Cheerleaders

What I’ve eaten today:

• A yummy, almond milk latte
• Very tasty corned beef hash with sunny-side-up eggs

 

Last week I hit a rock and a hard place.  I had a somewhat difficult decision to make – should I leave at a job that was slowly sucking the life out of me and risk it all on trying to build my own business or should I stick it out, being responsible in order to leave when I was ready?  I chose the former.  Now, now I feel as though I could puke.

Don’t get me wrong, it was certainly time to leave my current position and because of that I am relieved to be moving on.  But to put my neck out there when I don’t yet have the traction I was hoping for is stinkin’ terrifying.  I will say now that I am SO grateful to have an amazing wife who is in my corner, fighting with me and for me.  Without her, I would likely never have even considered trying to create my own business.  It wouldn’t even be a fully formed thought.

Along a similar vein, yesterday I ran/walked my first 5K in like 6 years.  I’m only half-way through my training so I managed to intermittently run about half of the race, which for me is definitely progress.  Especially since afterward, I felt good…no, not good, great.  No aches and pains.  My joints did not want to rebel.  I did not want to keel over.  But, let’s be honest…I didn’t run it all (though, I certainly will be soon).  You would not have known that I only ran half with the way we cheered.  My wife took video of my friend and I running to the finish line like we’d run the whole thing.  We treated ourselves to a great lunch of awesome tacos as if there were something to celebrate.  Then I came home and shared the fun pictures and videos because it was a Color Run and those make for the best photo ops.  And again, after my family far away saw them, they cheered.

 

 

All these little bits add up.  All these mini accolades help to fuel me and I am storing them up as I go along.  They are one of the few tools that I am using to power my way through the ends of difficult runs and hard decisions.  We all need those cheerleaders in our lives.  The ones that who will help champion our causes and remind us to not give up the good fight.  It is certainly a boon to have someone in your corner who is also “honoring where you are,” and is celebrating the small victories with you.

I’ll leave you with this little nugget of encouragement that I got from my nephew after a particularly difficult run.  It may not apply to where you are, but it will make you giggle.

Have you let anyone into that space with you?  Who do you have in your corner cheering you on to better and greater things?  Tell me all about it in the comments below!