Blog Posts in 2014

The Butterfly Effect: Mentoring and Teamwork

None of us can get along without relationships and teamwork. The individual win means little if it doesn't emanate out into the community. One particular kind of relationship reveals this concept ...
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Me People vs. We People

Think of the last three people with whom you've spoke. It can be anybody—a person on an elevator, a coworker, your spouse, anyone. Now write down the color of their eyes and the color of ...
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Magic Moments

As I see it, life is always a great journey—with many highs, regressions, and failures, but no destination. It's our task to find every opportunity for adventure and challenge along that ...
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A Modern Family: The LA Galaxy's Path to a 5th MLS Cup

As the team physician and an avid sports fan, I can truly appreciate the process in how the LA Galaxy won its 5 th MLS Cup. It once again demonstrates that the life of sport and the sport of life are ...
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Get Rich Quick: Seeking Out Challenging Experiences

An essential part of the journey to unlocking the victorious spirit is the ability to create rich experiences. What does that mean? I'm not talking about experiences that make you financially ...
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Hoping for Miracles

Hope is a close cousin of optimism, a force of inspiration that—if we let it—courses through all our lives. From the hopeful fan crossing his fingers in the stands to the players sitting ...
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Learning to Look on the Sunny Side

My staff, coworkers, and fellow surgeons call me the "Energizer Bunny" because of the constant energy and good mood I maintain, even if I've just gotten off a fifteen-hour flight from ...
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You Are What You Eat...What Does That Make You?

Though I cannot stress enough how important exercise is, another necessity is diet and nutrition. The pursuit of food is no longer our primary goal in life, but making the best food choices provides ...
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Let's Get Physical

A major premise of my book and of this blog is that the victorious spirit resides inside your mind and inner self, no matter your age or bodily abilities. But regardless of victory as a holistic ...
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Boston Strong

On April 15, 2013, the world watched as the unthinkable occurred at the Boston Marathon. It was four hours, ten minutes, and forty-five seconds into the event when two well-planned and sequenced ...
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The Olympian in You

Dare to Dream : this challenge encompasses the underlying spirit of every Olympic Games, from the lighting of the flame to its quenching. From the time of the ancient Greeks to that of Cathy Freeman ...
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Mend It Like Beckham-the Power of Progression

When a professional athlete is injured, there are a lot of details, dilemmas, conflicts, and challenges. I'm part of the team's team—a mix of physicians, trainers, physical therapists, ...
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From Injury to Victory

In the previous blog post, we saw that the victorious spirit is our evolutionary birthright, an inner strength inherent to our nature as human beings. But sometimes forces like age, accident, and ...
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Wired to Survive

Today, of course, we no longer have to hunt for food and migrate with our food supply like we once did. We find that we were designed as a species for physical high-performance activity and, yet, we ...
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Born to Run

Africa is the setting for the long dawn of human history and our Darwinian evolutionary sequence. Four million years ago, apelike creatures named Autralopithecus walked upright on that continent. They ...
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It's All in the Genes

You might not know this, but the fact is that we're all born to be athletes—it's hardwired into our genes, woven into a complicated twisting of our DNA with those double helixes and ...
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Introducing the Victorious Spirit

I'll let you in on a secret: The most common triage responses athletes employ to get back on track soon after injury are not mysterious and do not involve superpowers—they're simple, ...
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Discovering Your Inner Mo'ne Davis ... Together

In its 68 years running, the Little League World Series has seen only 18 girls play in the tournament which has now hosted more than 9,000 players. But Mo'ne Davis is the first among them to pitch ...
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Landon Donovan's Optimistic Win Within

It was World Cup 2010 in South Africa and the US Men's Soccer team was in a particularly ambiguous position. While the team had improved since its previous years and the team was optimistic and ...
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The NASA Space Program, A Swimmer's Dream & the Victorious Spirit

I have always been captivated and inspired by our space program. In fact, July marked the 45 th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the historic and outstanding achievement of landing on the ...
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Success: It Comes In ALL Shapes and Sizes

Kacy Catanzaro, 24, the first female athlete to complete the "American Ninja Warrior" finals course in its more than six seasons running on NBC, is proof positive that the Win Within knows ...
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5 Lessons Learned from the 2014 FIFA World Cup

As the pilot prepares to put wheels on the ground here in the beautiful USA, I'm glad to be home but so grateful for the three weeks I spent in the glorious country of Brazil as a FIFA Medical ...
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How World Cup Athletes WIN

How World Cup Athletes WIN Musings from a Physician's Birds-Eye View of the Big Game The 2014 FIFA World Cup is now underway in the beautiful country of Brazil, and I have the incredible privilege ...
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Welcome to the Win-Within.com

WELCOME. Welcome to the Win-Within.com. Whether you've arrived at this site by reading an excerpt from my book via social media, through one of my clinical initiatives or purely by accident, I am ...
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