{"id":688,"date":"2011-07-04T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativelifechanges.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2024-02-20T01:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:07:10","slug":"why-are-you-running-if-theres-no-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quietbrillianceconsulting.com\/why-are-you-running-if-theres-no-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are You Running, If There\u2019s No Prize?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Personal note:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">My recent trip to San Francisco left me feeling mellow and creative.\u00a0 I had to take a deep breath as I stepped back into my ordinary life, and remind myself not to repeat automatic (and stressful) patterns of thought and behavior.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"> One good antidote to stress is laughter, and when I left the plane, I was reminded of an article I wrote last year after another trip, asking the question, \u201cWhy are you running if there\u2019s no prize?\u201d\u00a0 Then I was irritated; now I was amused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">I\u2019m repeating the article here.\u00a0 Hopefully you will laugh, too, and remember that life just doesn\u2019t have to be as hard as we make it. friends!<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Why Are You Running, If There\u2019s No Prize?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>I arrived home from a trip recently and observed the same scenario I see every time I travel. <\/strong> When I get off an airplane, I step on the moving sidewalk and rest my carry-on bag on the moving railing, stepping to the right, just as the instructions say: \u201cstand\u201d on the right, and \u201cwalk\u201d on the left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>I\u2019m the only one standing. Everyone else is running.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">As I stand there, passenger after passenger rushes by me, dragging luggage, brushing against me, bumping into me. Many of them glare at me; some even make a remark to their companion (not to me, of course &#8211; that would be rude).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Now some of these people may be rushing to catch a connecting flight at another gate. But a surprising number of them are at the baggage carousel when I arrive.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"> On this last trip, I found them all there, looking anxiously up the chute to see if the bags were coming. As I strolled up, the carousel started and my bag came off first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">I picked it up, and I was mean enough to smile and wave to the others as I left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Why were these people racing when we all know that it takes time to unload baggage?\u00a0 There is no prize for getting there early.\u00a0 Yet they continue to do it \u2013 automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">When you are racing to get someplace, are you clear <strong>if <\/strong>there is a prize and <strong>what <\/strong>the prize might be?\u00a0 <strong>Where <\/strong>is it coming from?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Or is there some punishment you fear?\u00a0 From whom?\u00a0 And how important is it?\u00a0 Is it really disapproval or something more severe?\u00a0 And if the situation is out of your hands, as it is with the issue of getting luggage unloaded, why should punish yourself?\u00a0 Because that is what you are doing when you undergo unnecessary anxiety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Even if you miss a connecting flight, there will be another one. Is it worth stressing your body over?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">In many cases, you have no control over the situation:\u00a0 the carousel will start when the baggage has been unloaded, traffic will resume when the traffic jam clears, the line to the cashier will move only as fast as it can\u2026.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"> <strong>And there\u2019s nothing you can do. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Oh, wait, there is \u2013 just breathe.\u00a0 Become a curious observer of your surroundings \u2013 buildings, trees, people, too.\u00a0 Who knows what you will find when you are <em>conscious <\/em>of where you are when your body is actually there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">And then you can collect the only true prize<strong>:\u00a0 inner peace.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal note: My recent trip to San Francisco left me feeling mellow and creative.\u00a0 I had to take a deep breath as I stepped back into my ordinary life, and remind myself not to repeat automatic (and stressful) patterns of thought and behavior. 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