Watching the Great North Run on TV this morning got me thinking about challenges. Firstly I should start by saying I was meant to be running this year but had to pull out so it is with sadness and inspiration that I watch this today. My thoughts then turned to why I started wanting to take part in GNR in the first place.
The challenge of developing the sales at V8Media is well just that a challenge it is something I love and am passionate about. However there is a great risk with me being the workaholic that I am to spend far too much time just working and forgetting that occasionally I need to have other interests! We always set goals in business both company and personal ones, however I never used to set personal goals.
I got round this problem a few years ago by realising that I may be somewhat competitive in nature and actually I always need pressure and a challenge to thrive. So I decided as a past time I would start setting new challenges/goals. My first one was to run the Great North Run in 2007 Sounds good in principle right? Wrong I had never liked or had the desire to run in my life! I watched the GNR for the first time in 2006 and I was reminded of home (Sunderland) and also that I used to watch it all the time as a little girl. So that was it my mind was set I going to run it no matter what. I trained for a year, I remember the first run I did it was 10 minutes long and only round the block, I felt like I'd been kicked by a horse and couldn't breath! Was I mad yes but determined definitely. I get the goal and achieved it and never looked back. Running on the big day in 2007 was one of the most inspiring things I have done, the people I met, the desire to finish, the emotion of the knowing 12 months of training had paid off and knowing you were doing something worthwhile for charity (that year monies raised was for Shelter).
So in 2008 I did again this running for Leukemia Care. So sitting here watching this year GNR knowing that I should running has made me think. What challenge should I set next? I will be running the GNR next year anyway so I have 12 months to select a charity to support and training. This time next year I will be on the starting line full of inspiration, emotion and the desire to complete my goal!
I also think another bigger challenge is on the horizon so thinking caps on for the next personal goal.
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