We're All Dying. Figure It Out.
Here’s what happened yesterday. I wrote a Lane 8 blog post. Been doing that everyday for the past year.
Plus, there was You Tube video to illustrate what a slow and steady approach to diet and exercise can do.
The key to slow and steady is not quitting.
Ever.
One-third who read and watched were inspired.
One-third could really care less one way or the other.
And one-third said to themselves, “Showoff“.
Sad, but true.
After reading yesterday’s Lane 8 blog post, did you think long and hard about your health?
Let me guess, “No.”
What motivates you at work? At home?
What demotivates you at work? At home?
You can use your answers to figure it out. And that’s the bottom line isn’t it?
Figure it out!
No one is going to hold your hand. You are an adult, fully and completely responsible for your health.
Period.
Late yesterday, I was on the phone with a great friend. We spoke for nearly 30 minutes about really significant, life “stuff”. He’s a great listener, and he allows me to verbalize dreams, goals.
I dream of you being healthier than you are now. And doing whatever it takes to be your catalyst for positive change.
Almost 51, I practice what I preach. Take a look. This was two days ago. How many 51 year olds can do this?
What's It Going To Take?
How often to you consciously focus on your health?
Alright, let me ask it this way. How often do you think about work? About all the things that need to be done. About whether or not you are doing a good job or a great job?
How often?
Do you see where this is going?
Why is diet and exercise any different than work?
If you had a few rare moments where the daily pressure and stress weren’t about to crush you, and you could think calmly and intelligently about your health, what would you think about?
What would those thoughts prompt you to do?
The Master’s Track & Field National Indoor Championships conclude today at the Reggie Lewis Center, in Boston. About 850 Master’s athletes, aged 30 – 90+ have been running, jumping and throwing their way to better health.
It takes passion, inspiration and motivation to continue to remain active and healthy, well into our midlife and senior years. How do they do it?
Well, for starters, they’ve got soul:
Maybe your impossible goal is plain and simple. Once you get healthier, stay there for the rest of your life.
Frozen, Complacent Souls?
We wake up.
We do our morning routine.
We go to work.
We come home.
We do our evening routine.
We go to bed.
When does healthy eating and adequate exercise hit our radar screen?
Curious Answer
Sitting here on the floor, waiting for Quest Diagnostics to open. Kinda like camping out for Springsteen concert tickets. Lots of people trying to get in.
Do you get an annual physical?
Do you like getting your blood drawn?
Do you like knowing the truth?
The guy in front of me comes every three months, to establish which cholesterol medicine works best.
Told him I wish I could come every three months.
He looked surprised.
Life is funny sometimes.
Not knowing your health stats is not.
Track & Field?
Remember James Brown, American singer and nicknamed “The Godfather of Soul”?
His most popular song, “I Feel Good”, has been used repeatedly through history to summarize how we feel when good things happen in our lives.
Hope you get to use this “feel good anthem” today.
Looks like I’m going to try for a local Central Florida 5k run on April 10 – the Windermere Run Among the Lakes 5k.
Foot pain, plantar fasciitis, is still a challenge, but it does appear to be (dreadfully slowly) getting better.
“I feel good!”
Motivation Isn't Invisible
A million things probably.
What motivates you?
What many people waste time doing is focusing on what doesn’t motivate them. Ya with me?
It’s the complete opposite of where people should spend their “emotional labor”.
Here’s an overlooked tip: One of the best ways to get and stay motivated is to find a way to alleviate, or eliminate, those things that demotivate.
Good luck today.
To celebrate Roger Bannister’s birthday, here’s a You Tube Video USATF sent through the USATF Facebook Fan page:
Monkeys Love Fresh Fruit
We say we care, but we don’t really mean it.
If we cared, we’d figure out a way.
While I’m talking about our health, this really applies to everything.
Oh no, looks like I have a lot of work to do.