Episode 5-501 – Prioritization with Milicia
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Hello my running friends. Welcome to episode 5-501 of the RunRunLive podcast.
In today’s episode we have a great chat with Dr. Milicia who shares her strategies on how to manage a busy life and prioritize effectively.
Milicia is another smart, well-spoken, accomplished person. I’m starting to feel a bit I ntimidated and out of my league with these conversations. But – that’s my ego talking. My goal in these conversations is to interact and learn and to give you all some chewy thoughts to chew on.
I think we hit the nail on the head with this one.
For the end of the year I have a couple of introspective musings for you. In section one I’ll talk about goals, but not in a way that you are expecting. And in section two I’ll talk about treadmills, again, not in a way you’re expecting.
But, after 500 episodes of listening to what my little rabid hamster of a brain comes up with, it may be just what you were expecting.
My holidays are looking to be very low key and peaceful. A few family things and some low-key gift giving. Who knows, maybe I’ll use the time to get caught up on my projects.
We leave it there for today, because as I write this it is Christmas Eve and as special as you are to me, As much as I cherish our relationship, I have other gardens to till.
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Here’s a story. Not my story. But a fellow New Englander, and I dare say we have most probably trod the same pathways and roads in our contemplation. Robert Frost.
(credit Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost 1874 – 1963)
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
On with the show.
Section One – Goals in the new year
https://runrunlive.com/new-year-new-goals
Featured Interview:
Dr Milica McDowell
Hi! Thanks so much for the chat yesterday!
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Dr Milica McDowell, PT, MPT, DPT, C-EP
Doctor of PT, Certified Exercise Physiologist, 13 time IM and 70.3 finisher
Bio:
Dr Miilca McDowell got the IM bug in 2012 following an early life sports career running 100 feet and stopping on the basketball court. She arrived to run her first 5K with 2 full sized bottles of Gatorade. 13 Ironman and 70.3 races and innumerable short distance tris later, she’s a seasoned endurance athlete as well as a DPT who treats her fellow enduro-junkies. She tried her hand at a 50K this year and really enjoyed all the running uphill on the weekends, but missed the balance of multisport training. In her free time you’ll find her serving as the AVP of Education for US Physical Therapy, working on her first pop-science book and consulting for her bestie’s foot health education company Gait Happens.
Section Two – The hedonic treadmill
https://runrunlive.com/satisfaction-happiness-and-the-hedonic-treadmill
Outro
Well my friends, you have stepped off that new treadmill you got for a holiday present and hit ‘stop’ on yet another RunRunLive Podast, Episode 5-501 has walked over the rainbow bridge into history.
Goals-wise:
My weight and health is good. My training is going well. I have a couple fun events over the holiday and then I’ll take what fitness I have into the Mesa Marathon in February. But, no health issues and no injuries. I’m in a good-to-great place. And I’m trying to enjoy it and not just jump to the next thing.
My apocalypse book is all but done and I should have a link to share soon. I’m starting the process on the second season manuscript that will become book two in that series.
Talk about your hedonic treadmill!
My date-night strategy has been going well. It is interesting. We don’t really have an agenda, but there is value in spending time together. Not much of an epiphany there.
Here’s another thought: When was the last time you read some poetry? I mean real poetry?
There is music to poetry. Poetry has the power to bring light to the dark and dark to the light.
Here’s one by Wendell Berry for your cold winter solstice…
(Credit To Know The Dark by Wendell Berry)
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
Enjoy your holidays. Be true to yourself. Hug someone.
And,
Rachel plug
I’ll see you out there.