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 embrace the changes you face into opportunities to grow. 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 is this thought:

Change is inevitable, but your destiny is not fixed.

You chose how you want to respond to change. You can let change overwhelm you, or you can embrace change as on opportunity to grow.

You learn how you can develop your 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 it is to connect with people 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 you understand yourself can you harness your natural talents to your core values and create possibility in life.

Isn’t that what we are all trying to do … create possibility in life?