Having watched the gold medal match of the women’s ice hockey at the Milan Olympics, it reminded me how tough it is to lose the match yet win the silver medal.
That’s got to be a tough one to get your head around!!
Should I be sad and disappointed for losing or happy and elated we came second best in the world?
Oh, what could have been. And wow, what we achieved!
Did you read the book as a kid? I think there was a movie too. It was all about the strange, or wacky, occurrences on that day.
A bit like the Men’s Ice Hockey Quarter finals at this years Winter Olympics. It’s been a wacky day – with three of the four matches going into overtime!
Check it out. It got a bit wacky.
Enjoy the last days of this year’s Winter Olympics.
In Ice Hockey, you can have a goal scorer and two other players can be recognised for an assist. This means they credit up to two people for creating the situation that led to the goal.
Life is a lot like this. But sometimes it goes without the recognition for the additional people who set up the person who gets the exciting goal scoring credit.
Arguably films do this well too. They recognise everyone who has almost anything to do with the film in the end credits, not just the leads on the poster.
Make sure you give the nod to everyone who helps you move along in life. Rarely do we do this event, and reach great heights, all on our own.
Hope is a critical component in life. We hope someone is doing well. We hope a journey is safe and successful. We hope our finances will work out.
It’s a bit like positive prayer. Though hope usually comes from a position of unknown or desire. Where prayer seems more certain.
Either way, Use hope and prayer in your life to keep you engaged and moving forward.
To achieve, you need to take action.
Wishing is a good start. Hoping can be positive. Though focused action is the real momentum behind any success.
If you hit a low point and your mind starts to stall in the negative, you are best to resist those thoughts and flood your mind with positive words.
It can be a challenge to do it, but if you don’t pull up, you can spiral into a negative oblivion.
Repeat favourite words and people. Remind yourself, repeatedly, that you are a good and worthy person.
The battle for your mind can be won by you alone.
Learning without action is like not learning at all. You need to put your knowledge into action, or why did you spend the time to acquire the action in the first place?
Take massive action immediately and start to gather momentum toward your goal. Then put habits in place to maintain or intensify the momentum.
Learn more and take more action. Your life will be unrecognisable!
You need to repeat new ideas, thoughts and habits many times before they lock in.
Do the work. Do the reps.
Smile. Chin up. Be positive. Do your best.
Keep shining.
Eight billion people on the planet. I assume most have good intentions. They want to work, make some money, pay for their survival and enjoy a little.
That is why the world is pretty peaceful. Especially when compared to thousands of years of history.
There will be people with bad intentions, of course. They will be like that for a short period (revenge, retribution, immediate survival), or, even fewer, will have evil intentions as their life-long philosophy.
Be mindful of those people and the moments others go briefly rogue. Generally though, most people are guided by good intentions.
