One day I set out on a road trip to visit my best friend who was living on the south east coast. I live in the mid-west well over ten plus hours away.
As I started my trip trip I had nothing with me but some scribbled directions my friend gave to me on a napkin! My friend provided me with a short cut that was guaranteed to take several hours off my drive time. When I arrived at the "short cut" I took the route numbered road instead of the interstate numbered road.
Needless to say that after several hundred miles and tedious long hours of going in the wrong direction I ended up close to the Canadian border when I was trying to go to Southern Georgia!!! I needed a serious course correction!!!
On this year long journey of documenting my thoughts I find myself making course corrections.
I am discovering that external motivations to train, maintain my weight loss, and to become fitter for the International Tri and Half Tri distances are starting to wane.
I am sensing the need for a course correction, shifting from external motivation to internal motivation. As I alluded to in previous posts I have spent the majority of my life living outside myself vulnerable to rejection and criticism of others.
People pleasing is a draining pursuit because nothing you do will ever be enough.
I am awaking to the concept I don't have to work out. I choose to work out!! I don't have swim, run, or bike. I choose to swim, run, and bike.
I usually get typical questions asked when people see me working out or thy hear about the preparation for a pending race. They ask: why are you doing that? What made want to do this?
Why not stop and take it easy?
Rather than generating external answers and justifications I choose the course correction of looking within than from without. This is the difficult part of the journey that is easier said than done. But, I am encouraged that if I stay on the road, I will reach my destination in-spite of course corrections and all.
Peace & Blessings on your Journey!
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