Monday, August 24, 2015

Motivational Monday 8.24

Good morning Sunshine's!

Monday's kinda suck right? I decided that I am going to start doing a weekly post to help shake my Monday up. I am calling it "Motivational Monday". This weekly post is gonna be all about things that motivate and inspire me. This could be a person, a cause, music, a video, or anything really. 

Today many of you have kiddos starting school or maybe like myself you are starting as well. My first class for going back college starts today online and my first on campus class starts tomorrow. I am so excited! Since I decided to make this journey back to school for creative writing it is pretty fitting that the person I want to talk about this Monday is J.K. Rowling. She is my inspiration and really the reason I got so into reading as a child. She came from nothing to having more than she ever imagined all because she pursued her passion. When she failed she didn't stop. She believed in herself so much that when she was told no she didn't take no for an answer. I can hope that one day I will be like her but at the end of the day it's all about the work you put in and your drive to succeed and never giving up no matter what everyone says. Here is a video of a speech she made that really explains it all.



So I got up today....not as early as I would have liked but I didn't throw the towel in. I had my spark, got dressed, laced up my shoes, and got my ass into gear by going for a run. I have slacked in exercising lately but NO MORE. No excuses. I went for a mile and ran as much as I could. Being free of a lot of weight now means the problem that is keeping me from running the whole time is thankfully no longer my legs. My problem now is my lungs. I want to work on building my lungs up so my goal this week since I am working 2nd shift for a week is to wake up every morning and run at least a mile and try and get my time down every day. My one mile today took an 16 min and 37 seconds even with running part of it. I did start slow and stopped to tie my shoes but dang that sucks. Gotta start somewhere though right? Eventually I would like to be able to run the whole mile and do it in under 10 minutes.




Goals, goals, goals....Life is all about goals. Set them people. If you don't then you are dooming yourself to the same fate every stinking day. This week is all about setting goals for myself and developing a routine to insure success. Let's rock this week!


I also created a Spotify playlist to keep me motivated while exercising this week. I am going to try and do a weekly playlist going forward as well. Check out this weeks!


No comments:

Post a Comment