Passion Gets You Through The Door, Discipline Gets The Job Done

Some days I go into training drained, sore, and with the recurring thought, “I don’t feel like doing this.”

Whether it's Monday, HumpDay, or the last day of the workweek, we all have these thoughts from time to time.

Some people think like this every day because they aren’t working with a goal in mind. Or they aren’t in a field that they’re passionate about, so they really DON’T feel like doing what they’re doing.

As a professional athlete, I should be engaged every day and excited to train, but the reality is, I’m not.

When I go into training with this attitude I don’t practice to my fullest potential. Like at any job, if you let your mind linger in the “I don’t want to be here” state, your work for the day will suffer for it. You’ll forget things, make mistakes, and if you have a job that is physically taxing as I do, you could hurt yourself.

I’ll be honest, I’ve had practices when the distracted thoughts won out when I felt like I needed to stop the session because my jumps were just getting worse and worse.

But when those thoughts intrude, I remind myself why I step onto the track, why I put my body through these harsh training sessions, and why I can’t wolf down half a dozen cupcakes a night. It’s because…