The recent me is feeling quite screwed-up. I've my finances to settle, I've my parents to settle, I've got issues on hand that's making me feel stressed.
As much as this is so, I've recently adopted a healthy lifestyle. I've started to do my runs consistently before dinner and I find that it helps, since I won't get to eat until I fulfil my running criteria. The regime has been on for 6 days, with one day where I missed out the run due to being busy with something else. This is by far, the most successful exercise regime I've ever come up with.
When I did the first few runs, It'd always kill me. It would be only 5 mins into the run and I've already started feeling the sense of inability to continue. From here, I learnt about how important procrastination is.
Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense
- Winston Churchill
In a normal sense, procrastination is totally negative. You won't want to have this quality. If you're meant to meet a friend and you've procrastinated, you're gonna be late. If you're meant to make a sales call and you stop, you've lost valuable commission. I think that procrastination is deep within me and trying to defy it's existance is totally impossible.
Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.
- Doug Williams
Why not view it from a different facade? If procrastination harms your productivity, put it into another area for it to do it's work for you. You'll see what I mean. Throughout the run, I had stitches, chest pains, muscle ache, anything could happen while running. Despite that and a few months of no conditioning, I could do a 30 min run at a go without stopping at a decent speed. Keep in mind that I started feeling pangs of giving up, 5 minutes into the run.
The man who wins may have been counted out several times,
but he didn’t hear the referee.
Never quit or give up….never…..never give up.
- H.E. Janson
I knew that the run would last 30 mins. Despite telling myself that I'd just need to endure another 25 mins, it didn't work. Challenging myself to the fact that I'm not as weak as that just made the run more torturing. The key is procrastination here. Everytime I wanted to give up, I just delayed giving up. Delay for one more minute covers more distance and ends up making me closer to the goal. In the end I completed a run I would otherwise have not completed and feel a sense of accomplishment within myself.
Remember:
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge
3 comments:
stubborn is the word you're looking for dude!
Yes, nv gif up, cox 'The man who wins, is the man who tinks he can..' But well,lets nt forget that the man who died, is the man who thought he could..
haha, you're humorous, there's always a thin line between persistence and being purely stubborn. It's never easy to know if you're stubborn or if you're just not giving up. I guess however, too many a thing is lost when people give up too easily, instead of being stubborn.
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