Monday, November 14, 2011

This is It

This is it.


IT is not tomorrow, IT was not last week, IT is this. NOW. It isn't Ironman Canada or Boston or the next time good fortune, hard work or luck allow me to dine with a beautiful woman. It is not about the finish line.


It is about the process. It is about the road, the path that takes us to here. Every breath, every heart-beat, every pedal rotation and every foot strike. Here are some excellent tips and techniques from Psychology Today on the subject.


We simply cannot avoid this reality no matter how relentlessly Madison Avenue attempts to distract. We daydream about vacation while working, then fret about work while vacationing. Mind-body displacement. You can only be in one place at one time. And this is it, here.


The "then" will take care of itself once we get consistently efficient in our ability to put maximum awareness and focus into the "this". We even coined a new word for it this morning during the noble attempt, "thisness" (spellcheck override confirms).


The "thisness" of our efforts create a higher, cleaner, more precise and profound practice. Our bodies already know this, all we have to do is, once again, convince our minds to join the party. And this becomes this, a part of that, but not that. Yet.


Today I cannot experience the glory and absolute mind-numbing sense of accomplishment of hitting the carpet for the last fifty meters of IMC. Been there six times prior and there is no other experience in this world quite like it. All I can do here and now is in the preparation, practice, in building and about work. So I tackle a portion of that and call it this. One hour of the bike's five. With a MUCH higher intensity factor. Experience tells me that this will augment that, yet I still do this for this. That race is something I am passionate about. I want to be ready come Aug, 28, 2012. But even if I wasn't racing my this would still contain big thisness, as that would contribute immensely to my health and happiness. And thus the goal on this road to that. Is this. Today. This.


Make no mistake where you are and why you are here. This is it.


Pic: My current RCV project is Muskoka 70.3 shoot in September of 2008. Rained all day, PIA then, as now. Regardless, this is it.

2 comments:

ej said...

all this immediacy makes me nervous :)

PS - I like when you can't read the word verification for leaving comments so you make your best stab at it and fail. Can't they make these motivational blogs a bit easier...

KML5 said...

It is either verification or you spend twenty minutes deleting "No, THIS is it" spam. Sorry.

PS - Doen't have to be immediate, just NOW.