What is Lane 8?
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If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
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National Champions Texas A&M!
The 2009 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field National Champions are Texas A&M. Go Aggies!
Not only did the Texas A&M women win the National title, but so did the Texas A&M men’s track team.
Here’s the aricle on this amazing feat that hasn’t been done since 1990.
My thoughtful wife actually saw the meet being televised. She knows that Track & Field is the one sport I try to make time to watch.
While writing several blog posts yesterday, I was able to follow the action. It’s always special and inspiring to me, to see something significant and rare happen.
Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
Change in plans?
Lane 8 has a change in plans.
Instead of driving out to the National Training Center, in Clermont, for the 2009 Sunshine State Games, I’ve decided to head to a closer track for a speed workout.
Turbulent times call for tough decisions. Right?
This is a gut feeling that I’m taking the better of two options.
Many times, I simply ask myself a question that I learned decades ago from Zig Zigler.
“Will this action take me closer to, or farther from, my goal”?
I’m following where my enthusiasm leads me.
Meanwhile, may I humbly suggest you follow this link at jungle jeff for more on the power of ENTHUSIASM?
Dream big and carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
R & R?
Rest and Relaxation?
Hardly.
I am doing what’s called active rest, meaning I am purposefully avoiding exercise today.
However, I’ll be teaching all day on my feet.
Such is the challenge of a mid-life athlete, working full-time, trying to make the world a better place.
No worries though.
I’ve been doing this for over a decade.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
What’s your will?
Make it a GREAT day. jungle jeff 🙂
Disney Creativity & Lane 8?
Can Lane 8 learn anything from Disney’s creative strategies and tactics?
The obvious answer is yes.
By the way, the only reason I’m able to run at such a high level is because, as an experiment, I started applying the Disney principles to running.
Just before I turned 40, I started running to improve my health and am now into my 11th consecutive year – and about seven years ago, I had a crazy idea. Here’s the short story
I decided to do an experiment.
To prove Disney philosophies can work anywhere, I began applying them to running. The results have been staggering.
Anyway, here’s another jeff noel midlife You Tube clip – this one on Running and Disney Creativity.
I used to feel free to make excuses for why I was stuck, or why I wanted to quit. I didn’t do it often.
The road to excellence has no finish line. I know everyone is fighting a hard battle. Me too.
But if you think you’ve got challenges, ask Nick Vujicic.
Carpe diem and thank you for visiting.
PS. Peace, jeff noel 🙂