Over It
How to Face Life’s Hurdles with Grit, Hustle, and Grace
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Get a high-octane dose of encouragement from Lolo Jones, three-time Olympian and world champion hurdler and bobsledder.
Growing up in a broken home, Lolo learned to shoplift at a young age just to eat at night and sometimes slept on the basement floor of the Salvation Army. While her father was in prison, her mother worked multiple jobs, and Lolo realized she needed to be self-motivated, singularly focused, and unwilling to quit if she wanted to succeed.
Despite her difficult upbring Lolo's determination paid off and she went on to become a three-time Olympian and world champion hurdler and bobsledder. But Lolo is perhaps better known today not for all the races she's won but for the millisecond mistake that cost her an Olympic gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. With stunning authenticity about her own struggles, longings, and losses, she shows you how to face your challenges head-on and keep working to overcome them.
Over It will challenge you to:
Handle failure while pursuing your dreamsRecognize the difference between achieving a goal and experiencing successTurn your most painful moments into the most successfulUse thankfulness and faith to develop healthy hindsightGive and receive forgiveness as the path back to life
Reflecting on her own challenging spiritual journey, Lolo invites you to rest in God who can make all the difference in overcoming obstacles with both strength and joy. Over It will inspire you to deal with the challenges you face in your life and overcome them with determination and tenacity.
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In this buoyant debut, Jones, a three-time Olympian in hurdling and bobsledding, recalls her path to success in order to encourage readers to overcome adversity through faith and hard work. Never mincing words, she details how the challenges she faced as a biracial child growing up in a poor family—with a hardworking single mother and a father in prison—led her to love competition and the stability it provided. Jones describes learning about the faithfulness of God at the local Salvation Army, developing a strong work ethic, and discovering how hard work helped her overcome the shame of poverty: "The humiliation of how poor we were touched every part of my life, even the parts I was unconscious of until I looked back." Her talent at hurdling in high school won her a college scholarships, and she details how she gradually learned to trust her college coach, with whom she still maintains a strong relationship. In looking back at the devastation of hitting the ninth hurdle in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Jones stresses that life isn't about wins and losses; rather, "It's about the peace and joy I possess while winning and losing." Jones's heartfelt reflections will speak to and inspire Christians struggling with disappointment.
