RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR MIND
2022, you have been a year. You have been a year to reflect upon, cherish and, like every year, move forward from with its gifts and adventures. It's always a fulfilling time of year for me as a Coach - having lengthy and creative conversations with athletes around their race plans, goals, and ambitions while also taking stock of how this past year has grown us as a team and what we will do with those new learnings. This process is important, and shouldn’t be rushed, but also comes with a large amount of education for many athletes. The natural tendency for most athletes is try to always level up with faster times, a qualification, or raising bars. These measurable goals are useful, but I never see them as the defining measure of development and success. The journey of an endurance athlete seeking performance goes well beyond being faster, stronger and results. A broad perspective is always required to appropriately reflect on improvements and a measuring of success. Not every athlete realizes linear gains, in fact most don't. More importantly, context matters and influences content 100% of the time.
So I ask you, as we wrap this year and ramp to a new year, What Is Success? How do you nurture yourself across the board to ensure your performance goals are held in perspective with the greater context of life? How do you manage goal setting that satisfies where you are at in your athletic, personal and maybe corporate career without becoming overly obsessed? I invite you to begin answering these questions over the next few weeks.
While contemplating your 2023, consider my TOP 10 Holiday Focuses below to right your way and clear the clutter.
Brite's Top Ten Holiday Focuses:
Make sleep quality/quantity a priority.
Manage your time and your mood.
Consider a device detox.
Focus on real food.
The Thing About Goals. Must read. Goals are there to pull you along a path that enhances your life. They do not define you.
Journal...For yourself...For your training...For your career... Start.
Move Better. The more we can get you to move better in many directions, the healthier you will be now and for a very long time.
Self Care. Only you know what that looks like but when we employ some self care habits, many other areas of our lives soften and strength.
Take Stock. Our journey together, no matter what it has looked like or looks like now, is to offer more quality to your life and help you show up in all other areas of your life a better, clearer, more robust version of yourself.
Set your 2023 Intention. Mine is to serve you athletically and personally as best I possibly can.