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Back To Health Basics, OK?

Let’s get back to health basics. Man, this seems so incredibly important, and basic.

Isn’t that what First Lady Michelle Obama clearly articulated in her June 23 White House Press Release?

Here’s the bottom line: We can never tire of the basics.

None of us are really in a position to tell the others what or how they should maintain their health.

But there are some who have found “something” and, “somehow“, to maintain it for over a decade, they are becoming your experts. And you can listen to them or not.

But the one thing you can not do, is deny that these people have accomplished much, simply by using the basics. There are people close to you that you should tap into. Find out what motivates them.

No drugs. No coach. No personal trainer. No easy job providing extra time to exercise. No convenient location next to a gym, a “Y”, or school athletic facilities.

Just a pair of running shoes. Wake up. Lace up. Shut up. Walk to the mailbox. And start running.

Running. Just one of many ways to stay active.

What’s yours?

Check Blood Pressure @ The Store
Check Blood Pressure @ The Store

One Profound Secret

Each Day Is A Test Of Our Will
Each Day Is A Test Of Our Will

Do you struggle to stay focused?

Assuming you do, like me, then how does this lack of focus affect you?

Want to know a profound secret?

Create a ridiculously simple mantra that crystalizes your goal, your desire, your reward.

Here are two of mine. The first for overcoming addiction. The second for remaining motivated to exercise.

1. Every day or not at all. There is no middle ground. None. Period. End of story.

2. Stay healthy, have fun.  Being injured makes staying healthy and having fun nearly impossible.

Everyday Or Not At All

I Needed To Overcome My Addiction
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)…

December 31 Was Very Surreal

This Should Get Us Through Until Wednesday
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….