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I think in our minds, we have to shift some things in order to get through some really tough episodes. Yeah. Wait, wait, I have something for you right here. When Chantel does that, this is what I'm going to do. You know, sometimes I have to soak in what you say. She does because we don't have a script when we go into this. I'm like, it's so much more fun for us just to talk. And Chantel goes, you sure you don't want to give me anything? And I'm like, no. And then I just keep going. So, you know, I think our mind, you know, you've got to get this inner dialogue going, which was last week's podcast about self-love, right? So if we can't achieve self-love, then we can't get our mind in a place where we need our mind to be. I mean, if you and your mind are going, oh gosh, I don't know how I'm going to get this done. And it's so much. And it's, you know, you have to quiet that negative voice, which is what we talked about last week. And you have to say, I am going to get this done. Even if you don't know how you're going to get it done, right? All the answers may not be in front of you, but whatever you're about to face, your job interview, going to college, giving birth to a child, whatever you're about to face in life, I think you've got to have that mindset. Like it's, it's about to happen. I'm about to go in. Let me get on my boxing gloves. Let me hit it head on. You know, and finding joy in the journey. Right. Because I was thinking about all of you out there running 13 miles this week, which I did not have to do. But I was thinking about, I mean, I've done, you know, plenty of these. And I was thinking about how my mindset during something like a run affects my pace. Like let that sink in. Your mindset affects how fast or slow you go. So if your mindset is on ick, you're really slowed down in the middle of all of it. But if your mindset like is one of joy and you're trying to find the silver linings and things where really there doesn't seem to be, it really helps you to propel forward. We have runners that Chantal and I both go out with and some of the other staff members that really struggle because these distances are a lot. And most of the people that run with us are not trained professional runners. And what I mean by that is it's everyday people. It's moms and dads. It's people that have never worked out in their life. It's people that maybe haven't, you know, walked a few miles in years, aren't as active as they want to be, but they're doing it because somebody's sick. So you have people from all different physical, right? Abilities. And they're out there and it is our job. I mean, some of the stuff that we're saying to these people along the way, first of all, never say you're almost there. That is the worst. If you are ever on the sidelines of a run, even if somebody only has a half mile, don't say that. Because for some people, a half mile is not what you perceive it to be. After going 12 and a half miles, they're like, I am not almost there. I have a half mile left, but we have learned not to say that. But we will tell funny stories along the way. We will, like I said, we'll talk about how you've got so much behind you, keep going forward. You're putting one step in front of the other. We're fixating on the future goals, right? We're fixating on what's in front of us, not the behind. Like I've only got two miles in. No, we're fixating on, look at how much closer you're getting to that goal. You know, we had a runner this weekend and she said, I don't even know. I think it was around mile, maybe seven, eight. She texted me and she said, I just cannot go. Like I need somebody to pick me up. And I said, you listen to me right now. She, you know, she wasn't running with the group, which we need to talk about. And I said, you need to find a person that has on this bright yellow sparrow shirt and you need to align with them. Right. Because sometimes when you can't see what's in front of you, you know, you take five steps back. And I just said to her, I go find, and I stayed on the phone with her. I called her because she had texted me. I called her and she said, I see somebody up ahead. I go get to that person and just say, I need help. So sometimes in the middle of this journey, you know, when we cannot find the joy, we have to find someone else that can bring that joy to us. Yeah. And it happens all the time. It does. I mean, my group, we picked up a runner who wasn't even a part of the team and we saw she was struggling. And at first we didn't say hi or, or, or acknowledge it and want to make her, you know, feel bad. And then I noticed that when we would start redo run walk intervals, when we would start running, she would start running. And when we would stop running, she would stop running. So finally I said, I was like, do you want to stick with us? You want to, you want to, you want to go on with us? And she said, is that okay?