RUNNING BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS - Raymond Aaron, Gregory Perry

RUNNING BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS (eBook)

Startling Results from a 50 Year Longitudinal Study

Raymond Aaron, Gregory Perry (Autoren)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
118 Seiten
10-10-10 Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-77277-458-0 (ISBN)

Unlock Your Greatness! As a young man, Gregory Perry ran hard between the raindrops toward something other than the drugs, jail, negative vibes, and dangers of his Harlem neighborhood to create and design the life he desired. Along the way he became a coach and teacher who used Track and Field as a catalyst in developing the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of student-athletes. Greg has dedicated his life to understanding the impact of mental dynamics on long-term success. A large part of his work involved a 50-year longitudinal study of student-athletes that, among other things, studied the parallels between academics and athletics. The achievement measurement for Track was qualifying for national and international competitions, the Olympic trials, Pan American Games, or the Olympics. Biomechanical sciences were also used to secure youngsters a college education and advocate for them until their college graduation. Greg's efforts led to the development of a six-step success formula that can be used to successfully set and achieve goals in school, sports, work, and life. It can unlock your inner greatness.

Unlock Your Greatness!As a young man, Gregory Perry ran hard between the raindrops toward something other than the drugs, jail, negative vibes, and dangers of his Harlem neighborhood to create and design the life he desired. Along the way he became a coach and teacher who used Track and Field as a catalyst in developing the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of student-athletes. Greg has dedicated his life to understanding the impact of mental dynamics on long-term success. A large part of his work involved a 50-year longitudinal study of student-athletes that, among other things, studied the parallels between academics and athletics. The achievement measurement for Track was qualifying for national and international competitions, the Olympic trials, Pan American Games, or the Olympics. Biomechanical sciences were also used to secure youngsters a college education and advocate for them until their college graduation. Greg's efforts led to the development of a six-step success formula that can be used to successfully set and achieve goals in school, sports, work, and life. It can unlock your inner greatness.

Running Between the Raindrops is a metaphor that expresses how I felt as a young Black child growing up in Harlem (and later the Bronx) facing the inner city’s daily challenges and adversities. I remember continually running home to escape from bullies, drugs, and the horrors of street life. There were also other issues to deal with: the illegal numbers game, poor housing, street gangs, neglectful supermarkets, and disruptive schools. These many problems were a deluge of raindrops I felt would eventually touch or even drench me.

I wanted more out of life than was being offered on the block, and the only way I saw to avoid drowning in the downpour I was facing was to keep Running Between the Raindrops—running towards opportunity; running fast, with power and purpose, toward something better; running outside of the neighborhood to see what else was available, never stopping forward movement in the manifestation of my dreams. And so, I began a constant search for what creates success and a better life.

Running Man

I would often run home from the train station after leaving the private school where I was enrolled (named The Modern School). Mom and Auntie worked hard to provide me with a better life by sending me to this prestigious school to obtain a better education. Their goal was to place me in a highly structured environment that offered a solid educational foundation and a chance for success in life.

The Modern School, which ran from 1934-2007, had a unique history because it was established by the niece of James Weldon Johnson, the American civil rights activist and writer of Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as the Negro National Anthem. The teachers at this school taught me more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. They also showed me how to focus on abundance, strive for excellence, and work hard to be the best.

That brings to mind a story once told to me about the fox chasing the rabbit. I was asked the question, “Why did the fox stop chasing the rabbit?” Well, the answer is simple. The fox could risk stopping because he was running for his food and could always continue to hunt on another day if he didn’t catch his prey. On the other hand, the rabbit couldn’t stop because he was running for his life. If the rabbit stopped, his life was over. There would be no tomorrow, no second chance; he would be dead!

It was a story to which I related. I couldn’t stop running toward something better for fear the drugs, jail, negative vibes, and dangers of the neighborhood would overtake me and possibly kill me. I had to run until I found a way to create and design the life I desired.

When Opportunity Knocks

The “real world” quickly taught me that when opportunity knocks, you must have prepared for it in advance. And I can say that I was blessed in that way because I was given the tools to run between two cultures and overcome any obstacles and adversities in my life. I also discovered the value of gratitude, concentrated focus, and seeing abundance instead of worrying about what I didn’t have.

My learning environments were home, school, work, and something I call “the release,” which I identified as anything that brought me happiness, relaxation, or adventure. The 63rd street YMCA was my main release, offering exposure to different cultures, nationalities, ethnic groups, and numerous physical and social activities with people who didn’t look like me.

