Have you ever run down a street, thought the whole time that it was one of the worst streets that you had ever travelled, and talked about it after your run with everyone who would listen?
Or have you ever run down another street, thought the whole time that it was one of the best streets that you had ever travelled, and talked about that street after your run with everyone who would listen?
Was the difference based on perception or on reality? That is the kind of question that Morty Lefkoe, founder of Lefkoe Institute, might have you ask yourself. And Lefkoe beautifully teaches a way to tell whether something that you witness is perception or reality. If you were to video-record something and play the recording for someone else, would that person agree with you? If "Yes!" is the answer, then what you have witnessed is reality. Otherwise it is perception, which, as Lefkoe likes to teach, is based on beliefs.
If the difference in the aforementioned streets is based on perception, then you know that you have some work to do on your attitude about the bad street that you witnessed -- an attitude adjustment, if you will.
But suppose that the difference in the aforementioned streets is based on reality. For example, suppose that the bad street has many disjointed surfaces and is full of potholes (which you could video-record), and suppose that the good street is smooth and free of potholes (which you also could video-record).
Then did you know that you may have attracted the bad street into your reality? No, you did not cause the street to fall apart right before you saw it. But, as the Law of Attraction tells us, you effectively drew this bad street into your running world.
The employment equivalent of this is someone who constantly complains about his job and gets -- you guessed it! -- more things in his job about which to complain.
Returning to the example of the bad street, you may have unconsciously chosen to run down that street because you carry a belief that you always encounter bad streets on your runs. Or your coach may have put this bad street on your training route because you may believe that you are "not the kind of runner" to tell him or her about bad streets -- or, just as important, you never thank your coach for the good streets that he or she puts on your training routes.
The previous paragraph gives us clues about how to "attract" good streets into your running world. Change your beliefs, and regularly feel gratitude for good streets!
Feelings of gratitude will affect your beliefs and actions, which in turn will affect the quality of the streets that you attract. And there is a simple way to regularly feel gratitude for streets that will support you running (the good streets).
Make a list of gratitude statements.
Regularly read the list, pausing to dwell for a few seconds on the good feelings that you associate with each statement.
Here are some gratitude statements to get you started:
I am truly grateful for smooth streets.
I love it when my coach chooses good streets for my training route.
I am thankful for every street that is free of potholes.
Be sure to extend this list to make it your own and to make a daily or weekly appointment with yourself to read and dwell on your list!
Kirk Mahoney, Ph.D., loves to walk and run, and his SpryFeet.com website provides practical research for runners and walkers. By going to http://www.SpryFeet.com/Reports/, you can get his FREE "Pace Tables for Runners and Walkers" special report, letting you look up paces needed to complete several different race distances within given durations and for different micro-level-pacing methods.
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