Learning To Wear The Big Girl Pants

My body is malfunctioning at the moment and it's horrible and I wish it would go ahead and self-correct back to normal.  Anyway, on the subject of my body, I've decided I'd like it to be in much better shape. So starting tomorrow I'm going to begin the couch to 5k program.  It seems like a positive program to start with.

Tomorrow I will also attempt to finish my second reading of Gatsby.

With my life coming back into what feels like more of an equilibrium of social activity and personal time, I need to focus more on routine and discipline.  These two principles should help with my anxiety issues also.

Whenever someone asks my opinion about whether or not to make a big, scary jump into something in their lives I always tell them that if the only reason they are not doing it is it's too big or too scary then they don't have a good enough reason to not be doing it.  I found myself faced with a decision to try for something that is both big and scary, to me and was talking myself down from trying with a lack of confidence that I would have time or the ability to be successful in the program.  The only reason I wasn't applying is because it was too big and too scary so I gave myself a come to Jesus meeting about hypocrisy and applied.  Wish me luck!!!

Here is an excerpt about this big scary thing I'm referring to.

Metro Denver is emerging as THE learning laboratory for revitalizing our communities through the development of a multi-modal transportation infrastructure. NO ONE else in the nation is doing what we are here in Denver. Thanks to voter support of FasTracks in 2004, we will have more than 90 transit stations in the metro region by the end of this decade. FasTracks is the Denver metropolitan region’s most important public works project, and the area’s linchpin for regional livability and vitality far into the future.

The program will host a maximum of 60 participants over 7 weeks to discuss the complex linkages between transportation, community development and sustainability.   These complexities and their relationship to the goals of the Denver Metro Region are uncovered in the program through a variety of speakers from the development community, public health sector, municipal government, the Regional Transportation District and many more.

The cornerstone of this unique program is that participants will take their new knowledge and put it in action.  Each session will be designed to be very interactive and participants will be asked to follow-up each session with a homework assignment.  In addition, participants will spend a portion of each class designing their individual action plan that they will implement in their community upon completing the Academy.

The Transit Alliance Citizens’ Academy is limited to a class of 60 who will be selected on the basis of demonstrated leadership ability and commitment to make future contributions to transportation, community development, healthy living and improving the quality of life in Metro Denver.

I think it's the individual action plan that has me in a great deal of anxiety.