Emmanuel Acho and Having Good Mental Health
Acho told us that sometimes you have to block people to keep your thoughts positive.
By Faith on the Field Staff, October 14, 2021
Emmanuel Acho is a two-time Emmy winner and number-one New York Times bestselling author. Emmanuel played four seasons in the NFL, and he's currently a Fox Sports analyst.
Despite all his professional success, Emmanuel reminded us that in life there are many more failures than there are wins.
“In life, people fail much, much, much more frequently than they ever will win. But the problem is we don't ever look at the failures as positive. We always look at failures as a hindrance or as a crutch. And so, I just want to make sure everybody knows in order to succeed it is imperative that you fail you will fail, you must fail. It will happen.”
“I just like showing everyone that look it's normal to fail. Just don't stay down.”
One of the most pressing issues of our time is overcoming the stigma of mental health issues. Acho believes there is no shame in blocking people that are not contributing to your positive mental state.
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“What (can) appear to be tough is actually weakening our mental and emotional states. And so, yesterday per usual, somebody mimic or mocked me because I blocked him on another social media platform. So he came to Twitter to say that I need to man up. And I was like, blocking people is a form of protecting one's own sanity and one’s own mental health, and I think we just need to focus a lot more attention on that nowadays.”
Acho won an Emmy for his series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man. While watching recipients receive their awards, he noticed only one person gave credit to God for their award. Acho wanted to give praise to His Savior.
“I was the second to last Award presented. There may have been 25 or 30 words per minute that night. And I was sitting there and I was like, ‘What if I win? What am I going to say?’ I was like ‘Maybe I’ll thank God real quick, keep it moving.” When I got up to the mic, where everyone else may have been bashful, I can’t. I just went out there: “I just want to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
“It was just a very, very, very sweet moment.”
