Do you know the difference between interest and commitment? Tina, my running coach, differentiated between the two in a tag line to her weekly e-mail. It reads as follows: Interest is when you do something at your discretion. Commitment is when you do something with no excuses.
Tina regularly includes some sort of inspirational final word in her weekly e-mails to the athletes she trains. Surely she intends for these pithy words to motivate. This statement weighed heavy on me. I’m interested in many things--hydrology, archeology, mythic memory, collective consciousness and more. I have a true commitment to education, to mine and that of others, and to health and exercise. For me, the areas of my commitment fit together perfectly via The Streak, which for me means there is NO excuse not to exercise every day. Not only am I grateful to have the wherewithal to fully engage in my commitment, I appreciate Tina and others for helping me to articulate it so clearly.
I leave you with another “Tina-ism”: Run with Passion.
Tom
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