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Joanna is a collegiate rower who is highly gifted. She was a contender for the US Rowing National Team, before her eighteenth birthday. She was a fierce competitor and able to push herself to extremes, from stadium climbs and long runs to grueling lifting sessions. She is the type of athlete others view simply as a “winner.” She receives little feedback from coaches about how to improve. She is mentally tough and emotionally steady. What is there to improve? The answer came from a question she asked me: “Is counting strokes all through a practice a good or bad thing to do?”
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Baltzell, A., Summers, J. (2017). The Power of Acceptance: Labeling (Module 2, Part A). In: The Power of Mindfulness. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70410-4_7
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