UPDATING MY OFFICE AND TRIATHLON WORKOUT SPACE
In order provide me the opportunity to be available but also accomplish both training and work, my office space needed to be re-calibrated. So, first things first. I ripped out carpets. Next was the neglected carpet padding. I then began installing new flooring with great looking upcycled laminate flooring. L.z found the flooring on Facebook Marketplace. We snatched it up for a relatively cheap cost from the original users and I set to work.
The process reminded me of things in the triathlon process:
- Start or begin with an honest and accurate description of now
- Start from that finding
- Plan out the approach including changes and intentions
- Gather appropriate tools and gear
- Identify achievable milestones or points to check in and evaluate
- keep things small, so that iterative changes are more manageable
- Adapt along the way
- Seek and identify trustable sources of feedback
- Data
- humans – coaches and trusted and honest peers
- sources of approaches, etc
- Seek and identify trustable sources of feedback
- When frustrations arise
- slow down
- breath
- identify and recalibrate
- enjoy the process and appreciate the journey
- Pause, be still, look back, appreciate – move on
Flooring really seems to kick my butt. Further, I learned something. What gets done with a dragon-stead of 4 vibrant souls? NOTHING! Unless you plan and leverage the best moments. Otherwise, those little wonderful dragons will burn your soul to their own inclinations. No really, they are masters at manipulation. It just takes one look into their eyes, and they win. Not to mention, nor underestimate the beauty of their momma, the Queen of the little dragons!
So, after the first 10 days of festering because I couldn’t seem to create time. I was able to rip out the floor, begin installing the floor. All I have left is the finishing and trim work to lock it all in. Being on my knees – I don’t use the knee pads, kicks my trash. It served as a reminder in this reconstruction or recalibration process that I am not a machine. I am quite human. I have shared the analogy of a car in the driveway. Non carbon-based lifeforms don’t have the pains of cognition. Well, I feel every nook and cranny lately, mainly because of the inactivity. The least of which is the new confirmation via bloodwork that I am indeed pre-diabetic. So, a little human at this moment. So what do I do? I begin where I am at. Regardless of where I have been, I have to begin the frustratingly humbling process of starting exactly and accurately where I am at. Not where I have been! Good luck getting back at it, eh? This accurate framing is often the most humbling and difficult in the process of prepare, review/measure and then reflect.
Coming out of my funk of mind and physical wellness is again a requirement, not necessarily from everything that I can’t control, rather I will focus on the things I can control. So, the floors are in a place where I can begin.
So where will I start? Right in my office on my trainer. I have my bike and wahoo kickr core ready to go. Now to make time, take the time and do the time!
