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.

What is the harsh reality of enjoying a healthy summer?

Hiking through Tibet Butler Nature Preserve
Hiking through Tibet Butler Nature Preserve

 

What is the harsh reality of trying to enjoy a healthy summer? Most likely our cardiovascular system and our strength (for our age) is a bit weaker than we’d like to admit.

What if we would have become more active 100 days ago on February 22? Walking, jogging, yoga, swimming, biking, the gym, anything really.

If we value something we find a way. If we don’t value something, we find excuses.

Perhaps what we say we value only really becomes believable (to everyone, but especially to ourselves) when we stop saying and start doing.

This is a harsh reality. Please don’t shoot the messenger.

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Life’s first two big choices covered for today, now the third big choice gets it’s shot here.

 

Ever become self-indulgent with your health?

Mile time trial starts at this intersection of Reams Street & SR 535
Mile time trial starts at this intersection of Reams Street & SR 535

 

Ever become self-indulgent with your health? Go with this any where you want.

Yesterday morning, into a strong headwind, set out to run a six-minute mile.

At the 800 meter mark, 3:04.

Ripped off a 6:01, with a 2:57 second 800 (and a negative split).

Figuring the headwind cost 3-4 seconds (the equivalent of sub-six).

This is not the self indulgence you saw coming. Have fun thinking about that today.

The famine from wellness and our disability to conquer lack of willpower

ESPN Wide World of Sports Track
Our wellness seems lost without lines and lanes to follow

 

Our hearts ache when we see images of stereotypical human suffering. War, famine, disability, injustice.

But what about the health war being waged, the famine from wellness, our disability to conquer lack of willpower, the injustice of our self-defeating behaviors?

Life’s first two big choices covered for today, now the third big choice gets it’s shot here.