Do you know that key relationships have been specifically placed to help you in ways you never imagined? Do you realize there are special people who are not just happenstance acquaintances but strategic relationships to help you find the life of your dream? Have you missed the simplicity behind this mysterious thing called DESTINY? Perhaps the real problem of finding your dream isn’t about who you don’t know, but whom you’ve neglected.
About a month back I happened across an excerpt from a book entitled, “The Power Of Who, You Already Know Everyone You Need To Know”. I have yet to read the book but the premise intrigued me. Basically it suggests that you’re going to get further in life by tapping into your current resource pool rather than continually searching amongst strangers and in anonymity. ‘It’s not what you know but who you know’. A very simple strategy that in our current social media age can often get easily overlooked.
Chad Ulansky is a very talented and accomplished athlete and I first met him at Raid The North Extreme in Prince Rupert in 2007, and have since gotten to know him through ultra running in BC. In 09 we ran together for the better part of 2/3 of our local Knee Knacker 50k race and he still holds one of the highest ever placings for a Canadian at Marathon Des Sables, finishing 16th back in 03.
The job is basically going to consist of jumping in and out of helicopters (not literally jumping, though that’d be even cooler) and collecting samples from rivers. Apparently in the approximate six week time frame we are going to cover a distance close to 2/3 the size of British Columbia!!
Undoubtedly this will be very fatiguing work with minimum 10-12hr days and working every single day for six straight weeks. Though I have done similar before, having spent a full year working in Fort St. John B.C. as a pipe fitters assistant in the oil patch. That experience taught me that the first 14 days are the worst as your body adapts to its new reality. It may have been the longest year of my life, but it’s also where I truly learned the most about who I was as a person and what I could actually accomplish if I put my mind to it.
All in all, I’m looking forward to the change of scenery and to once again being forced outside on a daily basis no matter what the weather might throw at us.
‘RETIREMENT’ isn’t quite as easy as it first sounded however!
GR
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