Josh Perry

I Was 31 When I Broke Up With My First Love Six years ago, I walked away from my childhood dream. What I wasn’t aware of was the fact I was breaking up with the first thing I truly loved.  At least, that’s what Jackie helped me realize. Funny enough, it’s a chapter title in my upcoming book that I credit to her, “Breaking Up With My First Love.” She said this to me during the pandemic, just months after choosing to walk away from BMX and being left to process what my body felt with nowhere to...

Most stress isn’t about the event. It’s about the disagreement we have with reality and the meaning we unknowingly attach to it. We resist what’s happening now. (Present stress) We regret what already happened. (Holding onto past stress) We brace against what might happen next. (Future-based stress) Whether it’s a person, a situation, or even yourself, stress is the nervous system’s way of alerting you that you’re arguing with what is. Not consciously. Automatically and rooted in...

We’ve all been told that if we just work harder, we’ll get ahead. More discipline. More grit. More hours. But the truth is simpler and more confronting. High performance isn’t built on effort. It’s built on awareness. Even more confronting, with more awareness comes more stress, until you learn how to work with what you begin to see. You can be the most disciplined, relentless person in the room and still feel stuck. Still feel strained. Still feel like something isn’t clicking. Because when...