And Again

Not eating or sleeping properly can catch up on you. Short-term resilience can hide the long-term damage you are doing to your endurance. 

You need to deal with the patterns of ups and downs and recognise natural rhythms respectfully. Your body is a vehicle that allows you to think clearly. You won’t be able to still the waves of your thoughts if your body is crying out. 

Niggles, knots in your muscles, and points of tension are what stop you from doing what you should be doing. That is when scarcity of attention kicks in. You get big, muscular, sportsmen coming into yoga classes, who (forget touching their toes) can hardly brush their teeth because of the size of their distorted biceps. 

You need awareness of how everything is connected, and to regularly move in a way that reminds your body of its options and tools. It’s a long-term game. Real wealth, and real meaning, gets created through commitment and consistency. 

A long timeframe shifts your reality. Single decisions get taken in context of their broad framing. Instead of all your energy being sucked into one choice with life-or-death outcomes. Where getting it wrong is debilitatingly frightening. Endurance is the bedrock for the confidence to be creative. 

It has to be okay to be wrong, because being wrong is the only way to learn. Endurance is your ability to be wrong... and still be able to try again. And again. And again.

Bedrock