Success Is Not Owed To You

<p>I&rsquo;m a huge fan of track and field. This is somewhat surprising even to me because I don&rsquo;t have one athletic bone in my body.</p> <p>I could tell you about the time when I fell at the only race I ever entered&hellip; a teacher&rsquo;s race. But that&rsquo;s for another time.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m in awe of the athletes and the rigorous training they put their bodies through in order to compete for their country. That&rsquo;s what I call love of country.</p> <p>I watched sections of the IAAF World Athletic Championship which concluded about 3 weeks ago. It was held in Budapest, Hungary.</p> <p>I noticed that athletes who were favored to win didn&rsquo;t always win.</p> <p>There was no medal put aside for anyone. It had to be earned.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:560/1*tcStAr5yfT2Y2vECReqSWA.png" style="height:700px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Photo by&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/@adijoshi11?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Aditya Joshi</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/Iep8SMdpe6I?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Unsplash</a></p> <p>It&rsquo;s easy to see the gold medal that an athlete wins and sing their praises. What we don&rsquo;t see is the countless hours spent in training. That gold medal was earned with sweat, tears, and hard work.</p> <p>That&rsquo;s why I admire athletes so much. They dedicate their lives to their sport, train every day, push themselves to the limit, and face intense competition.</p> <p>They don&rsquo;t give up when things get tough, they don&rsquo;t let failures stop them, and they don&rsquo;t let critics discourage them. They keep going until they reach the finish line, and then they celebrate their victory with joy and gratitude.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@jpdacres/success-is-not-owed-to-you-c4eb67748db7">Website</a></p>
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