We’re more than half way to the finish line on Promise to Remember Me 2008, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to sit back. In fact, anyone who has run a marathon or watched a basketball game (and who hasn’t been watching basketball these past weeks!) knows, it’s the effort you put into the last mile or the last two minutes that really shows what you are made of.
With just weeks left in PRMC, we all need to dig deep and find that extra surge of energy to catapult us across the finish line as winners: winners who not not only made 400 In-District Congressional meetings happen, but who left a mark that led to the renewal of our Special Diabetes Funding.
Thankfully, we’ve all trained well and are ready for our late-game push. For those of who attended Government Day, you know the vital importance of finding our way across the finish line. For those of you who have attending phone call trainings, read the weekly email blasts or spoken with your chapters about this, you too understand why we have to dig deep.
So now it’s time to do it. If you’ve been making calls and working on meetings all year, bravo for you, and we know you can find that extra boost of adrenalin to make this happen. Review what you’ve done and look at what you can try for again. Like the quality athlete who has hit a few three pointers but missed some others, embrace your confidence and go at one again. Call the office that have put you off; explain that more than half of Congress had made visits happen; their office needs to as well.
If you’ve been on the bench for this, we’re ready to call you in.
Fresh voices are more than welcome, and it’s not too late to be part of the winning team. If you need advice, ask us. If you know the drill and are ready to step in, just let us know and we’re happy to have you on the team.
Think of all the great victories you’ve seen in your life: really, almost all of them come down to the wire. Heartbreak Hill at the Boston Marathon. Overtime in the NCAA. Shoot outs in the NHL. It’s the stuff great wins are made of. Let’s do the same here and give it all we have to make Promise to Remember Me 2008 a recordbreaker, a success and most of all, a victory in our race toward a cure for Type 1 Diabetes.
Best of luck!
Tom and Lorraine