Will the real Chad please stand up?
My friends got me this awesome Whistler tee :) Muggin’ for the camera 😫
Happy Tuesday my friends. Welcome to spring wherever you are! Spring is a great time to start back with your outdoor training. Focus on a healthier, stronger, more focused you. I’m calling you out to get motivated to eat, play, work, recover, rest, and family/friends hard. Leave nothing left.
In my constant efforts to be the better version of me (I strive for .01% 🤣) I have tasked myself to be great each day. Greatness: the quality of being great, distinguished, or eminent. We all are together because of our love for endurance sports, health, and wellness, training, looking and feeling good, and more. Here’s how I’ve “stood up” to be a better version of me.
Family: I’m trying to be a better ex-husband. Better dad. I have been through some challenging times in the past (Discussed in my blogs 😫). However, I try to work daily on identifying what I did right and wrong. Creating a line of communication. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Creating a strong bond with my entire family. Moms, dads, brothers, and sisters. When Sh!t was going wrong I pulled back into a shell and avoided “vulnerability”. If I didn’t talk about it, it didn’t exist. Here are some skills I could have used 20 years ago!
Play: I’m “playing” waaaaay more. Playing to me is being outdoors. We are all bound by our love of exercise. I’m talking the little extra. I have a Radio Flyer wagon that I use for everything. I walk to the grocery, bike shop, and run errands with it. It’s fun. It’s exercise and it does create some nostalgia for people my age. “Woah, where did you get that?”. It brings a smile to my face, that my playing has created exercise, fun, and a smile for myself and others. (see photo above). I’m also doing fun things for myself. Silly, random, fun, spontaneous.
Work: I’m efficient. I’m purposeful. I’m direct. I’m happier. I’m a wicked smaaahter me. (smarter, a nod to you Bostonians). I have looked inwardly and outwardly for the tools that make a great entrepreneur. I was called out in my past for being “spread out”. My services were confusing or misaligned. There was too much information out there. In my industry, you have to be creative and chameleon-like to be successful. Since I’ve challenged myself to “stand up” and be accountable, I found my holes. My inconsistencies. I have stopped bailing water, I’m now plugging holes. Watch out….painting the boat is next. She’s going to be shiny as fack. I’m asking you to “do the work”. Look inwardly at your work. Is it fulfilling? Challenging? Rewarding?
Recover/Rest. During Covid and divorce, I did a lot of “recovery”. Beer, lethargy, frustration, loneliness. I have previously discussed the challenges of that and won’t go into them here. Now that I have done the work back to physical and mental strength, I’m NOT doing what I used to do. Jump in and pile on. Let’s F’ing goooo! Not anymore. I’m more balanced. Yoga, (yeah, I know, but god I suck at it!) cycling, running, walking, and the gym. These activities balance each other out. If I’m tired, I rest. I can recover like a champ now. Do you push yourself too much now that we are looking at Covid in the rearview mirror?
It’s a long journey. Take a walk with me on it. Or a ride. Keep working to be .01% better each day. Again, I’m calling you and me out to get motivated to eat, play, work, recover, rest, and family/friends hard. Leave nothing left.
Tailwinds,
Chad
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