Last year, when I decided to walk 60 miles (about 20 miles per day), I thought to myself, "How in the world am I going to walk THAT far at one time?" By training for it, that's how. By starting small. I began by walking about two miles, and gradually worked my way up. Hitting each milestone was exhilarating -- two miles…five miles…eight miles…ten miles! I was so excited to reach the ten-mile mark, that I could hardly wait to get up to 20 miles in one day!
When I decided to participate in the Race for Hope - DC run/walk (actually, I'm racing it -- I'll be getting a chip timer), I wasn't feeling quite so overwhelmed, even though my first practice run lasted for three minutes before I had to stop! Gotta start somewhere, right? Keep plugging away, little by little…and now I'm up to 15 minutes without stopping. My goal is 45 minutes. I can do that on the elliptical, and hope to run this Saturday morning to check my progress.
And so it is with this little blog…little so far, anyway. I'll be changing things up and experimenting with the design, adding lots of photos -- that's the main goal -- a better place to share photos with more people.
I've been wanting to do this for quite a while, but being an exceptional procrastinator, I kept putting it off…I don't know how…what if I can't figure things out…what if it isn't good enough…what if…what if…what if…
Note to self: Forget all the what ifs! Life is too short for what ifs, just jump in and get started…one small step at a time.
Are there things that you've always wanted to do, but haven't? What's stopping you?
Great advice Beth!..I just recently read something along those lines about people not doing certain things or activities because the were not "motivated", but the problem is motivation doesn't just come to you, you need to create it and the only way to create it is to JUST DO IT!!
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