Day 2:

Can you believe it? I woke up this morning and already I was trying to fins ways of avoiding sitting down are writing. It doesn't take long for the excitement to fade off.

See, that's the thing about passion. Well, if your anything like me. I can get excited about something one day and then the next day be completely disenfranchised with it. It isn't this way about everything. There are some things that I might be consistent about for a week or a month. But once the magic fairy dust of "a good idea" wears off then it takes a lot of gumption, gusto and hutzpah to keep the gears going. Sometimes its boredom but sometimes whatever the task may be, it can just get hard.

Why am I so fainthearted? What gives someone that drive to achieve, accomplish, and overcome against all odds? Don't judge me for what I am about to say...my wife and I have been watching So You Thing You Can Dance for the past several seasons. It really is incredible what some of these people can do! Incredible footwork, amazing power moves, and very high jumps. But this doesn't come in a day. Watch the first few episodes of any season and you can tell who practices and who doesn't.

I was at Vrooman's bookstore on Colorado boulevard in Pasadena yesterday and was flipping through Katie Couric's new book The Best Advice I Ever Got. She quotes Apollo Ohno (2004 Olympic gold medalist sprinter) as saying (and this is not a direct quote), 'It's not about the 40 seconds of the race, Its about the four years of training leading up to the race.' I am sure there must have been times when Apollo didn't want to train, but he forced his body into this habitual rigorous exercise and one day at a time became an Olympic gold medalist.

The Apostle Paul in the Bible talks about 'running the race of faith'. We often talk about this as a marathon, not a sprint. A lifetime of devoted action does not happen in one day, a week, or a month. It happens every single day. There is so much more on my mind about this...but then what would I say tomorrow? :)