Success-Episode 2, Season 2
Until The Race Is Run
Success-simply defined as "the accomplishment of an aim or target; the achievement of popularity or profit". For many of us, especially the Type A's of the world (such as myself), the quest for success is a driving force. We construct our lives around the concept. My career, my lifestyle, my education are all focused around this nebulous "prize" that I wanted to achieve. How many times have I deconstructed and reconstructed my life in order to achieve "a dream"? Somehow, I have often found myself feeling as though my dream never measured up. Despite all...
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Episode 1, Season 2: In My Skin
Until The Race Is Run
Welcome back to the podcast! After 2 years, I am pleased to share the newest episode of Until the Race Is Run. It has been a long time coming, and I am thrilled to be back at it! In this episode, I reflect back on the times I have felt uncomfortable in my own skin. I explore my feelings and the reasons why I was so uncomfortable. Ultimately, I have come to realize that often the times I have felt the most uncomfortable were the times I have seen sides of myself that I do not like. Further, I look at how being uncomfortable has kept me from many different things in life,...
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Podcast Announcement
Until The Race Is Run
Exciting update to share regarding the podcast and its return! Mark your calendars for February 15th, when the first episode of Season 2 drops..."In My Skin". Until then, take a quick listen to see where I have been and what's coming up!
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Episode 28: Approval-Good Enough For Me
Until The Race Is Run
As 2018 dawns in front of us, let's dive in together and start the year off on a strong note! Today, I dive into the concept and topic of "approval". It is a mystical topic that many of us spend our lives chasing, but often times, come up short. We spend our lives chasing the approval of others, in the end, forgetting to live for ourselves. Our constant need for validation moves us away from being our true selves. As I reflect on my life, I know this has been a topic I have always struggled with. Today, I share with you a time that I learned a very difficult...
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Episode 27: Inspiration-The People Around You
Until The Race Is Run
Inspiration is all around us. Often, we can find inspiration in the simplest of things. A warm sunset, a baby's laugh, even the opening of a flower can inspire us. Really, we can find inspiration in just about anything, depending upon how deep we are willing to look. However, how many of us really stop to realize that maybe the greatest inspiration in life are those around us? Do we move through life taking those around us for granted? Never recognizing how they can inspire us to achieve. As I reflect back on the last two years in my life, I realize I...
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Episode 26: Transformation-Out On A Limb
Until The Race Is Run
Transformation-that mystical process in life where we move from one state to the other. Over and over, I talk about change as part of life, a necessary part of our existence. Change can be good, or bad, but it always happens. Today I share with you the time I made a leap and set my life on a new path. Two years ago, frustrated with being fat and tired, I got up, walked into a gym. Glad to say, I haven't stopped moving since. I still can't believe how long it took me to become active! I share with you my thoughts and fears as I started this process....
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Episode 25: Questions: Life's Unending Curiosity
Until The Race Is Run
Have you ever stopped and asked yourself how many questions you ask in the course of the day? How many times within a day do you inquire about various ideas? Us humans are curious creatures. We want to know it all, and we want to know it all NOW. Information is gathered, processed and eventually acted upon, often without any awareness we are actually doing it! Blindly, we travel through the day, asking about what we need to know. Consequently, it becomes a routine, a habit, a mindless activity. How many of us ever stop and ask if we are truly asking...
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Episode 24: Failing Successfully
Until The Race Is Run
If there is one thing in life none of us likes to do, it would be to fail. In a perfect world, failing would never be an option, and we would all be perfect, at every given moment. However, this is not a perfect world, and failing is a part of life. Despite our best effort and our best intention, we do not always succeed. Dreams do not come true, and we don't always get the happy ending. However, really...is it our failures that define us, or is it how we handle those failures that define us? Today, I share with you where I have been this week. I share with...
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Episode 23: Me, Myself & I
Until The Race Is Run
Many times in life, we find ourselves trying to please others. We dedicate our time and energy to trying to be what we think somebody else expects of us. We silence our own dreams and desires, losing sight of the things that make us most happy in life. This pattern often starts early in life, and by the time we finally arrive to adulthood, it is a well established pattern. By sacrificing our own voice, we think we please others. But,in the end, do we really please them? In denying our own desires, we slowly lose our drive and passion, and in the end...are...
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Episode 22: Soulfully Bankrupt
Until The Race Is Run
How many of us go through the motions of our everyday life like zombies? Each day, we feed our wallet, our family, our ego, but forget about our soul. We become so involved in being successful, consequently, we forget how to be human. We lose sight, we lose perspective and leave ourselves soulfully bankrupt. Do we ever really feel fulfilled by the life we lead, and finally, what happens when we don't? Recently, somebody I know lived through a terrible tragedy. In a single moment the life of his entire family was shattered forever. As I...
info_outlineSuccess-simply defined as "the accomplishment of an aim or target; the achievement of popularity or profit". For many of us, especially the Type A's of the world (such as myself), the quest for success is a driving force. We construct our lives around the concept. My career, my lifestyle, my education are all focused around this nebulous "prize" that I wanted to achieve. How many times have I deconstructed and reconstructed my life in order to achieve "a dream"? Somehow, I have often found myself feeling as though my dream never measured up. Despite all that I have earned and worked for, it just wasn't enough. Oddly, I realized I was never asking myself the right question. Who defines my success?
Reflecting on life, I realize that what I once used to drive my success is no longer what I see my success as. As I have gotten older, I realize that I am successful, but on my terms, and not those that other place on me. In this episode, I explore the concept of success and how while it can be a motivator-it can also become a noose. It started with a simple Facebook post, that really got me thinking. Hopefully, it will also encourage you to think about success and decide what truly matters most in YOUR life, on YOUR terms.
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