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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
The key to staying motivated is to put your most cherished loved ones ahead of yourself. The paradox is that this seems backwards, even hypocritical. It may look and feel self-indulgent to exercise and rest. But is it? Being a healthy role model for your children and grandchildren, or nieces and nephews – how is that selfish?
It’s probably the most important example you can strive to accomplish.
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Since there was time and energy (barely) to run two nights ago, I thought I’d run again last night. But since I arrived at the venue before 7am, and was on my feet teaching all day, an early dinner, and an early bedtime trumped everything else. And so it goes…
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At 6:05pm last evening, hungry and exhausted from teaching all day, I mustered the energy and fortitude to walk out the airport Hilton and begin a run with limited highway access. If I would have skipped last night, it would have been three days without a run, making a fourth day (today) without a run more likely.
I couldn’t allow that to happen.
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The easiest excuse I know of for not exercising is “I travel for a living. Travel is too hectic and time consuming to fit in exercise“. Beat that?!
Delta Airlines. Orlando to Atlanta. Atlanta to Knoxville. After the sound check in Maryville (TN), the sun nearly down…..dinner or a run? When you’re tired, hungry and anxious to get a good night’s rest, dinner is the obvious choice. And so it goes.
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When I think about the answer to the question most people never ask me, it goes something like this…
To teach is to learn twice. And to teach children is perhaps the greatest privilege (and responsibility) an adult will ever know.
This is why I exercise, eat decently, and strive for adequate rest.
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