Uphill battles, and averting "Meta"

When I last posted, I said I wanted to start blogging daily. I'm sure it'll take a while before that truly becomes a habit, but ya gotta start somewhere. and since I tend to have a lot of false starts before I actually start, I gotta start my false-starts somewhere too.

A couple weeks ago I started running in the employee fitness center at Rayovac (where I'm employed), I'm a couch potato in general, and I'm very out of shape, so I go back and forth between running and quick walking, pushing myself to run longer and faster every visit. When I'm on the treadmill I have often listened to music or audiobooks, and I'll focus on these things when I'm doing the running portion especially. Today I forgot my headphones. I had gone out to my car to swap my boots for running shoes, when the realization struck me that I had no means of distracting myself from the slowly ticking seconds. One other time I'd ran without them, and every step was miserable. I was too aware of my running, of my exhaustion. I was overly aware that I had just finished working a draining eight hour shift spent entirely on my feet. I nearly just called it a day and went home. Instead, I set my jaw, and ran anyway. There will always be things to distract us from our goals. Loosing weight, getting in shape, these things will never be easy (hence the failure of every easy diet and simple weight-loss pill/drink/earmuffs), so when a new difficulty comes along, we can't let ourselves get frustrated. Part of us thinks "I'm already fighting an uphill battle, it's not fair that I have to face _____ too!" (for me that blank would have be filled with "focus"). Instead, we have to remember that we chose to fight an uphill battle, rather than accept the alternative. the missing headphones of problems, changes nothing.
Two things relate this to writing, first off, Becoming an author is another uphill battle, and I'm bound to run into some problems I didn't expect, or I hoped to avoid. When they surface, I'll have to remember, that I was prepared to face them in order to obtain my goal.
Secondly, while running in silence, I was able to distract myself with a new book I'm working on, and I feel like I came up with some neat advances, including character backgrounds, and world possibilities  that could be explored in a sequel, without ruining the stand alone nature of the initial book. so Yay!

I was going to share a "daily to do list" I wrote up this morning, but I feel like I've occupied a sufficient amount of both our days with this post already. A hint tho, this blog was on the to do list (whoa, Meta! j/k) xD