Well hello all those wonderful people across the world, from Alaska, Bahrain, China to South Africa to Venezuela and of course Europe and my UK Peeps.
My Friends and Colleagues have been brilliant helping me raise a staggering £1362.50 on my Virgin Money Giving. I am so so humbled and thankful. If you have a spare moment and a few coins, please log on and donate to my worthy causes.
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/JanetWillicott-160mile-desert-run
My crowdfunder is not going that well - however have to say I have £190 raised there so far so please any corporate bodies, donate and I will raise your flags.
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/janets160miledesertchallenge
With 6 days to go - I have managed to raise £1552.50, however not only that I have been provisionally given a donation from The Corey's Mill Lions Women's Club - http://www.hertfordshire.com/pages/entries/show-entry.asp?id=8036
however even more good news - BBC Radio have just phoned and I will be live on air on Monday the 17th March fro 2:15pm with Nick Coffer to do even more promoting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01sjqz3
Its truly a really good day, slowly my hard work is paying off, I cant thank my friends, colleagues, acquaintances enough. A massive thanks has to go to Gerry Gould for all her help and volunteering friends to help me with my PR work. Gerry you are a lady in a million a whole chocolate cake is coming your way.
When its just me, myself and I doing a PR and fundraising campaign and training and looking after a complex needs child, the pressure is immense, let alone University work, however I can and will do what I can do to help this world we live in.
With 6 days to go, my friends are starting to ask me how I am feeling........ I do not have definitive answer...... its a mixed bag and a plethora of emotion rushing through me. Excited, nervous, anxious, happy, a dream come true, worried, can I do it, will I do it...... its on the scale of having a baby for the first time. For all my male readers, I have no other comparison other than to describe it as having a baby; that total mixture of love, worry and anxiety and excitement, that feeling of being in love, that feeling of knowing its going to be hard, but equally amazingly out of this world.
I can't wait...... however there is a sadness, well two "sadnesses" if I can call it that, missing my child, that dull ache that I know I will have, and that ache I know will come when the going gets tough, I know I am going to cry and I know I will laugh, however missing my child will be a hard one, but in doing this I will be showing him and the world that nothing is ever impossible. My other sadess, as previously discussed in my FEAR post, what happens next, what happens when I come back and I have accomplished my dream of so many many years...... I will use both "sadnesses" to stand and face the world even stronger and more steadfast then ever before knowing that I have managed to raise awareness to two great causes - giving children a voice and given children hope and knowing that even the most basic of life's wills is and will be met in the form of water.
People have met me in the street and have asked - I want to do something but don't know what to do..... I say, what ever your dream is or what ever you want to accomplish and or challenge you want to achieve - just do it - start off small and gather momentum or just dive in deep.
Life is about living and doing and not waiting for that 'moment' - the right time never comes..... it never does, life is about the now and about taking it, doing and saying....be proactive, some say "I can't because I have to be fit or I can't because I have to loose weight, or I can't because I need to be more focused etc" the truth is you have to start some where..... choose to be happy and use your emotions for the betterment of self - a really good friend who inspires me was in the same place, until one day he set up a business and its now growing and growing - is exactly what I have just mentioned above - its about #mindset and #mindset alone - change your #mindset and everything will flow.
If you have the time check out Paul Harrison's website on how to bring change management to your lives here it is: http://www.mobiv8.com/ - "The Last Weight Loss Program You Will Ever Need"
Some great news before I blog off - have just received another £20's I am so so so so happy.
With love and a changed #mindset and as always - #blisterfreewishes
Jani
#UltraMarathonVirgin
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