Hey all,
I'm proud to welcome the four ladies kicking off our August team: Audrey Powell, Liz Adcock, Ashley Higgins and Helen Chalmers. We've started this week with some worship, orientation and support coaching. Many conversations to come will begin to center around LIFESTYLE.
We've begun the conversation of: who is the person you want to be?
After all of the norms, principles and philosophies we preach on the field come home, the choice then becomes yours as to what parts of that are genuinely going to become part of this new you.
For example, we mandate, nowadays, that all racers exercise every morning of training camp. It's a learning exercise – something to challenge, instigate ideas, present challenges etc. But at the end of the day, it's the promotion of a healthy lifestyle.
When you get out to the field, however, there's no mandate. No one's holding you responsible to exercise. However you may find that a community buys into the idea of exercise! You might find "accountability" is nothing more than just not wanting to be left out of a memory.
Then, you come home. No longer is exercise a mandate and no longer is it the "fun accountability" of wanting to be included. Now it's truly asking the question of what you believe. Josh McDowell wrote a book entitled "Beyond Belief to Conviction" where he explains that just because we understand information doesn't mean it drives our actions. We can't just believe things, we have to be convicted by them.
Exercise may be innocuous, but many of the other lifestyle elements of who we are (our "DNA" if you will) may be a little more poignant.
What do you think? Who are you? Who do you want to be? What behaviors do you want to see define who you are?
