Episode 199: "Action Over Feelings"

Today I heard this quote by Brian Covey... "Action Over Feelings" What he was saying was that, regardless of how you are feeling, there is only one thing you need to do right now. And that is to... Take Action. In order for any other steps, tasks, or goals to be completed, it must first start with action This reminded me of my first Ragnar Trail race I competed in. When I decided that I would train for this run I was completely out of shape and didn't even know where to begin. If you aren't familiar with this run, here's a breakdown. You create your team of 8 runners, set up camp in the middle of the camping area, depending on the course you chose it may be different. The course we ran was in Zion Utah at Ponderosa Ranch. Each runner has to complete 3 different loops, their length and difficulty are labeled Green (easy), Yellow (medium), Red (hard) totaling about 17 miles. You likely will not run them in that order. Once your team starts, you do not stop until every team member completes each trail. So you will most likely be running in the middle of the woods, in the middle of the night, with nothing but a headlamp to guide your way through the trails. You heard me say 17 miles right? After not being able to even run 17 feet without being out of breath, how in the hell was I going to complete 17 miles? Although I didn't know how I was going to do it, I just knew I was going to do it. That was my first step to action. The next would be how that one step to action led to a mindset that could not be stopped. I got to a point, that even though I didn't feel like training on any given day, I would just take action. As soon as my foot left the driveway, in my head that run was over. Not saying that I stopped and didn't do it. In my head it was complete. It took 1 step to complete a 1 mile run or a 10 mile run. Both of those runs started with that single step, and had the same outcome. Although I didn't feel like running on some of those days that I did, was because I took... "Action Over Feelings"