kids. But Althea has a secret: She is great at teaching adults, too!
Since
we have been in Texas, Althea has been teaching adults in formal and informal
ways. She has helped adults from all
parts of the fitness continuum to learn how to maximize the benefits of making
smoothies with a Vitamix. Lately, over
the last 2 years, she has been focusing on helping mothers before and after
childbirth. Althea has empowered moms to
have a deeper understanding of the childbirth process (from comfort measures to
the actual delivery). Althea has even
helped new moms improve their confidence in their breastfeeding techniques.
As
Althea’s self-proclaimed biggest fan/cheerleader, it is cool to see Althea go
from volunteering to leading classes for her own birth education business. She’s not simply putting together classes occasionally;
she is becoming more methodical, increasing her network, and getting requests
from many non-profits to be their birth education presenter.
This
transformation has occurred from two things: (1) success coaching provided by
Victor; (2) strategies of mindsets provided by Victor’s book, Get Off the Bench (2019). As her coach, Victor has done a great job of
equipping Althea to maximize her efforts and increase her efficiency to impact
the birth education world. He is
constantly pushing her out of her comfort zone by tying her next steps to her “why;”
tying everything back to her purpose. Get
Off the Bench (2019) is a great complement to Victor’s coaching. In the
book, he describes the impact of how mindsets can make or break the success of
your business. He also offers practical
solutions on how to improve your mindset to find consistent success in your
efforts. Having read the book, I have
implemented some of his strategies to stop mindsets that have hindered my own
personal success. And in the short
period of applying his suggestions from his book, I have reaped some of the financial
and motivational successes Althea has had.
What
is your mindset? Are you still
thinking that you are not good enough to be great?! Do not sell yourself short. Declare independence from the uncertainty and
doubt in your life!
- Elgrie J.
- Elgrie J.
For
more info on Victor’s entrepreneurship coaching…
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ReplyDeleteWow! Thank you for the kind words. I am inspired to press on by your tenacity! We push each other and it is great!