#720 – Accountability To Yourself
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In a world with millions of distractions, it's up to us to figure out what we really want out of life. Training and racing can be a great compass, but we have to shut off the noise and figure out internal motivation. Being accountable to ourselves is an easy concept, but difficult to master. Today we talk about figuring out structure and finding solutions to the real problems that keep us away from training and doing things we really want to do in life. Chasing perfection often turns into procrastination so we look at anticipating imperfections and keeping our eyes and momentum on the honest journey. Get back to the fundamentals of the sport and your life.
Topics:
- Accountability to yourself
- Things are easier than ever, but harder than ever
- Simple lessons from structure
- Finding solutions when they don't seem to be there
- Changing your life for the good
- Internal or external motivation?
- The amount of distraction in this world
- You pick up your phone, then . . .
- The most valuable thing in our lives
- Being aware of what's really going on
- The most frustrating time for athletes
- Low level irritability
- The "perfection" attitude
- When perfection equals procrastination
- Anticipating imperfection
- Get back to the fundamentals
- You keep you accountable
- People who argue
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | once again here we are here we are ready let go the reins we are ready to let go the reins we are it is october 5th the year it's still |
| 0:28.3 | two thousand twenty-three welcome board everybody listen to the crushing iron podcast episode 720 |
| 0:34.4 | 720 yeah 720 episodes from retirement. |
| 0:39.3 | What are you going to do in retirement? |
| 0:42.3 | I'm not, I'm never going to retire. |
| 0:45.3 | That's kind of where I'm at. |
| 0:48.3 | I'll retire at some point. |
| 0:49.3 | I don't know at any time. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm definitely not retiring anytime soon, but yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | And who knows? |
| 0:53.3 | Maybe we'll, maybe when we hit |
| 0:54.2 | a thousand we'll do like a once a month you know like a 30 minute because it's funny i was on |
| 0:58.6 | the way to work this morning i was there's a guy who does a podcast that i enjoy listen to every once |
| 1:03.5 | and a while i kind of pick and choose which i'm which one on one let's do but he used to do for |
| 1:08.2 | like once a week at like an hour, like a really solid hour cast, |
| 1:12.9 | maybe five minutes an hour. This morning, I class like, man, that's a good topic. He clicked on |
| 1:17.9 | it 25 minutes. Oh, getting to the point. 25 minutes. Well, the test thing. It's a great, |
| 1:23.8 | it's a great guy, but the podcast, other 25 minutes, he basically quoted |
| 1:28.3 | 10 other people through the podcast. I was like, man, that's not a bad business model. |
| 1:33.0 | You find, you know, 10 people throughout the course of, you know, the other course of time that you |
| 1:37.7 | like their quotes, and like, yeah, well, so-and-so said this, and then pause. You got to let you think about it. And the zone so-and-so once said this, and then let people think about it. |
| 1:46.5 | Like, man, that is that just solid. |
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