How often do you stop to reflect on something you’ve achieved or how far you’ve come?
Personally, it’s something I don’t do often enough.
It’s why I’m going to use this piece to reflect on an achievement. If you’re as bad at reflecting on how far you’ve come as I am, I hope it’ll encourage you to do the same.
At the end of last month, my husband, Chris, and I went up to Inverness to do the Etape Loch Ness. It’s a 66-mile bike ride round, well, Loch Ness.
We did it so I could get my London Classics medal – it’s the medal you can claim when you have completed the London Marathon, a two-mile open water swim in the Serpentine in Hyde Park in London and a long-distance bike ride. (Usually, it’s a ride in London, but that event was cancelled this year, with Etape Loch Ness as the substitute event.)
Despite what all this might sound like, I don’t really think of myself as someone who exercises. At school, I was the bookish person who tried everything they could to get out of PE. I’m still that person inside.
And yet, on this evidence, I’m clearly not.
It’s why it’s really important to stop occasionally to reflect on how far we’ve come and how much we’ve changed.
If any of this has struck a chord with you, or there’s an achievement you’d like to celebrate, do let me know – I’d love to hear from you!
