Author Unknown

I am your constant companion,

I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.

I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.

I am your command.

Half of the tasks that you do you might just as well

turn over to me and I will do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed,

you must merely be firm with me.

Show me exactly how you want something done;

after a few lessons I will do it automatically.

I am the servant of all great people and

alas of all failures as well.

Those who are great I have made great,

those who are failures I have made failures.

I am not a machine, but I work with all the precision

of a machine, plus the intelligence of a person.

Now you may run me for profit or

you may run me for ruin.

It makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me,

and I will lay the world at your feet.

Be easy with me and I will destroy you.

Who am I? I am called Habit.

I just read this in Financial Peace, by Dave Ramsey.

Very profound!

Iron Girl

Before...During...After... I ran the Iron Girl 5K, yesterday! It was so fun and I was so proud of myself for doing it and achieving my goal of running the entire thing! Granted, I was running so slow there were little 6 year old girls and walkers passing me, but I didn't care. I did what I had to to keep on running! This was the 3rd race/run I've ever done, but the first one I've done by myself. Kim and some of her friends that were planning on doing it were not able to, at the last minute. I had already registered and I really wanted to do it, anyway. It took quite a bit of planning... Bryan had to work, Gavin had his first baseball game, and Trevor had his first soccer game! Thankfully, I was able to recruit the help of my mom and my in-laws. My mom drove me down there, held my stuff, and cheered me on. (I told her that if she didn't go with me, I wasn't going to do it! Ha!) Linda spent the night Friday night, in order to be with the kids in the early morning, and John took Gavin to his baseball game! The last piece of the puzzle is that I was able to hook up with Susie and her friends, so I didn't feel quite so alone. It was a great (exhausting) day! Thank you to everyone who made this day possible for me!