I am a sports junkie, a lot of things in my life always come back to sports somehow. I have been watching most of the Olympics and have totally been blow away by Michael Phelps. I have heard it asked when will Michael Phelps 15 minutes of fame run out. I’m not sure when he will stop being such a popular topic, probably a couple of weeks after the Olympics close, but right now he is one of the most popular topics on the news and the Web.
One of the reasons that I think that Phelps is so polarizing is simple; he delivered what he promised! Phelps said he was going to win 8 medals and He did! In an age where people will promise you everything under the sun, very few of them actually deliver.
Remember this?
Guess what, he made a promise; didn’t deliver.
The other thing that happens with people in this world is that they do what I call over promise and under deliver. Don’t tell people something, get there hopes up, and not do it. My 2 year old now understands that if I tell him that we are going to Wal-Mart and not go, he lets me know about it. Another example:
When Houston Nutt was introduced as the Razorbacks head coach in 1997 he told us that we had a “National Championship Under Construction”, still waiting, over promise under deliver.
Phelps promised and deliver, he did not under promised and not deliver. He will go down in history as one of the greatest athletes of all time. And he is someone that people can admire for his athletic ability!
Have a great day!
RL
