Starting the Journey

Who knows that the hardest part of doing something is actually starting it? Finding the right time, making it fit within your routine, depending of the weather, finances, work, I could go on.
 
We all have dreams, we all want to aspire to something else in our lives and if you don’t have dreams I feel sorry for you to be quite honest. Someone told me this week that you will always find time for the things you want to do, but no one can seem to find the time for something hard. Unfortunately when I comes to dreams we need to work hard and sometimes the result is so far away when you start you don’t see the progress because your only moving slowly. If you put it on a map it looks like your not moving at all. A good way to look at it is a clock without a second hand. You stare at it for 30 seconds or so chances are you wont see it work but you glance at it a few times a day you know its actually doing something.
 
I’ll be honest I felt that this morning. I felt so dishearten about the choices I made and I honestly was questioning if I have done the right thing when it came to setting up “Chat 4 Cure”.  A little bit of a background is that in May this year I decided to resign my well paying job with a company car to follow my dream of creating an easier way to access support for young people battling through cancer in Albury/Wodonga & beyond. I wanted to give myself 12 months of having “a crack” at my dream. It was a conversation I had with my wife telling her what I wanted to do what I knew I could do and what I wish I had when I was going through cancer. She agreed for me to have 12 months off work to get this up and running and its been tough financially for us there is no doubt. Now nearly 6 months down the track I was to focused on my end goal it looked like I haven’t achieved anything at all but it was until I started to look at the things we have achieved with Chat 4 Cure and the people we have reached and the stories of people who’s mind sets have changed about cancer.
 
So I really wanted to encourage you today if you feel like I did this morning please report all the small victories and tick them off as you go so when you get stuck you can look back. I’m also a huge believer in doing something everyday towards your goal and in a year you would have done 365 things towards your goal. If you have find the time to watch 5 seasons of a TV show on Netflix you have the time.  
 
I’ve still got a long way to go for My team & I to complete the goals of Chat 4 Cure but I know we are getting closer each day. If your going through treatment at the moment or battling through cancer I encourage you to know every treatment you do is a treatment you will never have to do again. I understand It sucks and it feels like you will never get better but I promise once treatment is over it gets better never give up.
 
If you have been touched by Chat 4 Cure in anyway please don’t be afraid to send me an e-mail and let me know at: [email protected] We would love to hear from you.