The Notebook - Michele Normand

Honestly I can't believe I'm writing another blog, tonight, the night before our big conditioning day! This is my third one today.  What is happening to me???  Well can tell you what has happened. As I have been putting the final pages of my notebook together and looking back at the past year I reread my first blog titled "Who am I? One thing I'm not is a blogger".  I giggled as I read it.  Then I asked myself, "how many blogs have I done this year?" and I counted 24, this one makes 25!  I found that amazing for me. Ummm...maybe I am a blogger after all.  Then I wondered what else I have become in this last year.  Here is what I came up with.  I'm a blogger, a presenter, a get up in front of the camera and make a video maker, I'm an open forms creator, a brick breaker, more confident, a 5 mile runner, an almost juggler, a terrain race runner, a work in progress teacher, I'm a virtual trainer, a risk taker, I'm stronger mentally and physically, I am a support system, a goal maker, a student, I am cared about, trusted, looked up to, I am determined, a audio book listener and a conflict handler.  I have the GRIT to preserve.  I have the burning desire required to be a black belt.  If I am given that honor I will never forget what it represents, the road I have taken to get there, what I have become and those that were there with me along that journey.

Michele Normand
1st degree black belt canidate

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  1. Lia London, authorNovember 10, 2019 at 3:43 PM

    You left out the bit about being an angel, but yes. Yes, to all of this!!

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