“Why are you running a marathon?”, is by far the most frequent question I’ve gotten since announcing that I’d be running one in late April. It’s a valid question, and one that I still ask myself when I start to get tired after mile 5 of my current running regiment.
I’m at day two of my official training schedule, and in the video above, I share some insight as to why I’m embarking on this journey.
In short, running is a battle not against competition, but rather, against yourself. It’s an extremely personal experience. It’s a battle against your own mind and body. It’s a test of wills. Who will be triumphant? The bruised feet, the heavily beating heart, and the chaffed nipples, or a person who was able to overcome himself to achieve something great?
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It’s January 3rd and we’ve already established that 2012 is going to be a great year. But in order to make it the best ever, there’s some things that you’re doing that you shouldn’t, and other’s you’re not doing but most definitely should…
(1) Stop making the “I don’t have time” excuse. If you say, “I can’t do _____ because I don’t have time”, you’re only bullshitting yourself. You do have time, if you make time. Focus. Be selective in your commitments. Make time for what matters. Forget the rest. Lets this year be about managing your time and allow yourself to say “no” a little more often so you can say “yes” when you should.
(2) Don’t over-commit. Don’t allow yourself to be overwhelmed. Getting to where you want to be is hard. Sometimes it’s damn hard. But if you’re OVERWORKING to get there, you’re actually doing more harm than good. Feeling overwhelmed is the absolute worst. If you’re there, find ways to drop a few things off your “must-do” list.
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2012. How are ya’? Nice to meet you. I’ve only known you for a little over 30 hours, and I’m already labeling you as the best year ever. I know, we just met. But I have a feeling, a strong feeling, that great, great things are going to happen in the next 8,730 or so hours we have together
I’m walking into the new year with an optimistic, excited, engaged attitude. Ready to take on new challenges. Ready to try new things. And ready to make great things happen. But before I share a couple things that are on the horizon, lets recap some of the highlights from my 2011 adventure…
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In a year’s time, you experience a lot. Ups and downs. Lefts and rights. Winds in the roads and sprints to the finish.
Of course, those are all metaphors – ways of saying that in a year, especially this year, a lot of shit happened.
Success really boils down to hard work. Simply being willing to work harder than most, and embracing that working more today can, should, and will lead to working less in the future. That doing some of the work you may not want to do will allow you to (sooner than later) work on the things that fulfill, drive, and excite you. It’s all a part of the path to getting where you want to be.
But as much as I attribute success to hustle, the most valuable lesson I’ve learned in 2011 is that none of what I’ve done and what I do would be possible without the help of others.
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Graduation commencement speeches are typically full of cheesy cliches, jokes that you politely chuckle at, and inspirational “welcome to the real world” words of wisdom from a random, credentialed somebody that you won’t recall the name of tomorrow.
But sometimes, a few of those words stick. A few of those words you put in your pocket and carry with you.
I wasn’t graduating anything this weekend, but I attended a graduation, and as the speaker walked through his story of growing up and figuring things out, making sure to fill his quota of bad jokes and cliches, he said one thing that stuck. One thing that I’ve been thinking about ever since.
It was the simple idea that once in a while, maybe a little more often than that, you must stop and say to yourself, “It doesn’t get any better than this”.
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