Hi Fellow Changers,
It's Sunday night and tomorrow is the beginning of my year long blog about getting up early to run. I was thinking tonite that for the last 15 years or so I have found myself curious and then envious of people who run in the morning. I always would find myself asking them questions about how they did it. What time did they get up? Were there tricks involved? Had they "always" been a person that runs in the morning? I am not sure looking back exactly what I was thinking. Always? To be honest, I think that these questions were designed to help me convince myself that I just didn't have what it takes to get up and run. Tonite, on the Eve of my rather impulsively produced project I wonder why I always assumed this was not something that I could do. I can run (albeit very slowly) and I can get up (albeit very grumpily) and so to think that I can't do this...well, is just not true. In fact, it might be more true to say that I just didn't want to be the kind of person that got up early to run because I never was before and, well, change is hard. I've heard many times that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. This has been banging around in my head for a pretty long time now and you know what it's sort of depressing and just stupid. Our ability to change, to do something different, makes us strong and adaptable. Maybe I'm sick of being a person that does not do what I want to do because I've somehow convinced myself that I can't. If you are reading this, I hope it inspires you to think about making the changes that you want to make for yourself. This is not really intended to be an exercise blog but an action blog for people who maybe want to run or maybe want to do anything that they've not done before. I hope you will follow me and I hope it will inspire you or, at least, make you laugh. If you are also trying to change something or start something then I hope you'll write to me and let me know how you are doing. We all need all of the help that we can get. xxK
It's Sunday night and tomorrow is the beginning of my year long blog about getting up early to run. I was thinking tonite that for the last 15 years or so I have found myself curious and then envious of people who run in the morning. I always would find myself asking them questions about how they did it. What time did they get up? Were there tricks involved? Had they "always" been a person that runs in the morning? I am not sure looking back exactly what I was thinking. Always? To be honest, I think that these questions were designed to help me convince myself that I just didn't have what it takes to get up and run. Tonite, on the Eve of my rather impulsively produced project I wonder why I always assumed this was not something that I could do. I can run (albeit very slowly) and I can get up (albeit very grumpily) and so to think that I can't do this...well, is just not true. In fact, it might be more true to say that I just didn't want to be the kind of person that got up early to run because I never was before and, well, change is hard. I've heard many times that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. This has been banging around in my head for a pretty long time now and you know what it's sort of depressing and just stupid. Our ability to change, to do something different, makes us strong and adaptable. Maybe I'm sick of being a person that does not do what I want to do because I've somehow convinced myself that I can't. If you are reading this, I hope it inspires you to think about making the changes that you want to make for yourself. This is not really intended to be an exercise blog but an action blog for people who maybe want to run or maybe want to do anything that they've not done before. I hope you will follow me and I hope it will inspire you or, at least, make you laugh. If you are also trying to change something or start something then I hope you'll write to me and let me know how you are doing. We all need all of the help that we can get. xxK
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