I recently learned about Rick Charls, who in 1983 was one of five divers to successfully dive from a completely reasonable 172-foot platform at SeaWorld San Diego. You know, just casually throwing yourself off a building into a pool. His dive was particularly impressive for its difficulty and execution. Apparently, there was a special technique involved. I’m not entirely sure what it was, but I’m guessing it included the words focus, precision, and what the hell am I doing?
There is something inspiring about committing yourself to accomplishing a feat that most people would look at and say, “Absolutely not.”
I will probably never break a world record. I have no plans to dive 172 feet into anything, including a swimming pool, a pile of money, or an exceptionally good cheesecake.
But I do have my own records.
I keep trying to improve my self-insight. I’m working on maximizing my time instead of merely filling it. I’m striving to catch the sunrise, because there is something about seeing a new day begin that makes me believe, at least temporarily, that things are going to be okay.
And then there is cheese consumption.
I jest.
Maybe.
The point is, perhaps our personal records don’t have to be spectacular enough for Guinness. Maybe they are the small things we keep working on such as becoming a little wiser, using our time a little better, noticing the sunrise, laughing more, recovering faster, and occasionally eating an irresponsible amount of cheese.
We don’t all need to jump from 172 feet.
Sometimes the record worth breaking is our own.
Categories: identity, Leadership, mental health, Psychology, sports
psychologistmimi 
SMiLes Dear Miriam without even any
University or Technical Building School Skills
The Humble Sea Creature the Nautilus Spends
A Life Modeling a Shell Out of the Milky Way It Will
Never See
Yet Do All
Intuitively Free
Indeed in This Way
Not Unlike What Vince Lombardi
Related Its Not the Gold Rings and Other
Awards in Life that Last It is the Excellence
We Build Into
What We Do
Now Eternally
So For Real at Best
Just making the Most
Out of this Life Now New It’s
Like i Related to the Gym Assistant
Last Night Starting off in a Very Short
Story as i Entered the Gym one Day Very
Quickly and Pulled the Metal Handle off the
Steel Entry Door
Yet the Door Was Probably
Already almost Broken Not Unlike
The Double Doors of the McDonald’s
When i Was Traveling With my Friends
to the University of Alabama Rushing a bit
too Much to Leave the Restaurant Pushing those
Two Doors off the Hinges too Truly Scaring Us enough
Where We Got the Hell Out
of there hehe in the 80’s
Long Before Flock
Camera’s hAha
Hehe anyway back
to the Military Gym last
night with this still growing
story here i told the Young Man
That the Gym Assistant back then
When the Handle came off in my Hand
Said Fred
We Train Warriors
Here Not Super Heroes hehe
And Like Us Old Folks without anything
Much better to do i related the Longer Strory
of my Life DarK Thru LiGHT and Basically told him
what i relate
to Society As Whole
“I didn’t come Here to tell you
how this is going to end
i came Here to tell You
How’s Its Going to Begin
i’m going to show these People
What You Don’t Want them to see
I’m going to show them a World
Without Rules or Controls Without
Borders or Boundaries A World Where Anything is Possible”
Of course that’s A Telephone Booth Message from ‘The Matrix’
As i summarized my Play with You’ve already done what no Human
Before or After Will Ever Do Except You Yes as You Continue to Do the
One and
Only You
Ever continuing
to Be Birthed New
With Every Breath You
Take NoW n the Gift and Curse of
Change Remains Indeed the Rest Up to You
As the
beginner
returning again Now..:)
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I agree with you about sunrises – amazing art!
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