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The Power Of Paying It Forward
Volunteering At Today's Spartan Deka Event
How Easy is it to Make Someone's Day?
And How Much of an Impact can You Make?
We are so often Focused on the Challenges that We are Having that We Fail to See the Opportunities to Change the World in Front of Us Today.
There is also something else to Remember...
What We Do in the Micro is What We Will Do in the Macro.
Many People "Talk" about Wanting to Improve the World Around them...
But if You Ask Them...
How Exactly are they Doing that Today?
Too Frequently, there is No Answer.
The Are Not.
Not in Big Ways...
But Neither in Small Ways...
Because they are Far Too Focused on Only their Problems.
What is Perhaps Most Fascinating...
Is that When We Stop Focusing on Our Problems...
Then take the Time...
With just a Little Bit of Effort...
How Quickly Your Problems Shrink as You Improve Someone Else's Life.
That is a bit of What I Experienced Today.
If You've Followed My Work for Any Time...
You'll Know that Along with being a Sageship Coach, Speaker, and Digital Writer...
I'm also a Semi-Professional Athlete.
My Favorite Events to Participate in are Obstacle Course Races, and so some time ago, My wonderful Spouse Purchased an "Unbreakable Pass" which gives me Unlimited Access to Spartan Events.
But...
To Maintain My Pass Over the Years, there are Some Requirements.
This Year, to Maintain the Requirements, I have Chosen to Volunteer for Four Days at Different Spartan Events...
And Today I Volunteered at what is Known as a Spartan Deka.
Athletes participating in Today's Events were Indoors Running Indoors and Would Stop to Do 10 Stations with Different Exercises.
And Today was the Ultra World Chapionship which means the Competitors were on the Course for a "Long" Time.
Now...
I've been on a Course for a Long Time.
The Longest I've been on a Course is 11 Hours...
So I Know How Difficult it Can Be...
Mile After Mile...
Obstacle After Obstacle...
Feeling New Pains in Your Body that You Were Not Even Aware Of...
And the Silence can become Piercing...
You are Alone in Your Head...
And the Voices of Failure Begin to have a Stronger Pull.
It is on the Long Courses where the Challenges become Hardest.
So...
As a Volunteer Today...
I Decided to Be the Person I would want to Have on the Sidelines during One of My Races...
Someone with Energy...
Providing Positivity to Everyone Passing By...
Giving Encouragement During the Obstacles...
Speaking Over the Voice of Failure that Tries to Bring Us Down.
Apparently, it Made an Impression...
Multiple Individuals and One Large Group went to the Race Coordinator and Said Good Things About Me...
The Race Coordination Told Other Leaders at the Event about what was Said...
And Two Groups asked Me to be in a Photo with Them.
None of which I Expected.
All I wanted to Do was Be a Force of Good in Someone Else's Challenge...
And Helping Them have their Moment of Victory.
But let me tell you...
Do You Know How Little My Challenges Felt in those Moments?
Watching Others Succeed at Incredible Feats...
And Being Thanked for Playing a Small Role?
My Challenges Disappeared.
Challenges Cannot Stand Up Against the Power of Paying It Forward.
It is Built Into Us as Humans.
We are, by Nature, Interdependent.
We Rely on Each Other...
Our Greatest Successes...
Are Always Built "With" Others.
Sometimes it Requires Us to Build Together in Gigantic Ways...
And Other Times it is in the Smallest of Ways...
But it is within this Interdependence that We Begin to Thrive.
And We can Thrive in the Large Roles...
And the Small Roles...
But All Roles are Important within Interdependence.
Today...
I played a Small Role, but it had an Impact in Other's Day of Triumph.
Two Teams that I helped each took Second Place in their Age Groups, and the Joy on their Faces in their Victorious Position was Amazing.
This is What Life is About.
Coming Together...
Overcoming the Challenges...
Working Together to Get There...
And Supporting Each Other's Efforts.
If You want to Feel Better in Your Life...
Look for Ways to Pay it Forward.
It can be in Large Ways if those are Within Your Means...
And the World Does Need Large Efforts...
But it Can also Be in Tiny Ways...
Helping One Person...
Smiling and Being Friendly...
Treating Each Other like Humans who are Worthy of Good Things.
If You Do These...
Your Life Will Improve...
And Your Ability to Help More and More Individuals will Also Grow.
What You Do in the Micro is What You'll Do in the Macro...
So Begin Wherever You Are Today...
And Make a Difference in Whatever Way is Available to You.
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