Cuban wins

This weekend I caught up on my blog reading backlog when I ran across a recent post on Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick. While you may not always agree with Cuban, you have to respect the man – from sharing his opinions to dancing on national television – he takes risks and steps into his vision.

While I admit, I don’t follow Dancing With the Stars, Cuban’s blog post on the day he was voted off might just make me watch!

Cuban wrote on Blog Maverick:

I hate to lose. Fortunately, i didn’t. Even though I didn’t get the votes to stay on as long as I hoped for. I won in every single way possible.Five time I got to experience the rush/fear/excitement of knowing that when the music starts 20mm people were going to see me do something for 90 seconds I had never done before, and while I did it, I had to find a way to put that aside and love every minute of it. I did. Thats a win.For 8 weeks I got to get up every morning knowing that no matter how sore I was, I had a goal that required me to challenge myself physically and mentally from 2 to 6 hours or more every single day. I did it. Ioved doing it, and I lost 30 lbs doing it. Thats a win.

Probably the most rewarding part of being on the show was just being able to be me.

I am often asked how to deal with the fear of starting something new – Cuban has summed it up nicely – embrace the rush/fear/excitment and love every minute of the dance!

When we challenge ourselves to do something we have never done before – to reach a crazy, scary goal – we wake ourselves up from the inertia of everyday life to realize our strength – now that’s certainly a win in my book!