Inspiration

I used to be a killer. I ran a marathon once. I was an All American once. I sold 40k in insurance in one month. I remodeled a 4,000 sq/ft dance studio in 3 days only sleeping for four hours total. I once did a 360 skiing. Now, now is not a time I will look back on as a "once" moment. Why?

I think I've built my life around being a big moment guy, the problem is that moments come and go and yet here I still am, outside of the moments. I search around for inspiration, reading blogs, watching Tony Robbins, reading Zig Ziglar. The problem is that when I look back on those big moments I was not inspired, I was not fired up, I was simply achieving.

There were no Zig Ziglar inspirational quotes going through my mind when I hit mile thirteen, realized I had just run further than ever before in my life, and simultaniously realized I was only halfway done. I ran it with my brother, we both only trained a handful of times and said we did not care about our time we justed wanted to have done a marathon (dinner parties, interviews, etc.). It was around forty degrees (having warmed up to a balmy ten over freezing) by the end of the race and it rained the entire time. They handed us emergancy tin foil blankets when we finished. My brother pulled the blanket around himself and became very emotional, letting the gravity of what we had just done set in. I on the other hand kicked a trash can over and swore rather loudly in excitement. There was the inspiration, over four hours later. The next day I could harldy walk, my entire foot turned black and blue because I fractured my heal in the race. But when I crossed that finish line I knew I had just completed something and it could never be taken away from me.

Maybe we should all be working on completeing things that cannot be taken away from us rather than trying to find the inspiration to do great things. I've heard it said that we can only give what we have, when was the last time you inspired somebody? It has been a little while for me. I think it is time to go out and create some inspiration for both myself and as a gift to others. I hope you'll join me.