The Revitalization of my Life-Day 16

Well, I must say that I really feel good! WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!! You will be proud to know that I started working out again. Yes, I finally broke the cycle that I was on. It was like an EPIPHANY! In order fro you to understand this great feeling that I have, I have to tell you how it happened.

I had come home from work with my usual feeling-tired, thinking a lot, not motivated. When I walked through the door, I didn't have working out on my mind because I usually work out in the mornings. The evening working out has been out of my vocabulary for a while now. I cam in spoke to my wife and immediately hit the sofa. I remembered that I had just bought a new book to read-Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert-and I began to read it. She was speaking about how down she was when she realized that she wanted a divorce and how she first had a conversation with God at the age of 32. I continued to read until I realized that I had chores to do. I put in a load of clothes and begin folding the ones that were already clean. (yes, I do laundry and I love it!) While I was folding the clothes, I saw my gym shorts and thought to myself, "I could just stop what I am doing right now, put on those shorts and workout and then come back and begin my chores." Well, this is exactly what I did. This particular run was probably one of the most inspirational runs that i have ever had. My mind was at ease and every time I tried to think about something, it wouldn't happen. It's like my mind wouldn't let thoughts enter because it was on such a high off being inspired that it wanted to stay there as long as it possibly could. For the duration of my run, I was not here on earth. I journeyed to a place that I have been wanting to visit all of my life. A place of serenity while here on earth around all of this chaos. Ahhhhhh, it was like drinking a cold glass of tea in August in Mobile Alabama at 3pm...so refreshing!

When I came from my workout, I immediately took a shower and while I was in the shower I begin to pray and just thank God for giving me the ability to just jump into doing the positive things that I want to do within my life. I thanked him for the small things like, breathing, walking ,tasting, feeling, thinking, loving, etc. Just everything that I could possibly think of that was small and that goes unnoticed in our daily life. Sometimes you have to listen to that little voice that doesn't make sense to the average person, but makes complete sense to you. This voice just might be the voice of reason, the voice of change, the voice of inspiration, the voice of God!

Doing the small things to make a big difference is what is needed in order to gain some consistency. It takes a woman nine months to birth a child, 21 years before that child becomes of legal age and gains a sense of reason. What makes you think that you can get the things you want done in your life in a matter of weeks or months even. Take your time and pay attention to the small things that need to get done, and maybe, just maybe they will create an avenue that will make the bigger things easier to accomplish. (If this sounds familiar, it's because I probably said this line in another one of my blog post.)

"Lesson's can only be learned by those who are willing to listen...my ears are open"-K.J Swint