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Tonight is the official kick-off for the NYC (Manhattan’s) ONE Walk <\/a>which is the roll out of a whole new platform for JDRF’s Walk (the evening is called Progress to Type None). \u00a0The purpose of the event is to discuss research developments over the past year (artificial pancreas, complications, encapsulation, smart insulin, restoration, and prevention), upcoming Team Walk plans, and the new website for the walk this year (thank God)… AND guess who the opening speaker is… ME<\/strong>. \u00a0Guess who I get to introduce? Jeffrey Brewer (I just found this out 15 minutes ago… yikes).<\/p>\n

Today seems like a GREAT day to shake-off all this fear stuff that has really been nagging me since my 35th diaversary last week<\/a>\u00a0(check out the comments section of that post… yay DOC). \u00a0Let’s face it though… I’m not going to simply shake it off (although I really LOVED Scott’s comment “Yes, thirty five years is a long time \u2013 but it\u2019s just a series of individual days, and so far you\u2019ve survived every single one of them. There will be many more, and I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll survive those too.”) \u00a0So awesome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, what’s my\u00a0plan, you say?<\/span><\/p>\n

Redirecting scared energy<\/strong>. \u00a0Granted this is an experiment… but, I think this could work (read: OMG this better work). \u00a0I have a lot more to read at this event than I thought and I haven’t actually seen the powerpoint that I will speaking along to (terrible sentence structure by the way… ending with a preposition. \u00a0“Along to”… cringe worthy).<\/p>\n

But here’s the really great part… I get to speak a tiny bit about Alecia’s Stem Cells and with that, I will absolutely talk about the goals of this team. \u00a0That puts me in fighter mode. \u00a0That takes me out of worry mode. \u00a0I really need to get back to outlining that part though (geez where is this day going?).<\/p>\n

Also on a slightly humorous side note: in my introduction tonight I am supposed to state that I am our Walk’s Corporate Team CHAMPION. \u00a0When I was a kid, my brothers and I would wrestle (although this story applies to most games we played). \u00a0When someone won, they SANG (often while flexing their muscles), “I am the CHAMPION, YOU ARE THE WIMPISS BREATH”, over and over (there was a tune involved, I promise). \u00a0I still don’t even know that wimpiss breath means but it had something to do with being a wimp and it sort of sounded bad. \u00a0It is damn near impossible to think of saying that line tonight, CHAMPION, \u00a0and not flexing like a professional wrestler from the 80s and then raising my arms up and hopping up and down like Rocky (I may just do the flexing anyway).<\/p>\n

Tonight\u00a0I get to embrace my fear of public speaking yet again.<\/p>\n

I WILL\u00a0redirect my fear.<\/p>\n

I am forced to be brave.<\/p>\n

When you’re SCARED but you still do it anyway, that\u2019s BRAVE<\/em>. -Neil Gaimon<\/span><\/p>\n

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