Day 6...Along the waterfront

March 19, 2008
Weight: ???
Walk: About 3 miles along Tampa Bay – 47’28”
Location: Tampa, FL

It is another spectacular day in Tampa. I decided to take a morning walk today because the rest of the day is full of meetings and I’m not sure what time I’ll get back this evening. I’m glad I went out because it is beautiful. They have a very nice walkway along the water here and I have now explored it pretty well. Today I decided to check out the ship that I can see across the Bay out of my window. It is an old pirate ship that is the basis of an annual festival here…yes, they celebrate piracy! Very interesting…the only thing that I could think of is how much my kids would love to be here for that!

I did not have any deep thoughts during today’s walk. I am feeling pretty good and my anxiety has subsided a bit. I am really making a conscious effort to remember that yesterday is gone, tomorrow never comes, today is here…get busy! This makes complete sense to me and is the philosophy I can get behind. It really means just making the most of every day and if you are caught up in yesterday or tomorrow you might miss it. It gets me back to growing spiritually and having enough faith to let go of the past AND the future and focus on doing the next right thing.

Towards the end of my walk I started thinking about discipline and how having this walk and writing each day has been a great exercise both mentally and physically. This made me think about what other ways that I may be able to incorporate more discipline in my life to help me improve with my work, my relationships and my spirituality. This is something that I think I have though about, but have not really taken the time to fully develop (which is one of my great flaws). I need to remember that thoughts without action are the same as inaction. Now that I’m making the effort to take time out each day to walk and think and actually pay attention to my thoughts I hope that I will start to be more active and put my good thoughts into action and dismiss the negative thoughts. I know that this is going to take practice and there will be bumps in the road and things are often not going to end up as I had invisioned, but that is what faith is all about. If I have faith and believe that my actions are working for God’s will and not mine then I can be comfortable with the results no matter what the outcome.

Now, get busy!