learning to pace myself

This week has been an interesting lesson for myself. In many aspects of my life I have been learning to pace myself. With the process of getting ready to go to school and with running, to name a few. There is always a time in our lives where we need to know when to push ourselves beyond your comfort zone and when to just pace yourself. No one can tell you when this moment is, only you know. The key is paying attention to your body and mind. We too quickly ignore what those two very important elements are trying to tell us. You don't always have to go full speed ahead.

The one part I want to share is my running. As many of you know, I have been at it for a while now. I do and stop, and then do again. It has been a crazy up and down battle that I seem to constantly smack myself right into a ridiculously hard wall. This is normally when I give up for a while before I try again. What I have noticed is that I have a tendency to push myself too hard and too much. I haven't mastered the lesson of pacing. Today that became quite apparent during some of the workouts I participated in. The moment I stopped trying to run fast and hard and just took it at a pace I could handle, I found that I didn't need to stop and my time improved. Oh my! The light bulb went off brightly.

This very lesson can transfer in so many ways though in our daily lives. Sometimes we don't have to do things so fast and hard. Sometimes we just need to pace ourselves. Keep that in mind the next time you find yourself smacking into that invisible wall.

This photo was taken from Pinterest.