Is it time to step it up?

When creating a vision for yourself to finish a triathlon or a finishing a longer distance race, the first thing that must be eliminated is the idea that anything less than crossing the finish line is unacceptable. Before changing your nutrition, buying or upgrading gear, looking for a coach, planning longer routes or banking more time to train in a day, you must first separate your current habits from your desire.

None of us are completely free of personal issues. We all have obstacles set before us. Yet the majority of these obstacles we have allowed to overcome us because we have no focus in our life. When a life is just a routine, there is no passion in it. No fire. Nothing that is bigger than you. So your obstacles become your focus. The obstacles give you something to be angry about. And what is a common synonym for anger? Fire.

Do you have that burning desire to finish a triathlon distance you have not yet done, crap do you have a burning desire for anything? A vision, a burning desire that burns so hot that you will do almost anything to accomplish? Will you do whatever it takes to win? All of you have different challenges, different obstacles both in business and in your personal life, but they all can be overcome if your burning desire is so hot that it empowers you to the impossible.

Step One in this is to see it in your minds eye- vividly, see it in your imagination.

Step Two is to believe you can do it- believe it so hard that it becomes your obsession, your burning desire.

Step Three is to do the work. Allow your burning desire to electrify every nerve in your body, where all you see is the end result. Obstacles become smaller and smaller in comparison to your burning desire.

When you set in your mind a clear vision, then put it in your heart passionately to accomplish and then act with your body to complete it, it will become a reality. To commit yourself to finishing your first Olympic, 70.3 or Ironman race is a huge commitment. Especially when you have almost zero athletic ability. Have no fear. Right now, today there are people who are in worse shape than you right now, who work longer hours than you do each day, have more debt, more legal issues, more commitments to organizations than you do and yet they find a way to reach their goal of finishing a race (or whatever else it is that is your burning desire)

If you have a dream, make it a reality. Don't waste your time on thoughts that you will never act on. What is your burning desire? What are you passionate about seeing in your life.

Go do it.