How Do I Start ???

I am convinced that 90% of change is just in getting started. Why did it take me SO long to start ? Beats me. I wish I knew. I wish I had started sooner believe me. But ... I did start and thats what is important, for me or anyone.

I spent a lot of years going to work ( 12 hour nights) ,coming home,taking a shower and getting into my bed. Until it was time to do it all over again. I bet we all know people just like that. I was convinced that I was just " so tired" and could not possibly do anything else. Plus a night off was of course preceded by a day that I was already " so tired". Did not get much done. And just got bigger.

I had a bizarre idea in October of 2009 . I saw that there was a 5K and 1 Mile fun run/walk scheduled at the grounds of our local professional teams' arena. I thought, WOW, that would be cool if I did the mile . Walk, of course . So I set out to TRAIN. Yeah, really. I got out in my car and measured a mile in my neighborhood. Didn't look that far. Pretty quick in a car. That was enough for that day, I was going after it the very next morning. So out I went at about 0500---typical night-shifter, tied into my shoes, Ipod on. Well, 27 minutes later I returned to my house near death I thought. Sweaty, wheezing, seriously . Damn, that was farther than I thought ! And my neighborhood it seems, is much more hilly that I ever realized. But somehow I went again the next day. Same results... but I kept going.
How did the mile event go? I actually chickened out that morning. Said I didn't feel well, well yeah, thats the point ! But that thankfully was not the end of the beginning of change.

This brings me today's word:

Perseverance : Continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulty , failure or opposition.

( Also very cool , right?) 

I also just realized that I think I stole this word thing ....may need a disclaimer soon. But at least she knows I was listening  all this time :)