22/09/2024
I was reflecting on my training journey with a gym friend the other day. I recalled a time not long after I started at the gym, we were doing outdoor training, running from one point to another and back again up and down hill about 800 m round trip. Now this was roughly my 3rd time round and was feeling very knackered and was starting to turn for the uphill leg about 5m before the turn around. When a friend in the group said, “C’mon mate, don’t cheat yourself”.
This had a very profound effect on me. I realised that by making my run short, I was cutting my capacity for extending my running and increasing my stamina. From that moment on “Cheating on myself” was never going to be an option, even if my lungs are burning and my legs are lead.
Now today I read this from Hal Elrond’s “Miracle Morning”. - “Every time you choose to do the easy thing, instead of the right thing, you’re shaping your identity, becoming the type of person who does what’s easy, rather than what’s right.”
Cheating on yourself. Cutting short your capacity for developing extraordinary discipline.
Doing the right thing, following through on your commitments, especially when you don’t feel like it is how you create extraordinary results in your life.
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