Today . . . I am thinking about what it takes to compete with men and women half or sometimes two-thirds your age at an Olympic event.
Don't put an age limit on your dreams.
The oldest male athlete competing in the Beijing Olympics is sixty-seven-year-old Hiroshi Hoketsu, a dressage rider for the Japanese equestrian team. Fifty-six-year-old Libby Callahan is the oldest female. A retired Washington D.C. police officer, she finished 25th in the 25-meter pistol.
American swimmer Dara Torres, forty-one-year-old mother to two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Tessa, is the oldest Olympic swimmer ever. Dara won three silver medals in the 2008 Games, missing gold by one one-hundredth of a second. And she's not done yet. Feeling as if she has "unfinished business," Dara hinted in an interview with CBS News that she's considering swimming at the 2009 World Championships in Rome.
What do Hiroshi, Libby, and Dara have to say to mom entrepreneurs? Don't put any limits on yourself. Dreams are ageless. Is there anything you're now doing that you thought you were too old to do?
Susan L. Reid
The original Accidental Pren-her™
Award-winning author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success
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