Hawaii XMAS Delirium in a Hamann F599
It's almost Friday and XMAS break. Almost. Oh, it's only Tuesday ? The brain matter isnt functioning great yet. I'm in document versioning hell and I can't remember what stage my conversations are at. Well I can really, but the brain is starting to chug like an underpowered base Cayman at low revs. Adjusting the throttle just now ;)
What would be better is to jump into the Hamann F599 and kick this 2006 year into, um, the next one. But there's a few days to go, and if you aren't a Closer then you are one letter removed. Big L. This is about the time when one can almost miss corporate - 6 figure income, complaining about XMAS shopping and organising catering, too many themed functions, and a lovely 10 day break into the New Year. No need to do any business. Or collect payments, signatures, markups.
I almost wince thinking about it (having worked fulltime in corporate 'net startups since 95), even if operating in a pure market and creating real value vs all that pseudo corporate product stuff that a job can entail.
While last week before XMAS has it's natural pain level as a startup, January is looking like a pumped month and a fantastic start for 2007. The pipeline of activities (which all the work is about now) at all levels of the business (consumer, enterprise, corporate) is great. And I will get to the kick the Holiday Season in at The Long Room at the MCG watching the Melbourne Ashes Test. (even though Australia has already won)
You gotta have stomach for this game, and it's more like the Hawaii Long Distance Iron Man Triathlon "Whoever finishes first, we'll call him the Iron Man.", which I remember watching Mark Allen always win the event : The 6 time winner, after doing the 3.5km swim and 180km ride, would power through a marathon enduring stinking hot/dry 40C degree heat in a Hawaii desert.
Allen used to say that the great thing about the Hawaii event is that it was the truest test of a competitor, as it went beyond "mind over matter" or that level of test where you could drive your body through pain. He believed that was not the ultimate test of an athlete.
He thought the The Hawaii event was a truer test of what the body can give beyond the mind. Witness those that have muscle meltdowns sometimes within 100 metres of the finish line or those that have to be put on fluids. You can't just turn up and do the Hawaii Ironman. Basically if your body had any weaknesses, it would be found out.
"If Hawaii doesnt get you on the swim or ride, it will get you in the desert." is a quote I've always remembered :)
"Unless you test yourself, you stagnate. Unless you try to go way beyond what you've been able to do before, you won't develop and grow. When you go for it 100%, when you don't have the fear of 'what if I fail', that's when you learn. That's when you're really living." - Mark Allen
What would be better is to jump into the Hamann F599 and kick this 2006 year into, um, the next one. But there's a few days to go, and if you aren't a Closer then you are one letter removed. Big L. This is about the time when one can almost miss corporate - 6 figure income, complaining about XMAS shopping and organising catering, too many themed functions, and a lovely 10 day break into the New Year. No need to do any business. Or collect payments, signatures, markups.
I almost wince thinking about it (having worked fulltime in corporate 'net startups since 95), even if operating in a pure market and creating real value vs all that pseudo corporate product stuff that a job can entail.
While last week before XMAS has it's natural pain level as a startup, January is looking like a pumped month and a fantastic start for 2007. The pipeline of activities (which all the work is about now) at all levels of the business (consumer, enterprise, corporate) is great. And I will get to the kick the Holiday Season in at The Long Room at the MCG watching the Melbourne Ashes Test. (even though Australia has already won)
You gotta have stomach for this game, and it's more like the Hawaii Long Distance Iron Man Triathlon "Whoever finishes first, we'll call him the Iron Man.", which I remember watching Mark Allen always win the event : The 6 time winner, after doing the 3.5km swim and 180km ride, would power through a marathon enduring stinking hot/dry 40C degree heat in a Hawaii desert.
Allen used to say that the great thing about the Hawaii event is that it was the truest test of a competitor, as it went beyond "mind over matter" or that level of test where you could drive your body through pain. He believed that was not the ultimate test of an athlete.
He thought the The Hawaii event was a truer test of what the body can give beyond the mind. Witness those that have muscle meltdowns sometimes within 100 metres of the finish line or those that have to be put on fluids. You can't just turn up and do the Hawaii Ironman. Basically if your body had any weaknesses, it would be found out.
"If Hawaii doesnt get you on the swim or ride, it will get you in the desert." is a quote I've always remembered :)
"Unless you test yourself, you stagnate. Unless you try to go way beyond what you've been able to do before, you won't develop and grow. When you go for it 100%, when you don't have the fear of 'what if I fail', that's when you learn. That's when you're really living." - Mark Allen
posted by redbarren at 11:49 AM
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