{"id":29750,"date":"2023-12-30T10:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T17:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=29750"},"modified":"2023-12-30T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T00:24:21","slug":"dec-30-marathon-or-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/12\/30\/dec-30-marathon-or-sprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 30 Marathon or Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grit is living life like it&#8217;s a marathon, not a sprint.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Angela Duckworth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It used to be my life was a sprint. I was even a long distance sprinter. In grade school I was an anomaly. A jock with a brain.<\/p>\n<p>During my time in the Navy I broke a record the fastest and the slowest 1.5 Mile run. The slowest when I caught the super virus during basic. A mutation of all the cold and flu virus from all over Canada brought to boot camp by new recruits.<\/p>\n<p>My life has always been a desparate driven urge to keep going till things got done. Now it&#8217;s a slow race to get the smallest tasks done. The number of tasks I get done seem to be less and less or maybe it is because they take a lot longer to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/12\/20231230_101327-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29751\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/12\/30\/dec-30-marathon-or-sprint\/20231230_101327\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/12\/20231230_101327-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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