You have been selected to run in the most important race of your entire athletic career. Your country is calling you to represent it in the 2010 Summer Olympics. What a tremendous opportunity that now awaits you. You have been preparing for such a task your entire life. You ran in many marathons, trained with the best athletes, as a matter of fact you were selected by your peers as the most likely to win All- American track and field. Though, you would never admit it publicly, even with all that training and practice you never really expected to run in a race THIS big. But why not? Why didn’t you expect it?
I’ll tell you why. You have to tweak just one more thing. You have one more stride you need to perfect. One more set of lunges to prepare your quads. One more run around the track to make sure your breathing is paced. I mean, let’s face it, if you are going to do it, you better do it right! Right? It’s precisely this sort of thinking that keeps many of us stifled in our progress, hindered in our pursuits, stuck in our tracks. Stagnation is the lifestyle a serial perfectionist. Don’t allow your quest for perfection to cause you to miss the most important moment of your life…NOW. Live, pursue, embrace your now. Tell me, what is your NOW? How are living it?
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Janice, excellent!
In my work as a coach, I find that we all spend a lot of time preparing like you said.
However, we do not spend enough time visualizing and imagining the end result. The joy of life is about living those precious winning moments all the time.
If you are focused on the end result, you will not need to keep tweaking to stall your getting started.