PUSHING MY LIMITS WITH A 35-MILE ULTRA-MARATHON RACE

35 miles of running. 10,000 feet of climbing.  9.5 hours of one foot in front of the other.    For the first time since the Rio Olympics, I wanted to be tested again physically. That’s why I signed up for an ultramarathon in Whistler B.C. When I first committed to this race, running four miles felt like hard work. I had
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GOAL SETTING: 8 STRATEGIES OF ELITE PERFORMERS

If you are actively working to live a high performing life, there will be internal obstacles, external setbacks and plenty of success. It’s part of the process. It’s part of the make-up for those pursuing mastery.  The way you respond to life’s mysteriously nuanced and complicated interconnected flow of micro-events is a combination of your
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CONFIDENCE: KNOWING YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO “GO FOR IT”

Do you have the confidence to live in the arena? Most of us are familiar with the infamous words of President Theodore Roosevelt’s (1910) Man in the Arena speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, France: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer
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