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That which we do not speak of or the big scary running injury with no timeline

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In this episode with Jo, I’m talking about that big thing which deep down we probably all fear as runners: a big scary injury with no running, no clear path forward and no timeline of how long it will last for. We look at what that takes to get through to the other side, and how we answer the question of how much do you love running? Because you are going to have to love it a whole lot to get through endless rehab, endless setbacks and the mental challenges associated with that.

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Marrying the process – what would you still do if you knew you would fail?

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We often hear about loving the process, or setting process based goals or just being about the process, but what does it really even mean?

You’ll often hear people talking about the process, but it can get a bit like jargon after awhile. Like, how do you tell the difference between the tempo run which is about the process and the tempo run which is about finally nailing that half marathon PB? They can look a lot alike. So, that is our deep dive for today!

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Podcast: Episode 138 – Why your running (or new habit) motivation falls off a cliff after 3 weeks (and how to fix it)

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If you lose your way after three weeks, do you internalise that as a personal failing?

The reality is that this is really common to everyone and it’s not just a matter of will power or drive or commitment. In this episode I’m talking about:
  • Why it happens, even with the best of intentions
  • How to set yourself up to avoid this or at least work around it
  • And some of the ways I’m using this in my own life right now

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Podcast: Episode 137 – Creating the bubble and the environment for the change you want in 2021

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Oh hello, I hear it’s 2021.

And it’s been awhile since I’ve been on the podcast, and boy did I miss it. In this episode I’m talking about:
  • Why it’s really hard at this time of year to navigate the new year – whether you have goals you’d like to achieve or not
  • Creating an approach for change that is based on curiousity
  • Being willing to make changes to better support your goals
  • Creating the environment that is going to work for you instead of work against you.

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Mental toughness requires more softness than you think it does

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When I ask people what they most need, it’s usually all about mental toughness, resilience, mindset.

We live in a world full of people who believe the only way to toughness and grittiness and resilience is baptism by fire.

But the part that gets skipped over is where you have to trust yourself to survive the fire, you have to believe that you can and you have to love yourself enough that you are undaunted by failure.

You can’t hate your way into belief, you can’t self-loathe your way into trust and you can’t shame your way into fearlessness.

It’s in the skipping over, that you can lose your way.

When you are continually under-valuing your effort and over-emphasising where you struggled, it’s easy to get stuck in a shame spiral.

Sometimes, you know I get out the door and I think to myself ‘that was a fucking miracle’. And it could be for any reason – I didn’t sleep well, or I’m feeling sad that day or one of my kids said something kind of innocuous but also deeply hurtful in the way that kids do but don’t realise they do. Maybe my bones feel tired, or I feel unappreciated or I feel like a crappy parent or a worse human or maybe I just wanted to snuggle up with the cats and hide from the world.

Any day, there are a million reasons to not go and maybe five that you want to.

So yeah, it can be a miracle.

And once that miracle has happened, well once you are out the door that is like a bonus round for anything that happens it’s icing.

I have a thing that I do mostly with intervals or a run where I’m not purely running easy. In my mind anything over 50% is a win. So when I’m half way – I figure that’s a good day, if I get to two thirds that’s a great day, three quarters that is outstanding and 100% well that is incredible. Because I know that showing up is the hard part.

You have to believe in your capacity for mental toughness before you can practice it and that takes a whole lot of kindness first.

Sometimes it takes a lot of time to find that kindness for yourself, and that’s okay. It’s okay for it to feel hard. It’s okay for it to take time to realise you don’t have to ‘deserve’ kindness – that it can just be taken in like oxygen into your lungs.

You do hard things all the time. You demonstrate mental toughness all the time. The challenge isn’t in doing it, the challenge is in being able to see yourself and recognise all the moments of greatness that you sweep under the rug, unnoticed because you don’t believe that is who you are.