Over It: How to Face Lifes Hurdles with Grit, Hustle, and Grace

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Over It is a high-octane dose of encouragement, storytelling, and hard-won advice from Lolo Jones, three-time Olympian and world champion hurdler and bobsledder.

Lolo is perhaps better known today not for all the races shes won but for the millisecond mistake that cost her an Olympic gold medal over a decade ago. With stunning authenticity about her own struggles, longings, and losses, she shows us how to face our challenges head-on and keep working to overcome them.

Lolo challenges us to:

• handle failure while pursuing our dreams;
• recognize the difference between achieving a goal and experiencing success;
• turn our most painful moments into the most successful;
• use thankfulness and faith to develop healthy hindsight; and
• give and receive forgiveness as the path back to life.

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.

Reflecting on her own challenging spiritual journey, Lolo invites us to rest in God who can make all the difference in overcoming obstacles with both strength and joy.

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Lolo Jones is a highly accomplished athlete in American hurdling and bobsledding, competing in the Olympics three times and securing the title of World Champion three times. She was favored to win the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics where she held the lead until hitting the penultimate hurdle and finishing in seventh place. Lolo is currently training to compete in the upcoming summer and winter Olympic games in pursuit of winning her first Olympic medal. Currently residing in Louisiana, she speaks openly about her Christian faith and is committed to empowering and inspiring those who face socio-economic hardships through the Lolo Jones Foundation.