Are You Living It?

There are many things in life that we try to control until one day you wake up and realize that maybe you shouldn’t try so hard to gain this power… maybe you should just, “let it be.” There’s a difference between the attitudes “let it go” and “let it be.”  If we could all let go of the difficulties in our minds and bodies what would there be in life to look forward too?  Life is about the good and bad times and discovering who our real friends are and those who only attach to you for their own selfish reasons.  I will end on that note and thank the genius lyrics of McCartney and Lennon.  I say, “just be.”

As I approach these new discoveries in my life I have decided to become one with myself and to honor all the amazing things I have achieved and will achieve in the future.  Not to sound conceited but every once in a while we all need to wake up and say, “I’m pretty darn amazing” try it… right now, sit back and say with pride… “damn, I’m F****** great!”  Feel better?  You should.  No matter how much we might feel like the world is caving in on us or when people hurt our feelings we must turn to not only our true friends and the love of our family but we must love ourselves too.

Now that I’m drawing closer to entering into the wide open world of psychology (the human mind fascinates me beyond belief) I have decided to take a more professional approach to my perception on life.  I am trying to be more understanding of the mutlicultural aspects of why people treat me, others, and themselves in various ways and most of all… more aware of my on biases.  I got off face-book (thankfully, b/c in my opinion it is over done) ended my sweet blog but will still continue to write about my passions, life, sport, and psychology on LYP… oh, and I’ll keep my li’l twitter updated too.

This new path has also led me into a new sport where I am enjoying challenging my mind/body in new ways and creating goals that I hope to reach… something that allows me to direct my energy in a positive manner and to focus on using my own mental training tools so I can truly understand the power of the mind and it’s ability to enhance sport performance.  I am so eager to start working with real athletes… it’s going to be one exciting journey.  I hope to run 2 more marathons in 2009 and qualify for Boston 2010… there I said it out loud to the world, now keep me focused and accountable!

The bike is still a passion of mine and I plan on working with cyclists (all endurance sports) when I’m a full pledged Sport Psychology Consultant but I need a year break from it… maybe to re-light that spark. No matter what, I’m still battling my flare-up and like all things… being sick has made me more aware of the ‘good’ days and today is one spectacular day so I will embark on it with the highest level of optimism and try to live it to the fullest and with passion…