In The Moment

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I am a dreamer.  I still have my whole life ahead of me...or so I think.  Often.   So much I want to try. So much I want to do.  I am captivated by beautiful things.  So shiny.  I am enthralled by people who live life passionately.

This video of Danny Macaskill amazed me.  He is a genius...and I wanted to do that too.

Uffda!

It is so exciting.  I am not.  

This week I read an article over at T-nation: Lessons of Peyton Manning.  It highlights the concept that focusing on the end result you hope to accomplish takes away from what you need to focus on today.

That is soo me...I wanna do this.  I wanna do that.  I want to win a Tactical Strength Challenge.  I want to press two beasts.  I want to hurry through my current program, hit my simple goals and leap frog to the sinister goals.

I could climb mountains, ski mountains, do a goruck selection, do trail riding...so many things.

But yesterday I had a revelation.  Guys that are good at those things are only good at those things.  Thats a lot of energy AND focus.  But what is important to me?  Helping my brother move his wife's stoopid effing treadmill.  Helping a friend crawl under his snowmobile while I hoist it up so he can fix the bugger.  And...farmer carry 100 lbs:

Yesterday I also set another Personal Best.  It stretched me a little.  But it was not me riding down a mountain, it's just me taking a small step.  Putting pennies in the strength bank for who knows what.  Not getting injured doing something stupid that is too far down the road.  It's just me.  Right here.  There's plenty of time for what's to come.  Mean while, I'm gonna stop and smell the bacon.