We all have challenges that come up during our days, during our lives. We all need that extra support from family and/or friends. Your spouse can be your best advocate, cheerleader, support system, crying shoulder…all around everything. Utilize this source if available to you. If not, then other family members, or friends. People who you can count on for support for you. Just remember it goes both ways!
These are all people who can help provide advice, tips, give support, help, offer assistance, and give guidance. These are all things that you can also provide to someone else…a way that will complete the circle of helping you become a better you.
One of the greatest things I’ve learned from running is the importance of having amazing friends…and spouse! It is no different for anybody. There are times when you need to be “picked up” in regards to your mood/attitude, and times when those people around also need the same thing.
Here is just a sampling of some of the people involved in the Watertown Run Club. Many of these same people were the ones I was training with for the Twin Cities Marathon that was on Sunday Oct. 9. The motto of the run club is “we leave no one behind!” It was a great source of support for each of us. I found myself enjoying the Sunday runs more than any other run. We all had the same goal of completing and competing in the marathon, but the training runs were a time for all of us to discover who we are, and who the people we were running with were. My shirt on the back of the marathon shirt has the quotation: Success…A Journey, not a Destination! One of the things that I discovered is that we may have started out as a group of people who got together because we all like to run, but something more was developing…
…we were going to finish our training as a group of friends! Friends who developed out of running! There were struggles each of us had during those 4+ months of training for the marathon. We all had times when we needed help. A quote by past president Ronald Reagan sums is up well: “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone!” Direct hit! This applies to us…this applies to all of us!
We all need support at times, but to me, nothing is more rewarding, more amazing, than to be able to support someone else when they need it. When you do this, it comes back to you as rewards that you were not really expecting. A feeling that goes to the core of who you are, and who you want to be…to become a better you!
Sarah has been my biggest support person. I can’t tell you how good it made me feel when she was waiting at the finish line for me! (and cheering me on when I saw her at mile 17!) Because of Sarah, because of her support, assistance, guidance, advice, help, tips…love…I become better. All of us can become better, but it will take work. Work just like we have to do when we are watching our diet, trying to do more exercise, trying to take care of ourselves. Never turn your back on those people important to you. You become better, and they in turn, also become better. Amazing how this works out! Try it! Continue to work at becoming a better you! Keep moving everybody!
Dr. Dan
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