Motivation to keep going
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- Rob
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Look, you guys, when you’ve got your dream, at some point to follow your dream you have to make a decision to get out there and have a go. And…but the first thing I did was imagine winning the race, you know, winning the Atlantic rowing race, I imagined what it would be like, I tasted, touch it, smell it and I saw us coming into the finish line and the piers would be lined with gorgeous women, they’d be throwing their clothes at us, it can be very motivational. And you know, but then I had to take action, I had to get out there and do something about it, and once I committed to that, financially I topped up the mortgage on my house, I quit my job, and then things unfolded from there.
But when we got to the start line and actually started the race, you know I had visualised that finish, it was a hugely motivational thing to imagine that finish line and winning the race. But once we got to start the race and we’re actually at sea, and suddenly we’ve got 3,000 miles of open ocean, and suddenly you know, it brought the reality home and the doubt set in. And you think, oh can we possibly row this enormous puddle, and again those negative things came in. We have to push those negative things aside. And we did that by rather than worrying about what was going to happen, two weeks, six weeks down the line, we tried to focus on the here and the now, and we looked after today, right now.
And that’s how we did those two hour shifts. I looked after my two-hour shift, and even then I would break it down to shorter-term goals with 10 minutes shifts and what have you. I’d try to row a mile at a time and the next thing your two hours have gone, and you know that’s the only way you can do any big project, is to look after the here and now. You’ve made your decision, you’ve then planned out a couple of steps to achieve that ultimate goal, but then you’ve actually got to do it in the short term, one step at a time goals, and that’s the best way to achieve anything.
Coming into the finish line we spent 41 days, two hours and 55 minutes there, and coming to that finish line having gone through all those steps to actually finally get to that finish line, and it was awful because the piers were lined with ugly men, and I can’t tell you how disappointed I was having these visions of these gorgeous beautiful women to greet us.