I wasn’t surprised by this article when I read it and the reasoning is because of a story about my daughter.
My daughter
is a known fish in the water; she is a self taught swimmer with little
direction. She has been in the water
before she could walk. During the
summers I can’t even bribe her with candy to get out of the pool. Only thing I have
ever really told her no fear, hold your breath and blow out your nose. That isn’t the case for me, I love being by
the water but nothing more than floating or relaxing and I HATE getting my face
wet.
With the swimming
trials in town over the summer, I took my daughter to them and she said one day
she will be on that stage to swim for the United States. I explained that is a great goal and there
are several steps she needs to take to get there. Well I placed my daughter in swimming school at
Brownell-Talbot so she can start to compete during the summers. While I was waiting for her lesson to start
and looking around I asked who’s metal was in the case. Sure enough it was Ryan Lochte’s. I have never seen my daughters eyes get so
big when she heard, even with this entire Elf on the Shelf business going on at
my house. She was so excited to see the
metal in person I think it really was a motivator.
This
article in reference is about Ryan giving back. He had an experience when he
was a child and he mentor told him no, which clearly had a huge impact on him.
The reason
why I am writing about this is because if there is big things that Dave is
always teaching his direct reports, business partners and many more people is
to give back. He has a proven track
record of giving the knowledge he has gained over the years back to his kids, employees,
and clients. In general you always know
when he if giving you advice or information because I have notice he talks just
a little faster. The reason is probably
because he has so much crammed in throughout the day. I doubt he knows that but I take it as a
test, if you can leave the conversation with everything he said and your own
game plan, then you passed.
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/good-sports/201212/lochte-gives-away-medals-after-world-championships
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/good-sports/201212/lochte-gives-away-medals-after-world-championships
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