#731 – Gratitude in Training, Racing, and Life
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Today is about digging deep inside as an athlete and a human all with the mission of a happy and healthy life. Many times we know the right things to do, but for some reason we don't follow that path. We look at 6 topics of Stoicism and how they relate to triathlon. We get into positive thought patterns, humility and discretion, moderation, staying out of the future, being grateful, and avoiding complaining. We tend to look for ways to fix specific problems, but most of the time it comes back to fixing how we think and act first. It's also hard to recognize progress along a journey of self-improvement, but if we take time for gratitude things seem to be a little easier along the way. Speaking of gratitude, we're very grateful for you and this podcast. We wish you all a great Thanksgiving with your family and friends.
Here are the 6 topics we discuss:
- Don't speak ill of yourself.
- Don't boast about self improvement.
- Don't be a glutton.
- Don't be too focused on the future.
- Don't be ungrateful.
- Avoid complaining for a happier life.
Sub-Topics:
- An Hour A Day
- Will anything ever be good enough?
- The greatest week
- Our favorite Thanksgiving food
- The integrity of your plate
- Stoicism - Feeling under control
- 10% theory
- Built in Excuses
- Capture the moment with your eyes
- Social media is tricky
- Excessive Greed
- People who live in the future
- Future tripping
- Is anything wrong right now?
- Living in the "what ifs"
- Choose to be grateful
- Health is a gift
- Don't bring problems, bring solutions
- Stay out of extreme emotions
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | all right a glorious Monday. |
| 0:24.0 | We're back. Lots of good news. |
| 0:29.3 | Lots of good news. It's the best week of the year. It's Thanksgiving. My favorite holiday. |
| 0:34.2 | And it should be yours. And it's November 20th. The year, it's 2023. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome aboard, everybody. You listen to the Crushing Iron Podcasts, and this is episode 731. |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:45.1 | It's definitely one of my favorite weeks. |
| 0:46.5 | It's got to be. |
| 0:47.2 | I mean, why not? |
| 0:55.9 | It's like you got, you got all, listen, you get all the greatness, all the wonder, all the connectivity, all the great food. |
| 1:02.4 | You got great basketball, mali imitational, you got great football, NFL and college. |
| 1:03.3 | You got hockey. |
| 1:06.7 | No stress of what to get people. |
| 1:08.1 | No stress with presents. |
| 1:09.6 | No stress with decorations. |
| 1:12.5 | No stress. I mean, outside of like, you know, the traditional, like, what you got to, you know, bring to your families and make sure it's, like, |
| 1:17.1 | you know, equal to or greater than, or the other person's bringing when it comes to food, |
| 1:21.3 | but that's it. And you got leftovers. I mean, it really is. It's the, it's the greatest week. |
| 1:26.3 | It is the greatest holiday. |
| 1:30.5 | And if you don't have a full appreciation for Thanksgiving, |
| 1:36.3 | I hope this year gives you, you know, a little love in that area. |
| 1:39.5 | And you can see the greatness that is Thanksgiving. |
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