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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
What began from that April Fool’s day (2009) wellness challenge, to run one mailbox a day for a week and continue adding a mailbox each consecutive week, led to the first of several moments of truth.
The first moment of truth was about three years (2002) into running on my own, by myself, each morning in the dark, with headlights coming at you at 60 mph. And for half of the year, by Floridan standards, cold mornings to boot.
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Anyway, have been telling you the back story to lead you to the year 2009. What do you remember about 2009? Did a childhood dream come true for you? Has one ever?
It did for me…
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Since when does our health take a back seat to other priorities, like working harder to make more money so we can buy more and bigger things – all requiring additional time and money to manage?
Since when? It’s like the world’s biggest head fake.
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Everything we owned starting out. (WSU, Aug. 1984)
All told, 48 boxes for the Trucking company – Washington State to Florida.
Moving day…
Becoming full-time Disney Cast Members in 1984 was (and still is) very exciting. We worked hard, like all young folks starting out, establishing ourselves and building our careers, a sense of community, and a home.
One of the inherent dangers with blind ambition is the mismanagement of time, primarily from shifting priorities – or the (false) perception thereof.
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The running, well, the running stopped. And the move to Central Florida on a very limited income for a young couple starting out was tough. By the way, they had only one car.
So jeff rode a bicycle 30 miles one-way to work – at the Disney’s Contemporary Resort Front Office. A couple years later, they could finally afford a second car.
Jeff got a promotion. A desk job on third shift. And gained 25 pounds.
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