Good morning! The sun is out and it is so good to see. (it's been cloudy for a few days here in Minnesota.)
I am feeling pretty strongly about something this morning so I thought I'd come on here and get it out.
Potential - full potential. Whatever that translates to you will be attainable if you want it bad enough. I am under the impression that very few of us even realize a fraction of our full potential. So often we are bogged down or reminded that all we're currently doing is enough or maybe even too much. Everyone seems to have limits but I am certain that many of them are just put there in our minds as a roadblock to full potential. I want to point out that I have many goals. To maintain a healthy relationship with my family, to keep myself and my husband happy and healthy for the rest of our lives together. To raise a small handful of happy, well rounded and smart children into adulthood and to buy a house that we can thrive in. I would also want financial liquidity, not wealth but I would like a job that validates my education and with the resulting income could help our family live well. These are my goals and they are always there and always a priority with me. They never go away and these goals are chiseled into the back of my cerebellum, dictating my every move throughout everyday.
I do not have all of these goals accomplished, many of them are in motion. I don't have to complete them to achieve happiness because I am already happy and already okay with that. But I have an inner desire to strive for more and that is what my goals are about. putting them down here just solidifys them even more for me. to read them and know I am making them happen is a powerful thing for me to do and I recommend it to anyone.
Speaking of writing down serious inner desires. Even If and when I complete all of my above mentioned goalage -- I don't feel that I will be at full potential. It will be like when you go for a ten mile run and you get back to where you started like your car or your house and you know you've got more to give. You don't want to just stop there- you want to use it all and not waste any of your energy. You're already out here your already dressed and sweating. You may as well give it all you've got cause your gonna have to wash these clothes anyway.
I want to announce that after I have our daughter I want to train to become a faster runner. I love running. I will always enjoy it. I want to get faster because There are some amazing races that are a once in a lifetime experience that I want to do before I turn 30 These races have very strict qualifying times and you have to be fast. One of them is the Boston Marathon, the other is the New York City Marathon. After I do those I want to run - swim - bike a full Iron man triathlon before I'm 35. I'm turning 27 next month. I will use this blog as a medium to showcase my training and it probably won't be pretty but it will serve as a reference and hopefully inspiration for my son and daughter should they ever want to do something similar.
Josie Evans getting to Boston, New York City and Iron man will prove that absolutely you can shun the non believers in your life and maybe even in your own head. Its October 26th 2013. I'm 26 years old, one time slow marathon runner. currently obese (stats to come after baby is out), currently 7 months pregnant with what they tell me and I'm sure will be a beautiful Adeline. Looking at my gorgeous 4 year old son Dominick and just trying to freeze this moment in time. I know I will succeed because I can see it in my mind.
People have done much more amazing things than running fast.
Running isn't even really amazing, I think its funny when people describe it that way. It's really really great. Not amazing. :)
I hope you are all ready to see some serious things happen.(and hopefully it can spur goals of your own to surface) Once Addie is born I'll get all the starting stats and we will go from there. I'll show you that when we get there.
Until then friends, go kick some major ass, you have about a 2 month head start. I can't wait to catch up :)
hugs and kisses
-Josie Evans
