Finding your Running Purpose is actually easy

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Running with a purpose took me a long time to accomplish. I’m constantly coming back to it, and for a very long time I thought it was difficult to achieve. Yet, finding your running purpose is actually easy.

 

My Running Diary: March 26, 2019

Having purpose makes everything in life easier and more fun. Finding our running purpose is simpler than I realized and actually easy. It’s funny, because it took me a very long time to find my purpose. I was in my own way and overthinking my running. There were moments when I’d found it, but didn’t really have it. Then I’d lose it and start searching again. Finally, I had a mini epiphany. Learn about changes in other aspects of your life by clicking here and answering a few simple questions.

For me, the running purpose that I was always striving for was to simply just run with no strings attached. To this day I still embrace this purpose. From the moment I started running, I wanted nothing more than to just run. I loved watching other people run effortlessly and I knew that I could be that person as well.

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There were moments on my journey when I had my purpose. I would train every summer for field hockey and I’d run every morning. By the end of the summer, running became effortless. Once I got a taste of doing that, I tried to recreate it. This proved much harder than I ever imagined. It was definitely easy for a sport, but I was too hard on myself otherwise.

I ran into problems when I needed to recreate my running purpose on my own. Something would derail my process. I knew my purpose and was able to achieve it in spurts, but then it would be gone again. There were long periods of time when I’d have it. I made the time for running in life, so my purpose was easy to attain. Making it permanent required a different kind of change.

 

 

Until I made a mental shift, there were always moments when I let the things in my life get in the way of running. It took me a long time to overcome this. I’ve since realized that this was me standing in my own way of achieving what I wanted. If I didn’t separate my running from everything else, then I’d always be trying to achieve my purpose.

The shift came for me when I committed to running outside. I decided that no matter what, I would run outside until it became effortless. The switch was flipped in my head and everything else fell into place. I stuck to that goal and achieved it. That feeling when I run was what I always wanted. Now I have it. Its part of who I am.

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Sometimes there are moments when I have to hold on tight to my purpose. I ran throughout my pregnancy and it was tough. It was especially tough after, but I knew that no matter what, I’d get back to where I’d been. I did and continue on to this day.

No matter what happens in my life, I always hold on to my running purpose. That’s how I know I have one that is all mine. No matter what happens in my life, my purpose keeps me running!

 

Meet our Writer:

Mandi Mellen is Lead Editor, Staff Writer, and Featured Host at BuzzChomp. She’s an Actress, Writer, Director and Producer. Get lost in her Youtube comedy channel PillowTalk TV. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

 

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