A day of “Rest”

I’m making minor adjustments to my training to include a rest day. The reason I placed the word rest in quotes for the title of this post is because that day will not always be a full day of rest especially if I’m training for something specific, like a race. However, I do intend, when possible, to have a full day of rest and recovery.

I need at least one day per week to focus entirely on other aspects of my life that have fallen behind, been hindered by, or entirely neglected due to my chronic procrastination and lack of faith in my abilities. An absence of belief in myself. These areas are almost all intellectual pursuits like financial education, tech-savvy, and even picking up my guitar again. I really did love playing, and I hate that I stopped.

While I am motivated to do some of these things, I’m also finding more and more that I am doing things purely because they need to be done. The desire to do the thing does not even enter into the equation. The more I do the difficult things on a daily basis, the easier it is to go do the difficult things. I’m not sure “easier” is the right word. The difficult things never become easier. I just find that the practice of discipline is creating the habit of discipline. There’s that catch-22 again.

In conclusion, I figure that having a day to focus entirely on intellectual pursuits will also provide me an opportunity to give my body a bit of rest and recovery. That will feed two birds with one scone.

Go do the difficult thing, be it physical or intellectual.