Sunday Story…Enough

And Full are not the same. Thanksgiving is coming, that glorious holiday where enough is never and too much is the watchword for the holiday.

Too much food. Too much football. Too much T.V. Too much of everything. On this holiday it is very easy to get full. And Full is not the same as enough.

When we get full we aren’t just satisfied. We are over-satiated. We have met and surpassed any and all desire for more. But full doesn’t last, and it isn’t really even desirable. What we really desire is enough. Enough doesn’t feel like full. Somehow we convince ourselves that full is what we need. We need to be topped up, full to the brim, no room for anything else.

There is an exception…gratitude. I want to be full of gratitude. Of that, there is never enough.

Eat enough. Be full of gratitude. Enjoy your day. If you are looking for something new and unique to add to your holiday try this from Seth Godin:
http://www.thethanksgivingreader.com/

John Mariotti
www.crossfitodyssey.com
www.sunday-stories.blogspot.com
775-338-2412

Sunday Story…The race

Isn’t real. Years ago my uncle had a T-shirt that proclaimed, “He who dies with the most toys wins.” Really? What do you win? $250,000.00? A date with a supermodel? You’re dead. I’m pretty sure the number of toys you have doesn’t count at that point. You aren’t winning anything.

You think the race is real but it really only exists in your mind. You aren’t behind. You aren’t ahead. You are creating a competition that has no winner, no loser, and the other participants don’t know they are playing.

When I do this the only person who can lose is me. No one else is playing. Can I win? Not really since there is no opponent, no judge, no start or finish, and no reward at the end of the day. How much sense does this make?

Why make a race where one doesn’t exist? Why feel like you are losing when you are the only one playing?

Here’s an idea…go all out. The race doesn’t matter, the winner doesn’t matter, the loser isn’t important, your job is to do the best you possibly can…at work, at play, in the gym, wherever and whatever. And then do it better next time.

That way you always win, toys be damned.

John Mariotti
www.crossfitodyssey.com
www.sunday-stories.blogspot.com
775-338-2412

Sunday Story…Infinite

Choices. We do not live in a place where our choices are finite. You can pick up and move to another part of the country if you choose. You are not restricted to living within 20 miles of your birthplace. You can choose a career no one else in your family trees has ever done before. You are not stuck with doing what your father has done.

You have a myriad of choices. A nearly infinite number of people to speak to, food to eat, books to read, events to attend, attitudes to take. This is a place to hide, a screen for us to use in order to not make a choice. We can pretend we don’t how to choose, or what to choose. It is safe and easy to not choose. To hide behind a stack of seemingly endless choices is a pretense to use when the number of choices seems overwhelming.

Making a choice isn’t easy. Making the best choices are never easy or simple. You can make the easy choice of not choosing; just going along the way you have always gone along. Or you can choose the road less traveled, the not-so-popular career, the position that feels right but is difficult to hold.

Either way, you are choosing. The question is are You making the choice or is the choice being made for you.

Choose.

John Mariotti
www.crossfitodyssey.com
www.sunday-stories.blogspot.com
775-338-2412