EARN MORE WHITHOUT GIVING UP YOUR WHOLE LIFE

‘’Do you work to live or live to work,’’ asked Ruth Montell in her article Earn More Without Giving Up Your Whole Life. ’’You may have to do both to be a top performer who still manages to have a personal life.’’

‘’The key is the ability to think long term: setting goals that allow you to vary how much effort your put at work, cutting back on leisure and family time when necessary.’’

THINK LONG TERM.

To get ahead, long hours will likely be required at some point, having a long term perspective help.

‘’Be clear about your willingness to ‘sacrifice’ some time at some period of your career, be clear about your values. YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL, BUT NOT ALL AT ONCE AND ALL ALL THE TIME.’’  (Nancy Hauseman, professor at the University of Iowa’s Henry B. Tippie College of Business).

WORK SMARTER

Being a top performer isn’t just about putting hours. Prioritize tasks. 

GET NOTICED

‘’You have to have a reputation of integrity and ethics, and you have to build your team along the way as you climb the ladder, people who believe in you and trust you.’’ Joel Garfinkle excecutive coach

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/power-your-future/earn-more-without-giving-whole-life-214023407.html

CAN ONE SEASON CHANGE YOUR LIFE?

''The question on my mind at this moment is:  Can one season change your life?  The next question is:  Is it THIS season?  While it took more than one season of training for the athletes at the Olympics to realize their dreams, it was being ready for that specific season that made it possible to make positive changes possible.''       Taken from our friend Glenn Mills www.goswim.tv

NEW YORK MARATHON 2011

''At this time of the year, the message I like to convey to swimmers is to act NOW to take advantage of the opportunity presented by a new season.   Now-- not January 1st --is the time for resolutions.  Think ahead to how you are going to approach your next round of training.  If you’ve already started your season, hopefully you did your mental prep work a few weeks ago but, if not, then at least you're physically ahead of the many swimmers who will be gearing up over the next few weeks.   

The point is, you will have an advantage if, instead of plunging ahead with no plan, you take some time to chart a course. ''

''As always, begin with the end in mind.  How do you want to feel in February, April or May?  How do you want to feel and what skills do you want to have when you’re on the blocks for your championship race?''

Some reflexions for my boys:

''If you went to practice this morning, … did you push off the walls with streamlined hands and pointed toes?  Were you thinking about how your body moves through the water, and how your hands and feet connect with the water to pull you forward with more power and more efficiency?  Were you thinking about your breakouts, your first breath, when to time your first dolphin kick, or underwater pull, or first stroke?  Did you turn your head and take a quick breath, or did you know that you HAVE to get used to holding your breath just that extra instant…

Do you have a dryland program planned, have you or do you plan on including stretching in your routine? 

How’s the nutrition going?  Are you studying hard?''

''With ONE YEAR of focus, ONE YEAR of commitment to be able to answer these questions in a positive way, you could potentially change the course of your life.''

''While that sounds like a big statement, I think that once you’ve tasted the success that comes with this type of commitment, it’s very difficult to go back to a standard way of life.''

Start today.

          ... It may bring you things you’ve never dreamed of.  CONGRATULATION PACO!

To read the all article check: http://www.goswim.tv/entries/5426/can-one-season-change-your-life.html

TAKING PRIDE IN THE AGONY

For my boys who are every day there at 7am, some day twice a day:  

 ‘’If you're a competitive swimmer, what do you do to keep yourself engaged, and what's the sense that can keep you focused the most?  Agony.  I know... sounds horrible... but it's the suffering that hardens your body and soul to the point that you create a stronger human than you expected. … 

Take pride in your agony, and seek it.  

Agony is your quest, and if you picture yourself in a suit of armor coming to the pool, on a glorious white horse to attack your agony, and overcome it, and leave victorious that you didn't let it beat you... then you've lived the life. ‘’

Taken from our friend Glenn Mills  http://www.goswim.tv/entries/6418/taking-pride-in-the-agony.html

COORDENADAS

‘’SI NO TIENES LAS COORDENADAS….’’  cualquier intento de vivir como  los grandes es imposible, ni siquiera tiene sentido. Se vuelve una fantasía. Si eres incapaz de ver la mediocridad que está alrededor tuyo, nunca podrás aspirar a algo diferente. Siempre tu visión será a la altura de esta mediocridad. Solo te seguirás juntando con mediocres y creyendo mediocres y mediocridad. Hay que ‘’matar a los dioses’’, como diría Jorge Luis Borges, si uno quiere ver más arriba.

