I had the pleasure of hearing Para Olympic gold medalist Jeff Adams speak at a recent conference and in the middle of his talk he played two clips. In one he placed fifth and in the other he won gold. What I loved about the clips was that in both he was composed and mentioned a drive to be a role model for young people to see and seek to understand that things are possible in hard work and determination. The same message in a disappointing loss and in victory. In both occasions he was at the Olympics, in both he was a world class athlete and in both he was on the national news. It did not really seem to make a big difference that he was a gold medalist in only one of the clips, he was modeling something in both. The determination, hard work, discipline and mental stamina to compete, to train and to do the race. It struck me that this is the days and weeks of our lives. We sometimes get it right, we sometimes fall short, we are on top of everything and then slip into a hot mess. However, its all learning, its all good, its all building our character and our emotional toolbox and our life view. And I would say that like Jeff’s interviews it is all inspiring and shows others around us what it is to be triumphantly human in this race we call life.
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