I wanted to put into practice some of the concepts talked about in 'how to be a god' and see what kind of results i could get with some dedication.
Talking about a concept is one thing but everybody wants to see proof. (even when they know deep down inside i'm right with regards to my previous post on hard work.)
i think this test says it all.
now I'm not going into the supernatural abilities my book metaphorically refers to... but i am going into the limits we as humans put on ourselves.
this demonstrates the limit my mind put on a simple task.
how fast can i run 3 km on a 15.5 incline?
early in February I gave the task everything I had and the picture shows my result.
26 minutes 31 Seconds.
That was everything. i. had.
I was Exhausted.
That's me.
dead.
heart thumping through chest.
gagging reflex to vomit.
dead.
I gave the task so much, that I was truly proud of what I'd accomplished. Not that anyone cared but I subsequently went to post it on facebook. Tumbleweeds.
So back to the task at hand. What happened next? I tried again and again and again and again. Everyday. Each time I was Changing my perspective of what I could achieve in 3 km. I'll tell you what, I was sweating like a pig after each effort and i had to tell my mind whatever lie i could to convince it to keep going.
Imagine.
That's the secret.
Imagine my life was on the line.
Imagine you're running into battle in Lord of the Rings
Imagine someone you love will die if you don't make those last 100 meters.
anything so that you don't give up.
and then...
24 minutes 24 seconds
2 minutes cut my time?
surely not?
And then...
23 minutes 41 seconds
Whats going on?
And again...
Now I'm doing below 23 minutes? in less than a week?
I broke down the task in my head aiming for 8 minutes every 1 km and raising the minimum speed from 6 kmh to 6.5 and then to 7.
22 minutes 27 seconds
Every time I completed my run I felt a sense of power.
a sense of self-achievement.
Asking myself the question...
'could i have given more?'
and the answer was always yes.
no matter how hard i tried, I simply had to lie to my mind so that my reason for running was greater than my reason to give up.
22 minutes 14 seconds
I realised why people always finish strong. we need to see the finish line in front. that's why people struggle to achieve lasting change in life. we cannot see the finish line and so we don't put in the building blocks to force our lives to be the way they want it.
I just ran the distance again yesterday. smashed the record again.
down to 22 m 09 s
can anyone really argue my body miraculously got over 4 minutes faster in the space of a couple of weeks?
No.
The truth is my mind changed the way i thought about the task, and the impossible 26 minutes 30 seconds I achieved when I started become nothing more than A joke time reminiscent of me walking to the finish line.
How was I ever that slow?
next time you run.
ask yourself...
did you really give your honest-to-god all?
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