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Its 3 weeks to my first running race.
I’m starting to get excited and nervous. I have yet to run the distance that we’ll be running at the race so though all is going well (and injury free yahoo) I’m not yet believing that I can really do it.
Yet only 10 weeks ago it was so difficult to even run for a few minutes at a time and now I’m doing much longer stretches. It got me thinking about how its hard to remember how far we’ve come sometimes, especially when we feel like we still have so far to go.
Of course, I can’t help but think about how this overlaps with the creative world too. About how so many people that I’ve known for a long time in the creative blogging world have come so far with their creative dreams, whether it be going offline more so they can write a book, or getting a show at a gallery, or creating e-courses or launching their etsy shops. How once upon a time we were all beginners and in some parts of our lives still are.
It makes me look back at how far I’ve come. About how at some point, like running for one minute at a time, putting an image up on flickr was a really big accomplishment. That one minute, that one image, let to more minutes, more images, more possibilities.
I know how I get caught up in all that I still want to do, that doesn’t yet feel like something I’m sure I can make happen (like my dream of writing a book) yet if I decided to put myself out there again and again and go for it, it could even be a possibility (like actually running 10 km)
I feel like I need to pause more and recognize how far I’ve come rather than get caught up in how far I feel like I still have to go both in my adventures in running as well as my creative life.
How about you?
If you’ll join me today, I’d love to hear about a way that you have come so far, be it in your creative life or other parts of your life. I’d love to celebrate how far you’ve come!