SYNERGY

I went jogging a few days ago. Usually, once or twice a week, but i had stopped for two weeks to do weights instead. I'll jog from my home to east coast, make a turn at a slope up and back home again. It is quite a distance. Remember the first time i jogged that distance, i was with two neighbours; i was drop dead tired when i finished. I swear, if i had tried that distance for the first time alone i would not have made it. This time i went jogging alone. I've done it a couple of times, with friends and alone. However, it seemed harder than any time i have attempted to run that distance. Certainly after every run i will always feel this great sense of achievement. Because no matter how easy it was or seemed, i did run more than i would have compared to the mentality that i use to have. But it was much harder...

My feet and legs just felt so much heavier and it never occured to me that i had become heavier, and i mean much heavier. I was tired at the first quarter of the run and the rest was just a drag. I began thinking. What was it that made it such a hard run? My breathing was right. I had to really push myself to lift my legs and i couldn't figure out why it is so hard now. As i was enduring all that, i began to think what was it that made it different this time now. Then it became clear...

Long distance jogging is very challenging especially when you are jogging ALONE. As i jogged it became clear to me that long distance jogging is endurance training made easier when you have someone jogging with you.

SYNERGY. There is power within a team of people that is attracted through the creation of a common objective. It is important to understand that the people around you are your effective energy empowering how you can do more than what you can do. Team dynamics in jogging is just a simple illustration. There are many things that can be done better through having more people around you, understanding what you are going through and working with you or sometimes just being there. BUT be careful with the people whom you work with.

I'm very fortunate to have many people around me to built me up and help me through many things. The next time you want to do something, think about who can be included in the project that would greatly help.

AND, more importantly, if you are going through a really hard time, never shut yourself out of the world. The more you talk with people, the more people understand, the stronger you'll come out to be. You always have friends.

Tell me if you don't i'll be your friend. n_n