“By small and simple things are great things brought brought to pass” Alma 37:6
The term “raise the bar” was coined in the early 1900s from the sports of pole vaulting and high jumping, where a bar was incrementally raised. I love the pattern of incremental growth and have seen a bar move in my own sport of ninja. When I first began my ninja training, to swing 6’ through the air and catch a bar seemed impossible! However, as I practiced, fell, and got up again, eventually I succeeded in catching that bar. Then the bar moved: 7’, 8’, 9’, 10’, and just this past year I was able to clear 11’!
This same principle holds true for Katrina Rasmussen, an Olympic weightlifting and CrossFit athlete and coach. Trina holds multiple state and national records in her age group and weight class. She began with just a 45 lb bar, but a few pounds at a time, over the years, she has grown to be able to put 265 lbs above her head!
Little repeated actions, little habits over time compound to great achievements. Raise the bar, try, fall, and grow. More is possible than you know.
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