A Lesson in Resilience
In 1983, a 61-year-old Australian farmer named Cliff Young entered one of the toughest races on Earth — the Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon. That’s 544 miles. Six days of running. Nonstop.
You’ll see how the resilience of Cliff Young is unparalleled and will challenge you to greater things.
Cliff showed up in overalls and wellies! No sponsors, no coach, no fancy gear. Just the belief that he could do it.
Everyone laughed at first. They were younger, faster, and trained like…well, runners. He trained on his farm, chasing down his sheep. And Cliff didn’t run like any of them.
Actually, he didn’t run like anyone. He shuffled.
But here’s the thing:
While the others stopped to sleep, Cliff kept going.
No dramatic sprints. No spotlight moments.
Just a slow, steady, almost stubborn kind of movement.
He ran like time itself — slow, constant, unstoppable.
And he won. Nearly 10 hours ahead of the next runner.
Like a thunderstorm on a sunny day, he surprised them all.
Unexpected and impossible to ignore.
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I think about that a lot. How he turned the whole race upside down just by not stopping. No hacks, no shortcuts, just forward motion.
It makes me wonder: what if progress isn’t about being fast but steady?
I don’t know what you’re working on right now — maybe it’s something big, maybe something personal — but if it’s starting to feel slow, or like you’re behind… maybe you’re just running your own kind of race.
And maybe the real win isn’t about how fast you go.
Maybe it’s about never quitting.
~ Keep shuffling ~
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