What can the Olympics teach you?
Okay I’ll admit it, I have Olympic fever!
Why?
Well there are so many reasons…
1. I love sports
2. I love watching people dig deep
3. I love hearing how people ris above injusries and circumstances that seem insurmountable
4. I love what I can learn about success and mindset and strategies of success
I love all of these things…
But there is something else, and that is what I’m going to focus on today…
5. I love seeing how differently certain athletes handle defeat
Lindsey Jacobellis is the perfect example…
In the last Olympics she was certain to win a Gold in the Snowboard Cross Event…
I mean she had it tied up and was so far ahead of the pack that all she had to do was stay up on her board and she would have the gold…
That’s when she made her mistake…
She went into the air, and caught in the moment she went to do a little extra to celebrate…
AND FELL…
She still got silver, but this was a situation where the Gold was hers to lose and that is exactly what she did…
- You’ll get 8 million people sounding off about how it was the mistake of youth or showboating…
- You’ll get an earful from just about anyone about how stupid she was to do this…
- You could throw a rock in the middle of the desert and chances are you would still hit someone who would be more than willing to judge her for what heppened…
To be honest, I don’t care about that…
We all make mistakes, it’s a fact of life…
What I’m interested in is what we do after the mistake…
How we handle ourselves…
What we tell ourselves this mistake means about us and our future…
And this is where I am so impressed with Jacobellis…
She had to endure some pretty tough interviews — each time having to answer the question of ‘What Happened?’ –
Of course she would explain — of course she wished it hadn’t gone the way it did — I’m sure she learned a serious lesson –
But she also seemed to let it roll off of her…
The best thing I heard from her was when she said that she didn’t know how to explain what happened other than to say that she fell down.
I love that!
That’s the best success lesson you can find…
You’re going to make mistakes and you are going to do things when you should have known better…
Do you have to learn from these mistakes?
YES
But, do these mistakes mean that you are stupid, have ruined everything and now you’ll never succeed?
NO NO NO!
Learn from her…
Sometimes the most honest answer to “What happened there?” is
“I fell down”…
Leave me your comments about how you can learn from this…
Go Big!
Kristen
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By Pinky, February 23, 2010 @ 5:35 am
The big thing is to first accept the fact that one has committed a mistake. Secondly, do not get bogged down because of the fact that you didnt succeed, instead see the positive aspect of the failure…learn from it…next time you will be wiser than the lot…
By Leila, February 23, 2010 @ 6:11 am
Either ‘I fell down’ or ‘it seemed like the right thing to do at the time’. Thanks for the post Kristen because sometimes life’s hard enough without making it harder.
By Dave Wacholtz, February 23, 2010 @ 6:35 am
Kristen,
I fully agree…It’s the “Rocky” attitude,”It’s not how hard you hit the other guy, it’s how many times you get back up after being hit by him”.
Another favorite:
“Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail – dare to succeed.”
G Kinsley Wood
I love your attitude Kristen. Thanks for the motivation and positive information.
Dave
By Rodrigo, February 23, 2010 @ 9:16 am
The deal is not to avoid falling down, but to be able to stand up and give it an other try.
we all fall down in life, but only the winner gets up and keeps on trying.
By joe, February 23, 2010 @ 9:24 am
Kristen ,I love the way you think with such clarity and find good in almost everything.I wish I had such vision.And I am one of those people who really cannot let go and forgive myself for mistakes I make.I wish I could just say “it was a learning exsperience” But I almost just keep saying to myself “JOE YOUR AN IDIOT FOR DOING THAT!) I really need to learn how to just learn from mistakes. Take care Kristen and thanks for all the great posts and free reports! Your the best!
By Mark Danner, February 23, 2010 @ 9:44 am
Kristen,
Yes,learning from are mistakes is probably the best lesson we can have. We can’t know everything so we are bound to make them! I myself have made tons over the years and will continue until I am in the ground. The biggest thing we can learn is I made the mistake, learn from it, accept it and then move on. Try and not dwell on it because it will just eat you up and cause illness. So accept it, learn from it and move forward.
Mark Danner
By rebecca, February 23, 2010 @ 11:45 am
She probably was not quite ready to win the gold…and she actually slowed it down out of fear…if she can do it again next time she will probably win the gold..but if this was her only shot then she just was not ready…she created her life…subconsciously or consciously if I am spelling that right….I am baffled by mistakes? are there any? or is it energy all playing out….until it is refined to what we want to really create…
By Linda, February 23, 2010 @ 1:07 pm
Fallen down is part of growth. Wow how many times does one fall. Getting up again is the key. How one does that.It is knowing one has to get up that is the thing.The challenges are all our growth.Ourself and others grow from a defeat.
By PANSY PIERCE, February 23, 2010 @ 1:16 pm
THIS IS TRUE, EVERY SITUATION PRESENTS A LESSON
EVEN IF THE RESULTS WE’RE LOOKING FOR IS NOT
APPARENT.
By Maureen, February 23, 2010 @ 3:05 pm
Hi Kristen,
For me this has been an extremely hard thing to learn, in my life but I think I’m there now Great article!
Also Kristen, just another comment on the article What one thing can you do today!
This is proving to be so helpful to me. The just one thing is turning into just two then into just three things, so things are really starting to get moving. Thanks a lot
By Leonard, February 23, 2010 @ 4:40 pm
Your article is so true. Also too many put so much emphasis on winning Gold and that is if you DON’T GET GOLD you are a loser. People who talk that have no isea what they are talking about. Most of the athletes are supportive of each other and these sportscaster don’t heave a clue about the event. Former athlete sportscasters make reasonable comments but too many are out to lunch. In my humble but accurate opinion all olympians are winners and take ricks, and are not afraid to try and even fail to bring out the best in themselves.Every olypian should get a plaque that they were a competitor. In life we’re all competitors and we don’t have to win gold to be a winner. Think about it -in life- we can ALL be gold medal winners. Let’s cheer each other on. Leonard
By Dave, February 24, 2010 @ 9:16 am
Everyone’s a critic, especially the media types.
What they don’t get is that it doesn’t really matter what they think. She will go on, probably
to greater things then those critics could ever even fathom. In other words, it doesn’t mean that much to me, to mean that much to you.
By Paul, April 24, 2010 @ 3:42 pm
Kristen,
I fully agree…It’s the “Rocky” attitude,”It’s not how hard you hit the other guy, it’s how many times you get back up after being hit by him”.
Another favorite:
“Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail – dare to succeed.”
G Kinsley Wood
I love your attitude Kristen. Thanks for the motivation and positive information.
Dave