I woke up this morning like most of you probably did; thinking where do I start? If you are buried in snow like most of us on the east coast then you were wondering where and how to start digging yourself out. If you were in Florida, California or somewhere without snow then you probably asked yourself the same question but about something else.

We always want to know where and how to start, will we ever be able to finish, how difficult will it be, will we be laughed at etc. It’s a broken record at this point but we need to just get up and do it. Whatever it might be.

People asked me “where will you start?”. They said I should think about paying people because it’s impossible to single handedly shovel 2 feet of snow alone. “It can’t be done”, they said. I even doubted myself. I came up with a million excuses - my bad shoulder, the cold, the amount of snow that’s out there, the fact that I have a garden shovel that’s half of the size of a real snow shovel. Excuses that upon further review made no sense. You don’t even use a shoulder to shovel; it’s more so bicep and wrist. Yes having a small shovel would make it harder but you’re not always going to have the proper resources or help to achieve your goals. Should that stop you? No.

I put aside the doubt and went out there. Yes it was difficult. Yes I slipped once or twice. But the more I went the more my body adjusted. I learned strategies that made it easier and faster. Soon I even began to enjoy the shoveling. Two hours later, I looked up and I could see the driveway and walkway again. It wasn’t pretty, but I got it done.

In life, you can either get up and shovel or it sit back and watch those who have clear driveways.

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