Michael Phelps (born 30th of June in 1985)

A legendary sportsman who is now the owner of a World record with 22 Olympic Games medals Michael Phelps takes a very important place in the sport history. Starting his career as a professional swimmer in a teenage Michael shortly set up new World records in different disciplines. This unique sportsman started gaining his success with a great passion to win and always be the first. Definitely, this ability might be an ideal for a person who wants to achieve the goals and work as much hard as it is needed. Being always motivated to become the best ambitious Michael was developing his skills more and more by hardworking trainings. It seems that tactic and confidence made him a superstar at the Athens Olympic Games winning eight medals six of which were gold. That was a beginning of his great success in the most prestigious sport competition. Michael Phelps says there are a few rules he has used through the way of success which are: preparation, the will to win, persistence and obsession, and focusing. These are the keys that helped this swimmer get the world-wide fame and win 22 medals during three Olympic Games. In 2004, when Phelps came third to the finish, somehow that experience affected his career in a good way. Thus, losing motivated him to work harder trying to swim faster and beat the opponents during the next Games. Secondly, Michael spend a lot of time on preparation, because It comes down to deciding what’s important to you and in realizing that while ‘practice may not make perfect, it will make better.’

Work backwards from the end goal, and decide what steps need to be taken and make a plan to follow through with it. Moreover, in order to reach such success it is really important to keep focusing on training and better results. It is about to stick to one thing and always push trough to the end until it is complete and done. According to Phelps, focusing has been responsible for most results he has achieved. Finally, one of Michael’s abilities that he has developed through his career is persistence and obsession. It’s easy for us to look at successful people at what they do and because they make it look so simple, we think that they have some innate talent or magical ability to do it. That’s either because you don’t think you can succeed, or because you don’t want to think of success as work.