The View from the Classroom

I won’t bore you with my workout details, but tonight I felt a little stronger.  I worked back and bi’s and for the first time, was able to do 3 sets of EZ bar curls with 10 pounds on it.  I know…pretty weak for most of you guys, but stuff like that keeps me motivated.

As a matter of fact, I tell my 13 (soon to be 14) year old daughter when she’s running in her track meets not to worry about the other runners.  I tell her to compete to beat her last time and as long as she does that, she’s progressing.   In every meet this year, she has beat her previous meet’s time. 

I tell my 16 year old who thinks he should be on varsity, but instead is on the JV baseball team, to use it as pitching/hitting/fielding practice to get better.  Whether the team wins or loses, he can always better his game.

I guess what I’m saying is that in a world where everyone tries to keep up with or beat everyone else, I think more of us need to just focus on ourselves.  Work within ourselves and strive to do better than last time.  In order to really better yourself, motivation has to come from within and how better to motivate yourself than to compete with yourself? 

Heck, I never lose when I do that!

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