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“greatness is for us all”

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This past weekend, I did something that I have never done before:  I ran a 10K, or 6.213 miles, in 1 hour, 19 minutes, 48 seconds.  I am not ashamed to say that I am very proud of myself.  The fastest that I have ever done it before was 1 hour, 23 minutes, and some seconds, (I can’t remember exactly).

During the past Olympics in London, Nike ran an ad showing a, shall we say, not so lean, runner running.  He was struggling!  A lot.  But below is the voice over that was playing as he was running. I thought about this as I was running this weekend.

Source: better-faster-strongerr.tumblr.com via Shannan on Pinterest

Greatness, or what we consider great in others, actually does reside in ourselves, if we have the courage to dig deep, get in there, find it, and pull it out.  I have to tell you that running that 10K was a struggle that day!  And fortunately, the hubby and the pooch were there to encourage me along the way.

We can all do the great thing that we want to do. If we want to do it bad enough.  And there will be people who will encourage and help us, if we put it out there and go for it.

What great thing will you do this week? Tell me in the comments.

Enjoy your day…

friday’s “secret” – “…you should go do them!”

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So, I have decided that on most Fridays, I will attempt to present my not-so-secret  “Secret” to happiness. These “secrets” are usually things that you and I have known for a long time.  It just takes a moment of “epiphany” to fully understand or “get” it and sometimes several more moments or a lot more moments to actually put them into practice.

I am very interested in what you think of each week’s secret and what you will or will not do about it in the upcoming week so please, leave your thoughts below.

You have all ready read our first “secret” of happiness.  I have found this to be one of the number one ways to be happy. Hence, I am starting my blog.:) When I was smaller, I always enjoyed writing, jotting down my thoughts, etc. but I have gotten away from it as I grew older and became more serious about life.:)

So, what have you always wanted to do?  Are you going to do it? This weekend?

enjoy life…

hi! i’m shannan!

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Hi!  I’m Shannan.

Over the past six years, I have been on a rather serious and thoughtful journey to discover what I wanted out of my life and the ultimate thing that I discovered: I wanted to be happy!  Mind boggling, right?

I have thoughtfully, slowly and steadily worked on finding out what is happiness for me: what I like, what makes me happy, and everything in between. This year, I started reading “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin. See her awesome blog here. And one of things that she did to contribute to her happiness was to start a blog which I have been thinking about doing for a very long time.

One of things that I have discovered that will make you happy is doing things that you have been thinking about doing for a very, very long time. So…here is my blog.

In it, I will share my experiences, my thoughts, my insights (for what they are worth), on things that make me happy and that I think could make you happy as well.  And hopefully, the blog will make me happy, too!

enjoy life…