Originally published between 2011 and 2014, this post has been updated but preserves its original publish date as content is migrated from the archives of The Flavored Word.
The first time I ran a marathon, a woman I barely knew told me to give myself a coffee enema two days before the race. Say what? Uh hu. You read that right, a coffee enema.
“It will clear you out so you don’t have to poop on the course,” she said.
There’s a lot of (bare with my intentional pun here) crappy advice floating around this world. Butt, (I know, another one, I can’t help myself, and yes, I know it should be “but”), then again, because there are so many different people with so many different ways, perhaps there really isn’t such a thing as crappy advice—perhaps it only appears that way because our perceptions are thus so …
They key, is to always know that advice is only that—advice. A suggestion, if you will, on how to do something. But in the end, you have to live your life. You have to make your mistakes and experience your triumph … and the best advice anyone ever gave me was to always, always, always, keep perspective—because if you can do that then you will never lose yourself.
Oh, and for those of you that have continued reading only because you want to know if I actually gave my self a coffee enema, rest assured, I did not. And I managed to run that marathon without any trips to the port-a-pot.
“What’s the one piece of advice you wish someone had given you a year (or five, or ten …) ago?”
Cover image is me from one of my favorite spots in Walla Walla, Washington.
DISCLAIMER: I’m a writer and an editor. And I try my best to make sure every post is articulate and free from errors. However, being that I edit my own work—and it’s next to impossible to properly edit your own work—I admit, occasionally there may be an error or two I miss. But doing so doesn’t make me an idiot so don’t be mean. Just smile, pat yourself on the back for finding an error and be glad you’re not the only one who makes mistakes sometimes … xoxox
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