SELF-CHALLENGING

Are you getting enough challenge in your life? What if you are not getting enough challenge by your colleagues or loved ones or at work? What then? Simple— challenge yourself. I was thinking about this in Hong Kong, while I was at the Hilltop Country Club doing the Persuasion and the Group & Team Coach trainings. One day I ran down the Hilltop hill and then over to the 900 stairs up to the mountain road. I noticed my watch as I began and then again upon completing it, 6 minutes and 10 seconds. “I have run those stairs faster than that! And I will again.” A few days later, I got up them in 5 minutes and 50 seconds. And before I left five minutes and 42 minutes.

Breathing more than just aerobically, but anaerobically when I got to the top, I panted for a little bit as I ran the mountain road over to the dam and then around the other side of the mountain. For some reason I was feeling proud of myself for shaving off a few seconds in climbing those stairs. That got me wondering.