Even though spring is being its bi-polar self, swinging from -10C one day to +10C the next, I'm feeling like the unending cold of February and the attendant funk seems to be lifting. I'm starting to feel guilty about not getting out there and doing sport throughout February, but March is a new month, a chance to start over, looking forward, not backwards.
Which got me thinking about a great quotation from Martin Luther King Jr. He once said:
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
I spent much of 2014 on planes, in cars, and generally travelling back and forth. I spent more time in other places than in my own home throughout 2014, but hung onto some fitness by the skin of my teeth, but now with the start of 2015, I've been focused on some aspects of business development that have kept me rooted in Ottawa for much longer periods of time than any in recent memory. This stasis has kept me static...I've been busy and buried under tasks which have taken precedence over sport. Never a good thing.
But I really do feel like I "have to keep moving forward," forward in life, and since I truly, deeply, honestly believe that sport affects life and success in sport gives dividends in life, if I am not moving forward in sport, there's a good chance that no matter how busy I am and how much I think I'm getting done in the rest of life, I won't really be moving forward.
Soooooo...I just signed up for my first running race of 2015, a 5km race at the end of May...here's to moving forward!
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| That's me...moving forward! |
Just keep moving forward,
Joy
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