Paralympic swimmer Yip Pin Xiu broke the World record and won Singapore's first Olympic gold medal. She has muscular dystrophy.
It would be very easy for someone like her to quit on life and stop living. Yet, she saw beyond the pain and heartache and went after life with determination and courage.
The past twelve months had been very challenging, character-building months. It seems like disappointments, injustices and other incredibly painful adversities are always chasing us. Sometimes the hits just keep on coming.
We never let the negative events to affect our attitude. Everyone in the team kept focused, even through the frustrating times, on our goals. We monitored our thoughts and rejected negative thinking and negative people who hold us back. We took life on, lived it passionately and courageously, and never let defeat stop us for more than the time it takes for us to acknowledge it, recognize its impact on us, accept it, learn from it and then move on.
Sadly, as humans, we are not particularly good at staying happy. Positive emotions wear off. Whether we've won an award or closed a big sale, with time, we tend to return to our happiness baseline.
Throughout this period, as leader, I tried to boost moods by arranging frequent positive events. I have learned an invaluable insight through this time. Experiences are more rewarding than objects when it comes to keep team morale up. Research shows we remember events more positively the further they are in our rearview mirrors. Just think back to a vacation you've taken in the past. But that Samsonite case in your cupboard? No longer quite as chic as when you got it.
We are greater than our circumstances and anything that could ever happen to us. That's what LC Robinson meant when he said "Things may happen around you and things may happen to you but only the things that really count are things that happen in you.". We have that power in us.
It would be very easy for someone like her to quit on life and stop living. Yet, she saw beyond the pain and heartache and went after life with determination and courage.
The past twelve months had been very challenging, character-building months. It seems like disappointments, injustices and other incredibly painful adversities are always chasing us. Sometimes the hits just keep on coming.
We never let the negative events to affect our attitude. Everyone in the team kept focused, even through the frustrating times, on our goals. We monitored our thoughts and rejected negative thinking and negative people who hold us back. We took life on, lived it passionately and courageously, and never let defeat stop us for more than the time it takes for us to acknowledge it, recognize its impact on us, accept it, learn from it and then move on.
Sadly, as humans, we are not particularly good at staying happy. Positive emotions wear off. Whether we've won an award or closed a big sale, with time, we tend to return to our happiness baseline.
Throughout this period, as leader, I tried to boost moods by arranging frequent positive events. I have learned an invaluable insight through this time. Experiences are more rewarding than objects when it comes to keep team morale up. Research shows we remember events more positively the further they are in our rearview mirrors. Just think back to a vacation you've taken in the past. But that Samsonite case in your cupboard? No longer quite as chic as when you got it.
We are greater than our circumstances and anything that could ever happen to us. That's what LC Robinson meant when he said "Things may happen around you and things may happen to you but only the things that really count are things that happen in you.". We have that power in us.
Posts
