Inner Peace

I haven't much time but I wanted to get a post in this morning before my busy and long day. I got about a nine hour workday plus a four hour drive ahead of me. I really am looking forward to it.

I read a quote this morning "Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived"

I love this quote because it really encompasses two of the things that I am working on right now. Running and finding inner peace. I love running because when I am out there running it is only me. I am not one of these people that want to run with a group, not because I am anti-social but because I enjoy my alone time. I am at peace with everything when I am running. It seems weird that I could go run seven miles and be at peace but I am. Nothing else matters for that time that I am running, everything is about what I want it to be about. It's my 'happy place' so to speak.

I am working on finding inner peace in life. I think I have to go through life thinking like I do when I run. I have to not sweat the small stuff, focus on what really matters and try to control the only things I can. When I run I can control my pace, my route and my thoughts that is really about it. The rest just happens, stuff like the weather, the traffic and other things I just can't control but I don't worry about it.

There are so many things in my life that I try to control but can't because they just are what they are. There are so many things I worry about that there is nothing I can do about them, so then why worry about it. I am working on letting things be that I can't control. I am starting to think to myself, 'is there anything I can do about it' or 'does it need to be fixed?' There are so many things I think should be different or changed that in reality don't need be changed. There are things that I think are 'problems' that really aren't problem but in fact my be opportunities.

Yesterday I went running up here in Gallup NM at 5:30 in the morning. It was about 40 degrees and I had planned a three mile route near the hotel. As I went running it was cold and half-way through my route there was a train passing through the middle of town. I had to quickly improvise a route which ordinarily would throw me for a huge loop. I was I to know how many miles I was at? I didn't worry about it. I went another way just running and figured the rest out later. I was at peace while I was running. What if I could run through life the same way? When I became faced with obstacles instead of freaking out about, what if I just kept running? What if I kept doing what I was meant to do, what I wanted to do?

My goal is to live a life of inner peace. To not let the past pull me down, to not let the uncertain future throw me off, but to just live my life the way I want to live and the way I was meant to live.