About week before the surreal pandemic Thanksgiving of 2020, VoyageAustin Magazine reached out to me for an interview to be featured in their Inspiring Stories series. The series was about interviewing local entrepreneurs, creatives, and community leaders. How cool is that! I was honored and ecstatic to do it in the midst of the hardest year ever.
http://voyageaustin.com/interview/community-highlights-meet-chris-rockhold-rockhold-karate/
As I reflect back on the interview it reminded me even during the worst year of my business, it is still a major priority to stay positive through adversity no matter how exhausting it may be, that negativity is a rapid downward spiral that is extremely difficult to climb out of, not impossible, but it will be a struggle.
I teach my students to have a positive mindset when struggling with various obstacles in their lives, I need to remind myself of this as well. Positivity is contagious, and it might be that one thing that helps somebody else that is silently struggling.
“A positive mindset brings positive things.”
– Phillip Reiter
