I don't know if running changed my life or if I changed my life for running, but who cares really? My feet keep moving, my arms keep pumping, and my mantra keeps rolling, 'Be patient. You got this.'
Valerie DiMambro, Runner’s World Challenger
Learn more about Valerie’s challenge (essentially from couch potato to 5K) if you’re interested, but if not, you gotta love the mantra. It’s very post-divorce in that she was post-divorce when she started running. It’s also an interesting parallel; did divorce change your life, or did you change your life because of divorce? Perhaps a little bit of each?
The fact is, the changes are here, and it doesn’t much matter how that happened. What matters is what you do with it. Patience is necessary.
When you first start running, it’s difficult. Like most things worth doing, you have to put in the time, effort and consistency to attain mastery. You have to have a plan. Patience is required.
Even after you’ve been running awhile, sometimes it’s still difficult. You’re having a bad day, you didn’t sleep enough or eat enough the day before, or you ate too much. You’ve got to stick to your plan. Patience keeps you going.
It’s the same with the post-divorce period. You start off and it’s difficult. You come up with a plan. Once you’ve been at it awhile, it gets better, but you can still have a bad day. Perhaps you’re not taking care ofyourself, isolating or working too hard. You’ve got to stick to your plan. Patience gets you through.
So hang in there, and remember, be patient, you got this.
Bad day, Daniel Powter (very cute video)
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