Do What You Love, Love What You Do

 We live in a world that is driven by data and trends.  Looking for value and answers in the numbers and trying to figure out how to better our lives, our business, our goal based on those numbers.  As I've been working more on my running and keeping track on the app on my phone my distances, my speeds, my number of weekly workouts and trying to week over week beat those numbers I realized something this week.  This week I still did my workouts, but I was in a different environment.  I still did the same number of miles, but the course I was doing them on was much more challenging.  My goals had to adjust to the path that I was working on.  I was more satisfied with my accomplishments when I was finished because the course had been so much more challenging.  But I was let down by looking at the tracked numbers in my app because my times were slower and it was "messing up" my week over week numbers.  For someone from the outside to simply look at the numbers and judge it w

 A couple of years ago I set a goal for myself to be able to jog a 5K.  My entire life I have never been a runner.  I was barely a walker.  I had gotten in the habit of at least walking a few times a week to have some sort of exercise as a part of trying to live a healthier life.  The number on the scale had reached a point that I just couldn't accept any longer and I knew I needed to change.  I started to jog sections of a path that I had scoped out walking that would equal the 5K.  I knew that I wouldn't be able to get very far on my first try, and I didn't.  I thought if I could just keep getting a little bit further and a little bit further each day I would eventually reach my goal.  It all sounded great but I would have weeks where I didn't get out to walk at all.  I had a surgery that put me off the trail for almost six months.  I saw other people, larger than myself, jogging past me with consistency and I just couldn't understand why I wasn't able to reac