Positive. Mental. Attitude.

The problem with being a successful railway professional in a high flying managerial role is that life just never easy, someone's ringing you, you always have to go somewhere, there is always another meeting, jesus, believe me, there is ALWAYS  another meeting to go to!

I used to think, before I was a manager that meetings were fun, that they made important decisions in said meetings and change the way the railway runs - not quite, you normally sit there, debate the problem for a few hours, decide you don't have the money to fix it, and decide that we'll "see how it goes" and hope for the best.

It's frustrating!

Anyway, the demands of the job are such that it's so difficult to work out where you are going to be at a given time, and that's made as I said yesterday, planing the gym difficult.

The problem is always that I am always rushing, trying to sort all of my gym stuff in the morning, then to get out of work, and then getting there, getting changed. Well I tried something different today, simply going home first! Not taking my kit with me, just going home, having a drink, a shower and getting changed and mentally prepared.

Well I am proud to say that worked a treat, the metric that I keep an eye on during CV work is distance, its furthest away from time, so I don't look at the countdown, my previous best in any one session (of 15 min bouts) was 6.55km, today, I did 6.72km, so am one very happy bunny!

I basically but this down quite simply to mentally preparing myself!

Key Lesson Learnt I think!!