The Olympics are about the kick off and it looks like Paris is buzzing!
In reading up on the games, I was surprised to learn the first Olympics were held in 776 BC, continued every four years for more than a thousand years, and were stopped in 393 AD.
It was more than 1,500 years before French historian Pierre de Coubertin founded the modern games in 1896.
All of us have grown up with the Olympics being an event that visits every four years. But just because it has always been with us, lessons from the original Olympics remind us that traditions only persist if we’re deliberate in keeping and maintaining them.