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Sometimes I work with a personal trainer. Maria. She's amazing. If you need a personal trainer, there's no one like her. I like to tell her she takes me right to the edge of being sick from working too hard, but never over. And without it feeling like I'm killing myself doing it. Until after I'm done.
Maria is one of my heros. Just recently I've watched her walk step by step through the process of preparing for a triathlon that happens this weekend. Biking, running, swimming. Now, doing a triathlon, whoever you are, is pretty amazing. But Maria doesn't swim. At least she didn't, up until a couple of months ago. She swam right through her fears. Now she's an ocean swimmer.
On Monday she said, 'You know why I'm doing a triathlon? Because this is the stuff I'm the worst at. I can do the short-twitch strength kinda thing all day. But this... this takes work."
That's why she's my hero. 'I'm not good at this, so I'll just make myself compete at it.' This is how one embraces the idea of success. Success is not winning, but rather to successively fulfill more and more of our potential.
Last week we got together after having not done so for almost two weeks. I hadn't done a lot of work in the interim, and I was disappointed with how much I was able to do in our session. Maria said, 'But you did 100%. Didn't you?' Yes, I said. 'Well, that's what we do. 100%.' But it was off from last time, I said. 'Don't compare to last time. You gave 100%. But your 100% changes. That's what matters.'
Good luck, Maria. Bon voyage.
Today I will give 100% of myself to something.
Dancers, Mission District, San Francisco CA
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