![]() ![]() We’re honored to bring the first half-marathon to North Liberty, Iowa, to raise funds for the The Big O Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity. Which is exactly what you’re doing when you allow yourself to get caught in analysis – instead of picking up your feet and moving on.Run for our community! Join us May 7 for a 5k, 10k, or half marathon to support our community and The Big O Foundation. And any dirt that is sticking to your shoes will fall off along the way.īut it won’t if you keep standing in the mud puddle, theorizing about how to make it disappear. There will be peaks and valleys and long, endless stretches of sunshine to travel down on the road ahead. You have to let your failures be events – lined up along the road of your life – rather than identities that you adopt. It means looking at your life in a series of averages, rather than a series of individual hits and misses, and realizing that for every nine times you strike out, you hit it out of the park at least once.Īnd that one hit is worth all the strike-outs in the world.īut you’re never going to realize that if you allow your failures to vanquish you. It means taking the risks that you are most afraid to take. The solution is to get back up and prove to yourself that you are.Īnd that means putting yourself back out there. But the solution to this problem is not to analyze all of the ways in which you’re not good enough. You got all up in your head about an event or an opportunity or a possibility and it didn’t pan out because, well, it just didn’t.īecause that’s life. You applied for a job that didn’t need your precise set of skills. You fell in love with someone who wasn’t ready for a relationship. ![]() And we have to too, if we want to do ourselves any favors.īecause the truth is, nine times out of ten, your strike-out was probably a matter of bad luck. And when you’re in pain, all you want to do is make the entire world stop turning until you have the time and the stamina to catch up with it.īut that’s the unfortunate thing about life: It doesn’t stop moving. When you feel the sharp sting of rejection, it makes you want to turn inward and analyze everything that could possibly be wrong with you, so that you don’t keep carrying flaws forward. When you feel an intense flood of embarrassment, it makes you want to hide out from the world. ![]() Here’s the thing: Pain can be absolutely paralyzing. Sometimes the analysis is just a feeble excuse to stay stuck in the center of our issues, because it’s easier to dissect them than it is to move on. We decide that if we can get down to the root of our recurring challenges, we can defeat them once and for all.īut sometimes the analysis isn’t what helps us. The problem is that we choose to stay stuck on problems, to agonize over them, to obsess and analyze and dissect them. We see them as a sign to stop moving.īut perhaps we’re paying ourselves a grave disservice in doing so.īecause the problem often isn’t that our struggles trip us up and prevent us from moving forward. We perceive the arrival of problems as a reason to cease and desist what we’re doing. Disappointment makes us check out of the game and re-evaluate all of the rules. ![]() A particularly fun part of pain is the ability that it has to stop us dead in our tracks.Įmbarrassment freezes us. ![]()
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