Be the Voice of Reason

Last week I talked about being the Driver in your life.

This week I want to talk about being the voice of reason within your life.

Do you ever let self doubt creep in? Do you down talk yourself? Do you try to let those little voices whispering failures into your ear win ever?

I think everyone does at one point or another, and this is ok. It is part of life. I believe it is a part of what makes us human. Self doubt, fear of failure, and little voices, they all exist as a part of each of us.

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In my head, on a given day there are lots of voices trying to steer me in the wrong directions. Just yesterday the voice was telling me I was failing because it was my first rest day in 2 weeks. I thought since I did not workout that I should not eat much. I was thinking about how over weight I felt ok, so I was calling myself fat inside my head and wondering why I rested.

Now this is just one example, but you get the idea. On a given day, I get irrational thoughts about my body, workout, performance, or food choices several times within the day. They are the little voices within my head that sometimes keep me from being the best version of myself.

What I want to tell you is this: those voices, they are hard to ignore. I get it. But what you can do is fight against them. You can be the voice of reason within your own mind and squash those negative thoughts like a bug on a windshield.

It takes sheer will power and strength to stand up and say, No self hating today. Today I will learn to look in the mirror and smile and appreciate exactly what I see. Today I will make good choices and be satisified with them and not worry about anything else. Today I will not listen to the little voices of self doubt.

Today, I will be the voice of reason! Today I will walk tall and hold my head up with pride.

The voice of reason is softer than the other voices if you push it to the back. The voice of reason is harder to listen to when the other voices try and over come it. But if you are persistent and patient, the voice of reason will reign and you can over come any adversity by listening to it.

Be the Voice of reason today and everyday.

Everything Happens for a Reason

I am not sure where to begin.

A few short weeks ago, 7 to be exact, I thought things were dismal and grim. I was on crutches in a full leg splint and in miserable pain. I tore my calf and I felt like my world was ending. I went into a boot and still felt terrible. I hobbled around and just sunk into a depression.

It was hard.

Running had really become my life for the last year. I spent it doing long runs weekend after weekend and always training for a race. So when I was told I had to stop it was like my life was cut out from within me. That fire and passion it fizzled for a few days.

I started brain storming and then found other ways to exercise. You see, I never give up. I cannot. I will not. My injury forced me to do something I had never done before, face my biggest fear, gaining all of my weight back and being a failure.

At the heart of my life has always been becoming a failure. I thought being injured would make me be that. And I did not realize it at the time but in fact, my injury did a good thing for me.

It made me realize that there are many other forms of exercise other than running and more than racing marathons and road races period.

In fact, there is a whole new world waiting for me to explore it, and this is the world of traithlons!!!

I would never, ever, have even considered getting into them before because I was terrified of the swimming portion. I got over my fears of swimming thanks to the torn calf. You see, when you are addicted to cardio and the only form of it you can do for 4 weeks is swim, you kind of get tossed into it if you do not want to sit home on your ass bored and feeling miserable.

I know they say everything happens for a reason. I know because many people told me this. I just did not see it at the time I was injured. I did not appreciate the opportunity it gave me to learn about my body and what it is capable of.

So, I am taking this moment today to say thank you. Thank you to everyone who has stuck by me during my crazy, raging, depressing injured ridden days. I promise I will be stronger for this journey and I do appreciate the support.