Through positions I’ve held in businesses and other organizations, I’ve met and worked with prominent people in sports, entertainment, government and other walks of life. Perhaps that’s why I don’t get all aquiver when I meet the latest and greatest quarterback or governor. They're just people.
But, yesterday, I paddled kayak escort for Mimi Hughes, a woman who’s swimming the length of the Ohio River. This isn’t her first feat. She swam the length of the Tennessee River and also across the Bering Sea, from Alaska to Russia, among other things.
What strikes me most about her is that she doesn’t appear to be someone gifted with attributes at the high end of the bell curve. She just seems like an “ordinary person” who took control of her life, decided what she wanted to do and did what she had to do to accomplish things others would consider outside of the realm of possibilities.
Now that impresses me. And, gives hope to all the rest of us ordinary people.
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