32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 strokes.
1 stroke over from my last lap. Have to reach farther with each stroke on the return lap. I’m in the Memorial Athletic Club at 6 on a Saturday morning. Outside it’s freezing and I’m the only one here swimming laps. I’ve been assigned to swim laps by my trainer for the next 3 months. Something that a few years ago I would not have dreamed of doing. Not because I couldn’t because frankly I just wouldn’t.
Sometimes you just have to do things for yourself.
I’ve had friends offer to set me up with trainers and recommend clubs and regimens to get fit but none of it seemed quite right. I mean I’m sure the trainers were great and the facilities were top-notch and the exercises probably work but it never seemed to be quite right for me.
Still feel like a jerk for not taking what they offered but in the end it’s me that has to put in the effort, right? I have to be comfortable with the choices I make and then follow through with them.
Return lap, I get a nose full of chlorine water, snort it out and keep paddling.
Another good example, I got into the real estate game last year and another friend offered up some contacts in the Sugarland real estate market. Sugarland is a nice place to live, probably lots of good houses and opportunities and probably a good investment but I just don’t know the area. I don’t know how the traffic patterns run, what the school districts are like or where most people like to shop and a myriad of other things. Whats more I don’t have the time to research it all so I said thanks but no thanks and went ahead with an area I did know.
You’ve got to have confidence in your choices.
If you go in with confidence in your choice then you are much more likely to engage with that choice once you get involved and you are much more likely to make the best of it. With a choice that you don’t have confidence in you will likely be tentative, you will be slow off the mark and lose time, you won’t get the full advantage of your decision.
Walking back to the locker room. So cold.
So is it the old dictum of “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow“?
Sort of. More like a “A good choice you can work with is better than a perfect choice you can’t live with”
Or something like that.
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