It isn't until you're walking down the main corridor of the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy that you understand the magnitude of what stands before you. At the end of the hall you see him, towering seventeen feet tall, sculpted from marble and finely crafted by the hand of Michelangelo.

Winning is fun! Losing, well, not so much. I played soccer at Caprock High School in Amarillo, TX in the mid-eighties. I hate to say this but our soccer team was not a winning team, in fact, we were more like The Bad News Bears of soccer. I have to admit that our three-year losing streak was miserable. While we played to the best of our ability the other teams were just better at winning and we were better at losing. One of the unforeseen benefits of playing on a losing team is that I knew first-hand what it felt like to be a loser (think agony of defeat). I did the walk of shame on numerous occasions as we walked off the field and onto the bus, heads bowed and hearts cowed. Can you relate? What I couldn't know at the time was that being a loser was actually a gift that I would come to leverage to lead me to success in my adult and professional life. The gift was in losing and knowing intimately the pain and anguish that accompany it. The gift was in the embarrassment and pain of being a failure. Losing made me a winner! As I turned the corner into my adult and professional life, remembering my past losses fueled me to find ways to win. Losing was actually an advantage, it motivated me to get better, become a bigger person, and learn ways to succeed.

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