Getting Lost...

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau

Ever get lost while driving? Unfamiliar roads, towns, bypasses. Sometimes I like to get lost, because then you tend to see things that you may have not seen before or maybe experience something that you may never get to experience.

When my wife and I were dating, we would go on day trips, just pick a direction and go. We visited wineries, old country stores, even checked out a little drive-in diner that was way-y-y-y-y-y out there. Discovering, learning, growing.

Sometimes you need to just get lost...

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela


MattyV
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com

Goals...

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

So 2008 is coming to a close. Time to start looking at goals for 2009. Will it be a better year? What to you want to accomplish this next year that will bring you to a new level?

Some of my personal goals:

- run 5mi 3 times a week
- learn the guitar
- learn spanish
- speak to at least 3 groups a quarter
- lose these last 80lbs


Write down your goals, commit them to paper. Goals not written down are just wishes...


"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." - Lawrence J. Peter


MattyV
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com

Belief...

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

I believed I could do it. I knew deep down I could. It's been 9 months. But that little voice, that wee little voice kept hounding me, "You can't do it. You can't. It's been too long. You're a fat tub and always will be..."

I focused. I focused hard. My legs ached. My body wanted to quit. But I focused. That blinking red light. That blinking red light coming closer, closer. Relief, exhaustion, fatigue, elation. I made it. I did it. I knew I could do it. I ran a mile without stopping...

"This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question." - Orson Scott Card


MattyV
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com