Staying afloat is no way to live
The only reason I know today’s date is because my journal tells me so. If I were to miss a day of writing, I would be living one day behind everyone else.
“Do you really write 1,000 words a day?,” a friend asked me recently. “I write that before the sun comes up,” I answered half annoyed because I was telling the truth. “I’m not very good so I need the practice.”
She made me really question how I start my multiple word mornings. It’s always with a date, and always one day at a time. And sometimes, it makes me feel like life is a storm soaring overhead – big, loud, and moving so fast I can’t keep up.
For me, writing in a journal is lots of things; good practice, thought organization, event documentation, and most of all – it’s swimming.
Whenever the date makes me want to find a closet and cower between coats more than grab a pen and I write, I flip back and read what I wrote yesterday, and last week, and last month. When I’m the most scared, and often the most bitter, when I have been feeling that familiar pain in my gut telling me “your better than this,” is whenever my journal looks like I’m just surviving. Like I have lost the way and will to thrive.
Keeping a journal is a way for me too keep my head in situations that make others lose theirs. Or, it lets me know where my head really is. Most of the time, it’s shoved firmly up my own butt, and it’s the selfishness suffocating me. The rest of the time, it’s shoved up everyone else’s worrying way to much about what they think of me. This doesn’t work either because it’s just another version of selfish.
My journal shows me the difference between swimming in life’s ocean, or just treading water in it.
If your like me, treading water makes your skin crawl. It feels like you can see the shore, but getting there means trying and trying may mean dying. So, we expend as little energy as possible, tread, and pray someone finds us.
There’s multiple methods to make more swimmers, but for me it’s journaling. For you it could be painting, singing or sculpting.
When I get scared of the shore, or when I think swimming is too expensive, my journal becomes a great white shark in the ocean with me. It’s just the scare I need to make me keep swimming. It’s the motivation to be more than a story about a guy who is awesome at staying in the same place.
For score:
“12.2″
30-Snatches 45/75
30-Snatches 75/135
30-Snatches 100/165
30-Snatches 120/210
AMRAP 10 Minutes
Strength:
1-Push press 100/155
1-Push jerk 100/155
1-Split jerk 100/155
AMRAP 10 Minutes
Auxiliary:
Hold paleo chair for (10) minutes.
Post impression to comments.
Simply love.
84 PR
Happy with that for 5am! Fun time ith y’all this morning. Nothin like sittin in a pow wow for 10 minutes in paleo chair to top it off.
69 (same as last year)
51 RX PR by 1 rep and it was by the skin of my chinny chin chin
60rx PR. Last year I only did 30rx. Great 4:30.
60RX & PR by 30
a PR to be super proud of given back stuff you’ve managed through so much of this past year.
gotta say that strength was humorous, however, I think you gave me ONE push press in the entire 10mins!
Since I was the only male at 630. I will be the only male to post. 70
Well look what several thousand more snatches in a year’s programming will do for PRs. RXs all over the board today. Congrats to Zach, Jerry and even Lunden (thx to a bum shoulder this time last year) did this WOD for the first time tonight.
Ya’ll made the Paleo chair game fun -thanks for stayin’ to play. Lunden, Britt, Luke and Renee impressed w not a single relief break. And while I hassle him because he’s such a stupid good athlete wo an yeffort, King only took a 15sec breather.
Zach…I appreciated your attendance PR. Good to see you more regularly.
I got 60…same as last year…
I will look at the positives and say that for a few months I couldnt put any weight over my head…so cool.
But still wish I would have taken care of myself in the first place…
Wouldve couldve shouldve….
As for 6:30…it was awesome…
Josh and the ladies
Loved the strength…
Heres to not the letting the bar win….
I got 60…same as last year…
I will look at the positives and say that for a few months I couldnt put any weight over my head…so cool.
But still wish I would have taken care of myself in the first place…
Wouldve couldve shouldve….
As for 6:30…it was awesome…
Josh and the ladies
Loved the strength…
Heres to not the letting the bar win….
Fun fun 6:30
63 PR, could not pull that 100# past my nose last year!
Success!