7/5/2023 0 Comments Just dont quitFailure is inevitable in any endeavor, and it is not reasonable to expect that we will only experience success on our journey through life. All of the anxiety and worrying usually turns out to be an embarrassing waste of emotion, sleep, and time. I can personally testify from all my worrying in the past that the worst-case scenarios rarely happen. Out of all the fears only 4 or 5% are justified and real. Another 10% are so petty that they cannot make any difference whatsoever. He pointed out that a study conducted at the University of Michigan discovered that 60% of our fears are unwarranted and that another 20% have already become irrelevant past events. Fear and failure are first cousins, says Denis Waitley in his epic book Being the Best. He wrote on the quote on the white board: “Don’t Give Up for One More Day.” Uncannily this turned out to be directly tied to the “deep work” discussion. Interestingly, Mycal began the meeting with a quote from Ed Mylett, who is an entrepreneur, best-selling author and peak performance coach. Almost everyone in the group has faced the exact same issues! This week, a member of the group volunteered for “deep work.” This was a highly accomplished individual who confessed to suffering from lack of confidence, a plague of negative thoughts, inability to sleep and anxiety over perceived threats. Liabilities that are exposed always turn out to be far from unique. Exposing one’s fragile ego to extreme vulnerability is no easy thing to do and I commend the bravery of every volunteer who has done it. As a result, each meeting usually tackles the personal issues from a volunteer who agrees to expose his or her liability in exchange for advice from the group. But the intense drive to succeed carries with it some liability. It is only natural that they would carry these traits to their professional lives. Type A people have the discipline and persistence necessary to succeed with Crossfit. Why should I have been surprised? Only Type A people gravitate to Crossfit. When I first joined, I was shocked to discover that these “faces” are highly accomplished in their chosen fields. The Leadership Group meets monthly and is composed of “faces” that I regularly see at the gym. He is a former Marine with an MBA who is a leadership instructor and Crossfit gym owner. It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.ĭo you have a poem to submit to “The People’s Friend”? Click here for some advice.Crossfit Leadership Class with Mycal Anders, Instructor I am very excited to be a member of the Next Level Performance Leadership Group, which was founded by my Crossfit mentor, Mycal Anders and meets monthly. So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit – When we might have won had we stuck it out.ĭon’t give up though the pace seems slow – Life is strange with its twists and turns, When the funds are low but the debts are high,Īnd you want to smile but you have to sigh, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, You can hear Idris reading the inspiring poem here.īelow we’ve slightly abridged and adapted it. “He fitted in well with the liking for traditional themes of friendship, devotion, home and nature in the ‘Friend’.” “Appropriately known as ‘The People’s Poet’, he preferred to describe himself simply as ‘a newspaper man who wrote verses’. The majority offer a sentimental view of ordinary life. “Guest is estimated to have written over 11,000 poems during his career. “The poetry in the “Friend” in the Sixties was dominated, as in the late Fifties, by the poems of Edgar A Guest, a prolific writer of verse who was born in Birmingham in 1881 and later moved to Detroit in the USA with his family. Here’s a little bit about Edgar from the Fiction Special: Guest was a name that appeared time and again throughout our 1950s and 1960s issues. There’s a “Friend” connection, too! When we were in our Archive, collating poems and stories for our 150th Fiction Special, Edgar A. It’s a gentle reminder to us all that even the most trying of times will end, and there are sunnier skies ahead. Guest wrote the inspirational “Don’t Quit” in the 1920s. One morning recently, just before Breakfast News began at 6am, I heard Idris Elba reading a poem on the BBC. I’m not usually much of a TV person, but like everyone else at the moment, I’ve been tuning in to see how things are developing with the coronavirus situation. It’s the best part of the day, my mum always says! I’m an early bird – usually up before six. Is there anything more inspiring than poetry? Sign up to our Weekly newsletter Subscribe to our magazine for more great content
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