Bringing Talent Out of the Talented

It shouldn’t surprise you that my purpose and passion in life became coaching and teaching youth how to design their life. You see, I discovered a way to bring talent out of the talented by teaching young men and women life-skill strategies.

I was involved in measuring the initial success of student-athletes who received college scholarships, were accepted to college, qualified and competed in national or international track meets, graduated from college, went into the military, or achieved marketable career goals. Our achievement measurement for Track was qualifying for national and international competitions, the Olympic trials, Pan American Games, or the Olympics.

Possessed with this knowledge, I decided to teach and train young men and women to get through their rainstorms using LeMans technology, which is based on the idea there’s greatness in each individual that begins with their thoughts and language. They learned not to fear those who criticized them for their differences, to have big dreams, written goals, an action plan for navigation, and a timetable to make it possible. It was all about the effort to execute their action plan and having the guts and grit to sustain that effort in the face of adversity.

We challenged individuals to run through the finish line rather than just finishing. The program also helped create and support an attitude that kept teams strong—a mindset to inspire and empower each other. It all came together when we discovered the importance of building a foundation based on guidance, structure, and discipline as a community with purpose and shared goals that pushed and lifted each individual.

Thought, Language, Action

The track team gave each of us the privilege to execute a vision and move from ordinary to extraordinary. As the years passed, three distinctions regarding the application of our system became apparent: thought, language, and action/effort. Our mental state was the key as what we thought and focused on became our reality. We declared what we wanted, wrote down our goals, created accountability partners, and then took action. The result was a college education for many, the achievement of marketable career goals, and a national profile newsletter known as The LeMans Big Apple Profile published from 1980-1984.

The newsletter was sent to 3,000 colleges throughout the United States, matching the appropriate college with each student-athlete’s desired career goal. The profile newsletter spotlighted junior and senior high school student-athletes competing in Track and Field from public and parochial schools in New York City’s five boroughs. In later years we canceled our publication when Tracy Sunderland, Director of the Metropolitan Athletic Congress (MAC), requested our assistance to produce a more expansive profile covering a larger demographic area.

Where am I heading with this? I suggest that a transformation won’t occur unless individuals clearly understand the power of their subconscious mind as it relates to their thoughts and language. A place to begin is discovering the power of eliminating doubtful words such as try, might, maybe, can’t, and if from your vocabulary.

How do you think of yourself? Do you think of yourself in a positive manner or a negative state? Often the environment you’re in and the people you’re around impact your thoughts. When your parents or individuals in your circle get angry about a mistake you’ve made, do they call you stupid, dumb, or say hurtful things that cause you to believe you are those negatives? That will all change when you have a strong WHY or purpose for your life. For example, I want to help millions of people achieve their dreams through writing, coaching, and teaching the LeMans PD4H program and three specific distinctions that unlock their greatness within. That’s my WHY. I strongly suggest that you similarly define—in a single sentence—your purpose or mission in life.

To achieve peak performance on or off the track,

your thoughts and language matter.

Faith is Stronger than Belief

Faith always works!

Where there is sickness, faith brings healing.

Where demons are in control, faith brings deliverance.

Faith opens blinded eyes.

Faith will destroy unfruitful things.

Faith is obtained by hearing.

Faith beats the unbeatable.

Stops the unstoppable.

Thinks the unthinkable.

Overcomes the impossible.

Defeats the undefeatable.

Conquers the unconquerable.

—Reverend Doctor Courtney Mackey

Many have discovered that faith is stronger than belief. With this in mind, many of our members learned that to achieve success, they must take responsibility for being the authors of their life and be accountable for the results produced by their plan of action.

Delving into the secrets of the subconscious mind provided the West Side YMCA and LeMans Track Teams a unique edge. Learning to grow what you couldn’t see became the hook, the incentive, the overall essence of our development. Hundreds of students wanted more out of life, and I was determined to show them how to get it. The technology opened the door to competitiveness, experiential education, college scholarships, bragging rights, and a change in mindset. It also resulted

in new adventures that they related as “Iwo Jima” stories to friends, family members, or anyone who would listen when we returned to New York after traveling to a new city, state, or country. Remarkable stories about their first time on an airplane, leaving the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, or the Bronx, traveling out of state, or to another country.

These young men...

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.12.2021
Vorwort	Loral Langemeier
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
ISBN-10	1-77277-458-8 / 1772774588
ISBN-13	978-1-77277-458-0 / 9781772774580

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