At a loss for words for receiving so much love and gratitude from everyone here at @justpruvit KetoKademy in Orlando, Florida!
You guys are amazing and I’m beyond grateful for the response after sharing my life with all of you.
I can’t stress enough the importance of perspective and how gratitude leads to abundance in our lives.
Love you all!
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
3 years ago I got dropped from my bike sponsor halfway through ACL recovery with no notice.
That was my main source of income that I risked my life to obtain and represent the brand. It was $600/month but it paid my rent, utilities, and phone bill.
Thankfully, my mom taught me how to save and budget from an early age so I was fine. Fueled by spite, anger and rejection, I worked my butt off and placed top 3 in my first contest back.
That is one of many adversities I’ve used for my advantage.
It fueled my drive for success and challenged me to think of ways to replace that $600/month.
It put me on a new path where that’s not even 1/10 of my income per month today. I find the reason I live with so much abundance and success today is that I’m 100% on PURPOSE to serve and support.
I realize all the “problems” and “bad things happening to me” back then was a result of my choices in life and not having accountability for my reality.
Also, because I was solely on self and not grateful for the “little” I had, which could be seen as “much” to others.
Point of this story is to share how necessary adversity is for us to grow and progress past our current reality. Not just financially, but spiritually, personally, creatively, etc.
What adversity have you experienced and used for your?
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
Hearing “no” has always motivated to prove others wrong and that served me well most my life.
I find, today, that I’m motivated by my purpose, my vision and gratitude for my life and all that’s in it.
This new path has led me to surrounding myself with those that believe in what I believe and support me 100%.
What have you been told can’t be obtained but you don’t care because you’re going to make it happen anyways?
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
@jciake crushed dinner last night.
Steak from @butcher_box and a Brussels sprout salad she made with shredded Brussels, sun dried tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, bacon, ranch, and some spices / @redmondrealsalt.
An example of how easy and delicious a keto aligned meal can be while implementing a ketogenic strategy to improve your brains health and performance while also improving body composition, energy levels, and disease risk.
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
Choices people, CHOICES.
Keto is NOT hard, unsustainable, or unhealthy.
You know what’s hard?
Suffering from a disease. Having your skull cut open to remove a tumor trying to kill you. Dealing with cancer. Loosing someone in your life. Feeling physical pain from things that could be avoided.
The list goes on.
That said, there’s a ton of context involved around those statements and it’s why I do all I do. From coaching to speaking, to investing my time, money, and energy into creating content that brings you all value.
All my efforts are context based and I believe we all have potential the become as healthy, happy, and successful as we believe we can become.
It’s all in our choices.
If anyone wants to prioritize the health of their brain and allow it to perform better and become more resilient to disease, utilizing the power of ketones as a tool and/or lifestyle can be a game changer.
There’s also a ton of support for body composition, energy, recovery, inflammation, oxidative stress, and so much more from ketones themselves along with the consciousness of all areas of life that keto has shown me.
Here’s an example of a dialed keto meal taken from Eastern: lamb, Brussels, and a zucchini boat stuffed with an artichoke spinach dip.
Some clean protein, non-starchy veggies, and plenty of fats.
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
Happiness is a choice.
Fostering a perspective of gratitude along with a mentality of “shit could always be worse” is my key to not letting the times of adversity keep me down.
I’m not happy every single moment of every single day, otherwise I wouldn’t be human.
I feel all the emotions just as all of you but my focus is on the vision for my life I created and I won’t let anything stop me from at least TRYING to obtain that vision.
That said, I put in the mental and physical work every single day as I audit my choices on a constant basis always thinking…
“how can I succeed in this effort?”
“what would it take?”
“what can I learn from this experience?”
what do I truly want?”
And really focus on the life I’ve been given and all the abundance within it.
In order to have light, we must have darkness just as if we say there’s an up then there has to be a down.
It’s the Hong and yang aspect of life and in order to have success, we must have tribulations, “failures”, and hardships.
It’s not easy, it’s SIMPLE.
With daily practice, just as any muscle becomes stronger, the mind builds strength and the actions we take on our visions manifest into our reality’s.
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
I wouldn’t be where I am without my BMX bike.
The friends, the travels, the life lessons, the opportunities, the experiences, the ups and downs, and the challenge of getting to a top professional level of competition was an amazing journey.
All I do today is with the utmost respect for what BMX has done for me and what @DaveMirra did for the sport and my life directly.
Even tho I’ve removed myself from the competition side of riding and the BMX industry for the most part, BMX is still in my heart.
All I do today is with the backend thought BMX will be positively exposed to crowds that have never seen it properly, heard of it, or maybe didn’t take a second look at the sport for what it really is.
When I share my video and experiences on stage, people are always amazed by what we can all do on our bikes along with the mindset that fuels those actions we dismiss as it’s just what we do.
Today, BMX is a vehicle that carries my voice and story around the world and contributes to my journey moving forward to serve and support others as much as I can. It’s also a valuable educational tool I use to reflect on all its taught me over the years and how to apply those lessons in my life today with my business.
