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Are you caught in the riptide, the current, the slipstream of life?
If you are, you aren’t alone.
Back at the beginning of the year, we set an important business goal. Then realized this week, that we’d done nothing, really, to advance it.
One day turns into the next; and before you know it some serious time has passed you by.
But it’s not too late to recommit, to start again.
It’s never too late.
And, usually, there are super-simple solutions.
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Why?
Why do you run?
I get this question a lot.
Especially now as I train for my 100 mile ultra.
I could give a George Mallory-like response when asked why he wanted to climb Everest: he said, “Because it’s there.”
“I run because I can,” I might say.
Which, like Mallory’s response, is shallow and stupid.
The real answer is much more complex; and a bit paradoxical.
I run because it draws me into the present moment.
When I’m running trails or in the dark or even dodging traffic along a busy road, I must be wholly present; for if I’m not, I’ll trip on a root or get hit by a car.
I run because it connects me with me: my lungs, my heart, my limbs, my joints. Am I thirsty? Tired? Hungry? What is my body telling me? How shall I care for it?
I run because it connects me with my awesome running partner, my beautiful wife Ann. We’re there in the moment. Just the two of us. We can deconstruct western literature or talk politics or religion or just be quiet. Together.
I run because it grounds me: literally. I am aware that I am connected to the ground. I experience my body running across that ground.
I feel the earth and air and sky. I feel the sting of the cold and the warmth of the sun. The rain, and the wind, and the snow. I see coyote and antelope. I see towering peaks; hear the sea crashing along the shores. I see the stars in the sky; bear witness to the waxing and waning of the moon. I revel in the magnificent dawns; watch the light fade at dusk.
And running connects me to that greater ground. The Ground of All Being.
Source for me.
Spirit. God. Creator.
I experience the “thin places” where the “I and Thou” dissolve.
And Being is all there is.
In all these moments, I remember that I am Alive.
In this precious fleeting gift that is my life.
Howard Thurman once wrote: “Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.”
What makes you come alive?
Running is my jam.
What’s yours?
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It seemed like such a good idea.
In the moment, at least.
Now… well… hmm.
Not quite as jazzy.
But that’s often the way it is, isn’t it?
It’s one thing to think about it.
It’s another thing entirely to make it happen.
Small steps; small, consistent steps; over time.
That’s what it takes to transform a dream into something real.
Commit to taking a small step every single day.
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Regret is a terrible thing.
I don’t have many. But one stands out.
The trip of a lifetime.
With my dad.
He’d invited me to climb to Everest Base Camp with him. The two of us had learned to climb together. He was running a continuing medical education program for fellow physicians. He knew I loved the mountains; and that I had an interest in high-altitude medicine.
Three weeks with my dad. In the Himalayas.
I said no.
You see, I was busy.
Three weeks seemed like a very long time.
I had a job. Responsibilities.
Important things to do.
There’d be another opportunity.
There wasn’t.
Years later, the National Park Service extended an invitation to me to be on its high-altitude medical team. A rare and prestigious invitation to be with some of the luminaries in the mountaineering world.
Three weeks. In the Alaska Range.
An extraordinary opportunity.
I said no.
You see, I was busy.
Three weeks seemed like a very long time.
I had a job. Responsibilities.
Important things to do.
There’d be another opportunity.
There wasn’t.
I’m just back from the Himalayas.
A climb to Everest Base Camp.
With my amazing climbing partner, my awesome life partner, my beautiful wife, Ann.
It was extraordinary.
Perhaps the most extraordinary, life-changing experience of my life.
But.
I had such resistance to going.
Because, you see, I’m busy.
I have important work to do.
And three weeks is such a long time.
Except that it’s not.
Think about the last three weeks of your life.
They’re like a flash of lightning in the night sky.
Gone.
Vanished in the rearview mirror.
And the stories you tell about your self-importance. About your responsibilities. About the things you’ll miss out on if you actually do that thing that calls you.
They’re just stories.
And, most of them untrue.
If the last two years have taught you anything it should be this:
Life is fragile. Unpredictable. Fleeting.
It changes in an instant. In an ordinary instant. And that opportunity, that experience, that trip of a lifetime?
It may well be gone. Forever.
My tears flowed on many days as I walked among the towering Himalayas. I felt my dad. He was there with me. Walking beside me in that place he so treasured. I loved that he was with me. And I would have given anything in those moments to have said ‘yes’ to that invitation of his so many years ago.
Your life is a series of moments. These moments. Not future moments. Not “I’ll get to it when” moments.
Only these precious, present moments.
And in these moments, there is a call within you. To fulfill those deepest longings of your heart.
Listen to them.
Answer the call.
Not someday.
But now.
Because dreams deferred are dreams denied.
And regret is a terrible thing.
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