Success!

I was searching for how to train for a Triathlon and came across these encouraging words on beginnertriathlete.com:

SUCCESSFUL ACTION IS CUMULATIVE IN RESULTS!!!
'Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Many people take the first step and then stop. Yet, with every additional step you take, you enhance immensely the value of your first step.
All masters of success are chiefly distinguished by their power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession is the rule of life. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
Do not despise the bottom rings in your ascent to greatness. '

I thought this was so true, not just for starting out training for a triathlon, but also relates to pretty much everything in life - health, talents, the gospel, our testimonies. It all starts with one small step, and continues in small steps. The important things in life happen so slowly you don't even notice it - like a growing plant. We want it now, like fast food, but the good things take time and patience and many, many, many small steps.

I apparently need more than 12 weeks, oops. Well, I'm giving it a try anyway. It's July 30th, 2011 at Blue Lake Park, for anyone brave (or crazy) enough to join me. I am also doing a program called "Take Shape for Life" and am really enjoying the process of creating optimal health for myself, and brining my family along with me too. Life is good.