by Joshua Waldroup | Nov 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
He was standing, if you can call it that, under a sign that made him smile. “Congratulations! You are now at Uhuru Peak. Africa’s highest point.” He trained for 12 months and it took him a grueling 7 days to get there. The first documented ascent to the top of...
by Joshua Waldroup | Nov 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
In the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Ethiopian Mamo Wolde won the marathon gold medal with a time of 2 hours, 20 minutes and 26 seconds. This was only Ethiopia’s second gold medal at that time. As he crossed the finish line, he was mauled by his Ethiopian brethren. ...
by Joshua Waldroup | Nov 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
At the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, Omar Dallal swam his hardest! He had trained and trained and trained. He was the fastest 400 hundred meter freestyle swimmer in his country. At fifteen years old, he carried the weight of his home country on his back. Jordan...
by Joshua Waldroup | Nov 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Winning is everything. After all, it is the reason we compete. No matter what motivates you to succeed, winning feels good. Winning strokes our ego. It is what we anticipate, when we perform at our peak. Each incremental moment of deliberate practice is fueled by...
by Joshua Waldroup | Nov 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Everybody, at some point, has used the term 24/7. When we use this term we are describing our time commitment to something. If you are doing something 24/7, you are doing it all the time. When we say this, we don’t literally mean that we are working on a project...
