Winning This Year
The news of Stuart Scott hit me hard. As a teenager, I dreamed of blazing the trail as the first female NFL Commentator. Enter Lesley Visser, Suzy Kolber and Pam Oliver and that dream subsided. However, I still get the itch each time I see a new lady with a microphone on ESPN or watch Around the Horn. I would SO dominate on that show…drop the mic.
Back to Stuart Scott. As the news swirled through my social media world, I read article after article, tribute after tribute. His well-known catch phrases were quoted repeatedly, “Boo-Yah,” “As cool as the other side of the pillow,” and “He must be the bus driver cuz he was takin’ him to school.”
Then I read Scott’s comment about cancer from his acceptance speech for the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance; “When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.”
BOO-YAH! Like a ton a bricks, like a slap in the face, like a grand awakening, there it was. In small script, jumping off my iPhone screen, so eloquently stated, was the New Year’s resolution I’d been searching for: You win by how you live.
You win by how you live.
You win by why you live.
You win by the manner in which you live.
In 2015, I resolve to live fully, meaningfully, purposefully, and fiercely. And in 2015, I will win.
Scott never revealed what kind of cancer he was fighting. Which I find so smart! Brilliant really! Quite genius! At the end of the day, at the end of his life, a specific type of cancer did not define Scott; he was not defined at all by cancer. He was defined as a man who won. And win he did. He won as a father, as a career man, as a man, as a human. He won by teaching each person who watched his seven-year battle that you can either be defined by what affects you or by how you choose to react, by how you choose to live. And he lived. Onward.
How will you choose to live? Today? Tomorrow? This year? This life?
Do you choose to live flatly? Inconsequentially? Aimlessly? Cowardly?
Or will you choose to live fully? Meaningfully? Purposefully? Fiercely?
I challenge you to rise when you enter one of life’s valleys until you reach the mountaintop.
I challenge you to not be defined by what affects you, but how you react to it.
I challenge you to resolve to win in your life, today and everyday.
Challenge Accepted? Challenge Accepted.
{I would love to hear your 2015 resolutions in the comments below!}
About the Author
Hi! I’m Stephanie Melish, the Double-Tall, Non-Fat, No-Whip Sales Barista. I spent years working around the clock to make someone else’s dream a reality—that is, until I decided to take the scary and exciting leap into a dream of my own. Now I’m living the reality I want, and that means I get to spend every day helping my clients to achieve success, however they define it.
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About Stephanie
Hi! I’m Stephanie Melish, the Double-Tall, Non-Fat, No-Whip Sales Barista. I spent years working around the clock to make someone else’s dream a reality—that is, until I decided to take the scary and exciting leap into a dream of my own. Now I’m living the reality I want, and that means I get to spend every day helping my clients to achieve success, however they define it.
My 2015 resolution kickstarts with becoming a Gitomer Certified Advisor later this month. It’s already begun in my blog, creating content with past and future articles to help my industry. It’s continued in the mentorship that I can provide to my fellow colleagues and the inspiration I receive from the mentors that I look up to. As one of those mentors tells me "Smile As Loud As You Can Every Day". We don’t know what the future holds…but we can choose to Live To Win….Every Day. Thanks Stephanie for sharing. 🙂