Short Presentation on general "rules" to follow to work towards your goals in life

1. Blueprint to Success
“Making Your Dreams YOUR Reality”
By: Josh Funk
Lax Factory Director

2. I Was Once You
• Student Government
• Member of the Band
• Played PAA
• Poolesville Indians
• Worked at the Pool
• Accepted to the
Global Ecology
Program
• Up’s and Down’s of
growing up

3. My Goal Today
• I WANT TO HELP YOU
• Set Goals and Dreams for Yourself
• Eliminate Things that Waste Time in your Life
• Find Your Excuses and Overcome Them
• Find Your Path of “Success”
• Discuss My 8 Keys to Success
• Talk to you About My Path to Success

4. Goal Setting
• Goal- the result or achievement toward which
effort is directed
• Importance of Goals
• Write them down
• 3 Personal
• 3 Academic
• 3 Extracurricular
• This is your “Dart Board”

5. What is your Dart Board?
• No better time than now
to declare your goals
• Write 3 down off the top
of your head!
• SHARE

6. My Dartboard
• Be a great friend, brother and son
• Be a 3 Sport High School Student Athlete
• Earn a scholarship to play a sport at a Division 1
University
• Play professional lacrosse
• Become a Doctor
• Be my own Boss
• Have a significant impact on the next generation
of adults

7. Ready, Fire, Aim
• Act now, ask
questions later
• Learn by failing
• “One who makes no
mistakes, makes
nothing at all.” ~
Giacomo Casanova
• Make up your mind
and grind!

8. O.W.E.
• Out Work Everybody
• Effort is between YOU
and YOU
• Greatness is a lot of
small things done well
• Be the best in your
neighborhood, team, sc
hool, county, state, nati
on, etc.
• The only thing that
follows work is results!

9. BE > YESTERDAY
• Wake up Ready to
Make Your Mark
• “If you aren’t pissed
off for
greatness, your ok
with being mediocre.
“ ~Ray Lewis
• Better Everyday.
Period.

10. What do you waste time doing?
• TV, Computer, Phone
• Talking about other people
• Worrying about the past or future

11. Get Comfortable Being
Uncomfortable
• Get out of your
comfort zone
• Comfort brings
content
• “Do one thing that
scares you everyday.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

12. Everything That You Do…Speaks
• Actions speak in
everything that you
do
• Everyone matters
• The way you treat
anyone is the way
you treat everyone
• “Nerds”

13. Do What You Love, Love What You
Do

14. But….
• The Dreaded Excuse
• Excuses are Like…
• Talk is Cheap
• Some of you want
to…..more than you
want success
• Your Goals will only be
realized as you
eliminate both excuses
and negative people
from your life

15. What are your excuses?
Who is holding you back?

16. My Excuses
• Divorced Parents
• Moved to a New
School
• Small Town
• Too Small
• It’s Too Hard
• I’m Not Good Enough
• Coach Doesn’t Like
Me

17. You Call The Shots
• Don’t let someone else's expectations and
limitations define your life.
• Remind yourself. Nobody is built like you, you
design yourself. ~ Jay-Z
• Be a leader
• The right decision for YOU is not always the most
popular
• Sheep vs. The Wolf

18. End Result- High School
• Member of the Global Ecology Magnet Program
• Member of the National Honor Society
• Varsity Football, Basketball and Lacrosse
• All-State in Lacrosse and Football
• County Player of the Year in Lacrosse (Public and Private)

19. End Result- College
• Academic and Athletic
Scholarship to The Ohio
State University
• 3.4 GPA while earning
my degree in 4 years
• Played in every game of
my career except 2
• Co-Captain and Co-MVP
as a Senior of the team
that made it to the Elite
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20. End Result- Post College
• Earned my Doctor of Physical Therapy from the
University of Maryland
• Played 2 years in the National Lacrosse League after
being drafted in the 2nd round
• Run my own personal business called the Lax Factory
• Blessed to have close family, great friends and an
amazing girlfriend

21. Oh Yeah….My Job
• Physical Therapist
• Lax Factory
• TRX Sports Medicine
Instructor

22. Closing Thoughts
• You have one chance in life to do whatever
you are going to do, to make whatever
mark you are going to make, to leave
whatever legacy you are going to leave, so
what’s stopping you from working on your
legacy right now?
~Ray Lewis