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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Yesterday the health care CEO asked if I had my morning run. I replied, “No, today is an active rest day”.
Active rest. The deliberate, and planned, act of doing nothing – so as to be able to do more, and do it better.
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On our first trip together, a new colleague once said, “You’ll talk to anyone”. And on yesterday’s flight to Minneapolis I was having a conversation about parenting and exercise with a man one year older than me. My son is 11. His boys are 33, 31, 28.
His best parenting tip was to keep kids busy. Then we talked about exercise. He’s run the Disney marathon in under four hours. I told him I can’t stop exercising. Ever. The day I quit is the healthiest I’ll ever be for the rest of my life. He grinned.
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Yesterday at the bank waiting to close a home equity loan, the bank representative and I were catching up (our sons are 11). She said, “I see you running all the time on 535. You can tell you really love to run”.
Pausing, and considering whether I should say it or not, I finally did, “Maggie, here’s the thing, there are many days where I don’t feel like it at all. Really!”
Does the most common excuse for exercise begin with, “I can’t find the motivation”, or, “I can’t find the time”?
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A year from now you’ll wish you had started today…
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PS. A very special and grateful thank you to Lorie Sheffer for sharing this with me yesterday.
Everyday it’s the same…deciding to make good food choices, getting regular exercise and adequate rest. But the real basic is even before all that. The key is finding enough ways to stay motivated to last a lifetime.
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