Circles…why going round and round is not really such a bad thing.

I am on a blogging frenzy these days. I like to write because it frees me of my inner thoughts and allows me to stay focused on all the other tasks at hand. Not to mention that while I try to maintain a simple exterior, I am quite complex on the inside so this lets me channel that need.

This is one that I have wanted to put down on paper for some time…

Circles. Life is nothing more than a bunch of them comprised to move us forward. Let’s start at the top with mother earth. It is round and rotates in a circle. It orbits around the Sun (round by the way) in yet another circle. The tires on our car, on our bike all move us forward in circles. When walking or running, the steps we take in essence make circles. When we swim laps in a pool, our arms move in circles and we go back and forth making yet more circles.

In short, everything we do is cyclic in nature. Meaning things have a start and an end and usually that start and end is at the same place. We go to sleep in our bed and wake up in it in the morning. A full cycle of sleep with the same start and end point. We leave our house to go to work and return to it at night. Like winter, spring, summer and fall. They all come and go only to return again. We go on a trip only to return home at some point. You get the idea. This analogy that can be played out on virtually everything we do day in and day out.

I will often hear people say “Well, I feel like am I just going round and round in circles and not making any progress.” Well, my response to them is yes, you are going round and round in circles. Like I said before, everything you do, day in and day out about making circles. In my world, I do not see that as such a bad thing provided that the circles you are making are furthering you towards your athletic goals.

Repetition is the practice to mastery…or something like that. In order to get good at something you must repeat it over and over and over. I like to use the rule of 21. It takes either 21,000 repetitions of a specific movement or doing the same routine for 21 days to form a habit. Guess what people? That is a lot of circles. So the next time you feel like you are going round and round in circles try to look at that as a good thing…because you could be on your way to greatness.

And for those of you that work directly with me, there is good reason behind all that repetition…up and down, round and round, back and forth, rinsing and repeating…and it is not just to bore the hell out of you!

Now go make some circles and keep on keeping on. The alternative is going straight off the cliff. I prefer the former.

The photo above is one of my favorite places to make those circles to move my agenda forward.