Overcoming disappointment
I've spent the last two weeks fully immersed in an Olympics bubble, and despite the fact I'll be glad to sleep at a normal time again, it will leave me feeling bereft when it finally ends, which it will have by the time I post this blog. There's been some amazing performances and jaw dropping stories of what the athletes have been through on their journey to Tokyo. The lucky few have realised a lifetime's dream and experienced a high like nothing else. Sadly, the other side of the story is those athletes who are left battered, bruised and disappointed, their Olympics dream in tatters. It got me thinking about disappointment, we've all been there but when things go wrong in full view of the eyes of the world, that's a whole new level of disappointment to contend with. At the Olympics you have varying degrees of disappointment, there's those athletes who are disappointed with Silver and Bronze, because in their eyes only Gold was good enough (jeez I'd...