The Olympic Mentality
007 Live and Let Die ipod Whether now or at some time in your life, you longed to be a hero – someone who rose to a magnificient challenge and overcame it to the praise of others. Or maybe you just wanted to stick out a little separate from the pack to be noticed and receive some modest accolades that assured you – you’re doing a good job!
It’s easy to look at the Olympian athletes and question how you’re not living up to your own potential. If comparing yourself to them feels too grandiose, you can probably look around and name your everyday heroes, people who seem to manage it all so well, when you don’t. You hold them in high esteem and compare yourself to them.
Anne McGee-Cooper, in her book, You Don’t Have To Go Home From Work Exhausted
, talks about the lure
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of trying to get ahead and please others. These patterns of behavior and dependencies are a vicious circle that leave you unable to fufill on them all, while draining you.
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Do you catch yourself comparing yourself to others or trying to be “super X” and how have you changed that?
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