Rainey Von Ahnen

Failure can be beautiful. The art of failing means to be constantly failing or falling short at a new task. It basically shows that It’s okay to fail. “You must expect failure as part of your journey of success, failure and success go hand in hand, you cannot have one without the other.”(Richard Parkes Cordock).

What’s driving you? Are you focused? If so on what? Is it really important? These questions are what lead us in all sorts of different directions in our lives. They help us make decisions and point us down different paths. If you keep finding yourself on the wrong path ask yourself where your focus is.

Hint: It can be fun! Have you ever heard the stories where professional athletes end their careers and retire, but afterward they have no idea what to do? They’re lost. This is partially why developing new skills and hobbies is important. Sometimes we let one worldly thing define us as a person, and it doesn’t

Where can I find more information? An athlete is only as good as their mindset. Having a strong mind can help take you wherever you want to go. So, in order to help you start or continue this journey, I created a list of recourses in this blog post that have helped me along the

Hey guys! This week I’m taking a break from the New Beginnings series to do this blog post instead. I haven’t really talked about my own life and skating in awhile on here, so I thought it would be nice to put in an update.  The major piece of news I have is that I

Hey guys! Welcome to the 4th blog in this series. We’ve already talked about how to have a good new beginning and restart with minimal issues. But what if you’ve already begun the process and got stuck holding on to past emotions and grabbed by anxieties and worries of the future? “Don’t let mental blocks

Have you tried starting over but just can’t shake the bad emotions and thoughts from before? It happens to everyone. Trying to have a new beginning with old emotions doesn’t work. We end up just as frustrated and hurt as before. So how do we properly start over? How can we take our lessons with

Sometimes to succeed we have to start over. However, this seems to be really hard for most of us. We have to let go of our current circumstances, successes, and thoughts. I personally find the first step really difficult; pausing. Before we can move on to the next phase of our lives or restart practicing

New beginnings are all around us! We are constantly surrounded by new beginnings and chances to start again. I know I personally have had quite a few recently. The major one being I graduated high school! I’m so excited to start the next part of my life, whatever it may be. Starting again can be

Hey guys! This show honestly gives me mixed feelings. I had a ton of fun and appreciated the experience. However, it was kind of stressful and exhausting. Unfortunately, during this show, I let my negative thoughts and stress from earlier in the week influence my performance. I fell and ended up being super mad at