How to Overcome Setbacks and Unlock Your Potential
Lessons learned from the World Marathon Challenge
Take a minute and think of all of the activities you have lined up for the upcoming week. Wake up early, take the kids to school, go to work, come home, make dinner for the family, work out, and so on and so on.
You’re going to be pretty busy, aren’t you?
Now imagine that in the next seven days your schedule is going to be made up of running seven marathons in seven days on seven continents (yes, even Antarctica). In a nutshell, that’s the World Marathon Challenge (WMC).
The thought of it exhausts me. One would have to be superhuman to do that. Or maybe not.
A gritty middle-aged diabetic superwoman
Linda Carrier has been living with type 1 diabetes since she was 14 years old. She’s now 57. For years she has needed an implantable insulin pump to keep her alive.
As a kid, she was full of energy and quickly learned that she had to carefully balance her food intake versus how much she played.
Some friends and family encouraged her to drop her vigorous activities and spend more time in quiet pursuits like drawing or reading.
