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Tri-Life Manifesto

Source: Tracy Korn

Chapter One.

~The first 10 minutes of anything requiring effort almost always suck. Just after the alarm goes off, getting into the pool and suffering the first 100 yards on a winter day, etc. But then it's fine, even good, and at the very least better. So just get through.

~It is difficult, if not impossible, to consistently sustain ideal feelings for the long haul. Logically speaking then, it is difficult, if not impossible, to consistently sustain bad feelings for the long haul. There will be high spots, and you will feel bulletproof. There will be rough spots, and you will feel like crap. These are Prozac patches, and they will pass. But only if you keep going.

~Just like the random awesome person who gives your pathetic and collapsing self an extra gel at mile 17, or who lets you go ahead of her at the checkout counter, there is also the random asshole. You never really wonder about, or personalize the motives of random awesome person. She's just awesome; therefore, asshole person is just an asshole. Don't make it anymore complicated than that.

~More valuable than being completely prepared for the situation when present, more damaging than being completely unprepared for the situation when absent, is the ability to adapt to whatever the situation brings you - whenever, wherever, and however it brings it.

~There is, and always will be someone faster, stronger, and more talented than you at whatever you do no matter your skill level...and someone slower, weaker, and less talented. No matter your skill level.

~Everyone asks it. When will I be faster? Stronger? Better? In the words of Hemingway, it happens gradually and then suddenly. You train and train and train, and then wake up one day... faster... stronger... and better.

~At some point you must learn to fail - and fail well - before you will ever appreciate what it is to succeed.

~In the beginning, you hate the feeling of other people's bubbles, but when you have learned to compartmentalize your pride you learn the value in seeking them out. Help is good.

~More so than talent, skill, knowledge, discipline or stamina, the mark of a complete champion is perseverance.

~To find encouragement, cheer on a stranger. To find strength, help someone else when you, too, are weak. Give, and the need to receive will leave you.