1. March Studio
2. Letting Go
3. March Links
4. Wrap-Up
Now that 2007 is well underway, how's your year going so far? I just posted Asolare Design.com with it's new look. Check it out if you have a sec, let me know what you think! As far as my New Year's goals, I've officially put in my bid for the lottery for the NYC marathon. One step closer. I've been discussing seriously with my skydiving boyfriend, Eric, the best places and times to go skydiving. One tiny step closer. The year is still young. In about three weeks, I'm headed back to WV for a visit home--see family, friends, my house...and Wal-Mart! My list is already getting long. I hear the spring peepers have started in WV and the days are warming. This is a good t'ing. Anything below 60 makes me cold just thinking about it. Any St. Johnians with an order for Wal-Mart, you know where to find me. Enjoy your month--let yourself be fooled on April 1st by someone under 10 and be sure to fool someone who will appreciate it.
One of my personal traits that I think is both to my advantage and to my detriment is my motivation—or, it could sometimes be called my stubbornness. I think, in many cases, I’m “all or nothing”—I go hard for what I want and keep my focus until I get there. If I want to run a marathon, I’m going to run a marathon. If I want to live on St. John, I’m going to figure out how to do it. If I want a career in multimedia and animation, I’m going to work hard to cultivate one. And, if I want to run and my body is tired, I’m going to run. Or so I’ve always done in the past.
Last month, running the 8 Tuff Miles race here on St. John, I was excited to place.When I was running, all I had on my mind was finishing and doing it fast. During the last miles pounding to the finish, I felt pain starting in my left leg. Ignoring it then and then ignoring it the next week to run another race caused my knee to start really screaming at me. I knew I shouldn’t have kept pushing at it, but I did. I seem to need experiences in life to sit me down on my butt sometimes. When I am focused, I only see in one direction. Being pulled to a stop when I’m heading wrong helps me re-evaluate, step back and refocus in a better direction. I’m always grateful for the experience afterward.
Letting go is a trait that I’m mostly lacking—again, both to my advantage and my detriment. Obviously, finding the balance to anything is key in life. But having the courage to let go sometimes can be one of the hardest and one of the most advantageous things you can do for yourself. Taking time off from a sport to rest, delegating responsibilities to someone else to free your own time, letting your child do something so they can learn from it…these are not small feats. But what will pour in from letting go can be amazing.So, one month later after weeks rest from running—a huge personal step—I’m happy to say that I’m running again…but this time with a new perspective. I have an appreciation for when it’s good to challenge and push it—and when it’s time to rest and recover. I’m not saying it won’t ever happen again, but I feel like I’m stronger and more aware of my tendencies this time around to prevent it.
To "let go" does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else.
To "let go" is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another.
To "let go" is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.
To "let go" is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To "let go" is not to try to change or blame another, it's to make the most of myself.
To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about.
To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive.
To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.
To "let go" is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.
To "let go" is not to be protective, it's to permit another to face reality.
To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept.
To "let go" is not to nag, scold or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires but to take each day as it comes, and cherish myself in it.
To "let go" is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.
To "let go" is to fear less and love more.
(Author Unknown)
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