the greater interest & chance of corporates donating generously and Share & Spread the word of the challenge to friends and relatives to join/like the Facebook page – the greater width of contacts: Over the last 6 weeks I've come to value and realise the importance of adding MAGIC and should that 'doubt' return what to use to scratch it.

The fun and excitement that had been so present at the start needed igniting and it came in the form of those supporting (2 specific people) and focusing on: lifting my head in each run to embrace the beautiful scenery, the importance of each landmark, to involve all those following and supporting.Īs if by 'magic' I was touched by 2 people over the last 6 weeks, a woman of pentioning age with limited resource insisted on donating and a 84 year old man who had heard about this challenge in February, saved up and came to visit to make his large donation. I use magic as a phrase to describe the spark to fuel motivation and drive to influence my attitude.

Like all itches they can start from all sorts of things, for me it was almost straight after halfway through this challenge when an innocent thought popped into my head, “will the effort and sacrifice of this challenge be equal or worth the donation given?” which became over time “is it worth it?” Again like almost all itches they are resolved by either the use of an object or person, with doubt it has been same in this case the scratch was an injection of a little magic. The very fact that I'm ignoring an itch means I'm thinking about it until it wears me down. I've realised through all my planning and I have brushed aside a factor that I passed off as not being important or easily be able to handle – doubt.ĭoubt to me has been an itch that is difficult to scratch, an itch of the mind which like all itches starts off very faint and when ignoring it only helps make it grow. However true this is, I found the halfway point the hardest time to stick to the path and plans set out. As I've mentioned before, I have always created steps to break up and make a path of bit sized pieces that when put together become your goals, aims and dreams. I've realised it is easy to start something, plan it out and believe you can motivate yourself to finish it – but it is even harder to actually see it through.

It is fair to say the enormity of the challenge, the commitment and drive needed to finish it has become very apparent to me as I passed halfway. I'm 2/3rds through my challenge to run 10k everyday for a year in aid of cancer research.

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