{"id":191,"date":"2011-08-28T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2011-08-28T11:17:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:17:55","slug":"chasing-your-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Chasing your dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSelf-confidence is the surest way of obtaining what you want. If you know in your own heart you are going to be something, you will be it. Do not permit your mind to think otherwise. It is fatal.\u201d \u00a0\u2500 George Patton<\/em><\/p>\n

What is it that you haven\u2019t done, that you always wanted to do?\u00a0 Or is there something that you used to do and enjoyed doing that you no longer do because you: are too old, not in good enough shape, don\u2019t have the time or the money to do or are afraid of looking foolish?<\/p>\n

I am a firm believer in two things: evaluating where you are and reinvention. As we move through life we all make decisions that direct our path. Some are trivial and some alter it completely. It is easy as time passes to tell ourselves that we have let something slip beyond our reach. I have wanted to be a writer since I was a teenager. I have talked about (and no doubt bored friends and family!) writing a book for years. I always let something get in the way. Last winter with some help from my best friend, who also happens to be my husband, I realized that the time to do it was now.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I had been working on MacCullough\u2019s Women <\/strong>for a number of years but it still needed polishing to finish it. And it was WORK; getting up every<\/span> morning, being in the chair (before reading email, or Facebook) by six and writing until seven thirty when I start\u00a0 my day job.\u00a0 Initially, this was hard. I am a \u201cdawdler\u201d by nature. My dad used to call me \u201cThe Gonna Girl\u201d as in \u201cI\u2019m gonna do it.\u201d After a few weeks it became second nature.\u00a0 This last month, getting MacCullough\u2019s Women<\/strong> out the door, has been crazy and I have not been able to write. I find that I miss it. The point is that I wanted to write and publish a book and now I have rather than relegating that dream to the \u201cI wish I had done that but\u2026\u201d pile that it is so easy to build as we live our lives.<\/p>\n

\"Winning<\/a>
Kath winning the bike contest (July 1958)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This got me thinking. Was there something that I wanted to do that I hadn\u2019t done or no longer did because\u2026Riding my bike immediately came to mind. I am fortunate to live in a pleasant neighborhood without a lot of traffic. I decided to do what I am calling social bike riding. It is easier to explain what this is NOT. It does not involve bright colored spandex with writing up the side, bike clips, special shoes, anything with the letters ATHON at the end. Unfortunately it does involve a red helmet because I think it is wrong to give a bad example to the little kids I pass and because I need all the protection I can get. I remember with longing the days of flying down the hill without a helmet.<\/p>\n

I have a two mile loop that I\u00a0ride every morning. I confess that I spend at least five minutes in the empty parking lot of the neighboring temple practicing because it has been a long time since I rode a bike. Yes, I know that saying \u201cIt\u2019s just like riding a bike.\u201d The truth is that I was never very good at riding a bike. But I am doing it again and loving it.\u00a0 So what is it that you still want to do? Or to do once again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSelf-confidence is the surest way of obtaining what you want. If you know in your own heart you are going to be something, you will be it. Do not permit your mind to think otherwise. It is fatal.\u201d \u00a0\u2500 George Patton What is it that you haven\u2019t done, that you always wanted to do?\u00a0 Or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathleenferrari.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}