Ep 130: The Transformative Power of, "YES I CAN!"
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
I wish I would have known back when I first started running the empowering freedom that comes when you finally throw, "I can't do this" out the window and embrace, "YES I CAN". I STILL forget how transformative it is to assume success instead of bracing for failure. Today's episode of the Run, Selfie, Repeat podcast is all about that mental game and how we can get to a place where you truly believe you're capable of whatever goal you're chasing.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, it's so hot. |
| 0:03.3 | Happy summer, everyone. |
| 0:05.2 | Do you feel like you're in hell? |
| 0:07.4 | Me too. |
| 0:08.9 | Wow, the struggle's real. |
| 0:10.6 | It is just unbearable. |
| 0:12.8 | But you know what? |
| 0:13.6 | It's better than winter. |
| 0:15.6 | Yes. |
| 0:17.0 | There we go. |
| 0:17.6 | Let's open with optimism. |
| 0:19.7 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to the run. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Run Self-Repeat podcast, where we talk about life with a side of running. I'm your melodramatic host, Kelly |
| 0:33.0 | Roberts. And today on the podcast, besides sweating our tushes off, today's episode, I want to talk about, I kind of want to like elaborate on something that I wrote on she can and she did.com. |
| 0:47.0 | It's about yes, I can, this concept of yes, I can. |
| 0:51.7 | And this is where it started. Whenever I go back to my parents' house and I run there, I always find myself flashing back |
| 1:00.9 | to just what I went through as a new runner. |
| 1:05.4 | I like imagine, I think it just has to do with the fact that I always ran the exact |
| 1:10.6 | same routes. |
| 1:12.3 | You know, I, I picture every single difficult step and the times where I had to call people to pick me up or crying on street corners or being so afraid that I wouldn't be able to run my marathon and just waiting for |
| 1:28.9 | myself to quit. Yeah, I think of those times when like a lot of the times I would run this |
| 1:35.1 | four or five mile out and back. And back then, a two mile run home felt like an absolute |
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