I recently completed my first 5K Mud Run. For those of
you who are not familiar with Mud Runs, they are basically obstacle courses
with ropes, 10 feet high pallet walls, and 30 feet tall slides all suspended
over pits of mud and stagnate water. Now
doesn’t that sound like a safe thing to do?
Well as a participant you eagerly dive head first into all of these
hazardous obstacles without knowing whats on the other side. How deep is the water at the end of this 30 foot slide? Were these towers engineered to hold multiple people? Should I have gotten a tetanus shot before crawling under this barbwire? OK, well those were at least the thoughts running through my mind as I was completing each obstacle. I also noticed how I had this feeling of such a rush of excitement
and sense of accomplishment. I had just leapt off of a ten foot high wall and actually stuck the landing. I kind of forgot that I wasn't immune to injury or illness, because during those times when I was
completing each obstacle I found that I was concentrating so hard on the task at hand. I was 100 percent focused on overcoming what was in front of me that I left
very little room for mistakes. So that made me think, just imagine
if every day we treated every task as an obstacle to overcome and we began to
actually focus all of our energy on each task instead of trying to multitask. I noticed a lot of things on
the obstacle course that day, but some of the things I didn’t see were people
texting and running, or taking a selfie while suspended 10 feet in the
air, or searching through Pinterest while belly crawling in the mud. So I challenge you to go one day,
with focusing all of your energy on one activity at a time. Whether that be playing with your kids, mowing
the yard, driving your car, or cooking dinner, just focus on one thing at a time and notice how productive you can be.
