The 2026 Winter Olympics reminds us that excellence isn’t about perfection. It’s about showing up in terrible conditions and executing anyway. It’s about returning to what you love after walking away. It’s about doing the impossibly difficult thing and being proud when you come up half a point short. It’s about carrying both joy and grief to the podium and knowing that both belong there.

“I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my Read More.

We are all different, doing different things, living different lives, coming to this point in time, right now as you read these words from different trajectories with different backgrounds and circumstances. So why do we think we all need to do the same things, look the same way, act like everyone else and live the same lives? The obvious answer is that we don’t!