I often hear, "I wish I had the dedication you do to train, eat, play etc".
This quote comes to mind....“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else”
- J.M. BARRIE, Novelist
We all have the same amount of time in a day. Yes some of us work longer hours have children to shuffle from place to place and so on, but at some point in everyone's life's we have had or will have "other" stuff to do and you can either make and excuse why you can't train, eat right get enough sleep etc or you can choose to embrace it and make it part of your lifestyle like waking up and brushing your teeth.
I don't look at what I "do" as something that is outside of my "normal" life; IT IS MY LIFE!! "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else" You have to have balance YIN and YANG if you will. What you do has to make YOU happy. We are a society that is always trying to please others and not stopping to see what it is that fullfills our souls. How can you look after others if you yourself are not looked after yourself?
If any of the above hits home with you, pull your head out of the sand and question yourself as to what you truely want for YOU! Does it feel like work? Are you dreading taking that step out the door? Why are you doing it?
I look at my training as I do my life. It is a daily journey with bumps on the road. I am not looking into the future anticipating only the destination, by doing this I would miss all of the landmarks along the way and the true lessons. The destination like climbing Mount Everest only lasts for a second. What can you learn in a second? It was all the miles you travelled to get there, that the real learning was done!! This is why you will often hear me say "I love the training journey", there I have learnt I have already done and won the race before actually doing it!!!
What journey are you on in life, and are you only looking at the destination?
Paula
