On our 17-hour journey Friday (after one canceled flight and a rebook on a flight 8 hours later), I caught up on my magazines. I read one of those great magazine profiles (this one in “Women’s Running”) that inspires you and makes you think, “I could do something like that, too!” The story was about Tracy Wirtanen, a woman whose son was recently diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis, a tumor disease that impacts one in every 3,000 children. In the short time that has passed since the diagnosis, Tracy has run the Boston Marathon and Race Across America to raise awareness and funds for research. She also began The Littlest Tumor Foundation, to help families dealing with the disease, and she organizes annual races and started a running team, too — all for the cause. It’s hard to wrap this story up with something that doesn’t sound trite — but it does shows what focused passion can get you.
If you have something you’ve been mulling over and wondering how you could ever get from point A to point B with it, think about spending just 10 minutes today thinking about it, researching it, jotting down a note or two, etc.
My podcast interview last week with Christine Louise Hohlbaum, author of “The Power of Slow”, is up on her website now under the July 2nd post. If you take time to listen to it, make sure to get comfortable — seems I need about 10 minutes just to answer a single question! Better make my 10-minute goals for next month to be more succinct!