Be A Role Model, That's How!
It would seem that weight loss is impossible.
I guess that’s why so many people give up trying to maintain a healthy weight.
The benefits to maintaining a healthy weight are staggering.
Yet we usually give up.
DON’T!
Maybe we should pray for a reason not to.
Today is the healthiest you will ever be, unless you start doing something proactive.
You are going downhill every day you aren’t fighting it.
Perhaps it’s the greatest victory we could ever hope to win – the one over ourselves.
You will be in my thoughts and prayers today.
Hard work.
Period.
End of story.
It’s time for me to shut up, show up, lace up and head out the door for a run.
Everyday, we have a physical responsibility to care for our body through adequate exercise and proper nutrition. It doesn’t get any simpler than this.
Quit making excuses about when you’re going to get started (again).
What are you going to do today to exercise your precious physical gift?
(scroll down for yesterday’s post or visit my next blog, our spiritual responsibility)
If you looked back exactly one year ago, do you remember what you where doing and why?
Lane 8 archive from exactly one year ago today, while in Lahti, Finland representing the United States at the 2009 Masters World Championships:
Do your best. How can anyone complain if they’ve done their best?
While it is quite tempting to want to be the best, for many, simply doing your best is gold-medal worthy.
What could be a sad thing for many dreams, is that people sell themselves short because they think winning a medal is the only measure of greatness.
Twice yesterday, I witnessed two athletes finish dreadfully last in their preliminary heats. They received more applause than the winners.
Why?
You tell me.
Perhaps, because deep down inside of each of us, is a desire to try as hard as that person, but we don’t have the courage to risk that kind of “embarrassment”.
When people aren’t concerned about what others think, they can do extraordinary things.
For an adult who’s never been able to read, and they work desperately hard to try to – then one day they are able to read a kindergarten book.
Gold medal.
Ya with me? Please don’t sell yourself short. Do your best, no matter what others think. This is what I tell myself everyday.
Carpe diem, jeff noel 
Scroll down for today’s part II (Gold Medal)
Once again, this post is copied from Lane 8′s archives exactly one year ago:
Yes. Gold medal effort. That’s all I can ask of myself, “Did I do my best”?
Yes, I did.
It’s a question we should ask ourselves daily, “Will you do your very best”?
These two crazy dreamers (below) claim, “If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”.
These two are crazy dreamers
Lane 8 & Jack
Runners, to your mark
Carpe diem, jeff noel
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He Needed Me To Succeed
Eventually, the energy and enthusiasm of a “New Year’s Resolution wears off.
Then what?
This is where most people fail.
Only about 3% of New Year’s Resolutions ever make it.
So there was a desperate need for a simple tool to overcome the temptation to give up and revert back to the old ways (again)…
This Should Get Us Through Until Wednesday
Yeah, roughly 3,103 days of, “One day at a time”.
Three thousand days and nights.
Plus one hundred three more.
You know, more or less.
Somebody want to do the math? I picked the biggest drinking night in the entire world to quit (for the third time) – December 31, 2001.
This means December 30 was the final night.
I guess it had been nearly three decades.
December 31, 2001 was very surreal….
Saw This Random Bumper Sticker 3 Days Ago
Apparently, and collectively as a Nation, we don’t want it bad enough.
We want it to be easy.
We want it to be quick.
We want it to not interfere with our routine.
We want it to taste good.
We want it to be pain-free.
And over 2/3 of our population is in desperate need.
The only time we can get people to run is when we ask, “How bad do you want it?”
Eat Fresh
Setting goals is good (and easy), and we all know how to do this. We learned it as a child and it’s called imagination.
Reaching goals is good (and much harder), and we all have had some success with this. We like doing it because of the satisfaction called “sense of accomplishment”.
Now here’s the tricky part.
Maintaining that level of achievement.
That’s what my blogs are about. Dreaming big. Getting there. Staying there.
If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
Don’t forget to factor in the “staying there” part into your big health goals.
The Magic Formula Is Hard Work
This will frustrate some of you, because what’s missing in these two secrets is the how to do it.
You want someone to come along and tell you how you should do things. “Just give me the silver bullet.” I know, I feel the same way.
Wake up people. You MUST find your own way. And another secret, your way will need to change through the years. There is no one right way.
But for now, more than anything else, here are your top two secrets:
Happy to reveal these secrets to you, free of charge no less.
Have a nice, healthy day. It’s totally up to you.