A Gentle Nudge

So I started this daily blog and commitment to walk on the beach every day and you see how well that's worked out for me. First I ran into technical difficulties with internet, inability to upload. Then I began to reevaluate my method of blogging: Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress... Then Ron Burgundy came to town and the movie crew invaded my beach. Then it rained...and rained...and rained some more.

Yeah...so I stopped going to the beach and I stopped writing blog entries too. I've let being busy with work become my excuse. Lame. 

Tonight, I got to spend some time with Carrie, a woman I consider to be intelligent, creative, fun, and just plain cool. She is part-owner of Vixen Vodka, a new and exciting brand that employs the idea of empowering and celebrating women to market their product. I think it's brilliant and am doing whatever I can to help spread the Vixen gospel. Last time Carrie was in town she said that reading this blog inspired her to get out and walk on the beach, despite damp and chilly weather. If I could do it, so could she...no excuses. 

Carrie told me tonight that while she was out on the beach today it had occurred to her that she hadn't seen me posting my daily blog. I nodded guiltily and told her about these ridiculously minor things that had so easily thrown me off my track. I had started the blog with the premise of no excuses but here I am now making them. Ugh! I thanked her for the guilt trip that would prod me into resuming the blog. She laughed and told me that it wasn't a guilt trip, that she was being a mother hen and just giving me a little nudge.

Thank you, Carrie, for the nudge. Tonight I write. Tomorrow I will take my coffee and enjoy a morning walk on the beach. I am thankful for friends who support and encourage and refuse to accept the silly excuses I make to myself. People who want you to be the best that you can be and to do the best that you can do are the very best people of all.