The Death of Doubt

RUN 6.6 in a squeak under 55 mins, for an 8:20 m/m pace

Hot, humid, and summery this morning with the group. It's summer baby!

I start most posts for the Thursday run with some whine about how "I didn't think I could do it! Then OMG I did it!". It's getting old.

Time for the Death of Doubt. Out with it. With the trash.

I want to wake up and KNOW I can do something. Maybe I can't do it at the pace I want. Maybe tomorrow would have been a better day. Maybe thinks won't go just my way. But I KNOW I can do it.

This isn't new, really. I learned it with IMWI 2010. When I signed up I doubted myself. After I'd finished I realized just how strong desire can be, and just how motivating. I've been living it ever since.

Well to be honest, not really living it fully. I still wake up with doubts. [A common one: Can I keep up with DC?]. It's NORMAL to have doubts. It's not healthy, however, to let them rule your life.

In the run, I began to wonder why I wanted to sign up for 3DoS 2014. I hesitate because I DOUBT that I can do it! OK, that's a great reason to sign up and TRY IT.

If you're guaranteed success, then there's little thrill.

Sometimes I think I could come up with a list of rules to live by. It sounds so silly, but they keep floating around. I could hone it down to say 8 rules that govern me. What would the Doubt one be?

It's NORMAL to have doubts. It's not healthy, however, to let them rule your life. Embrace doubt and squash it like a python. :)