Hi, I'm Olivia, and today's Happy Nugget! comes from Simone Biles, the amazing
American gymnast, Olympic gold medalist, and three time World All-Around Champion.
Simone Biles is one of the most decorated and talented gymnasts of all time.
She has won the most World Championship gold medals by a female gymnast in history, and
among here many records and achievements, she is the first woman to win three consecutive
World All-Around titles.
Beyond her extraordinary talent, to watch Simone Biles leap and soar through the air
is to watch joy in motion, graceful, powerful, and brilliant.
Her positivity and her smile are infectious.
From her wonderful book "Courage to Soar," speaking on failure Simone Biles said,
"I'd missed making the junior national team by one spot.
One.
I kept a smile plastered on my face as an announcer called each new team member
to the stage.
The rest of us stood on the sidelines as the chosen ones laughed and high-fived and hugged
each other.
As devastated as I felt, I was still happy for the other girls; they'd worked hard
to make it this far.
Still, I had to swallow my own disappointment as I watched photographers snap pictures that
would later appear in "USA Gymnastics" magazine, "Sports Illustrated," "Time
for Kids."
All the glossies I'd pored over in my bedroom at home, admiring the gymnasts who'd reached
the top of the sport.
Tears were bubbling up inside me, but I refused to let the other girls or the coaches see
me cry.
I kept telling myself I'd done my best, trying to drown out the little voice in my
head that whispered, But did you really?
Couldn't you have worked a little harder?
Why didn't you do more?
The truth is that my heart was breaking.
I had come to Nationals with a goal of making the 2011 team, and it didn't happen.
I simply hadn't been good enough."
Simone Biles was born in 1997 in Columbus, Ohio.
Her biological mother got involved with drugs and alcohol and wasn't able to properly
care for her children.
When Simone was three-years old, she and her siblings were put in foster care.
Her foster parents were kind, but Simone's grandfather was moving heaven and earth in
order to be able to take in his grandkids.
A few months later Simone and her siblings went to live with their grandparents.
A year later after getting attached, they were separated.
Eventually, after prolonged legal complications, when Simone was six-years-old, her grandparents
officially adopted her and her younger sister, becoming their parents.
Simone was an energetic child, constantly on the move, jumping on the trampoline, doing
summersaults and back flips, fearless and stubborn, roughhousing with her older brothers.
When Simone was six, she took a school field trip to a tumbling gym and was instantly fascinated
by the gymnastics equipment, copying the skills the older gymnasts were practicing.
Soon after, Simone joined a Junior Olympics Gymnastics Program, quickly advancing through
the various levels of skill and difficulty, but when Simone reached the higher levels
she struggled.
She has raw talent and physical power and while some gymnastics skills came easily to her
on the floor, vault and beam because of her short height and small hands, she struggled
on the high bar, but to pursue an elite gymnastics career she would have to master all four events.
Simone kept pushing herself and she received phenomenal guidance from her coach who never
hesitated to push Simone to give the best of herself, but who was always there to remind
her to enjoy herself, and to have fun doing the sport she loved.
Until Simone was fourteen, she hadn't been on anyone's radar as a possible candidate
for a spot in the USA Gymnastics National Team, but that year she was invited to the
famous Károlyi gymnastics ranch in Texas.
Simone wasn't used to the serious and hard-core training atmosphere at the Károlyi ranch.
She realized that if she wanted to move to the next level, she would have to embrace
a more intensive style of training.
That gymnastics could be fun and games, but that she also had to start seeing it as work
In 2011, when Simone Biles failed to make the USA Junior National Team, she was devastated,
facing the choice of whether to push herself harder and continue on the path of an elite
gymnastics career or not.
Simone struggled because she desperately wanted to attend high school with her friends,
go to football games, homecoming dances, find dates to the prom, but a more intensive schedule
of training would mean being homeschooled.
Simone couldn't have an elite gymnastics career and a normal high school experience.
The choice she had to make would require a sacrifice.
For weeks, the question at the dinner table every night was which path Simone would choose.
In her journey to decide, Simone remembered something her father had told her, "Never
squander what God has given you."
With her ability to do gymnastics in a powerful way, her love of the sport and her passion
for competition, Simone Biles chose the path of an elite gymnastics career, and when she
made that choice in her heart, she flew higher than anyone else ever has.
Again from her book,
"There was nothing in me that wanted to stop.
In fact, I was already dreaming of performing as an elite-level gymnast and making the national
team.
And although the 2012 Olympics were still four years away, I secretly fantasized about
going with the team to London.
But I had a problem.
'My birthday is on March 14, so I will only be fifteen the year of 2012,'
I wrote in a five-subject notebook that I'd turned into my diary.
My coach had explained that to compete in the Olympics, I'd have to turn sixteen within
the Olympic year.
'I won't turn sixteen until 2013, then I will have to wait a long time,' I continued
in my diary.
I knew that many gymnasts got injured, had already peaked, or simply lost the motivation
to compete by age nineteen, which was how old I'd be when the next Olympics rolled
around.
There was no way to tell what my story would be eight years into the future.
'I don't know if I will make it,' I scribbled.
Feeling deflated, I closed the notebook and rested it on my nightstand.
I switched off the lamp and turned over to go to sleep.
After staring into the dark for a few minutes, I switched back on the light,
picked up the notebook, and wrote one more sentence:
'I want to go the farthest I can.'
Simone Biles took every apparent failure and disappointment in her performances as an opportunity
to improve.
She didn't give up.
She realized that she hadn't failed, but that she just hadn't succeeded yet.
A person can only fail if they stop trying, if they refuse to pick themselves back up
and try harder.
Simone Biles knows exactly where she is when she flips and twists in the air, an instinct
no coach can teach, but Simone also knows exactly where she is when she sticks a landing,
grounded in the love of her family, her faith, the loyalty of her friends, the support of
her teammates, the guidance of her coaches, and her fierce belief in herself.
If you have a gift, believe in it.
Work hard to perfect it, and share it.
Not all of us might be able to soar, fly, and tumble through the air literally,
but we can all do it figuratively.
We can close our eyes tight and imagine ourselves soaring towards our dreams, because that's
the first step to making the impossible, possible.
And that's today's Happy Nugget!
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