Lindsey Vonn Has Heart and Attitude!

The 28-year-old Olympic medalist and World Cup Skiing Champion, Lindsey Vonn severely injured her knee after a horrific crash during a World Cup race in Austria. Vonn is determined that she will be ready to compete in the Winter Olympics in February of 2104.

The Doctor who is overseeing her recovery ahead the 2013 Winter Olympic Games said, “But I can't emphasize enough how upbeat she's been through all of this. She's very goal-oriented. She's got her sights set on these next two years.”

As for Vonn herself, she tweeted, “Success! Surgery went very well yesterday and I'm recovering at home in vail with my family. I want to sincerely thank everyone for their well wishes these last few days. It's going to be a long and hard road back but I will be back!! Xoxo”

Vonn is demonstrating the third and fourth principles of the Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi model in spades, Heart and Attitude.

In Don’t Seek Success – Be Happi I talk about the mental heart.

A mental heart means you have the courage to engage in challenges and overcome obstacles with passion, determination, dedication, and stamina.

Passion simply means that you do what you do out of love.

Determination is a single minded focus in achieving a goal.

Determination is the anchor to which all other qualities are tied.

Stamina is the physical and moral strength to resist or withstand hardship and stress. Stamina is synonymous with endurance, enduring energy, strength, resilience, staying power, toughness, grit, vigor, and tenacity.

Vonn also is showing us what a wonderful attitude can do. Confucius observed, ―Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.‖Vonn could easily have a woe is me attitude less only a year away from the Olympics and facing a long and painful road of recovery and returning to world class form.  Instead of bitterness and anger, her state of mind is, I can do it, “I will be back!!”

All of can learn and thing or two about Heart and Attitude from Lindsey Vonn. Best Wishes to Lindsey for a speedy recovery and good luck to her next year in the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Be Great!

MB