Oh my goodness. I read Blooies post, then I see this on Richard's Sunday thought. I'm not going to be able to open my swollen eyes in the morning. Happy tears.
Sunday Thought: My mind has been on the Rio Olympics this week and I'm reminded of something that occurred to me years ago. When you watch the long distance runners in the Olympics you'll notice they do something unexpected. They often times dump water on the person next to them when grabbing a drink from the stands as they run by. Why would they do this? Don't they want the competition to faint? Then it hit me, they aren't competing with others....they're competing against themselves! I mean, yes, technically they are competing against those around them, but more importantly they've trained for months and even years before those Olympics on their own, just beating their own best time over and over again to constantly improve. Real Olympic champions do this, and know it's the secret to unlocking their best potential! Life is like that. We always have a choice to compete against others, or just let what others do roll off of our shoulders and worry about doing our very best in what we do. It's when we start looking at what someone else is doing in competing with us that we start to falter...like this guy in the picture next to Michael Phelps. Let's all remember to focus on improving ourselves and our own goals instead of worrying what the competition is doing, I guarantee we will all do a little better if we apply this principle. Let's all be real "Olympic" champions!
Happy Sunday everyone!
Sunday Thought: My mind has been on the Rio Olympics this week and I'm reminded of something that occurred to me years ago. When you watch the long distance runners in the Olympics you'll notice they do something unexpected. They often times dump water on the person next to them when grabbing a drink from the stands as they run by. Why would they do this? Don't they want the competition to faint? Then it hit me, they aren't competing with others....they're competing against themselves! I mean, yes, technically they are competing against those around them, but more importantly they've trained for months and even years before those Olympics on their own, just beating their own best time over and over again to constantly improve. Real Olympic champions do this, and know it's the secret to unlocking their best potential! Life is like that. We always have a choice to compete against others, or just let what others do roll off of our shoulders and worry about doing our very best in what we do. It's when we start looking at what someone else is doing in competing with us that we start to falter...like this guy in the picture next to Michael Phelps. Let's all remember to focus on improving ourselves and our own goals instead of worrying what the competition is doing, I guarantee we will all do a little better if we apply this principle. Let's all be real "Olympic" champions!
Happy Sunday everyone!
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