I recall reading something along the lines of “whether you think you can or you think you can’t you’re right”….

This has never rung true for me more than today. I was up to Week 4, Day 1 of the C25K program & I remember seeing on Sunday that today I was going to have to run for 5 minutes straight, no stopping. In that moment Sunday, I already partially made up my mind that I “couldn’t” do it.

Thankfully, I took my clothes to work, got changed and just went to the school oval because that’s the discipline I’ve set, we run on Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday. I didn’t want to, I’ll be honest most of the time I don’t feel like it but once I get going & especially once I am done, I feel great.

Most of the day I was trying to find excuses as to why I wasn’t going to or couldn’t go do my run this afternoon but I am so pleased I sucked it up, had a good little chat to myself about just giving it a go.

So I got started, I was feeling ok after my first 3 minute jog and just focussed on the music in my ears and honed into the lyrics… my watch finally tapped me and she said “start running”…. It was in that moment I actually said to myself out loud “you can do this”, and I did, it was slow and ugly but man I felt incredible when I hit the 5 minute mark & realised I did it without stopping! I then said to myself out loud again “See you can do anything”…

I even made a TikTok https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLDBjTbX/ of it I was/am that proud of this moment, I want it recorded to look back at how far I’ve come cause in the past 5 weeks (yes I redid week 3) because it’s way further than I ever imagined I actually could go.

So today I want to remind you that the wise words of Theodore Roosevelt “believe you can & you’re halfway there” is way more than that, our minds are powerful & can push us further than our body is trying to let you go sometimes but you have to be your own biggest cheerleader.

Thanks for reading as always,

Love, MrsJRad