{"id":13022,"date":"2018-03-22T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=13022"},"modified":"2018-03-22T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:01:07","slug":"words-of-wisdom-inspiration-from-a-u-s-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/words-of-wisdom-inspiration-from-a-u-s-olympian\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Wisdom &#038; Inspiration from a U.S. Olympian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only met Alice Mckennis a few times, but I&#8217;ve always admired her love of ski racing and the tenacity she has applied to our sport to find the success she has demonstrated recently (5th in the Olympic DH; 3rd in the World Cup DH at Are, Sweden). But my respect and appreciation for Alice has grown exponentially after reading a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alicemckennis.com\/blog\">recent post on her blog<\/a>. To be totally honest, it brought me to tears of admiration and inspiration for all that she has gone through to arrive at this pinnacle of ski racing success.<\/p>\n<p>Alice&#8217;s short, yet powerful, blog post is packed full of nuggets of wisdom and inspiration that every young ski racer (and some older ones too) can benefit from. They are topics that I have written on many times in the past, but the messages carry so much more oomph when they come from someone like Alice. Here is a summary of my takeaways from the post (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Believe in yourself and your dream;<\/li>\n<li>Have hope;<\/li>\n<li>Be patient, be persistent, and persevere;<\/li>\n<li>Own everything that impacts your ski racing and life;<\/li>\n<li>Focus on individual progress, not comparison to others;<\/li>\n<li>Trust the road you&#8217;re on;<\/li>\n<li>Ski for yourself;<\/li>\n<li>Good enough isn&#8217;t good enough;<\/li>\n<li>Never be satisfied or get complacent (especially when you&#8217;re successful);<\/li>\n<li>Constantly push your limits;<\/li>\n<li>Focus on the right things (i.e., what needs to be changed);<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t think or worry about dumb stuff;<\/li>\n<li>Focus on what you can control (and let go of everything else);<\/li>\n<li>Earn, expect, and give respect (from and to self and others);<\/li>\n<li>Let passion be the fuel that drives you;<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the details that make the difference;<\/li>\n<li>Be vulnerable;<\/li>\n<li>Seek out support (you can&#8217;t get to the top alone).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12843 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Atomic-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Atomic\" width=\"183\" height=\"72\" \/>But PLEASE read Alice&#8217;s entire post. It is so worth it and my above list doesn&#8217;t do justice to the power of her words (and heart!).<\/p>\n<p>And, finally, a huge BRAVO to you, Alice, and all my best as you savor your efforts and successes of this year and prepare for another big season next year!<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><strong><i>Want to get your mind in the best shape of your life so you can perform your best when it matters most? Take a look at my latest book,\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781442277090\/Train-Your-Mind-for-Athletic-Success-Mental-Preparation-to-Achieve-Your-Sports-Goals\"><b><i>Train Your Mind for Athletic Success<\/i><\/b><\/a><strong><i>: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals\u00a0and at my online courses for\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/prime-ski-racing-online-courses\/\"><b><i>ski racers<\/i><\/b><\/a><strong><i>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/prime-sport-online-courses\/\"><b><i>athletes in other sports<\/i><\/b><\/a><strong><i>.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only met Alice Mckennis a few times, but I&#8217;ve always admired her love of ski racing and the tenacity she has applied to our sport to find the success she has demonstrated recently (5th in the Olympic DH; 3rd in the World Cup DH at Are, Sweden). But my respect and appreciation for Alice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1516,1517],"tags":[1179,394,153,155,61],"class_list":["post-13022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ski-racing","category-sports","tag-alice-mckennis","tag-mental-training","tag-ski-racing-2","tag-sport-psychology","tag-sports-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}