I don't want to go through the motions......

"........I don't want to spend my whole life asking, what if I had given everything, instead of going through the motions........."

So today I had my last fit club at Schmucker Middle School...I had to cancel on the kids for the next couple of months until we can get another trainer to cover ALL of the stuff we have going on at the gym! I will tell you that was one of the hardest things I had to do was tell my kids that I wouldn't be able to be there for a couple of months. You should have seen the looks on their faces. I didn't realize the impact I had made on these children until I was steps out of the front door and one of the little girls wrapped her arms around my body and said "Thank you so much Ms. Carole, I am going to miss you!"

You know some days I just feel like parts of me are going through the motions to get to the next day. And then something like this stops me dead in my tracks! It makes me think deeply about the impact I have on people's lives. Big people's, little people's, and all the people's in between! I didn't even know it (or take the time to notice) that this little girl had grown attached to me. She looked up to me. She respected me. That made me feel like a "SUPER STAR!" So, what am I going to do about this you ask?

I am going to live each and every day as if it were my last. I am going to make every minute of my life count. I am going to work with my eyes wide open....ready and willing to change lives at every turn in the road! I really thought I was doing this already, but somewhere along the line a day here and there I let myself hit the "going through the motions mode" and that's not where I want to be!

A really good friend of mine told me one time to listen to the song "Motions" by Matthew West - I highly recommend it to anyone who is ready to make life count. Each and every moment of every day!

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