Professor Jarcy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR / ME

My parents gave me the name Richard Jarrett Overgaag. Most beings on this earth with the ability to speak call me Jarrett.

All humans have a reason to be here. A purpose. It is something that resonates with you. Something you feel at your core. Some call your destiny. I prefer the term “element” made famous by Sir Kenneth Robinson – an English author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government. We all have at least one element.

I have two for sure – teaching and writing. I have taught in some since for most of my life. I was a head lifeguard in high school. I taught swim lessons, cpr, first aid, and lifeguarding. I work in the early 90’s in the toughest ghetto (highest murder per capita) in the San Bernardino County of California. Through college I had this job and couldn’t help trying to teach the juveniles at this pool to better their life.

After getting my degree in Business I went corporate. I achieve great success and found myself teaching at seminars for the company. After deciding that I was done with the corporate world I starting selling real estate. I became the office’s top producer and was again teaching. Now both in house and out on panels at real estate and motivational seminars. I wrote a book on entering the real estate business, but never published it - just taught many of the ideas in person.

In 2006 the real estate bubble burst. I went from a large income to almost no income. Fortunately my wife had become an RN and I didn’t have to go back to corporate America. My days became more free because of the lack of business. I spent time with my five kids.

During this time, I realized that - while I was very good in business - my true element was teaching. I also decided that the subjects I had been teaching in the business world were not the most important things I knew. I recognized that the human spirit and happiness were dependent on things like attitude, mental, emotional and physical well-being, spirituality, and the realization of unity - not only with others, but the entire universe.

I had been practicing Martial Arts – Jiu Jitsu. I started teaching the kids classes. There I was able to teach things like breathing, dealing with fear, and discipline. I went to the school district and signed up to be a guest teacher. I teach the children breathing, dealing with fear, developing positive self-talk, making choices using their heart and intuition, health and other subjects that make for living a better life.

I was also writing a jiu jitsu blog in which I would teach life lessons through the art of Jiu Jitsu. It got a great responds and loved ones and friends encouraged me to write more. In 2014 I had a conversation with a real estate broker turned writer. I also got a random email about self-publishing that I found interesting. The encouragement from my wife (and others, but mainly her) and these two random occurrences sparked a flame. Within 7 weeks I wrote and self-published my first book, Meditation: A Path to Awareness.

Between the blog and the book I have discover that I truly love to write. It is my element. I write with the purpose that my reader can take the information – or story – and use it to better their life.

My parents gave this body the name Richard Jarret Overgaag. Call me Jarrett.

If you want to hear what I have to say and teach in formal manner with exercises often included you will enjoy my books I write using the pen name Professor Jarcy – Jarrett and my youngest daughter Chloe combined into one name on a poster she meade me for father day.

If you enjoy being entertained with action, emotion, some romance and an underlying theme that encourages the betterment of the world, you will want to check out my fiction works under the pen name J.J. Jarrett.

If you just want to read what I really think then check out my non fiction – non bullshit - writings penned by Jarrett Overgaag.