Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

Even if it takes a lifetime (and it will), it is worth it to know

UPS delivery truck in rural neighborhood
The closer you get, the better it looks

 

The closer you get to the finish line, the better you feel about yourself. We know this and yet stall, postpone, or even abandon our wellness dreams.

Even if it takes a lifetime (and it will), it is worth it to know you have run the good race.

The UPS delivery of Mid Life Celebration on October 22, 2013 continues at…

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Under rated, hard to achieve consistently, and critical?

Siri screen shot
The request for a good, morning run was declined. Tomorrow?

 

The health priority this morning was sleeping in until 6:30am, to get a full eight hours.

Adequate sleep as we all know is under rated, hard to achieve consistently, and critical for a well balanced life.

Some days it even takes a higher priority than running. But the compromise is a mid morning trip to Gold’s Gym, which puts Starbucks a mile away, on the way home.

Life is good today, no?

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If you think you can create balance or you think you cannot, you are right

False statement about work life balance
If you think you can create balance or you think you cannot, you are right.

 

If you think you can create balance or you think you cannot, you are right.

And anyone claiming balance is a lie, a myth, well, they have chosen (in my mind falsely) the path of least resistance.

Balance is not easy to achieve, nor easy to maintain.

Living without balance is easy to achieve. Even easier to maintain. But staggeringly strenuous to live with.

Wake up America! How does that sound like an acceptable lifestyle, one we pass on to future generations?

So since it is strenuous either way, I choose the way that yields much more balance, more often. Otherwise it reduces us to living in a world where we have convinced ourselves balance does not exist.

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The overlooked (but obvious) reason we do not enjoy pushing ourselves

Amway Center before an event
What motivation is there to play to an empty stadium?

 

Without a crystal clear exercise goal right now, a discovery has been made. Pushing yourself – and enjoying it – is very, very challenging.

And the second discovery without a crystal clear wellness goal? How easy it is to make excuses to pass on, or reduce, physical activity.

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