Decide and Do It!

Greetings!  I never formally matriculated at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, GA. Though, over the years I have attended one cohort class and taught a session of a religion class. Recently Shannan and I spent a picture perfect weekend in Athens. We shopped at the Athens Farmers Market, visited the Georgia Museum of Art on the UGA campus, took a couple of tours at others local institutions and spent an hour and a half hiking through the Sandy Creek Nature Preserve.

Saturday morning I enjoyed a very nice run around the campus. While out in the early morning I reminisced back some twenty-six years ago to my very first visit to UGA. Back then I was overwhelmed by the size of the school, which has grown by great bounds in the last quarter century. Nonetheless, it was the first visit that really made me believe I should go to college and that it was a possibility.  I was 21 years old at the time and had never really given thought to college. By the fall of that year I was enrolled and started the wonderful journey of lifelong learning.

It was that same year that I first started running. It would be some years later I got it into my head I could run every day for a month. That was eighteen years ago. This decide and do it mode of operation has come to be my standard.

Although we had a marvelous trip, I did not have another revelation or epiphany during this visit to Athens.

Decide. Commit. Succeed. Run.

Tom