Best Efforts
Can we be satisfied knowing we have given our best efforts? Everyone is going to try and win. But is there something we have learned to earn the top spot the next time around?
In my business and personal philosophy, I often come around to the Olympic model of, Citius, Altius, Fortius: swifter, higher, stronger because these words are written in the superlative of the word. They are written with an e.r. stimming which means we can be the swiftest today and swifter tomorrow. We can jump the highest today and jump higher tomorrow. We can lift the heaviest weight today and lift the heavier weight tomorrow.
That is the growth!
So we have the reckoning moment, the transformation moment, and now the new normal mindset.
The New Normal Mindset is not a destination. We do not arrive at the new normal. The new normal is a plateau by which we grow, and we gather ourselves for the next growth that we have. We do not camp out. If I was to camp out on the silver medal, I won in 2000, how would I grow? I finished second best in the world after three and a half years of training and relearning how to run again, and then eventually jump. If that were all there was, there would be nothing more to achieve.
There is always a growth mindset in the Olympic model. There is only one gold that is awarded, there is only one silver medal that is awarded, and there is only one bronze medal that is awarded for the event, so we earn what we earn.
Can we be satisfied knowing we have given our best efforts?
“When our truth outweighs our fear we will commit to a courageous life”. JR
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