Week number 2 and I have had a setback. This is usually the part where I would have given up, and said to myself, “See, this isn’t for you. I told you… you couldn’t do this!” I have some severe pain in the top of my foot, and it hurts to walk on it, let alone run…so I have been off of it for several days, waiting on X-ray results. But I have not given up.
I have received some great feedback about my blog, and others are being inspired by ME! Wow is all I can say. I cried tears of joy this morning when I read an email from my cousin, a super athlete and inspiring runner; telling me how proud he is of me and how interested he is in my success. I also had the very same reaction when two of my best friends said the same thing. I know I don’t give myself enough credit for the person I am, the things I do and say, or for the accomplishments I have made in my life. I seem to have been stuck on what I haven’t done, who I am not, and what I wish I was like. Any of this familiar to you?
It has taken me many years and several hundred pounds to try and drowned out the voices in my head telling me I am not good enough. But you know what? I now have it writing…other people think I am good enough. I have to believe it. And I do, I really do. So the number on the scale isn’t ideal! It doesn’t define me anymore. I’m not a number. I am not someone else’s idea of what I should or should not be. It’s all up to me. Setbacks are part of it…I won’t let a setback become another reason to fail. I’ll just call it what it is, a minor inconvenience.
Yoda says, “There is no TRY… only do or do not.” And I’m choosing to do!
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