Last Sunday I completed my second 5K. While I am still not ready to run a marathon, I DID improve my time to under 30:00 (29:37 to be exact!). I have learned personal leadership ‘tips’ as a result of this new journey I have been on. After my first 5K, I wrote to “Never Say Never”
For this 5K, my lesson learned is that sometimes you have to “go slower to go faster”. My ‘running coach’, Adam Ward, said this to me one day when I was telling him about my training. He said I was running too fast during my training runs and had to go slower so that I could go faster. I was skeptical, but he is training for an Ironman, so who better to listen to. Sure enough, I was able to reduce my time by nearly 7% in just a 5-week span by…you guessed it…running slower!
Often as leaders, we get impatient. We want to get to the answer/solution FASTER, and we sometimes forget that the learning process of getting there is even more valuable. When we go too fast, we often get somewhere fast, but find that we are unable to sustain the results we achieved.
As leaders, we need to be aware of when this is happening and slow down…so that we can go faster…and, as a result, be more ‘fit’ as a leader.
Do you remember a time you went too fast to a solution…only to find out that your results were not sustainable? Share it with me below.
