Dream Like A Champion :

My father was a legendary skier who won 17 national titles and had a hand in developing the great ski areas at Sun Valley, Alta, and Aspen. I am not the champion he was … not even close. However, from him I learned lessons that can help you transform the changes you face into opportunities for growth. As he said so many times:

“Not everybody is going to be lucky enough to be a champion,
but everybody can dream like a champion.”

What you take away from the keynote presentation titled Dream Like A Champion featuring adventures and images from National Geographic assignments, global advertising campaigns, and photographing the worlds great golf courses is this thought:

Change is inevitable, but our destiny is not fixed.

We chose how we want to respond to change. We can let change overwhelm us, or we can embrace change as on opportunity to grow.

You learn how you can develop talents into skills as you watch Dick grow as a photographer from a teenager on a road trip pretending to be a photojournalist to traveling the world as a staff photographer for National Geographic.

In a dramatic series of pictures from the war in Vietnam, you experience how important connecting with people is in creating opportunities to grow both personally and professionally.

From Dick’s foray into advertising you discover that it is not enough to travel out into the world. We also have to explore our inner selves. Only when we understand ourselves can we harness our core talents to our core values and create possibility in life.

Isn’t that what we are all striving for … possibility in life?