A short motivational monologue recounting an Olympic athlete who set audacious, written-and-declared goals and—through daily journaling, verbal declarations, belief, and repeated visualization—exceeded them. The excerpt emphasizes that persistent self-talk and the words one uses shape actions and outcomes: 'Your words become your world.'
I was reminded of a story of an Olympic athlete who, the whole year prior to the Olympics, when they sat down with their coach and their trainers to set their goals towards the Olympics, they set outrageous goals, Goals that far exceeded anything they had achieved up to that point. Farther distances, faster times, everything. And at the outset, they sounded crazy. They sounded unachievable and unrealistic. But every day, she wrote those goals down in her journal, the same goals. And she wrote them as declarations, as if they were already done. I am going to run. X, I am going to throw the javelin. Y. I am going to. All of these things, very specific, as if she had done them already. They were declarations, as if they were fact. And you know what happened? She exceeded, achieved and exceeded every one of those goals that she had written down. But she repeated them over and over, wrote them in paper, declared them out loud, thought them in her head, believed in herself. And the power of those words caused her actions that whole year to respond in a manner that moved her towards everything she needed to accomplish and achieve that objective. Your words become your world.
