Get Ya Mind Right Monday: Overcome "Olympic" style obstacles
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Watching the olympics? If you are, you may have caught the 10k race, with winner Mo Farah overcoming an obstacle that would have curbed many others.
I took away a very powerful lesson from watching the race...Obstacles are only obstacles if you let them be. Enjoy today's episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Get your mind right Monday. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Olympic time, man. |
| 0:09.0 | It's funny. |
| 0:12.0 | Those of you with kids, those of you who are full-time entrepreneurs can relate. |
| 0:18.0 | But when you have children or you have a business, which is just like having |
| 0:22.8 | children, and I've got five kids along with my business, so I guess I got six kids. When |
| 0:29.7 | big sporting events come along, sometimes you get caught by surprise because you don't even |
| 0:34.2 | realize they were going on. So somehow I missed like the whole NBA season this year, caught the game seven, and then now |
| 0:42.6 | we got the Olympics going on. |
| 0:43.9 | So I was actually at the Avalon, which is a $5 or $5.5 nickel arcade with my kids this |
| 0:49.9 | weekend. |
| 0:50.5 | I think it was Saturday, right? |
| 0:52.7 | And the Olympics were on. They had two big screens |
| 0:56.2 | and it was Olympics going on. And it was a 10,000 meter run with Mo Fara, Gailen Rupp. |
| 1:04.9 | Gailen Rupp's actually from Portland, trains in the gym that I used to train out of. |
| 1:11.5 | So anyway, I'm watching this race. |
| 1:14.0 | And if you guys haven't seen it already, what happens was Mo Farrah, he's the, he's the, |
| 1:19.9 | won the gold last time. |
| 1:22.3 | And I'm pretty sure he was the favorite to win this time. |
| 1:24.9 | All the cameras are on him. |
| 1:26.5 | And what happens is he |
| 1:27.9 | actually trips halfway throughout the race, falls down. Of course, he gets back up and he keeps going. |
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