At the Worlds Strongest Man competition 2 weeks ago I had the bad luck of tearing my achilles tendion. Up till that point I was happy with how things were going and enjoying to finally be at the top level in the world. Now injury is never fun and it can easily tear you down.
But then again, we feel how we think, and how we think is under our control. I focused no the fact that I reached my goal of getting to the WSM. Looked at my wife, father and friends who had all made this trip to support me. Reminded my self that this was only my second real injury in my 22 years of lifting. So all things considered I am lucky. Even if this injury sucks or the timing is bad,,,,,, I am still f***ing lucky. For that I am grateful.
So I stayed smiling, even when folks came up to me and were telling me how sorry they were, how bad of a luck this was. I simply told them this was ok, this was going to be fine. that I WASNT DONE.
The energy that I could have put into feeling down, telling my self this wasnt fair, and vine about how long my recovery would be I put into making plans, into finding away to make sure this injury would make me better then before. And then again, when I came home we found out the injury isnt even as bad as we thought it was. Imagine sulking for days over something that isnt as bad as you thought? Sure it might have been the other way around, but lets not focus on what might be, lets focus on what we know and on what we can do about it.
This injury is going to take time, but in that time I will focus on other things that I can do better, and in the end I will be a better strongman for this.
I will be back to the WSM and I will get to the finals.
How do you treat your setbacks?
