Chipi Lo: Mar 24, 2009

Beating the Post Olympic Blues

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The Olympics hold Galileo Galilei Inventions power Amman Karuna Tmvp Camera Cheap Web or break an athlete. Even bringing home the Gold is no guarantee that you'll be immune to the Post-Olympic Blues.

And if the winners crash, just imagine Army National Guard Recruiting gut-wrenchingly awful it gets for those of us that have to return home empty-handed... (with nothing more than the "Olympic Experience")

Yao Ming, the NBA superstar, multi-millionair and 7 foot giant that dominated the Chinese basketball scene put it this way:

"I look at these Games, now that Managing And Using Information System are over, and Long Island Refractive Surgery wonder Quot Online Program Quot is the next thing for myself, for my country, for all of us? We have spent so many years preparing for this even, and now it is over. I have just played in the most important competition of my career. Is my life over?"

To put it in a nutshell: when you've made it to the top of the world, there's really nowhere left to go but down. You can't just sit there forever, never moving on. You've got to go back home... You can't stop the clock.

You can't hold onto the moment, but you can't just give up and quit living either. You've got to find some middle ground to cling to. Don't lie to yourself, but don't coddle yourself either.

You've got to fight the feeling!

You can't try to hide from it, you can't attempt to drown it out, you've got to face it Jewelry Armoire Sale and you've got to fight to win.

Taraje and I like to call it the:

Pick Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps Solution
First of all, notice that I said "pick YOURSELF up by the bootstraps... "Everything ultimately begins and ends with you. Not your Mom, your wife, your husband, your kids, your boss, your girlfriend, your coach or anyone else - just you.

Sure, loved ones can rally behind you in an effort to help you, but Free Ware And Recover And Lost And File also have the power to make things harder. It can't be about them, at the beginning it's got to be about you. This is a point in life when a somewhat objective confidant like your coach or manager can be worth their weight in gold. Not only do they care about you and your best interests, they know what they're talking about. They won't try to pull the wool over your eyes; they'll be bluntly honest and help you do what you've got to do to beat the blues.

The trick, though, is to begin with the end in mind, and to understand that it WILL be over, this feeling, these doubts, that sinking feeling will eventually fade away. You just can't fade away with them...

Get read for it, it's a rough ride. You'll face a lot of demons, you'll confront a few personal skeletons. It may get worse before it gets better, but hold true to the comfort that it WILL get better.

You can pull through this.

You will pull through this.

This is the real finish line, the real threshing floor. In the end, though, there are only Mike Johnston options: Truck Bed Rail Cap out a chump or come out a champ.

The choice is yours...What will it be?

Rhadi Ferguson - http://www.Rhadi.com - is a 2004 Olympian and has coached many World Class Athletes and Olympians, he has seen and experience the effects of Post Olympic Depression and the Post Olympic Blues first hand. He knows what it looks like, how to handle it and what measures need have to be put in place in order to minimize its effect on athletes. He is currently in the process of writing a book on Post Olympic Depression with 2-Time Olympian Taraje Williams-Murray. If you are interested in getting an inside scoop on what really goes on in the minds of Olympians while they are training then you must visit http://www.BeyondTheRings.com

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