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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 508 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
It is told about a gentleman whose name is Dick Fosbury, he was a high jumper, but instead of facing the pole in jumping with the feet first, somehow, he got the idea that he needed to throw his body over his head first with his face looking at the sky, and he said that, “I was told over and over again that I would never be successful and that this technique would never work.”
He was quoted in saying that and in fact, he was so criticized that the position got his name, “The Fosbury Flop”, but interestingly enough, despite the ridicule, Fosbury trusted that he was on to something that was unique and he kept at it. Then soon enough, at the Olympics in Mexico in 1968, the laughter stopped and Fosbury not only won the gold medal with his flop but he set a new world record, and today, believe it or not, all high jumpers use this technique and this is how a new concept was born.
Isn’t that amazing? You see, self-trust is the ability that we have that says to our self, “I’m on to something which is good, which is true, which is possible and I believe in it, and even though no one at this time does, I’m going to make it and I can do it.” This capacity is what gives a person the ability, the strength, the power and the energy to go where no other person has gone before, and it can be done.
Throughout history, there were many people that they went through that, many who refused to go back down, and at any time, all of these people at times were ultimately proven correct.
You see, when you work hard at what you believe and you succeed, you get that sense of pride, something that can help you or take away from you, and it’s precisely because you did it against all the odds, and you feel at that moment victorious, powerful. It’s a sense of true accomplishment which gives you the ability to fuel that trust within yourself and it creates this upward spiral increasing joy of satisfaction in everything that you do and everything that you’ve got, and why not? You deserve it. You stood up for yourself.
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