So incredible Jia! Watching you on this journey has been a gift in so many ways to me. Here's my gift back to you via my honest reflection.
You have inspired me so much MORE from how you've handled not hitting your 10K goal, than if you would have hit it. It takes guts to aim for the stars and you're so right. 85-year-old You won't give a flying fudgesicle that you didn't get to 10K in 100 days.
Instead, 85-year-old You will be smiling back at the fact that you chose to set foot in the arena. That you declared this outrageous goal publicly! So that your "place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat" as T.R. liked to say.
I think we learn more through "failure" (aka the acquisition of life lessons that we can only get through having the courage to try) than we do from success.
Thank you for being such a role model on how to set absurdly big goals and navigate moving toward them with grace, humor, and a big smile on your face. You're the man.
Jia, Congratulations! You say it so well, "Proclaiming an impossible ambition, turning it public, living with both the dream and the embarrassment, and through it all, having the time of your life."
So incredible Jia! Watching you on this journey has been a gift in so many ways to me. Here's my gift back to you via my honest reflection.
You have inspired me so much MORE from how you've handled not hitting your 10K goal, than if you would have hit it. It takes guts to aim for the stars and you're so right. 85-year-old You won't give a flying fudgesicle that you didn't get to 10K in 100 days.
Instead, 85-year-old You will be smiling back at the fact that you chose to set foot in the arena. That you declared this outrageous goal publicly! So that your "place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat" as T.R. liked to say.
I think we learn more through "failure" (aka the acquisition of life lessons that we can only get through having the courage to try) than we do from success.
Thank you for being such a role model on how to set absurdly big goals and navigate moving toward them with grace, humor, and a big smile on your face. You're the man.
I hope I never have to take you up on that kidney, but THANKS for the offer! And congrats!
That is indeed a miracle last day, biggest congrats, Jia!
Jia, Congratulations! You say it so well, "Proclaiming an impossible ambition, turning it public, living with both the dream and the embarrassment, and through it all, having the time of your life."