Week 5 2022 Summer Miles

 Week 5 2022 Summer Miles 

We Do These Things Not Because They Are Easy but Because They Are Hard

September 12, 1962, President John F Kennedy roused support for America’s mission to the moon with a stirring speech that celebrated the determination of American innovators and adventurers to “Climb the Highest Mountain”.

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things (accomplishments and aspirations), not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”

 

 “We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard” 

 

This resonates with me. Especially because I have spent the LAST 4 days moving my family into a new house. It helped me to evaluate life. It is crazy. When packing up, I could NOT believe how many items I had accumulated that I never really ever used, but yet I still held on to them.

Getting rid of these said items was not easy but it felt good to let go of things that I hardly ever used. It got me thinking about how many things in my life that I could and should do some decluttering. AS I relate this to me life and running. It is NOT easy to run SUMMER Miles.

 

But we do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard…The miles ran WILL pay off. In ways that we want and in many ways that we cannot yet see.

 

TRUST THE PROCESS!

 

It acknowledges that real growth is the outcome of vision and struggle.

This means choosing a path that others don’t

Figuring out how to do things you have never done

Committing to doing them as well as they can possibly be done.

The quote also recognizes that high achievement is a challenge compelled by a desire to win.

 

It’s the same in Life. How often are conversations about what decisions should I choose. How do I cope with the issues in my life? How can I problem solve? How can I be better? Do Better?  “What path should I take?” or “That’s the way we have always done it.”

Questions should challenge us to envision a new level of commitment, raise the bar, these and many other experiences will help change everything, a vision that makes us better than we have ever been and superior to our competition. This kind of vision inspires US, our teammates and coaches. And, properly executed, it delights and attracts others!

 

This isn’t business as usual. But the pursuit of this vision is powerful because, as President Kennedy’s speech assures us, “that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills”.

I know that WE can do the HARD things now so that we can ENJOY many things associated with the hard work put in running Summer Miles DURING the SEASON!!

FALL FORWARD!! It is NEVER too LATE! IT is NEVER too DARK to change things AROUND.

The ONLY person that is GOING to DIG you out of YOUR hole is WHO? YOU!!! YOU have TO do it for YOU!!