Australian Triathlete - 01.08.2018

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MUSINGS

S i r i

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our imaginations but in reality. Yes, things

can be given to us or we can be presented

with opportunities but what we make of

ourselves is completely up to us.

Having a vision and then a deep

purpose for wanting to achieve this vision

• something that lights up your soul, fuels
  your spirit and quenches your hunger, your
  thirst, your every thought as it drives you
  through any obstacle. Nothing will stop
  you from making your dream come true.
  When you fall, you learn. When you fail,
  you learn. You adjust your path and find
  another way. You relentlessly persist.
  You persist with more fire than ever before.
  Nothing will stop you. Nothing will slow
  you down. Nothing will get in the way of
  you getting to that place that tugs at your
  heart and fires up your blood and leads
  you to the greatest most powerful
  intention in every act of every day.
  This is passion, motivation and hunger.
  This is having a mission and what it means
  to be alive.
  To be in search of growth, experience,
  the evolution of the soul and spirit is what
  means to explore every part of who you
  are. What do you stand for? What drives
  you? What scares you? What lights you
  up? What has the potential to sabotage
  your efforts to be all that you can be?
  In this exploration, in this self-discovery,
  we come face-to-face with the ultimate
  choice: do whatever it takes to be all that
  we dream of being? Or give in to our fears
  or our perceived limits, sit back and just go
  through the motions.
  My choice has been to live - to risk
  failing, discovering parts of myself that I
  may not like knowing but then having the
  opportunity to water the garden of my
  greatest self and respectfully pull out the
  weeds that were trying to suffocate me.
  Now, I have never been a green thumb but
  in this case, it was necessary for me to get
  to prune all of who I was – the parts of me
  that I hid, that needed to remain behind

O

ne of the most powerful

lessons I have learned is that

we are in charge of our own

experience of life. How we

look at life - whether as “hard”

or a “gift”, will totally alter our experience

of living.

It is a choice, one that gives you the

ultimate role as conductor of your own

symphony of life.

We can’t sit and wait for things to

happen for us. We must put that

responsibility in our hands. We must

create the lives we dream of. Not just in

text And photogrAphy SUpplied by sIrI lIndley

SYMPHONY

BE ThE CONduCTOR OF YOuR OWN