Monday 2 November 2009

Too good to last

As I suspected the past few weeks have been good as I have been able to get to all the sessions in the week and get some good training in but today was a pain as a meeting originally scheduled until 5.30pm went on until much later. I was so annoyed that by the time I got home I had decided to not let it be a negative and got straight on the running machine to at least salvage something from tonight. The problem was I hadn't had the opportunity for a decent lunch so my energy levels were really low, still managed a sub 12 min mile and a half so that is my positive for the day. Will look at maximising training opportunity tomorrow night instead.

3 comments:

  1. I've read all your posts so far now and I suspect that you are getting a lot more done than you give yourself credit for, but that you are frustrated by the inability to focus on the ones that you think consciously are the most important to you. Perhaps the trick is to look at each thing and decide its subconscious importance as well. For example, I often get frustrated by having to work late but then I ask why I do it - I've decided it's because I treat my career as more important than many other things because I subconsciously believe that it will lead to greater happiness later (perhaps to my ultimate detriment, but this is the subconscious driving force). So the trick is to review constantly WHY I think it is more important (make it more conscious) and perhaps shift it down a gear through this analysis, rather than simply getting frustrated at it without knowing why. Perhaps you have already been through this thought process or maybe this might help you.

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  2. Just to add to this: from Covey's Seven Habits - you are ultimately free to choose NOT to do the job you're doing. Of course it will have consequences, like maybe a smaller house, unhappy family, fewer luxuries, etc. This is when you have to communicate this to your family so that they understand WHY you are doing what you do - if they disagree with the importance you've placed on it, at least it's now in communication and not your deep dark secret. Same with your training. For myself, I can't see that training is more important than work (right now) - this may be to my ultimate detriment but I can't see so far in the future and have to work with the variables under my control right now.

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  3. I see what you are getting at but with me the frustration thing is balancing family, work and training. This means that I have a finite time that I can commit to my training. As this is an enjoyable thing and a way to de-stress I get cross that something akin to a load of old waffle is stopping me from doing something I enjoy. In everything I do I firstly want to be challenged, I want to enjoy it and hopefully it will have a positive outcome for me. The trap in our society is the ability to reverse where we are, commitments in terms of financials mean I can't really downscale, as much as sometimes I would like to. Downsizing is an ideal fronted by upper middle class individuals who have earned a shovel full of cash which then allows them to buy a smallholding in Dorset and live the idyllic 'good life' for the rest of us we just get on with it and do the best we can.

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