Hi all C25K'ers , you have the potential, what are the obstacles to unlocking it?
Listening to the radio this morning an interview floated in the background with the England rugby coach, a slightly annoying bloke (!), who quoted the above title phrase phrase about coaching players. The biggest part of reaching the best performance was identifying individual interference, and he said this was mainly about what's going on in people's heads that stops them achieving. Many posts on HU focus on the obstacles. These might be clear to the reader but less so to the writer who's seeking help, especially with motivation.
So this week, three weeks on from unscheduled open surgery (was planned keyhole but complications changed when on the table) to remove my gallbladder, I'm having a second relapse. The first was an expected response to surgery, but this repeat 10 days further on is unexpected and atypical.
Now the current interferences are definitely physical, which have put a halt to any exercise for the last 3 days. But a gremlin has crept in to the brain. The gallbladder problem was found as a consequence of other routine investigations. I had no symptoms of any problems. In fact my physical health was as good as it's been for decades having completed C25K and consolidated my running. So to have an elective medical intervention which is currently impacting my day to day health is a massive interference.
I had been patient for two weeks and on Monday did my first short slow run feeling pretty good. But is this relapse a consequent permanent interference? Time will tell, but it certainly demonstrates how the mind and body are so linked.
Oldfloss has had two very insightful posts and I certainly welcomed the opportunity afforded by her comfy cushions! So I will have to coax my mind around the possibility of living with an acquired disability, but also reconcile myself to the possibility I'm jumping the gun and need more time to heal.
I guess I need to rethink what my potential is in the current circumstances, I may need to lower the goals, a bit like learning those rules of C25K, especially slow is good!
Thanks for reading.
Here is a piece about explaining the title which was developed by a performance coach a decade ago
One of the concepts that was discussed came from Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Games of Tennis. He proposed that performance (p) is equal to potential (P) minus interference (I), or p = P - I. Without interference performance would equal potential but as we all know that’s not always the case. What’s stopping us could be our lack of necessary skills, drive or motivation, confident enough in ourselves, fear, as well as being over-confident and not being grounded or in the present enough.
If we care to reflect, we would discover that we often stand in our own way with self-limiting, even sabotaging, more often than not unconscious, behaviours. What’s needed to get ourselves out of our own way is to meditate so we can be more grounded, build compassion for ourselves and others so we can be comfortable in our own skins and more able to appreciate and empathise with others, and be more grateful for all the good things in our life so we can replace our negative self-communications with positive ones.
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C2HMi33w (or Prior Planning Prevents P*ss Poor Performance)
Even though we can't communicate, we do share a similar taste in food. Traveling in packs just kind of makes sense.
