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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Lane 8 is the worst lane. The slowest competitor is placed there. You know this already.
There is an art to being in Lane 8.
Huh? Exactly.
Although it doesn’t seem so, striving for (metaphorically) Lane 8 is really impossible.
Getting healthy and staying healthy, until we die, is really quite impossible too.
Or is it? There is an art to not quitting, not giving up, no matter what.
If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
Hang in there if you are struggling. Odds are, you are.
I know I sure am. Ran once last week. Once! How is that possible?
So here we are, another week. Yesterday, I swore there would be time for a run. After delivering four keynote speeches yesterday, each to a different audience, exhaustion took on a whole new meaning. No run.
Today is another day…. for all of us. Good luck. Do not give up!
This morning, at 4:50AM, while deciding what to write here at Lane 8, found a post I had started in August 2009, but had never finished, never posted.
In watching these two videos, it’s clear where my mind was. It was on motivation. Everyday our minds should be on motivation. Everyday.
Many of you will never be runners. That’s ok. Never want you to feel like you should be a runner. But I absolutely want you to feel you should do something. Walk, bike, dance, roll, swim, stairs, yoga, gym, ski…. it doesn’t matter, unless it matters to you.
“Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough.” — 2006 Fortune Cookie
A Lane 8 reader commented recently that part of her motivation, as she was training for a Marathon, came from a fortune cookie saying.
Had to read it several times.
Each time, it got better. Each time it had more power. Each time it made indomitable will seem more like an antidote than a pain.
Be willing to be uncomfortable.
Be comfortable being uncomfortable.
What do Guido Mueller and Roger Bannister have in common?
Most people know Roger Bannister was the first person (1956) to run one mile in less than four-minutes.
So what did Guido Muller do? By the way, this is the same Guido as in yesterday’s post.
People who know, claim that what Guido Muller did in August at the 2009 Master’s Track & Field World Championships in Finland, is equivalent to what Roger Bannister did – humanly impossible.
I was there when it happened. In fact, I was filming all the 400 meter final races. And then this happened:
Impossible is nothing. Carpe diem.