Boxes
Get out of the box!
“What box?” you ask…
That chair.
Your couch.
Get up from your table.
Out of your room/box.
Your house/box.
Your car/box.
The pool/box.
Your routine/box.
Shake it up!
Do something different. And look around you.
Get out of the box!
“What box?” you ask…
That chair.
Your couch.
Get up from your table.
Out of your room/box.
Your house/box.
Your car/box.
The pool/box.
Your routine/box.
Shake it up!
Do something different. And look around you.
Make a point to begin again. There is no going back—just like we can’t go back in time—only forward. Sometimes in learning it feels like one step forward, two steps back. But the truth is that we can never have the same experience twice. Make it a deliberate practice. Take the opportunity to review what…
I’m not going to tell you how to workout during isolation. I’m not even going to suggest that you have to! What I am going to tell you is that it’s going to be okay. Even when you could, you didn’t have to swim everyday. You didn’t even have to swim more than a few…
Don’t be afraid to do it again. If you get an unexpected result in your experiment, do it again. Perhaps you didn’t account for all of the variables. What variables are you keeping constant? And which are you testing? Don’t mistake ‘doing it again’ with repetition. If you need to, audit your experiment.
Is what someone said to me this morning at the pool when I mentioned that I want to get better and that’s why I take notes in my notebook. I started when I was young as well, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have room for improvement! Everyone has room for improvement. What’s your…
Not to compare and contrast. But to wonder and awe! All of the bodies going hither and yon. Whether their ability is known or unknown. Busy doing the best that they can with their accumulated knowledge, life experiences, and understanding. Take a moment, or three — just look around you. What do you see? How…
With all of my work and personal events getting tossed this year, and 3 months of social isolation with a 3 and 5 year old under my belt, I’ve gone through several rounds of mentally coming to grips with: what do I do now? With regard to my swimming, most recently I’ve settled on speed…