Post 2 | Progress Over Perfection

I am starting to realize and learn that I think in big arcs.  My attention is not yet trained or focused enough to have a thought, start on acting it out and follow through.  It takes days, weeks, or even months to follow through with an intention set in the span of seconds.  But I make it, eventually.

This site and blog is a prime example. Started at the first of this year, my second post is coming in four days into this seventh month.  But it’s here, right?

I have a few big weeks ahead of me: In about 30 hours I board a big tin can bound for Touluse, France.  I am cycling the second half of this year’s Tour De France route, the mountain stages, with LeLoop: a for charity touring company I had the privilege of signing up with via a friend with Macular Degeneration.  It will be an interesting trip.

I have trained seriously for the past month, and not-so-seriously for the past six. I am ready though, mentally prepared for the almost 19,000 feet elevation gain required of me from the Queen stage alone (god knows how much over the total 11 days of riding, I have blissfully ignored the true stats of the ride to postpone the immutable suffering). 

In the past month I have put serious consideration and thought into my next few months as well as how I am going to achieve them.  But I know this: time will continue to roll on regardless of if I make my personal deadlines or not.  I have missed a few in the past week with some considerable stress, but I live on.  Same with this ride: a sure and promised dose of suffering will pass.  

This is my goal:  Face the wandering fears of putting myself out there- sharing me and my goals, my adventures, and my lust for life. Take the time to curate footage, pics, and voice notes from my trials and tribulations of the path I am on and publish it for those walking a similar path to feel less alone (and hopefully at times slightly humored) by my faults, shortcomings, learning experiences, and big ass wins.  

So here it is, In the next year I will:

Post a blog post to this here website weekly.

Make a minimum of three varied posts to Instagram weekly documenting this journey.

Make sister (or brother) posts to a substack (that I have not created) for more reach.

Be scrupulous in my focus in achieving these goals, forgiving if and when I do not make the mark, and celebrate like hell when I do. 

Until next week,

Progress over perfection.

Tait