I’m incredibly grateful I found something at such a young age that consumed my being because had it not been for that focus, I wouldn’t be here today on a lot of different levels.
It’s why I believe everyone MUST have something they are passionate about and can progress with. It’s a great outlet for many purposes and keeps you pushing for something.
@joerogan referred to this as “creating your own struggle” on @aubreymarcus podcast. It’s so true. Rather than wait for some struggle to come at you despite what you want, create your own struggle to overcome like working out, sobriety, a clean diet, a project, that business you always wanted to start, and so on.
It’ll make you stronger, mentally and physically, and may bring more than you ever fathomed into your life. 📸 @jciake
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
We’ve always been told that wearing a helmet is important for our brains.
After @davemirra being diagnosed with CTE, I’ve become even more obsessed with 🧠 health and sharing with the BMX community and all of you.
Although I’m an advocate for helmets 100%, they don’t do much in terms of concussions and preventing CTE. They do protect the skull from fractures, tho, which is amazing!
🤓But, when we talk about the brain in regards to concussions, we have to understand the brains development, how the brain actually sits in the skull, and how a concussion occurs.
I’ve seen many of my friends out cold while wearing a helmet.
🧠@scottycranmer was wearing a helmet when his life altering TBI occurred.
🧠I’ve seen @vincebyron out cold several times with a full face helmet on, the last gnarly one resulted in blood seeping out of his nose and ears.
🧠 @davemirra crushed his face through his full face helmet one year at a contest.
🧠I myself have had a few concussions where I had a seizure and my heart stopped, all while wearing a helmet.
🙏🏼 That said, this isn’t a post advocating for not wearing a helmet. Very much the opposite and helmets serve an amazing tool for protecting our skull and mitigating issues if a head injury were to occur.
🙏🏼 This post is to understand the implications of hitting our heads. It takes time or it can be immediately.
🙌🏼 Part 2 from my trip to @doc_amen with @ryanplowery to get SPECT scans of our brains comes out Friday at 330pm EST!
Dr. Ali will be explaining this topic much more along with our scan results with exogenous @justpruvit ketones and without, what the scans mean, why we are the way we are, and how we can change our brains with and without exogenous ketones.
🤔Comment any questions or concerns and I’ll do a LIVE to answer those questions.🤗
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
A month off my bike and I am feeling good!
For those that don’t know, or didn’t see my posts about this, I took about 6 months off from BMX before my follow-up SPECT scan with @doc_amen in October.
I did this for 3 reasons:
1) for my own health.
2) to not have any issues with the research we’re doing involving exogenous ketones (@justpruvit) and how our brains are in fact able to be changed in a positive manner. Even for someone like myself with a past of many TBI’s and multiple brain tumors that came with surgery, treatments, and mental health battles.
3) to focus more on the changes I’ve been pursuing in my life to create an entirely new reality that I’m seeing manifest more and more everyday.
To be honest, I don’t miss it much.
That said, I still love BMX. I know I’ll pick it right back up. And I still think about it and envision riding all the time.
But, the itch to ride isn’t quite there. Mainly, because I don’t have any goals around BMX now that I’m not competing and don’t have any sponsor obligations.
The sponsorships and support I’ve acquired are built around me as a person, the value I’m providing, and the purpose in fulfilling.
If I want to ride, cool. If I don’t, that’s cool too.
It’ll be interesting to see how these next 5 months go and when that follow-up SPECT scan is complete.
I understand what Dave Mirra told me years ago when he retired when he said “Josh, my hearts just not in it anymore. I have nothing to prove. I have no goals within BMX. And, honestly, it’s not worth my or my family’s well being.”
I was confused thinking “but, Dave. You’re, Dave Mirra. How can you not ride”?
It’s all perspective and my perspective is one of gratitude for my past and all BMX has done for me. But, after 17 years on my bike, I’m excited to see where this new route and my efforts take me.
I’ll for sure ride again after the 6-month mark but to what degree, no clue.
It’s all love tho and I hope you’re all following exactly what you feel deep down.
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
I would complain about things in my life, let alone what was outside of my immediate and selfish perspective that I would then complain about.
I lived my life fueled by anger, spite, and on a mission to prove abusive people in my life wrong.
After many wake up calls (3 brain tumor diagnosis, my main bike sponsor dropping me out of the blue mid ACL recovery, multiple TBI’s, debt, etc.) I decided to stop making excuses for why I couldn’t do or have something I desired.
I then took accountability for my life and started making small shifts that led to massive changes.
I sacrificed what I had left after my sponsor giving me the boot and set myself on a path fueled by gratitude and love with a very clear reason as to WHY I was doing what I was doing.
That why was PURPOSE.
A purpose to help others reach their full potential with health, happiness, and success, without the suffering we choose upon ourselves.
The reality is, we all face some sort of shit in our lives.
Perspective is essential, tho!
It could always be worse.
Anyone reading this, especially from a smart phone, is winning.
The belief we choose about our life and limitations dictates our reality and we become a slave to external sources when we’re all incredibly capable of manifesting a life we belief we deserve.
What do YOU believe is the life YOU deserve and what are you willing to do for it?
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
