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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”1 September 2020 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body 🙂
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I’ve mentioned in recent blogs that my nephew recently ran a marathon.
——— It’s the same nephew mentioned in yesterday’s blog and last week’s one about our secret greeting. I’ve just written another one about his new pot washing job that I’ll put in tomorrow so we can draw a line under him as he’ll be wanting commission soon 😉 ————-
He’s only 14 and just decided one day to “run to the golf club turn and back twenty one times” in order to raise money for the charity Shelter.
He raised nearly a thousand pounds bless him 🙂
Last year my wife Alex and our sister-in-law Linsey (and her brother Nick) ran the London marathon.
The year before my sister did it.
Alex and her brother Tom were supposed to be doing the Manchester one this year so will, presumably, do that next year instead.
Long way that, isn’t it?
Go for a drive of 26 miles then think about how far you’ve come.
Not for me.
But there is one thing you need for a marathon.
And for any race.
To know how far you’ve come since you started.
How far to go is also important.
But no one ever finishes a race and says “I’d got no further left to run” do they?
They talk about the distance they’ve come since they started.
You wouldn’t know if it was a marathon (or any other distance) without measuring how far you’d come.
Measuring backwards.
But we quickly do the same with other areas of our life.
Lose some weight and get put off by how much is still to lose.
Get fitter but get demotivated by how much fitter some still appear to be compared to us.
We concentrate solely on the ‘distance’ left in front of us.
Forgetting how far we’ve come.
Neglecting to ‘measure backwards’.
Measuring backwards build confidence.
Momentum.
Keep doing what we’re doing as it’s been working (if it’s not been working so far, our next find out more meeting is next Tuesday now –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting).
Learn from what slowed us down, perhaps.
Sometimes accept that these longer distances will involve a bit of speeding up and slowing down.
Maybe even the odd ‘breather’.
But it doesn’t mean we need to stop and go home and waste the distance we’ve already covered.
Be aware of the target and the direction to go, sure.
But never forget to measure backwards to keep you going forwards.
Much love,
Jon ‘Still not doing a marathon’ Hall
