Plan 365-Day two

Plan 365


Day two

9/8/2011

Dear Diary,

Yesterday I was able to work out. I opted to sit out of hot yoga in order to stay home and get some stuff done. I still wanted to exercise so I decided to run the neighborhood for a bit. It was scorching hot or at least that’s how I felt. As I got half way down the block I already was ready to give up. I was out of oxygen and just didn’t feel I had it in me. At that point I began to walk, realizing that my inner strength was being tested I decided to start with a little voice in my head that would be my trainer, someone to push me. Because it was obvious I wasn’t going to push myself. I changed songs on my ipod and started to run again, this time a little bit more difficult as the walk deterred me from the energy I began with.

I put on one of my favorite country songs that sings about Jesus and growing up and how things were different. It’s about living and loving and it inspires me. So I put my head down and kicked up my heels and off I was into a run that could actually produce results. After about 25 minutes of running I was about a quarter of mile away from my home and decided to push that extra stretch. Switching songs on my iPod I turned it to a song called Fighter! Enthusiastically I put my head down and pushed my arms in and out a little faster turned the corner and kept pushing. Making it home I doubled back around the corner to walk for a cool down. After towards I went inside and did about half a video of P90x and then did some crunches and reps with resistance bands. Overall a good workout day! It’s nice to finally feel like I am making myself a priority and taking care of my health.

Today my challenge on day two is to really put into practice that scripture we’ve heard over and over again. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. “ How many times have we heard this? Treat others as you want to be treated! Do we always practice this? Probably not! Although we may try it doesn’t always work out that way. Today my challenge is not to just do something nice for someone, but to go outside the box and to do something nice for someone who may not necessarily deserve it. For a person that may not even perhaps like me. But in the true sense of loving your neighbor, it’s all of your neighbors (including enemies). And although I would hope that I don’t have any enemies per say, I’m sure I have a few who may not see eye to eye with me. Stay tuned for part two of day two as I ponder upon which person that I bequest my challenge on.