Spin bike
Rode spin bike for 2 hours.
I wanted to ride outside at some point, but running errands just ate up my day.
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 09/01/2007
- Time: 17:00:00
- Total Time: 2:00:00.00
- Distance: 40 miles
- Average Speed: 20 mph
Filed under: 2007 Resolutions, Cycling, Goals, Spin Bike, Uncategorized, Workout, fitness, fitness over 40, fitness over forty, male over forty, over forty
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Standing on the edge of change
Today I woke up, and for the first time in over 7 years, RSI isn’t my full time job. Yesterday marked the end of my RSI era. No one, not founders or employees, have worked at RSI longer than I have.
Although I have been thinking about and working on Sweat365 since the beginning of the year, today is the first day it can command my full attention. It is now my full time job.
Waking up this morning, I find myself filled with many conflicting emotions:
- I am mostly numb - a byproduct of spending half a year on two jobs.
- I am apprehensive - who knows where this change will lead.
- I am scared - I walked away from a really good job, and the security of two paychecks every month.
- I am also excited - as I stand at the bottom of a new mountain to climb.
- I am filled with gratitude - that I have been blessed with the opportunities I’ve had in my life.
- And I’m blown away - by the trust, love and support I get from Lisa to go chase my windmills.
One thing I’m present to this morning is the difference between my generation and my parent’s generation. At 46, my dad was closing in on the end of his career at Bank of America, the only place he’d ever worked. His career was not his self-expression. To me it seemed mostly like an obligation he had to endure. He retired at 55, and has since devoted himself to fulfilling his self-expression outside the domain of “work”.
At 46, I am starting over. Even more, I don’t see this as my last starting over. I may or may not need to work for money when I’m 55, but either way, I see my self pursuing my career. There is still so much I want to accomplish. Work sometimes feels like work to me, but mostly it has become integrated with my passion and self-expression. To a large degree, the things I would do as a hobby are the things I am doing in my job.
This morning I was reading The Artist’s Way at Work, by Julia Cameron (one of my favorite writers):
For those committed to a creative life, age is a matter of perception. “I’m too old to change” is an intellectual defense many of us use to avoid the vulnerability caused by change. Change makes us nervous. It makes us feel insecure. In fact, it’s resisting change that makes us miserable, not change itself. Electing to change - choosing change as a deliberate, considered course of action - makes us feel powerful and alive.
This morning I start a new journey. It’s going to be a big change. I am filled with many emotions. But I also feel powerful and alive. I can’t wait to see what’s on top of the mountain…
Filed under: Inspiration, New beginning, Uncategorized
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