What Step Are You On?

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To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
~ Chinese Proverb

I have to admit that I’ve been moping around a bit lately, stuck on the “I can’t do it” step, maybe even sliding down to the “I won’t do it” step a bit. My foot has not been happy and I’m feeling every single ounce of my dissertation weight. But a ballerina can only drag about soon long, it’s not in our nature to be quitters. I want to do it. How do I do it? Well, I make good choices about food and drink lots of water, get plenty of exercise, and enjoy all things ballet!!! I’ll try to do it until I can do it because I will do it!!! How about you?!

Mottos and Stuff

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“Work until you can’t work any more. Then work harder.”

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There is a certain PhD website that will go unnamed but I’ve been a member for a long time and there, my friends, is my tag line. Work until you can’t work anymore. Then work harder. I believe that and more importantly I lived that. I hold fast as truth that we cannot always run full speed through life, that we require periods of rest and recuperation. But I see no reason to just sit around through life!

I see my tagline every day as I am on the site every day but this morning it caused me to pause a moment. I ran full-out to finish my dissertation and now I am in a period of recuperation from that race.  In May, I was able to start going back to ballet class and as you recall, all went well… for a couple of weeks. Then my foot started to give me problems. Since then I’ve been back and forth to classes in spurts and starts. The foot creating issues where I don’t want them and making me question once again if my role in ballet is in a seat in the audience. It has been determined that I have not damaged it further but that my foot, like the rest of my body, has gotten weak and if you remember, I had weak foot muscles to begin with.

Starting last week I began to get up at 0530 in the morning to work out before heading off to my day job so that I can get my physio-training in each day and I repeat a short version of it in the evening after ballet class. Even so, I’ve been feeling very discouraged as of late because the progress as I see it is minimal. But today I reminded myself – work until you can’t work any more… and then work harder. I am listening to my body and making sure to watch for signs of injury but I’m not backing off of challenges because therein comes the change.

I have struggled through challenges before and I will struggle through challenges again. The question isn’t can I work harder but will I work harder? And the answer is simple, yes. I will work until I can’t work anymore and then I will work even harder because I want to. I want to.

~Let’s dance.