For our second Shortcuts episode, we are joined this week by former NFL athlete, Anthony Trucks.  Anthony had an incredibly difficult start in life, given up by his mother at the age of three, he was placed into the US foster care system, where he was...

For our second Shortcuts episode, we are joined this week by former NFL athlete, Anthony Trucks. Anthony had an incredibly difficult start in life, given up by his mother at the age of three, he was placed into the US foster care system, where he was physically and mentally abused, tortured and starved. At the age of six he was finally placed into a loving family home and at 14 was adopted. Despite the stability, Anthony went dramatically off the rails as a teenager before football rescued him. He went on to play for three NFL teams but, after a career ending injury in 2008 and the death of his Mum he found himself battling severe depression. In this episode Anthony talks fluently and powerfully about how he took control of his life again – by coming to terms with his past, his failures and by focussing on compassion. He’s now a highly successful motivational speaker and creator of The Shift Method of personal development. Anthony’s Crisis Cures: 1 – Reframing failure. We make it way worse than it actually is. If you can reframe the failure and find the lesson, you find a way to do better next time. It gives you hope to not have to face the same crisis again in the future. 2 – Organisation. The reason a lot of us stay in crisis is we don’t know how to get out of it. We don’t want to take the wrong path, so we take no path. I bring everything down to earth and once I can see it, I can chart a path. 3 – Action. Action ends suffering. We sit with emotional feelings with no action to change them. Feelings are born of actions and if you’ve taken an action that’s made you feel this way, the only cure is to take an action in opposition. That moment you don’t want to move, is the moment you must move and do something. Links: <a href="https://identityshiftbook.com/">https://identityshiftbook.com/</a> Host – Andy Coulson Producer – Louise Difford Full transcript available at: <a href="https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/shortcuts-15-minutes-with-nfls-anthony-trucks/">https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/shortcuts-15-minutes-with-nfls-anthony-trucks/</a> Stream/Buy ‘Allies’ by Some Velvet Morning: <a href="https://ampl.ink/qp6bm">https://ampl.ink/qp6bm</a> Some Velvet Morning Website: <a href="http://www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk">www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk</a>

29. SHORTCUTS - 15 minutes with former NFL player, Anthony Trucks