If you have turned on the t.v. or read the paper at all in the last week you'd know

that the east coast has enough snow to go 'round for next year's winter, Tiger Woods is very sorry, AND... the winter Olympics rock!! Beautiful Vancouver sets the backdrop for countries coming together with their courage, dedication, their whole country's pride, determination, and heart on display.  What an amazing event the Olympics is.  We get to experience the triumph and dissapointment, heartache and glory, all through watching and reading about the games, athletes/coaches, and their families.  These athletes, work so hard to get to where they are in their sport.  They dedicate most of their time and sacrifice most of their social life (Bode Miller manages to balance both) for their event, their passion, which could end up with a medal or the heartache of an injury, or a disqualification.  You never know what can happen at the Olympics.  There is magic happening in Vancouver and the athletes from around the world continue to amaze us with their heart and love for the games. 

  I hope you have been watching or reading about the games. If not, look it up - the internet has a lot of coverage too.  I hope it inspires you like it has many around the world.  We too, can dedicate and strive to excel at our craft.  Whatever it is we do, or want to do, we can put forth the effort to succeed too.  It's not just the olympians, or professionals that dedicate.  We can and we will experience the positive outcome and results too.  When we put out that effort to better ourselves the payoff is always a positive.  We've shown ourselves we too can set goals, put our heart into something we love and enjoy our improvement and success along the way.

  Enjoy the final week of the winter games folks, it will be over before we know it.  The inspiration we take away from experiencing the games hopefully will never end.