Monday Motivation….. February 24, 2025 (735)
In 1983, everyone was in for a surprise. On the day of the race, a guy named Cliff Young showed up. At first, no one cared about him since everybody thought he was there to watch the event. After all, he was 61 years old, and was wearing overalls and gumboots. For five days Cliff kept running, never stopping to sleep, whilst all others did. When asked his plan, he said it was simply, ‘to run to the finish line”. While they were sleeping, Cliff slowly passed all other runners. Not only did he run the Melbourne to Sydney race at age 61, without sleeping, or dying, he ended up winning the race by 10 hours, beating the record for that distance by a full 9 hours.
Sixty-one year old Cliff Young finished the 875 kilometer race in 5 days, 15 hours and 4 minutes. He didn’t sleep because he didn’t know that he was supposed to; saying that he just kept imagining that he was chasing sheep and trying to outrun a storm.
Moral:
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek!
Have a great week ahead…!
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