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child watching sports winter snow on the ground, excitement all around, disappointment when there are no successes for to cheer, on the field, in summer heat, people of all sorts, dressed in shorts and shoes with cleats or on the court with nets and lines, or teams which have personalities unto themselves greater than any one individual, but it starts with one one glimmer one idea one shimmer one hope one heart, one mind, one body, one purpose, one aspiration one respiration                         of many, many, many, many, many more, one dream        go ahead and dream, give yourself permission one goal, one plan, one step at a step at a step at a time, one time one fall and another and another and get up             keep getting up and                       start by taking licence plate numbers of what is knocking you down, one word of encouragement one passion, one cry one exertion one no quit, just do, no try one race, one training session after another until you no longer remember how many, one rest, one injury remember that part about not quitting,                                             stop sitting, on one couch one bed, unless it is just for rest, one water, times eight maybe a myth to rehydrate but no good to dehydrate, one day and multiply and multiply and multiply one race, one standard, one Olympic dream, One place on the podium One Gold Medal, many people have completed by different paths and routes from different countries and one truth, but even teams, that become one start with one, individual. ©DWE022014
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Feb 20, 2014
Feb 20, 2014 at 12:50 AM UTC
but it starts with one
child watching sports winter snow on the ground, excitement all around, disappointment when there are no successes for to cheer, on the field, in summer heat, people of all sorts, dressed in shorts and shoes with cleats or on the court with nets and lines, or teams which have personalities unto themselves greater than any one individual, but it starts with one one glimmer one idea one shimmer one hope one heart, one mind, one body, one purpose, one aspiration one respiration                         of many, many, many, many, many more, one dream        go ahead and dream, give yourself permission one goal, one plan, one step at a step at a step at a time, one time one fall and another and another and get up             keep getting up and                       start by taking licence plate numbers of what is knocking you down, one word of encouragement one passion, one cry one exertion one no quit, just do, no try one race, one training session after another until you no longer remember how many, one rest, one injury remember that part about not quitting,                                             stop sitting, on one couch one bed, unless it is just for rest, one water, times eight maybe a myth to rehydrate but no good to dehydrate, one day and multiply and multiply and multiply one race, one standard, one Olympic dream, One place on the podium One Gold Medal, many people have completed by different paths and routes from different countries and one truth, but even teams, that become one start with one, individual. ©DWE022014
Do you have a dream, that you have carried from childhood and don't go there anymore, revisit as CS Lewis said "you are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" Inspired by Olympians everywhere, which I have watched as long as they have been carried on TV, oh and I am not naive, but that does not stop a dream either
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Feb 20, 2014
Feb 20, 2014 at 12:50 AM UTC
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