Blog every day in May... Day 4

Ok, so I am jumping on the bandwagon 4 days late but I just found this link and thought I would do it. At the start of the year I set some goals and one of them was to do more and better blogging. To be honest, this has been a tricky goal for me as I have been finding it hard to even do one or two posts a week with all the busy-ness of life happening. So why the heck would I sign up for blog every day for a month?? Especially a month with 31 days in it?? Well, I guess it is to help me with achieving my goal, so let's so how I go.

So here goes. The Blog every day in May has a set topic every day and here is today's:

Day 4, Saturday: Favourite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it:

This is a hard one as I have so many quotes, scriptures, sayings, etc. that I just love and for several different reasons.

Probably one of my most favourite, however, has to come from the Bible. I love the verse Joshua 1:9 (NIV):

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

This is pretty much what I quote to myself every time I am running, particularly if it is a tough run I have to remind myself that I am strong and courageous. It seriously helps!

What's your favourite quote and why?

Passionate Passion Party

One of my favourite quotes but I had temporarily forgotten it....

The last few weeks I have felt a bit nonchalant about the whole running business. Coming into winter I often find it's not the most inspiring time to be running, as well as getting a lot more work (which is so awesome, but sometimes tiring). However, today I had an unofficial job interview in which I got asked what my passions were and what I did outside of school and teaching.

This got me thinking and got me talking about running. For any of you who know me, you will know that once you get me started on something I love and am passionate about, it's VERY hard to shut me up again. I thought I managed to be quite contained in this situation though - my husband would be so proud! So once I got talking about how passionate I am about running, why I run, why I love it and what my goals are, it made me really feel passionate again. Yay!

Last week I officially registered for this marathon again, which I was hoping would give me the burst of inspiration and enthusiasm I needed. Alas, I found that it didn't really help, but am letting YOU all know that if it is motivation and inspiration you need, talking about your passions REALLY does help and give you the boost you need. Or kick up the butt in my case. I really can't afford to keep sitting on the couch and just blogging about it all day, I actually have to do something at some point right!?!

So just some encouragement to you, if you are feeling a little nonchalant like i was, try to remember and maybe even talk about your passion, why you love it, why you do it and what it brings to your life, and maybe even others'.

What are your passions? What helps to inspire or motivate you when you are not feeling the passion?

And I'll just leave you with this one last reminder - Whatever you are doing...

Funny business

I saw some funnies when I was running the marathon that I thought I'd share with you. Two girls in matching singlets were just ahead of me at the start and on the back of one singlet said:

'I over train so I can over eat'.

On the back of the other girl's singlet it said:

'Life is short but running makes it feel longer'.

Thanks for the funnies girls, I couldn't have put either one better myself. The more runs I do the more I realise that a lot of the runners competing are very similar and think the same.