Lola’s Award Winning Case Study: Notes on Carving Your own Boundaries
I remember that day clearly. Walking up onto that muddy rugby pitch. Burly men stopped playing and watched in silence as I approached them. They peered down at me as I stopped within their midst. “I am Lola,” I introduced myself. “I know you don’t have a women’s rugby team but I will help you start one.”
Moments of silence followed until their English captain reached out his mud-covered hand and shook mine.
Since starting that competitive women’s rugby club, our team went on to win many divisional awards and was the team to beat for many years.
I considered that simple act fundamentally mould breaking because if we can wire ourselves to take initiative and not wait on others to do things, we may all begin to operate at our maximum potentials as individuals. Life demands that the “real” you show up to participate and share those unique gifts only you can provide.
But how do you find the “real” you?
For me, it was a long arduous journey of self-discovery and exploration. It meant trying new things, moving boundaries around, pushing limits, bursting through comfort zones, and working through humiliation to find the “real” me….
That one incident on a small rugby pitch in Dayton, Ohio remains vital to the way I approach life situations. I never let my background and ethnicity limit me in whatever I choose to pursue as long as I have some control over the situation.
Read more of Lola’s story here on HotMommasProject.org, the world’s largest women’s case study library. Lola is the winner of the Hot Mommas Project global case competition for Africa. Click here to see a an award acceptance video by Lola.
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