The insights that I shared with you in the last few blog posts, the one that I am sharing hereafter and the one that I will share next happen to be from a real life story. Mine. I decided to share them because I find them crucial to be in one’s life toolbox. I also see all having one thing in common, and that is how they show the abundance of life, and how interconnected and whole its segments are and how it never stops giving us answers – that’s of course, as long as we look through curious and open eyes.
The next story happened in front of the TV. I was watching the Tour de France with my dad. For the eyes of the kid I was and, to be frank, for my eyes now still, it was (and still is) amazing how the eventual winner would fall back at some points and push forward at others, how he would pedal so fast at times, and take it easy at others. Long after that, I was going through tough times and was feeling lost and breathless, my dad looked at me and said: “remember the Tour de France. Despite how under the detail of the magnifying glass of the day-to-day pressures and stages you are urged to treat it as a sprint, treat it instead as a journey. Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.”
Learning: Pace, pace, pace, pace, pace, pace, pace. That’s the only way to lead. Life’s a marathon and not a sprint.
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“Pace, pace, pace, pace, pace, pace, pace. That’s the only way to lead.
Life’s a marathon and not a sprint.”
ABSOLUTLY! …couldnt agree more
can i post it on my status!? with all rights reserved
Be my guest!
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La vie n’est pas un sprint .. c’est un marathon …
(Etrange impression d’avoir regulierement entendu cette phrase .. )…
J’aime beaucoup, et la repete souvent !!!
TIC TAC TIC TAC …. Une ritournelle qui agace : Capitaine Hook … en devient fou !!!
TIC TAC TIC TAC …. Peter Pan lui … n’en a rien a faire .. le temps ne compte pas pour lui… le temps ne passe pas, mais lui, il ne grandit pas non plus …
Nous sommes nombreux a etre angoisses par le temps.
Enfant on trouve qu’il ne passe pas assez vite. On a hate de grandir, que Noel, un anniversaire, les vacances arrivent…
Adulte on trouve qu’il s’ecoule trop vite. Peur de vieillir, peur d’arriver en retard, peur de ne pas respecter une echeance, peur de ne pas experimenter assez de choses, les gens lents nous enervent.
Et plus tard encore on aimerait meme retourner en arriere, inverser le temps ….
Le temps devient une contrainte, alors qu’il faudrait s’en faire un allier…
Il ne faut pas miser sur la vitesse mais sur l’endurance.
La vitesse s’accompagne souvent de stress, violence, desordre, impulsivite, agressivite
L’endurance necessite serenite, recul, calme, maitrise, maturite…
La vitesse est un investissement a court terme, l’endurance est a long terme…
Alors TIC TAC TIC TAC, trouvons notre allure personnelle, règlons notre allure (comme tu le dis), parce que dans le sablier de la vie , il n’y a ni rewind, ni forward, ni pause …
Et puis rassurez vous, l’endurance … ca se travaille… ca s’entretient, ca s’emplifie …
J’aime la perspective…
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