Life Upgrade
a five minute motivational newsletter

Life Upgrade
a five minute motivational newsletter

Issue 37
By Master Coach Ginger Cockerham

Quote
Smile at the Impossible!
Life Upgrade Coaching Tip
~o^o~ Resources

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“To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.”
~ French proverb

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Heads turned in the coaching Intensive when Greg stood in the audience to talk about running in the Marathon des Sables, the toughest footrace on earth. Six hundred runners from thirty countries had trekked 150 miles across the Sahara desert of Morocco for seven days while carrying all their own food and gear. They were provided only with 9 liters of water and an open-sided Berber tent each night.

Greg stood before us a be speckled small guy with an impish grin and a Clark Kent persona. We sat mesmerized as he recounted his desert experience. “Why did you do it?” I asked later. “Good question,” he responded, “I wanted to know what I was really capable of doing, and when my best friend in the world agreed to run with me, I couldn’t resist.” He said signing the registration form was the scariest moment of all.

Greg ran one day in a sand storm with temperatures reaching 145 degrees, and another day when a driving rain drenched the runners. He said he was able to continue and even laugh at the impossibility of it all. What did he come home with? He said he came to realize that whatever life challenges he faced, he was up for them.

Greg stirred my heart. He was not Superman! He is an ordinary man who had tapped into his own reservoir of immense strength and confidence, and he inspired me to look past the impossibles I impose in my life and smile at all that is now possible.

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