Disney Employee Engagement Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
“I sometimes think that running has given me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both mind and body……The runner does not know why he runs. He only knows that he must run……We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves.” — Roger Bannister, 1956
Ever do a 5k in your community and place in the top 20 for your age group?
Pretty cool feeling, if you’ve done it. And if you haven’t, you know what a cool feeling of accomplishment it could be.
Having a decent goal is very motivating.
How important is motivation?
Perhaps it’s life’s silver bullet.
PS. This is going somewhere…
How was your day yesterday? Are you happy with your results, your determination, your creativity? We contemplated yesterday that slacking off might actually pay good dividends. Case in point.
Had a great run yesterday and ran into Mike. Mike looked to be in the 40-50 year range. Just by chance, we found ourselves engaged in conversation. “What motivates you to run?”, I asked, always curious.
He’s been running for 30 years. “For fun!”, he said.
Challenging that, I said there’s got to be something else, something deeper. Just doing it for fun, to me, would wear off after say 10 or 20 years. But 30 years, that’s amazing. Do you think you can stay with an exercise you like, for 30 years?
Motivation is fascinating, don’t you think? It’s like a fire, isn’t it? We must continue to add fuel to a fire to keep it burning.
It seems that we have a daily (if not hourly) choice to stay focused on what keeps our fire alive.
Are there more than three version of this?
Yes. If you don’t know what this means, there’s still hope for you.
There are hundreds of ideas here at Lane 8.
But they are of no use if you don’t do something, like read them.
Here’s today’s biscuit.