Kayaking for me demands a very nice balance between calmness (*) and focus (*).via On Giving Your Everything - Adam van Koeverden / YouTube (*).
It's funny, because you are super calm and focused, at the same time there is a lot going on in your body.
Things are starting to break down and hurt.
At the same time my fingers are calm and gentle on the paddle.
It's pretty meditative.
Sure, you are playing a professional sport and you want to be a success. But life is more important than any game or any sport. I'm really big on getting closer as a Bulls group - we are almost like a family - and we want to look after each other outside the game, not just within the game. I've told the players they can't leave the ground for at least an hour after play. We talk about a whole heap of things - it might be cricket but it might be something else. There were some players who used to leave within five minutes. It works well; we all just enjoy each other's company and that is probably the best thing we have got going.via Headmaster of mateship (*) by Will Swanton (*).
A Team is a Powerful ThingAlways make me laugh when I think of that. The wisdom of a three year old.
I accept that everyone I love will die. I accept that grief (*) will break me open time and time again.via The Geography of Loss: A Conversation with Curator Laurel Reuter and Artist Rebecca Norris Webb (*).
I also accept that if I can pick up my camera (*) and head out into the landscape, I can create even during the darkest and most devastating times of my life. I find some peace (*) in this.
[..] I am not afraid to fail because failure (*) breeds success (*). Strange as it is, making an incredibly bad photograph, and be painfully aware of it, means you hit rock-bottom. This sets up a series of challenges to break into a new territory. It is frightening [..]via Stephen DiRado (*) by Two Way Lens (*).
Deep down I always wanted a greater connection and loved to explore. This happened in many areas.via A Wanderers Update (*) by Drew Ginn (*).
Exploring thought process, movement patterns, biases, relationships, failure and obvious exploring success.
I really stuffed up more than I care to remember. Many mistake were made and the surprise is that I kept at it when many others gave up, left, changed their plans.
I stayed the course, and in one sense it was just the course, which probably was unclear to others yet, I knew I was seeking a better way, greater, intending (*) and learning (*).
Mastery (*) then is key I think as its takes the performance from simply doing and achieving or not to becoming more aware, intending (*), taking action, making mistakes (*) and making it count, and reviews (*).
Mastery (*) dare I say it is a journey and never the destination.
It’s the joy in striving for perfection, the working towards the best, to be the best and yet the result is not just best but a newer version or a reshaping of things.
Strange how I can see all that striving was the best part and when I watch other not full enjoying the striving I find myself wondering how I can assist in the unearthing of the mind shift from result to mastery seeking.
Sure I get the need to get the results and after having a few results fall my way its easier to state these words.
What I realise is that some time ago just learning (*) become the many motive
