My friend and mentor, Lee Cockerell, told me that Bill Marriott once told him, “Lee, you must love flies in your kitchen“.
Lee shot back that he hated flies.
Bill said, “If you hated them, you wouldn’t have any“.
Same with excuses.
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Tag: Focus
Out Of Nowhere
How has your health been the past few days?
How often does it cross your mind?
Never? Rarely? One a year? Occasionally?
All day, everyday?
What if it did?
And what if it was so habitual, you weren’t even conscious of all the healthy choices you make?
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Where Are You Going With This?
People are very often annoyed by people who know where they are going. It’s easy to hate people who are focused and have enormous self-discipline. Isn’t it? I mean, what part of that is hard?
Those self-motivated go-givers are always having things go their way.
They get all the breaks.
And they have none of the challenges we have. Right?
Truth be told, their lives might be more challenging than yours.
It’s just that they’ve figured out that the two choices we all get to make are the two choices in yesterday’s post.
You can scroll down to review it again, or click to go to the Spirit blog)
Only Give Advice
Our differences make the world interesting, don’t they? And they also cause conflict.
We all know others who have some expertise where we don’t and vice-versa.
Sometimes we pay cash for the exchange, but mostly we just try to help each other out.
Yesterday at Gold’s Gym, a friend talked of running a 5k. It would be his first.
I’m a good runner, but more than that, I’m an expert at focus and discipline (and motivation).
Do you know what you are an expert at?
I caught myself doling out advice (after it was asked for), but then caught myself a second time – and backed up, to ask a simple question.
“Why do you want to run a 5k?”
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The Art Of Pace
In running, most sports, and life, pace is a crucial factor.
Real life. There’s a runner I know that recently ran two 5k’s. He preaches pace, trains pace, delivers pace. He says pace is key.
His goal was to run the first two miles at exactly 7:00 each, and then gradually run faster the third mile, aiming for sub-22:00
First 5k mile splits:
- 7:00 (perfect)
- 7:00 (perfect)
- 6:40 (nice)
- :40
- 21:20 result
His other 5k was the same plan, first two miles at seven-minutes each, final mile gradually faster.
- 6:40 (way too fast – the adrenaline of 12,000+ runners)
- 6:55 (back on track – almost perfect)
- 6:25 (wow)
- :35
- 20:35 result
Few things more rewarding than practicing what you preach.