Joanne Smith ditched her ultramarathon mindset to chase pure joy instead. She now hula-hoops on Sunday mornings and plays tennis just because they feel good, not to train for something. Even ten minutes a week of agenda-free fun rewires your brain.
And I'm just not doing that anymore these days. And if I want to get up on Sunday morning and I would just feel like just taking it slow, and then I feel like doing a little hula hooping or whatever I might want to do, I'm going to pick— I'm going to play tennis on Friday just because I feel like playing tennis recently, because I've seen— been inspired by a few people I've seen out playing tennis. So I'm not waiting for the tomorrow or the yesterday, I'm just going to do what I want to do now. That's what I'm doing my best to point you towards because there's a lot of benefit in that, and it's absolutely ridiculous how many people don't actually take time to do pure joy, no agenda things. Like, there was always an agenda to, oh, I'm going to do the 10-mile on Sunday morning, I'm going to do— there's always an agenda to that in my history. In other words, I have to go and do that because I've got a 100-mile ultramarathon coming up in July, and it was always like, there's a sneaky agenda to these things, it's not just purely for the fun of it. So this is where I'm encouraging you to factor in, even just for a tiny amount of time, each week, even if that is just 10 minutes, to actually do something that is not about achieving something, it's not about fixing something, because I've just gone and done that hula hooping, it's not about achieving anything.
