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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Week 5 YLC Thought 2017

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed". Michael Jordan Have you ever thought to yourself, that's it! I've failed so I am not going to do that again? We have all done it and if you haven't, one day you will. I grew up as a huge Michael Jordan fan. All of my friends did. We would pretend that we were the Chicago Bulls playing the LA Lakers at school. We pretended we were Jordan, Pippin, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, in fact any NBA player we could think of. We were dreaming of being the amazing players that those guys were, even when none of us we tall enough to even hit the ring with the ball half the time. They were heros to us. We had all the merch. But, I'm not good at basketball. I much prefer sports where you get to run into your opponents.. We all thought Jordan was perfect. He had an amazing knack of making flying through the air to slam dunk the ball look so easy. He had it all it seemed.. Money, skill, talent. But he isn't perfect. You don't have to research very far to realise that Jordan missed many shots, sometimes the most fundamental and basic shots. Many of which were potential game winning shots. He tried many things in life and failed. The key to his success was that he didn't give up. He stuck at it. This is called Resilience. Bouncing back from failing. This week marks the middle of Term 1. Some of you are tracking very well, some of you are starting to feel a little overwhelmed, some of you may have already given up. Now is the time to reflect on where you have come from, where you are and where you want to go. How is your goal looking for the year? Have you made one? Even if you are not hitting the mark atm, the question is not where you are and why, it is how are you going to take where you are and turn it around to see it as a success.. we all fail over and over again, that is where we see when we succeed.