motivation

The Space for Choice

Between stimulus and response, there is always choice.

Viktor Frankl’s words echo in my mind today. A reminder that no matter what the world throws at us—deadlines, debates, demands—we get to decide how we respond.

Yes, there is always more to do. More calls, meetings, decisions, and battles. And in many ways, that’s a good thing. It gives purpose, it fuels momentum, it energizes.

The trick is to go after it with joy and abandon.

To choose to smile—not because the day is easy, but because you own your response.

So go ahead. Kiss the world.

“A lot of people don’t realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It’s a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.”

Rob de Castella

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, ‘You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.’ The human spirit is indomitable.”

Roger Banister