Tag: olympics
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Podcast: What Your Favourite Olympian Can Teach You About Your Big Dream
Were you as inspired as I was by this year’s Olympic Games? I was so inspired by the commitment, the courage, the tenacity, the determination, the dedication, the hard work…and their humility! I had so many favourite Olympians I couldn’t even name them all – Mo Farah, Oscar Pestorius, Jess Ennis, Victoria Pendleton, Katherine Grainger,…
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Control the Controllable
It’s another Olympic Inspired Post! Sorry, I’ll get over the Olympics soon…honest. I have been fascinated by the interviews with the Olympic athletes. Their stories are often inspirational, they have a great mindset, and they have a lot of great wisdom that translates into ‘ordinary’ life. Here’s another one: Control the Controllable How often do…
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Olympic Gold in Baby Steps
You may have heard about the success of the British Cycling Team this Olympics. If not, they got 7 track cycling gold medals. Pretty good, eh? So good, that the talk from the rest of the world was ‘how are they doing it’ with the implication that GB cycling had some kind of magic advantage…
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Do You Believe In You?
In an interview I watched over the course of the Olympics, one of the coaches was asked what the most important factor was in the success of these athletes. Belief He said that you could see the athletes who didn’t believe they could do it…
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Going for Gold
[caption id="attachment_3754" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image credit: Mxruben on Morguefile[/caption]Have you been watching the Olympics? I have been thoroughly enjoying them – the emotion, the achievement, the brilliance of the athletes is incredibly inspiring. One of the things that has really struck me about all the athletes is how hard they’ve worked to get where they…