Yeah I know it's been a little while....
I told you guys, I'm not very good at staying committed to things. But hey I'm trying my best. (Well maybe not my bestest, but I'm working up to that)
Anyways that fact I haven't written in a couple weeks is not the point of this blog. Because although continuously writing is not my strong point adding distance and time to my runs has become my strong point. This week I ran my first full 5 km's on the treadmill. THATS RIGHT! I DID IT! I mean I'm nowhere close to being done all my running, but hey it's a big step! I ran 5 km, in 40 minutes making my longest run time 30 minutes with a 5 minute warm up and cool down.
Everything I read said it should take AT LEAST 8 weeks to be able to run 5k. But I successfully did it in four weeks. And not only did I run 5k one time, I've ran it twice! And this week coming I will be running it more. (I kind of took a few days off this past week, probably not the best idea I've had) But starting tomorrow I will be doing daily runs again. (Except on sundays, I figure it God can take a day of rest so can I)
Once the warmer weather comes I'll be switching to outside, just the thought already makes me cringe. I feel like it will be a lot less motivational not having the clock and distance right in front of me, but then maybe the scenery will help motivate me.
So I hope you guys haven't given up on your goals. Look I KNOW it can be tough! I know you do not always feel like working for something. I know you want to find an easy way to get there. I know you have a million 'reasons' (which I like to call excuses) of why you're putting it off. I know because I have been there. BUT JUST STOP IT! No reason you can come up with right now will be good enough to convince me that you should stop pushing yourself towards your goals. We don't saying we're 'pushing ourselves towards our goals' because it's easy. That would 'we're rolling ourselves towards our goals'. You have to work to push! You have to use your energy and PUSH yourself. It's not always fun. Ten minutes into my run I normally think, 'this is boring, I don't want to do this anymore' but thinking like that did not help me accomplish running 5km's for the first time this week.
If your goal is to have a healthy lifestyle so you can live a longer life with your wife/husband, children AND grandchildren then start practicing it now! Because eating that bag of potato chips and watching a movie with your kids might seem like fun now. But guaranteed your kids would rather that you had spent time outside playing a sport with them while eating carrot sticks, and still be able to have you around to see their kids. So you can make every excuse you want. But when you are in the hospital saying your goodbyes to your kids at age 45, because of high blood pressure or diabetes you're going to regret making those excuses now! You will wish you could go back years earlier and start making those healthy decision. Stop wasting your life. Because before you know it, your whole life will be gone and you'll be left with a lot of regret.
Your dreams might seem big. Maybe you want to be the first person in your family to graduate university. Maybe you want to lose over a hundred pounds. Maybe you want to become a doctor and discover the cure to cancer. Your dreams might seem so out of reach, but it doesn't mean you should stop reaching for them. I know there is stuff in my life that I want, and I want to look back and say I did everything I possibly could have to reach my dreams. I know this blog entry is getting long, I'm sorry I'll try to end it soon.
I want to share with you guys some of my dreams. I don't normally share my dreams with people. For a couple reasons, the first, I'm terrified that people are going to judge me and think that my dreams are stupid. The second, I have changed my mind so many times in my life about what I want that when i share what I really want people don't believe me anymore, so I just stopped sharing it. But I think in a step to overcome my fear and actually going for my dreams I want to share what my dreams are.
First off I want a family. I want a husband, and I want children, I even want some form of a pet (even if it's just a fish). I say that I don't really need these things and that I would be fine if I just committed myself to my work. It's not true, I desire to have a family of my own. And I desire to have a family where my husband and I choose to love each other everyday and to never give up on us even when things are tough. I want my children and I to have an open relationship where they can talk to me about everything that goes on in their lives because they KNOW I will ALWAYS love them. And I want my parents to be healthy enough to play with my children. I want my dad to walk me down the aisle. I want to see them both live long and healthy lives.
Secondly is career centered. I want to start an organization that reaches out to many people who feel hopeless. I want to start a cafe that inspires young people to reach for their dreams in every form of art. I want to do seminars in high schools where we talk to the students about self worth, I want the students to KNOW that THEY ARE WORTH SOMETHING! I want to start a retreat/camp for troubled teens. Where they would have a chance to build HEALTHY relationships. I want to start a wedding planning business that not only finds ways to fit a couples budget and give them the wedding of their dreams, but that also offers premarital counseling to give the couple the MARRIAGE of their dreams. And lastly I want to fight against sex trafficking in not only third world countries where everyone knows this is going on. But in North America where it goes on unnoticed. I want to offer each one of these groups of people hope. I want people to know that they are here on earth for a reason. That no matter how bad life seems there is ALWAYS A REASON TO KEEP GOING!
I have a lot of other dreams but these are my biggest. Sometimes they seem too big. They seem to far off, and impossible. But I know that these dreams are in me for a reason. And I don't know if I will ever accomplish all of these. But I do know that when it comes time for me to die, I sure want to be able to say that I did everything possible to see my dreams come to pass. I hope you do too!
Infinite x's and o's
Allysin
