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“Don’t stop.”
“Just keep moving.”
“One foot in front of the other”
“Everything is fine.”
“Don’t complain, just keep doing.”
“Keep calm and carry on.”
Sound familiar?
Sound dangerous?
That’s what we do right? We push through.
“When the going gets tough, the tough keep going.”
That is me.
I’m working towards this amazing goal. This bright shining bacon of accomplishment. Everyone is excited and anticipatory for the end.
But what of the time and distance inbetween. What toll does that take?
“I just want to do something mindless”
The thought catches me unaware. Still it is somehow not surprising.
I know I have been idling for the last week (if not 3). I’ve taken care of the things that absolutely must be done. But my heart hasn’t been in it.
I am restless but yet feeling incredibly lethargic and unmotivated.
I don’t want to tackle the next thing on my to do list. I don’t want to work. I don’t want to be doing school. I don’t want to plan nor prioritize. I don’t want to push the ball forward. I don’t want to get up and go.
I don’t want to deal with the mundane of “real life.”
It is 8:12pm Eastern and I’m sitting in the PDX airport (5:12pm local) staring at a blank page. My flight to Salt Lake City starts to board in 33 minutes and I don’t know how I’m going to get a post up in time to ensure my Wednesday streak is unbroken. If this ends with a series of dashes, you know what happened.
The “blank page” isn’t entirely true. I have scrawled notes and jotted sentences from WDS and my travels yet they all seem unformed and too heavy for my whirlwind brain to take on right now.
I feel pressure to write. To gin up a bunch of great content about it all right NOW.
Strike while the iron is hot!
Don’t lose this window of opportunity!
Do it justice but do it fast!
Why? [Read more…]
“Please. Please. Just start.”
It is Tuesday, 8am EST. I’m supposed to be waking up in Oklahoma City. Instead, I’m willing Stan the Tan Sedan to start and make it to the Honda dealer 13 miles away in Chattanooga, Tennessee
This is the second time in as many days that I have had my head on Stan’s steering wheel, willing him to please, please just go.
I’ve cried twice since the start to my Great Adventure to World Domination (and back). Neither time was during the GoRuck Challenge.
I would so much rather embrace the GRC suck again then spend the last 2 days as I have. Give me a fountain to pushup in, a flag to hold, a stream to cross, a buddy to carry… something, anything within or even outside of my physical limits.
I got it. Give me more. I will push and find the strength…grin into the pain.
But bad decisions to be dealt with? Plans collapsing? Frustration upon frustration? Loss of control? Mental and Emotional wringer?
Uncle.
Which of course, is why the Universe decided to toss those type of curveballs at me. Thanks for making me strengthen my weaker side by lobbing all these tests my direction.
At the start of my 33rd year I will again be traveling. This is the 4th year in a row, one of many I have commenced a trip on my birthday. Perhaps there is some larger, unconscious metaphor of transition and exploration, of little rebirths on the anniversary of the day I made one of life’s biggest journeys.
I think perhaps I just really like traveling and therefore find for any excuse to do so.
I’m officially giving up my birthday for Charity: Water. Too much stuff in my life that I wish to declutter already, it is an honor and pleasure to attempt to do give to others instead.
What lessons and great proclamations then? Last year, when this space was still in it’s infancy, I made some “I will” statements for the year. They need greater reflection so look for that in a future post. This year, I’ll be updating my Journey List with some new items. Rather than more “I will”s, I’ve been ruminating on adjectives I wish to work on embodying this year and for my life.
More than what I’d like to be called by others, these are attributes I want to believe about myself:
and I have just one “I will”…
I will be IN this next year, enjoying my journey wherever it might lead.
With hopes that you may similarly be IN your life this day and every day forward,
What attributes would you include on your list? Comment it up!
PS – I leave for my trip on Friday. Follow the adventure on Twitter and Sign up for emails — a very special brew will be out on Friday including an announcement of launching.
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