Energy creates Energy

Day 2

My friend Angela encouraged me to start training for my first marathon last year. Her husband, Matt, encouraged her. Her husband's brother encouraged him. His name is Pat Perry. He has a website called http://www.energycreatesenergy.com/. He has posted this on his website: In training for life - father, husband, trail runner, CEO. Fitness: If you don't have the energy to exercise, that is exactly what you should do, because energy creates energy. Leadership: Great leaders are not the smartest or the best; they bring energy. They turn people on, bring out the best, inspire. Energy creates energy.

That is so true in life.
Encouragement creates encouragement
Love creates love
Joy creates joy
Forgiveness creates forgiveness
Energy creates energy

There is no start-stop in those things above. They are a cycle.

Can a person stop loving, yes! Can they stop having joy, yes. But not everyone at the same time loses joy. They pass that joy, encouragement, love, forgiveness, energy from one person to another. It is circular.

Yesterday was a great day. Why? I created energy. I started my day with bootcamp. I filled my day with productiveness at work. When it was slow, I did something else. I did not watch TV, play a game on the computer, or stare into space. I was busy. Some days that is hard to do when you work from home and the phones drive your productivity. But it was amazing that the harder I worked, the more busy I became. By 5pm, I had as much euphoria as I do when I finish bc or run. I ended the day with my husband and friends. We were not even passive with that. We made dinner together; we played games together; we laughed; we created joy.

So today's lesson: Not everything has a finish.

I know that about my life as a Christian- I believe in salvation and Heaven.

So in my quest to finish everything, this is a simple reminder that there are a few things that have no end.

Just starting

Day 1

Do over - begin anew - are words associated with 'start'. I have a tendency to multi-task; this is a bad trait for someone that doesn't always finish things. I have begun two new blogs. I have two old blogsthat are still lingering out there in cyberspace. I have two incomplete scrapbooks that I have started. I participate in conversations and then change it to something completely different without finishing the last one.

Can a person start over and over? No, you start-stop or (worse) start-quit. I am proud that I don't quit the important stuff - marriage, child rearing, paying the bills, employment, and friendships. I do stop or quit the non-essentials (frequently): diets, exercise, personal budgets, and journals. I am also weird/anal about some things such as begin reading a book, finish reading that book. I always finish the food on my plate - good or bad. Running - I always finish. I may not do the amount of miles that I wanted, but I always make it back to the starting place/finish line. The two marathons I ran last year were tough. I wanted to quit at mile 20 on the last one, but I did not. I slowed down, but I finished.

I have set a new challenge for myself this year. I would like to finish everything! If I start, I want to finish. I will complete each task. I will make a list, put it in my phone, put it on a calendar, write it on my hand. I will do it!

The next thing that I am going to do today is get off the computer, send the last few emails of the day, return a phone call that I am dreading, and clean up the house. The last thing that I will do is finish the day by going to sleep. I will then start over tomorrow.