I'm sitting here trying to figure out what I want to post. Today is the first day of a brand new year and I should write something inspirational, right? Why is it that I'm not feeling very inspired. 2014 wasn't the greatest year for me but it wasn't the worst. I would say it was pretty mediocre and much to my dismay I have a foreboding feeling over my head for 2015. There are several people in my life who aren't well medically and so many other things seem to be out of my control. How can I go forward with eager anticipation into this new year? To make matters worse I kept none of my resolutions for last year and actually gained about 10 pounds over all by the end of the year.
I don't even want to do the classic let's review 2014. I just don't want to be reminded of it. I don't want to think about failures, deaths, sorrow, anger, frustrations. There were some highlights. We moved into a fantastic home. We made a lot of amazing new friends. We rescued the most loving dog you could meet. I will hold those highlights and learn from the failures. Everyone has them. We are so afraid to admit when life defeats us. But life defeats all of us sometimes.
Looking forward to 2015, I really don't want to set any major goals that won't happen. I guess you could say my lack of enthusiasm for last year has impaired me. However, I made one goal. An amazing friend of mine who I met through this fantastic facebook group changed his life last year. He went from mostly sedentary to a 7 minute mile pace runner. I made it my goal to run at least half of what he does this year. It won't be fast but I'm going to get the miles in. I'm going to become a winter runner. (I'd say running on January 1st in 27 degree weather qualifies me.) Those are two goals that are just going to happen no matter what.
As for the rest of my objectives, I'm going to set mini-goals. Weekly goals that will keep me going. This week my goal is to run at least 5 days. I started that out with 7.2 awesome miles of run walking. I ran over half of the mileage and walked the rest but everyone has to start or in my case restart somewhere.
I'm pledging to post on my facebook page and blog daily. To keep me accountable and just get my words out into the abyss. If no one reads this but me than I will be happy enough but if you find my words honest, helpful or just need to say something please feel free to comment or share. I'm always open to meeting new people and this journey is tough when you go solo.
That's it for today. Time to dish out some soup, hit the grocery store and maybe see a friend or two tonight.
Life happens but you don't have to just watch it go by. Let's jump into life and make the most of what we can.
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