Time to simplify....recent events have reminded me that I was attaching my selfworth to the things I won, how fast I race and who likes me. Attaching your happiness to others or to material things makes your happiness vulnerable. If those things are taken from you, they take your happiness with them.
So now that life has been so kind as to show me this lesson once again...what am I going to do with it.
- Live Simply. Less is more, think like a caveman, all he needed was a spear and a cave. :)
- Focus on small improvements, on small goals. Think small, act small...it all adds up.
- Don't pursue that which retreats. This could mean emotions and feelings as well as people. Recognize the value of my time and attention. And use them to achieve my small goals.
- Train without ego. Save the racing for race day. If the day calls for AeT, then keep it AeT even though I know I can go faster. Do what I need to do right now to make me a faster athlete in the future.
- Shift the focus from the final goal to the process of reaching the goal. As an example, I will spend many many more hours training for ironman than I will racing ironman. If all of my value is tied up into the race alone, I'm short changing myself. The dedication I employ, the passion I free, friendships forged and strengthened, and the insights I have during training are the true rewards of ironman.
- It is what it is. Withhold judgement. I don't believe in kharma. The bad things that have happened in my life recently didn't happen because I am a bad person. They just happened.
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