It's Monday night, It's 7.30pm, It's been a long day... Where are you? What's your mood? What are you doing? Where I would like to be is in front of a plate of good food, around the dining room table with John and the kids, and relaxing with that 'end of the day feeling'....
But based on this goal I set for next year, where am I? Well, for the last 4 weeks I have been attending the Gnarly Nutters winter swim sessions run by Mr Frosty himself, a full hour that starts with a gentle 20 lengths of warm up... something I could only watch from afar 6 months ago.
Pete said to me that for my continued development I needed to be with other swimmers to help drive my own performance,he discovered (? is it hidden!) my competitive spirit, and he knows I won't be able to resist the pull of the faster swimmers (mostly everyone in the pool) and trying to match them, he was right! It is interesting though, that the first 10 lengths are still like re-learning over again, every week. One other observation is that amidst the many lengths we swim each Monday there are times when a breath is taking on water not air, and yet we/I cope!
Tomorrow I am working with a leadership team who are driving for massive growth in their business, and have barely time to take a breath, do I tell them that they will cope? not forever, but if we have a big, challenging, hairy goal in mind, we can take a few water logged breaths and survive.
Courage, a fine quality, and we all need it at times.
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