It’s been a while since I posted one of these (posted at all in fact) but I came across this last night and it struck a chord. I think it encapsulates my approach to both teaching and triathlon. While most would categorize one as work and the other as play, they are as much one …
Category Archive: The Way I See It
Jan
25
Feb
24
The Way I See It
“It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and …
Aug
17
The Way I See It #19
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” FM Alexander
May
20
The Way I See It #18
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what they have already achieved, but at what they aspire to.” – Kahlil Gibran
May
14
The Way I See It #17
“Why do they always teach us that it is easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves. It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.” -Ayn Rand (Author)
May
06
The Way I See It #16
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss (Author)
Dec
05
The Way I See It #15
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” -Richard Bach (Author)
Sep
11
The Way I See It #14
There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You’ll be famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don’t. Because, sometimes, they …
Sep
08
The Way I See It #13
“Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.” “The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I …
Jul
19
The Way I See It #12
“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, is much the harder thing to do.” – Arundhati Roy in The God of Small …