Patrick McHugh on Anxiety and Growth:
Some can be paralyzed by their feelings. Is the key to look at every situation that produces anxiety for us as an opportunity to grow?via Checking in from the Airport by Patrick McHugh.Reframing ones feelings is often the best way I have found to help me deal with issues of anxiety and thus can be a great coaching tool.
Steve Magness on Uncomfortableness and Growth:
One of the best lessons I've learned, is to put yourself in uncomfortable, anxiety inducing situations; they are where we grow as a person.via twitter by Steve Magness via Checking in from the Airport by Patrick McHugh.
Sport is one of the ways we can fulfill our human, our animal need for others; to do things together, to share things. [..]via Why Sport? (*) by Patrick McHugh (*).
Sport moves on from this to be many other things, sometimes complex and disturbing, sometimes beautiful, sublime, inspiring, humbling, and joyous.
Sport is many things and sometimes feels like all things.
But sport starts with sharing.
The sporting impulse begins in our dread of isolation, in our soul-deep need for contact.
And in the weight of it the life long goal just hit me, and I broke down in tears (*) just before uncontrollably.via Chasing Wow Through Hope and Wonder! (*) by Patrick McHugh (*).
You can’t control (*) what other people do. Medals and Championships are about how you compete (*) against others. But in this big wide world all the stuff that goes on both good and bad, you can’t control (*) what other people do.
But the last few races and then especially this one its been about what can I do irrelevant (*) to what others (do).
Unfairness and the disappointment (*) it creates can lead to discovering new things about yourself (*).via Sunday Inspiration -- Reverend Tony Jarvis and Great American Teenage Tragedies (*) by Patrick McHugh (*).
