After a fabulous week in the Wadi Rum desert with Team Coleman running the 250km ULTRA-X Jordan, one of my team members reminded me of a blog I’d written a couple of years ago that had helped her through the darks times that she’d experienced. Reading it back on the plane it resonated with me again as all I could feel was love. Love for those that had been with me in the desert, sharing the highs and lows of the desert and love for the people back home that were looking forward to seeing me, just as much as I was them. Anyway, here’s what was written in August ’20.
‘A debt you pay with tears and pain’ - Ferry
I think we’ve all paid the price of love and have given our all trying to find it. The return - a lifetime of heartache, tears and pain. Our investment into relationships with other people is without question. My question to you is how much have you ever invested in yourself? I mean, how much value do you give yourself?
It’s a question well worth asking, although if you are low on confidence and self-esteem, the answer is no doubt - not a lot. It’s really sad as a lot of the folk I meet feel worthless. If they were a product on the BBC Dragon’s Den Programme and they were a Dragon - well they wouldn’t invest.
Yet we are all worth self-investment. I mean what’s the point in living if you are not prepared to invest time, energy and money into the person in your world that probably needs it the most - namely YOU.
It’s strange how people lose their self-value. Take my weightloss clients for example - weight-gain isn’t an overnight market gain - it’s the result of people spending more time spinning plates simply getting through life, holding down a job, bringing up a family and maintaining their friendships. Time and energy spent externally with nothing left in the bank for self-investment.
A permanent state of overdraft with no sign of ever getting back into credit.
And okay there’s no magic overnight life-overdraft fix, yet time and time again people do regain their self-esteem, lose weight, potentially extend their lives and have a much richer life for a mere 22.8p a day. You see, I did a bit of ‘Coleman-Calculating’ and if working with me for five months yields an extra fifteen years’ of life - it’s a better return than Bitcoin.
So, what’s there to lose apart from unhealthy lifestyle and a relatively small amount of money. Nothing. In fact, it’s like winning the lottery every single day of one’s life, for the rest of one’s life. Health, pride, self-esteem, self-value, confidence, improved relationships with family, colleagues, friends, food and alcohol await those that are willing to pay the price of ‘change’. I can’t promise ‘love’ but it must improve even the chances of that, so why not invest some time in yourself today.
1,142 Marathons - 269 Ultras - 15 Marathon des Sables - 2 ULTRA-X Jordan - 9 GWR
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