10-28-17

When I was little, my mom encouraged me to read anything I wanted. Seriously, anything. No holds bar. My favorite place was the library, where I could read about girls like me who were detectives, superheroes, and heroines of their story. It’s because of my mother’s encouragement to read anything and everything that I grew up believing I could be anything I wanted. Somewhere between then & becoming an adult, I lost that. I started to get into this comfortable place of thinking “This is who I am. This is my life. This is my routine.” Life has a habit of hammering out your jagged edges until you’re rounded out, nondescript, & exactly like everyone else. You become status quo and that begins to feel good because it’s familiar & familiar is safe. This year, I’ve decided to do the things that scare me the most. I’m redefining who I am & building myself into who I’d like to be. This means a lot of 4am mornings, being tired (soo ******* tired), and crying out in pain in totally full gyms (lol when I train with my coach on quad days ??). Take a second and think back on the past two years of your life. Would you be okay with repeating those past two years again? If yes, keep doing what you’re doing. If no, I encourage you to make a change today and every day so that your next two years are the best two years you could have ever imagined. It is never too late to redefine yourself.

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