# @lala_the_diver on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Beo7NTEg9w-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/72584073-lala-the-diver-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-02-01T03:48:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Laura Wilkinson🥇Athlete Mindset & Performance Coach (@lala_the_diver) — https://gondola.cc/lala_the_diver

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Sometimes in diving, you get demoted back to basics. Maybe you’re not doing the actions correctly, you aren’t making the dive well, or a certain technique just isn’t working. So your coach takes you down a level or two to break down the actions and get the technique right. Occasionally this can last a while if you struggle to make the changes. .
I feel like diving and my life have both been like this over the past several months. I just keep getting demoted back to basics.
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For various reasons, I haven’t been able to do much 10 meter platform work lately, and I’ve had to decline going to a couple of important meets this season. Instead, I’ve found myself doing tons of very basic drills and mostly springboard dives. It’s all helpful of course, but it can get tedious and frustrating after a long period of time when you can’t see much progress. But ultimately, you have to trust your coach and the process.
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My life outside the pool has been mimicking my diving. Our adoption has been filled with turmoil, especially as we near the end. Everything we try to do is like butting our heads up against the wall repeatedly, and it always ends with the same result- nothing. We even went all the way to Ethiopia and made a little headway, but still had to come home without our daughter. That was just gut wrenching agony.
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Since then, I’ve been forced to do nothing but sit, pray and wait. And these just happen to be the basic skills of life that I need desperate work on. I’m so thankful to have a Father who loves me enough to demote me to the sidelines on occasion in order to grow me. It doesn’t make it easy or something I want to go through, but I do long to know the Lord more and be wise in His ways. So, like diving, in my life I will trust my Coach, and I will wait for Him to show me when I’m ready.
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“Make me to know your ways, O Lord;  teach me your paths.
Lead me in your truth and teach me,  for you are the God of my salvation;  for you I wait all the day long.”
-Psalm 25:4-5
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