Category: Need Help Not Giving Up?

The best we can do is very often less than we hope for

Street sign pole engulfed by tree
As kids, we ran everywhere, and this tree was simply an acorn next to a pole

 

Street sign pole engulfed by tree
The insidious destruction of our motivation happens almost invisibly

 

Street sign pole engulfed by tree
Eventually, there will no longer be any sign of the pole

 

The best we can do is very often less than we hope for.

Let’s not let less than we hope for be enough to convince us it’s not worth it to continue.

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Exercise heightens this awareness because our mind and our body are inextricably linked

Balance is about energy expended, not time
Balance is about energy expended, not time

 

Remember watching the 2014 Winter Olympics commercials back around Thanksgiving? Probably not.

Why? Because by the time this post airs, the Winter Olympics will be over.

But what if we could remember those feelings like it was yesterday (and it was)?

That’s what writing does for a person. It creates the feeling like it was yesterday.

Exercise heightens this awareness because our mind and our body are inextricably linked.

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Compromise is a great alternative to this

Tibet Butler Nature Preserve in Orlando
A 400 acre nature preserve in Central Florida is nearby

 

Tibet Butler Nature Preserve in Orlando
Path to Osprey Overlook in the Tibet Butler Nature preserve

 

Tibet Butler Nature Preserve in Orlando
Looking at the same thing, differently, changes everything.

 

Compromise is a great alternative to this… quitting.

The end of a seven day stretch and only two runs. Thought yesterday would be a run day and headed out the door but just couldn’t get the gears going. Rather than turn around and come home, a walk began…

Through a nearby nature preserve and for 70 minutes. Stopping, starting, photos, thinking, enjoying. forgiving.

But not quitting.

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The paradox of when things are far too easy

Sign Lofty Ambitions
Focus on these, or not, it’s up to us (and no one else)

 

The paradox of when things are far too easy. It is much too easy to quit or to not quit under these circumstances:

  • too easy to quit when we have no compelling reason to exercise
  • much easier to keep going when a goal we can visualize is constantly before us

A compelling goal.

Congrats if you have one.

There is no acceptable reason for neglecting our health.

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