Esto fue lo más importante de nuestra clase de ayer sábado con Sergio. Me quedé pensando en todo el significado detrás de estas coordenadas, detrás de los dioses que nos limitan, detrás de las experiencias no reflexionadas. ¿Cómo trabajar para tener estas coordenadas? Realmente si aspiras a lograr algo diferente y grande, no tienes la opción de no concentrarte en cada segundo en tu objetivo viendo sin engaño. Cada uno de estos segundos CUENTAN mucho más de lo que crees. 

‘’NOBODY EVER CHANGES WHEN THEY DO THINGS THEY LIKE’’ (Marina Abramovic)

Necesita uno realmente salir de su zona de confort para lograr otros resultados, tener otras coordenadas. Este fin de semana compite un gran amigo de este equipo. Ha logrado ser olímpico, cuarto del mundo en la serie, terminó su carrera de leyes, y todavía tiene el desafío de CREER que se puede, de CREER porque en el fondo sabe que muy pocos tienen las coordenadas para ser grandes.  Por esto está en la línea como grande que siempre ha sido.  El no CREER nos sigue persiguiendo, y nos limita a seguir viendo, hablando y creyendo en mediocridades, juntándonos con mediocres sin grandes aspiraciones. 

La gente ha pasado en este equipo y se fue por quere hacer lo que les gustaba, como diría Abramovic.  Todos han tenido la oportunidad de escuchar estas frases de reflexión que Sergio nos dice con toda su pasión para vivir mejor, y que nos deja pensando por horas, muchas veces incómodas, pero la comodidad no permite avanzar. Uno nunca avanza cuando está haciendo cosas que le gusta y escuchando lo que quiere escuchar, o escuchando el canto de las sirenas. Sergio nos repone siempre en esta zona de no confort para repensar y trabajar nuestra coordenadas que dependen de la reflexión sin PIEDAD de nuestra propia historia y experiencia SIN ENGAÑO. 

‘’Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’’ Georges Santayana

This famous statement has produced many paraphrases and variants:

``Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes.
Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.
Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.’’

NO SER IMBÉCIL...

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” Albert Einstein

 

Siguiendo a Ética para Amador de Savater

‹‹ ¿Sabes cuál es la única obligación que tenemos en esta vida? PUES NO SER IMBÉCILES…. La palabra viene del latín buculus que significa bastón…

Si el imbécil cojea no es de los pies sino del ánimo: es su espíritu el debilucho y cojitranco. Hay imbéciles de varios modelos, a elegir:

a. El que cree que no quiere nada…

b. El que cree que lo quiere todo…

c. El que no sabe lo que quiere, ni se molesta en averiguarlo…

d. El que sabe que quiere y sabe que quiere y, más o menos, sabe porque lo quiere pero lo quiere flojito, con miedo o con poca fuerza. A fin de cuentas, termina siempre haciendo lo que no quiere y dejando lo que quiere para mañana, a ver si entonces se encuentra más entonado…

e. El que quiere con fuerza y ferocidad en plan bárbaro, pero se ha ENGAÑADO a si mismo sobre lo que es la realidad…

Conclusión: ¡ALERTA! ¡EN GUARDIA! ¡la imbecilidad acecha y no perdona!

…Desde luego, para evitar la imbecilidad en cualquier campo es preciso prestar atención, como ya hemos dicho… y esforzarse todo lo posible para aprender.

Lo contrario de ser moralmente imbécil es tener conciencia. ››

Esta conciencia es la responsabilidad de uno hacia uno y hacia los otros. Saber que no todo da igual. Ir desarrollando el buen gusto moral, como dice Savater, ‘’ de tal modo que haya ciertas cosas que nos repugne espontáneamente hacer’’ como el mentir. Ser responsable de nuestros actos y de sus consecuencias.