For Human Beings

Bottoming Out

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Bottoming out – really bottoming out – is a funny thing.

Sure, you can feel like you’re bottoming out and coming back, and then life teaches you a lesson: That wasn’t the bottom.

Bottoming out feels horrible, but often it is the necessary ingredient to progress.

It’s exactly what you need to go through, to experience, to make the necessary adjustments for real change, for real progress. It feels terrible at the time, and often hopeless. But it is an essential part of the process of growth.

Growth or change is always uncomfortable. And often the amount of growth and change is directly proportional to the amount of pain and discomfort you go through.

Infinitus 2025 and Making Friends with Failure

About that race… When I got to Infinitus, people were in winter hats and jackets. Vermont is experiencing its coldest May on record. As for running, that means good temperatures and no bugs. But they also said leading up to the race they’d had rain like they’ve never had and the course was muddier than […]

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Progress

We don’t notice when progress is happening. We only notice when progress has happened. Most of progress is spent feeling that we’re trudging along, not getting anywhere and not making progress. It’s why it’s so hard to keep at it. And it’s why we shouldn’t always trust our thoughts. The real challenge is to keep […]

Fun and Fitness

Just finished a version of Fight Gone Bad at the gym, then did some obstacles. I am 27 days into The Streak, and physically I’m started to feel real good. I think, at the core of it, the current success stems from having fun. I didn’t jump in quickly and haven’t gone too intense (until […]