Welcome to Trippy Monday’s, where I go over 3 things that caught my attention from this past week. Enjoy!
(1) I’m still learning to ski, but overall I would say I’m pretty decent. I can confidently get down a blue run on a mountain without falling, so that’s where I’m at currently. I went skiing again last week and challenged myself to go down a black, which meant moguls. I fucking hate moguls, but that’s only because I’m not good at them. If I want to get better, that means I need to just face them and practice. It’s really that simple.
Either way, when I was going down the moguls, I kept falling (duh). I noticed after each fall that I got more and more frustrated. I was angry and pissed off and it kept getting worse. However, becoming so angry and pissed off was a great opportunity for me to examine why I felt that way. This is also ironic because I even wrote last week in my email how I was looking forward to learning and falling down, but clearly, I was having trouble putting that into practice.
What it came down to was the fact that I was expecting myself to just get it right away and be good from the get-go. Even though I realize logically how unrealistic that is, there’s a part of my subconscious mind that still expects perfection and doesn’t enjoy the process of learning. Learning a new skill like skiing is a good opportunity for me to work on that part of my brain and learn to enjoy the process more without being attached to the outcome.
(2) I did a 72-hour water fast this past week for the first time in my life. I’ll write more about it in-depth on the blog, but the biggest takeaway for me was that I’m simply proud of myself for completing it. It was pretty challenging at times, but it also felt like a good reset for my mind and my body to get grounded and back in alignment. I’m happy I did it and I imagine I’ll probably do it again at some point in the future. No rush though lol.
(3) I decided to change how I record my intros for my podcast as well as how I write the description. It felt like it was too sales-y and just didn’t feel like it was coming from the heart. Basically, it felt inauthentic.
The cool thing about life is that I can (and you can too) decide to change anything I do whenever the fuck I want. There’s nothing making me do the same thing just because that’s how I’ve traditionally done it. I’m always trying to find what works best for me, and that will always involve change and experimentation.
I challenge you to do something different from your normal routine this week too and see how it feels 🙂