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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
What is impossible? Almost everything, right? Our goals, our ambitions, World Peace, eliminating poverty.
What is possible? Ordinary, average, common, within reach, comfortable.
If people only focus on what’s impossible, they won’t focus on what is possible.
Did you catch that?
If people only focus on what’s possible, they won’t focus on what is impossible.
It’s a catch-22 isn’t it?
“Dude, you is crazy”.
Hardly a day goes by where I don’t feel misunderstood.
Yesterday brought that home more powerfully than usual.
It could be the pressure of the approaching deadlines:
What if I don’t make it to the semi-finals?
I certainly don’t expect to make it to the finals, but the semi’s, absolutely.
And as a reminder, even though I don’t expect to make it to the finals, that is still the goal.
Why?
Because it’s impossible.
Many people I think, rarely, if ever, as an adult, attempt impossible goals.
Because of this, if you are a person who is chasing an impossible goal, your focus, your thinking, your actions, the pressure – it’s very different than normal, everyday type of behavior.
It has to be.
This experience has exposed me to, and taught me, so many things on so many different levels, that I can’t even begin to describe it.
So anyway, I’ll just leave it at that for now.
Make it a great day, because if you don’t, who will. Remember, I’d rather try and fail, than live with the regret of not knowing. Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
Received an email confirmation yesterday that my hotel request has been accepted. Due to the volume of requests, it took the Lahti Travel agency a few weeks to sort it all out, on a first-come, first served basis.
The dream is alive. It almost doesn’t feel real. This is ten years in the making. You might even say it’s been 50 years in the making.
The thing that brings me back to reality is the other update.
In a few minutes, I’ll be heading to the hospital, to the physical therapy/rehab center, getting a strength test to see how well balanced my body is.
Are the quads and hamstrings proportional? Lower legs and upper legs proportional? Is my core strong enough?
All this to determine the chance of injury.
As a Master athlete, competing on a National and World level, a 50-year old man can very easily be tempted to exercise like they are still 18. Let me tell you first hand, it doesn’t work that way.
Whatever you’ve been working on, whether it’s been 50 years or ten, make it a great day, and find all the reasons you need, to not give up. Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
Happy Healthy Sunday?
It’s our choice isn’t it?
I’m still smiling from yesterday. I asked our eight-year old son to help create a tee-shirt design for Lane8.org
I challenged him to do five pages worth. He did. He’s clever, creative and funny.
This journey to make it to the Men’s 50-54 400 meter finals at the Master’s World Championships is nothing short of inspiring to me. I do not belong in this league. I asked my son, “Remember David and Goliath“? “Yes“, he said. “What was the morale of the story“?, I shot back.
“You can do anything“, was his answer.
“That’s right, nothing is impossible“!, I said softly.
Follow your dreams. Dream Big. Get There. Stay There! Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
In a few minutes, around 7:15AM, I’ll be heading out for another five-miler.
Moment of truth?
I hope so.
And I hope that whatever happens, I’ll be strong enough to surrender, should I be disappointed. Or to be strong enough to embrace the enormous responsibility to keep moving forward. This is an impossible-goal journey, which is more than ten years in the making.
From the memory of elementary school reading assignments, “Run, jeff, run. See jeff run“.
Carpe diem, jeff 🙂