Whether we’re talking the Pink Floyd song or marathons, I think I found the Wall this week. I’ve run marathons, and the Wall is real. I feel as if I’ve hit it pretty early in a six month course. Indicative of just how out of shape I was to begin this race.six month course. Indicative of just how out of shape I was to begin this race.<\/p>\n
Last night’s readings were another dirge (regular readers will recall I had a dirge reading a few weeks ago, too). I felt discouraged.<\/p>\n
Whenever I feel discouraged, I’m reminded of a quote from Medal of Honor winner, Captain Roger Donlon<\/a> (paraphrased), “Discouragement is the tool of the Devil.” I heard that when Colonel (retired) Donlon spoke to my Squadron Officer School class. I desperately needed to hear it at the time, and periodically, I need to remember those words. In the context of this class, it means “you’re doing it wrong” or, more likely, the Old Blueprint is fighting back.<\/p>\n Old Blueprint must be about to die, because he’s fighting for his life this week. One bright spot in my fight to evade despair? Shirley contacted me about forming our Mastermind Alliance. Even brighter, because before I saw her note, I’d decided to contact her. Not inexplicable but still very cool!die, because he’s fighting for his life this week. One bright spot in my fight to evade despair? Shirley contacted me about forming our Mastermind Alliance. Even brighter, because before I saw her note, I’d decided to contact her. Not inexplicable but still very cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether we’re talking the Pink Floyd song or marathons, I think I found the Wall this week. I’ve run marathons, and the Wall is real. I feel as if I’ve hit it pretty early in a six month course. Indicative of just how out of shape I was to begin this race.six month course. Indicative … Continue reading “Week 9-The Wall?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pondering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6MHaR-2O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}