I was running this morning while pondering a personal challenge I’ve levied on myself. My goal is to get better at articulating what I observe more simply with plainer language. Without losing accuracy.
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Success is one of those things we generally think we know what it means and behave as if everyone defines it pretty much the same way. Except we don’t. We acknowledge this pretty quickly in terms of where different people set their performance bars, but there’s a lot more to success definition than moving an outcomes bar up and down some arbitrary, society-defined metric. I have a track record of doing this and I plan on doing everything I can to do it again next Saturday. I’m going to a World Championship, after all. Yes, perhaps it’s an amateur World Championship, but I have the honor of racing against some fine 40+ now-amateur talent (some of whom used to be pro). This is my big race of the season. The one that I’ve sacrificed Mommy-Remy time on the weekends for. The one I’ve spent ugh-worthy amounts of money for entry fees, plane tickets and a Team USA race kit. This race, I mean business. I have a bunch of “great ideas” that I start a rough draft post on then never finish. Here is one that I started over a year ago. I figure that I still won’t take the time and effort to do the topic justice, but it’s better to get something out there than not. Somewhere on Linked In I came across this request from Nick Smith of Clearpath Training:
So I figured, what the heck and filled out his questionnaire. Here are my responses. Continue reading Professional Parent Productivity Questionnaire Let me get one thing straight. I won’t even pretend that I am truly optimizing my triathlon performance as a current highest life priority. The fact that triathlon performance is tertiary to a host of other higher priorities like family, career, finances and longevity in sport means that I’m not riding on the razor thin edge of my capability to absorb work. This truth makes certain training and racing decisions much, much easier. I get asked about this all the time. My usual response is naaahhh…I don’t really want to be writing workouts all the time for other people and, besides, aren’t there a million thousand other people who do this already? Just locally- never mind nationwide? And are friends of mine? Is there really enough demand for yet another tri coach around here? So I say this but am faced with two big reasons why I’m thinking about changing my tune. Free webinar from TM Solutions for blog readers. Follow the link below to access free registration. Continue reading Free Webinar – Handling Risk & Uncertainty With Ease Talent pipelines and talent development in a business setting are something that I give a fair amount of attention to in my professional responsibilities. Lately, I got to thinking about this topic as it relates to triathlon. This may not be the ideal point of the season to talk about this, since so many are building into some A races in the next couple months, but it’s salient for me and will be for you at some point over the next 12 months. Additionally, this post should give you some insight into how I managed to outperform expectations at Tri Nats and Du Worlds last season. No matter what my posts may have sounded like, I didn’t just train haphazardly, show up and hope for the best. I spent the entire season preparing with those goals in mind. Here’s how. |
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