Gennadiy Podlubnyy
Hi everyone! My impressions and insight over the past two days are connected with the task, the morning run, and my life))). I did a little above the minimum on Monday, but by 8 in the evening I found out that there were other conditions under which I could have done more. Then it started: I didn’t hear, didn’t quite understand, didn’t ask enough, next time I’ll definitely find out all the conditions or write them down, my big brain started justifying me. But after the run and one phrase from Igor [Graf], I understood that it wasn’t the conditions that were to blame, but what goal I had clearly set for myself, because I had decided from the start: 3500 and they’ll leave me alone, and that’s how it goes in life too. So goals should be set to the maximum. And also today at the run, when right before the finish I started walking the distance instead of running it, Igor said, “We run the last meters, you can relax only after the finish,” which is what we so often do, at the finish we slow down, relax, and others overtake us. I had often heard and read phrases like “The urge to give up is always strongest when you’re only a step away from the goal,” but here it was on such a simple and vivid example that I took in the meaning of these words in a second. Now I will finish my work “to the
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