Tag: Goals

Is this absolutely true, or only true when we feel like believing it

Lethbridge Lodge Hotel and Conference Center
Tropical in the atrium – reminds one of Orlando (home). Outside, freezing.

 

Is this absolutely true, or only true when we feel like believing it (which may be never if we don’t get off the treadmill of life)?

We should always have some compelling health goal in front of us.

And occasionally, one that is seriously compelling.

So ten weeks into 2014 – five of them on the road for four to six days at a time- finally able to run on the road.

The only two days in 2014 that have been warm enough to run were the past two.

Insight: Tell the notion of quitting to take a hike.

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Specific or vague, the results are astounding

Central Florida Gliders Track Classic flyer
Returning to defend the top spot in M55 800 meters

 

The more specific our health goals, the more specific our actions will be day after day, week after week, month after month, until we die.

The more general (vague) our goals, the more freedom we have to make excuses and put routine practices on the back burner.

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Editor’s note: A scheduling conflict (was in California) made it impossible to attend. Be flexible, yes?

 

Set the bar one of two places and be very careful

Lane 8 on the track
The worst lane, assigned to the slowest runner

 

One life epiphany not in the book:

We can set life’s bar low, reach it, and then live with the regret of wondering what we might have done. Or we can set it ridiculously high, fail, but live with the peace of knowing we gave our all.

While not specifically in the book, this is the book.

It is also the metaphor for this blog.

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