Three miles and three powerful words

I went to my first training session today with the LA Roadrunners. We ran three miles in 20 different pace groups and there were three words that stuck in my head all morning and every time I felt an impulse to not go or to stop running.

Those three words were - Just Do It

Nike is really on to something with their slogan.

Just Do It.

I remember hearing once in a Landmark course that in life:

You either have the results that you're after

or

you have the reasons why you didn't get what you wanted

Results OR reasons - you choose. Very simple and I think pretty true.

There were hundreds of people training this morning that could have chosen any number of reasons why they couldn't join the group. Too old, Too fat, Too old and too fat, mother, too busy, etc but every one of us made a choice to Just Do It, to put the reasons aside and take action.

Now, on Saturday afternoon, we are left with the results. We ran. We started training and we left the all the reasons why it could not happen behind us.

Action definitely feels better than all of those times in the past when I have reasoned and rationalized my way out of doing something that I kinda wanted to do.