Qui-Gon Jinn, noted Jedi master
and sage, commented, “There’s always a bigger fish.” His companions, somehow, were not reassured about their
chances of survival as they fled the underwater menaces in The Phantom Menace.
Both Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have valid points of view on this topic and
they are relevant for our fitness pursuits.
Most of the time, we react like
Obi-Wan: scary monster! Panic! I will never make it through this overwhelming weight,
workout, hill, injury, whatever.
It is okay to be freaked out by some of the things we attempt.
Qui-Gon’s insight, however,
reminds us that if we understand that there will always be bigger challenges
(and sometimes pleasant surprises in the shape of things that seem worse and
turn out to be the key to success), we can remain calm and deal with the
monster. Eventually, we will look
back at the things that terrified us when we first attempted them and realize
that they are about as scary as those once-frightening monsters that lived
behind the curtains when we were kids.
Keep breathing and keep on
working!
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