A True Story About Why You Should Never Get Up On Your Dreams
Joshua Miller
Master Certified Executive Leadership Coach | Linkedin Top Voice | TEDx Speaker | Linkedin Learning Author ?? Coaching Fortune 500 leaders by upgrading their MINDSET, SKILLSET + PERFORMANCE
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Something Serious:
There was a 9th grader down in the San Antonio area who was attempting to make his HS swim team. Things weren't coming easily for him. Eventually after a few weeks of struggling he was summoned by his Coach to the pool deck after his practice.
His Mom was standing beside him when the Coach told the 9th grader "It would probably be a good idea if he were to find another sport."?
?Most people would have been devastated by news like that.
But as the 9th grader and his Mom walked off that pool deck that afternoon and he looked at his Mom and said: "I guess I could go find another sport...or I can go find another Coach."
And so began the journey of this 9th grader that would lead him to become the fastest 200-yard freestyler in the state of Texas by the time he was in 12th grade.
Who would then go on to become one of the best to ever come out of the University of Texas.
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He would then go on to become an Olympian at the 1996 games in Atlanta (Gold medal), and actually Captain of the US Olympic Team in Sydney in 2000.
That 9th grader? Josh Davis.
And that pool where he was told to go find another sport?
It was renovated years later and ultimately renamed.
The name of that pool today? The Josh Davis Natatorium.
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Joshua Miller?is a Master Certified?Executive Coach,?who sets up Fortune 500 emerging and senior leaders for future success by upgrading their mindset, skillset, and performance so they can lead with purpose.
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