Determination

It's Sunday.  New week starting.  For parents, tomorrow the kids go back to school.  Whooop!!!.  We all love them, but when it comes to keeping a plan in place, wow they sure can throw a few monkey wrenches into those plans.  :-)

My friends Pam and Phil Pettigrew made a decision a while back.  They both decided they were going to start running and run in some races.  This is a couple who never did stuff like that.  They were out of shape and busy and dealing with life.  But they did it and they keep changing their goal and achieving more!!!! It's been amazing to watch and so encouraging.

I would hear things from them like, I ran in the cold today or in the rain, I never thought I could do this, Ugh I am tired and I need to run.  At the beginning it was not easy for them to do some of those things.  I remember Pam telling me at the very beginning she was not sure if she could do it.  But they did!!  It was determination that pushed them through.  They had their goal set.  Their determination to succeed got them out the door on days most of us would have curled up in bed.  This did not happen over night.  There has been a gradual process they have gone through.  A series of small decisions that got them to their goal.  If they failed on one day they did not let it stop them the next day. Phil and Pam don't realize it but watching them encouraged me.  

I don't think we realize the impact we have on those around us as we live our lives accomplishing our dreams and goals.  When we do things that we thought we could never do it encourages another to go and do the same.  They start to believe that maybe then can too.

I have so fallen off my routine that I established just before Christmas.  Have to say I have felt a little discouraged.  My first thought was, I am not going to be able to stick to this.  blah blah blah started happening in my head.  The negative chatter.  So today my word is DETERMINATION.  Today is a new day.  What I didn't do yesterday has no impact on what I can accomplish today.  Each day is new.  So if you have been feeling a little discouraged that goals you have set are not being met.  Why don't  we all agree together, that everyday will be a fresh new page.  A day of unlimited possibilities and we will not let the negative chatter of the week before decide what today or tomorrow will be.  So as I move forward in my year this will be how I start each day :-)

Special thanks to my friends Pam and Phil.  Who have no idea how they have encouraged me.  You two rock!!!