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Over and over in my life, what works the best (always) is when I set out to make slow, deliberate, consistent improvements. There is truth to the fable of the tortoise and the hare.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Few have patience for this.
Without patience, I am doomed.
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Blah, blah, blah?
Nope.
Dream Big. Get There. Stay There.
That’s what Lane 8 is about. Staying there.
Ran into a Father of my son’s classmate, at the gym yesterday.
I asked, “What motivates you”?
He replied, with an apparent wisdom, that he has found it more difficult, now that he’s almost 30, to stay in shape and keep his weight ideal.
Please forgive me for thinking this, but all I could think of was, “You really think that you’re going to stay fit and at an ideal weight for the rest of your life”?
“Dude”, I wanted to say, “You have no idea what is ahead of you, but I can predict one thing for sure. If you think it’s hard now, imagine it 10 years from now, or 20 years from now when you’re almost 50”.
How do I know?
Because I turn 50 in three weeks. I’ve got 20 years of “wisdom and mistakes” on him. That’s how I know.
Wisdom comes from experience, and experience comes from making mistakes.
I should be the wisest man on Earth, eh? Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
Thursday night, I asked my son, “Do you think I should still go the World Championships“?
Without hesitating, he said, “Yes“!
“Why”?, I wondered out loud.
“Two reasons”, he said. “Number one, to complete your goal of being the slowest of the fastest“.
I smiled and asked, “And what’s the second reason?”
“So we can be a little famous.”
Smiling again I asked, “Is being famous a good thing?”
He said, “Being a little famous, who wouldn’t want that kind of esteem?”
Kids say the darnedest things. Indeed.
Carpe diem, jeff 🙂
PS. Esteem, or self-confidence is a critical success factor, in my humble opinion. If something were to ever happen to me, maybe he’d remember that his Dad always said, “You have the choice to be positive or negative“.
I’ll explain the “Slowest of the Fastest” metaphor tomorrow.
Do the math? What the?
Thirty to fifty?
Yep.
Thirty days until I turn fifty.
And, roughly 90 days until the prelims.
Ten years in the making and it will be over, either side of 55 seconds.
Huge investment for such a short “performance”.
Decent run yesterday, and as the trend remains, intermittent pain all day.
Where could you end up ten years from today, if today was the first day you started exercising, and you didn’t stop for the rest of your life?
Carpe diem, my wellness-minded friends. jeff 🙂
PS. Tomorrow, I’ll post my son’s answers when I posed this question, “Do you think I should go to the World Championships?”
Celebrex or Celebrate?
I took my final Celebrex capsule yesterday.
And I also took the day off from training.
Heading out for a five-mile run shortly, before flying to Niagara Falls, New York.
When I think about the journey, with its struggles and trials, I couldn’t even jog ten years ago. And when I did start jogging two years later, I ran one mailbox per day for a week.
The following week, two mailboxes per day for a week. Third week? You guessed it, three mailboxes per day for a week.
Here we are just over a decade later, and I’m still jogging.
And heading to the 2009 Master’s Track and Field World Championships in Finland.
Amazing what can happen when you don’t give. Carpe diem, jeff 🙂