How Much Is Enough? – Page 50 – Disney Employee Engagement Speaker

6 Minute Mile?

Before you go to bed each night, do you think about when you’re going to exercise the next day? Maybe you should. What would happen if you did?

So last night I asked cousin Mike, “Can you run a 6-minute mile as a 51-year old?”

“No, I can run a 7-minute mile”, Mike said.

I continued, “We’ll go 5 miles. First mile a warm-up, and then mile two as a time-trial. I’ll slow up (a lot) after that and you can catch up and we’ll run the last three miles together.”

Last week’s time trial netted a 5:45 mile. With splits of 2:55 and 2:50.

Remember when I was only running one mailbox per day? Good thing it never felt like a Green Mile.

Funny Sad, Sad Funny

Not Everything Will Taste Like Chocolate

Yesterday’s health care video was very funny, which is really sad.

It’s really sad because it’s so true.

When you look around at the people you know who get decent results from their diet and exercise, you know what their secret is?

You don’t, do you?

It’s painful to admit.

But they have learned to dramatically reduce the number of excuses they are willing to accept.

They don’t eliminate every excuse, but they certainly alleviate the vast majority of excuses.

You can too.

But first, you’ll have to eliminate the excuse that you can’t alleviate the excuses.

It may even require getting down on bended knee and surrendering the past, so that you can begin a new journey.

Not Enough Time In The Day?

Ever have days like this?

Planned to run in the morning, but it didn’t happen.

Planned to go to the gym later, to work out, but it didn’t happen.

Planned to eat well, but it didn’t happen.

What did you tell yourself?

Life’s 2009 Top 10 List

From last year’s Lane 8 archives. There are four times as many daily readers today than last year. You probably missed this one.

Are you still holding on to last year’s dream, or have you quit?

Lane 8 is a fun story to write. Fun because it’s for our son. He’ll be nine in a few days. There are only a few who actually know this. Now more will.

If you were to spend an hour reading back through this blog, you’d start to see how impossible it was for me to be here in Finland.

The temptation to postpone, rationalize, or even to quit, is beyond my normal threshold for these types of life’s challenges.

Yet, I write this from Lahti, Finland – home to the 2009 Master’s Track & Field World Championships.

Reading back through the posts, and looking at where I was ten years ago, I hope our son will realize a few things about life:

This is not a story about athletic achievement, it’s about setting “life’s bar” high
This is not my story, it’s our story
Nothing is impossible
There are no short cuts in life
Life is painfully hard
Life is gloriously wonderful
Live your life with purpose, and on purpose
Do not worry what others think
Have fun along the way
Love others and be loved by others

Thanks for following Lane 8. I totally understand virtually all of you will never have time to read from here to the beginning, or from the beginning to here.

But if you ever want to read a “book” to be inspired, this may be a diamond in the rough.

Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

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