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	<title>Journey To Success &#187; Prepare for Marathon</title>
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		<title>Building My Belief System Through Running</title>
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Recently, I have re-started my running schedule after recovering from some common flu and cough. I have set a schedule to run 2 times a week on every wednesday and sunday night. The results of the running was quite cool as it made me feel more energetic compared to those days [...]]]></description>
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<p>Recently, I have re-started my running schedule after recovering from some common flu and cough. I have set a schedule to run 2 times a week on every wednesday and sunday night. The results of the running was quite cool as it made me feel more energetic compared to those days that I was ill. I have set a target for myself to increase 1 more round per week until I am able to build my stamina to actually run a marathon in the near future. The effect of adding 1 more round per week is actually quite uneasy for myself in the first place as I felt that I have a limiting belief that I will feel tired after running 6 rounds in the park which is equivalent to 2.4KM (IPPT Running Standard). However, I told myself that I must conquer my mind to achieve something for myself which I can be proud of.</p>
<p>Currently, I have reached the 8 rounds around the park schedule which is equivalent to about 3KM. I realized that I have to rebuild my body and belief system for myself as I felt that completing 3KM is so tiring now compared to my army days where 3KM run was a common thing to everyone in the camp as we did it every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I have to find back that energy level that I have during my army days in order to strive for what I what to <a href="http://www.javierchua.com/vision-board/" target="_self">achieve in my life</a>.</p>
<p>Through running, I have learned something that we can fight directly which is the little voice in our head. When I am running, I realized that the little voice in my head will tell me to stop myself to rest for a while and I will feel that your legs starts to feel tired and hurting. However, I just keep on running and think about the financial freedom that I want to achieve. This really boost my energy level to keep me going for another round until I reach the target number of rounds that I should achieve for that particular week.</p>
<p>I will update more about building my belief through running again once I manage to reach that stage where I can take part in a marathon.</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Javier</p>
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