Finish Strong
Georgene Johnson got to the starting line of a weekend race 15 minutes early. It was a mistake in timing that became a defining moment in her life.
The 42-year-old secretary had registered to run in a 10 kilometer/ 6.2 mile race that Sunday. The race started at 8:45 a.m. There was also a marathon scheduled to begin 15 minutes earlier. Both races used the same starting line.
Georgene took off at the sound of the starting gun. Four miles down the road, as the race route took the runners out of downtown and into residential areas, Johnson said she experienced a sick feeling that she was possibly in the wrong race. A few minutes later, another runner confirmed her suspicions.
Instead of stopping and retracing her steps, she joined about 4,000 runners taking part in the Revco-Cleveland Marathon. Rather than quit, she decided to keep going and hung on to finish her first 26-mile race.
"As stupid as I felt out there running, I'm proud of myself," Johnson said after the race. "I guess I was in better shape than I thought. I feel fine."
Johnson finished the 26-mile marathon in four hours and four minutes, good enough for 83rd place in the women's division – definitely qualifying as one of her life’s defining moments. Why?
Until that time, her longest run was eight miles.
How will YOU choose to face the challenges ahead of you? Your 6.2 mile race might turn into a marathon.
As you reflect on this year, you might have stumbled on unexpected obstacles or been battered by the economy. Remember, it’s not our circumstances that define us, but how we respond to them.
The choice is yours… Finish Strong!
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Dianne CramptonDianne Crampton is an executive leadership coach, team culture consultant, author and president of TIGERS Success Series, Inc. Dianne has been helping CEO's and Executives connect their employees to their core values and goals for over 20 years using the trademarked TIGERS team culture process, which stands for trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. To download a free white paper on behaviors that build strong teams and behaviors that will predictably tear them down go here. Dianne's contribution to the 2010 Pfeiffer Consulting Journal (an imprint of John Wiley and Sons Publishers) entitled TIGERS Hearted Teams is available in November 2009. Her new book TIGERS Among Us: 5 Winning Business Team Cultures And Why, Three Creeks Publishing will release in March 2010. To receive publishing discounts, subscribe to the free TigerTracks Newsletter here. - Visit Dianne Crampton's Website |
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