Friday, April 24, 2009

Endurance

So how's the Champ doing?

Pretty good under the circumstances.

Moving into the big leagues - it's painfully familiar at times, but it's where he needs to be. Training - it's painfully difficult, especially staying committed to it. Training is what's brought him this far in a short time. What a year...

Things can change a lot in 365 days. The weather is the same as last year but the climate is dramatically different. Now is when you start to realize just how much has happened this last year. Now is no time to be tired. There's endless work to do - both training and ring time.

Where is he on the ladder? Somewhere in the middle - fighting to make success a habit and make positivity a matter of muscle memory. The fight is mostly internal, where the most confusing work needs to be done.

Good and bad things happen in life. How they affect us could easily be graded on a scale in tenths. One being the lowest and worst and 10 being the highest and best. We place up and down on this scale depending on how we feel. And the way we feel about events are relative to our position on the scale. Some things are positive for one point while some things can be negative for three points. They affect where we sit on the scale.

Let's say you're at seven and score a positive five. Well you've only got three points to go, so this wouldn't be as big a deal as if you were at three and scored the same five. Of course this works in reverse as well.

Training is the only way you can bring up your standings. It makes the bigger positives more likely to occur and affects your everyday state. No training leads to failure followed by bigger failures. This thing is pretty complex and difficult to win. Consistent training is the answer every time. It keeps you from over-complicating an already complicated idea.

Back ot the gym for more endurance.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

And now... Nothing

That's what I'd like to do today - nothing.

Happy Easter everyone. Hopefully you're enjoying doing doing nothing.

Friday, April 10, 2009

The Well

One thing about a series of events, whether good or bad, is we never know how long it's going to last. Kind of like a well - hence my headline. And in this case I'm particularly floored by how many good things are happening in such a short time period. You could call this a good-news well. I've found a lot of bad news wells too.

On that note, I have to remember how these things go. Everything can fall out w/ no warning. Not that things will ultimately go that way - just sometimes they do. Just accepting that's life is a fair approach. Preparing for them is a good approach. Anticipating and looking through them is the sound approach - for both good and bad wells. The best approach is to have many wells. Some call this diversity. I call it balance.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Mt. Bachelor

I never really get photos of me skiing. So I was very stoked to work w/ Bend-based photographer Tyler Roemer. Check out his blog at http://tylerroemer.blogspot.com/ and on his personal site http://tylerroemer.blogspot.com/

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The day ended right after I landed. Seems we don't have any readily-available photos of that landing...