Hey Awesomeness — Today is finally here! 🍾 - Lessons for the month

Back at the Pool

I am grateful to be alive.

This morning as I rode my bike back from the pool to my house, I picked a ripe apple from one of our apple trees when I got home and bit into it’s sweet, earthy flesh. Its flavor brought me the sensation of early fall, a sensation that could only come to fruition from multiple decades of association with this land. Flooded with gratefulness for life. I haven’t written to you much lately and I wanted to share this gratefulness as well as a little update on my life.

As you know, I’m reaching for a new goal Ironman Tulsa, the Race is schedule for Sunday, May 23, 2021. There’s been a lot to overcome since my last goal which was the IMMT and not achieved, I learned much in the last 2 years about myself, how I get stopped and now I’m stepping into it and trying again.

As far as Tulsa IM, just signed up. Put a plan together, booked my hotel and started training this week 🤗♡ Thank you for supporting me as I train for my 2nd Ironman, the Ironman Tulsa in Oklahoma (IM-Tulsa). The Race is schedule for May 23, 2021. ♡ 

Recap of What I learned these past 2-years:

• Don't just accept where you are at in life. If you want to be better, do better. If you want to be more, do more. It's all on you. Do it!
• PLAY. PARTY. PLAN. COMMIT. DO. If you are going to do it, commit yourself fully to it, and make it fun. 🎶 There will always, always, ALWAYS, be outside obstacles that get in your way, the noise at times can be glaring and cause some disturbances; just remember what you set out to do, why you are doing it and commit yourself fully to it. The noise will always be there, it may sound different but there are ways to zone it out and keep the focus real.
• Your biggest challenge isn’t someone else.  It’s the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells “Can’t,” but, you don’t listen.  You just push harder. And then hear the voice whisper “Can.” And you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are.”
• Just Do It! Consistency beats inspiration. The best way — the only way — is to get good work done, just get up, go out there, do it and show up every day. This establishes consistency! 
• Everything is workable once you set your mind to it. Things will get in the way, and they will be important things. Honor those things, take time for those important things. Fit the time and training into it. Everything else will fall into place.
  
• If the emperor is nude, you need to tell him! Groupthink can be very dangerous and suffering because you are following someone else's dreams, can be toxic. Perhaps it is time to recognize when it no longer makes sense to keep compromising and kowtowing for the sake of belonging to a group who fails to appreciate your contributions and capabilities. Don’t cling to kowtowing chauvinists and misogynists while attempting to fool yourselves into believing that this is their way of maintaining “positive” working relationships. If it takes too much work it isn’t a relationship to keep.
• You only get so many nights….our days are numbered, our nights are numbered and our time is limited, so make each moment a blessing and adhere to it, love more completely and make decisions that others may consider foolish or short sided. 
  
• Stop stalling, sign up and let the wind move your sails in the right direction.
• Remember the Goal! Running is a lot like life. Run a race (pursue life) with patience, with Knowledge (Gain Wisdom), and with Understanding. Remember the Gaol. ALWAYS remember the goal. Whatever you do, do all to the Glory of God.

When you don’t want to get out of bed In the morning to train, be grateful that you have the opportunity and health, to be able to exercise. Skipping your workout or "sleeping in" is like eating fast food. It may feel or taste good at the moment, but you will pay for it later. So get up, keep moving forward, and set new goals. Your day will go a whole lot better.

I know this is a mouthful, and I have to eat it in small bite-size chews.

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