It's Kind Of Fun...

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. -- Walt Disney


Welcome to Thursday Thoughts.  Every Thursday I'll bring you a quote that inspires me.  Hopefully it will inspire you too.

Today I thought it rather fitting that we start with one of my favorite quotes from Walt Disney.  When he arrived in California with $40 and a suitcase, no one could have forseen the empire he would build.  I've read studies that show many kids don't even know there was a real Walt Disney... they figure it's just the name of a vacation destination.  But I find it more helpful to remember that before there were multiple theme parks, before there were mega-smash hit movies, before there was even the mouse that started it all, there was a man.  A man with a dream and a vision.

When I was 280 lbs it would have been absolutely impossible for me to even think about doing a half-marathon.  At that time when I'd go walking with my girlfriends it'd take us 3 hours to do six miles.  And to be quite honest it's because I couldn't keep a faster pace.  That's about a 30 min/mile pace and you have to maintain a 16 min/mile pace not to get swept from a Disney race so doing a Disney half would be absolutely impossible.

But now?  Now it's becoming quite do-able.

What changed?  Me.  I changed.  I decided I was going to shoot for this impossible goal and now I find myself almost halfway to achieving it (doing 5.9 miles this past weekend... that's almost half the course and I have until November to work up to the 13.1).

Anything is possible as long as you're willing to conquer the obstacles and put forth the work to make it happen.  And that feeling of accomplishment you get when you've done something that was once considered impossible?  Yeah, that's gonna be a bit more than "kind of fun".