Disney Employee Engagement Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
The 70-something woman who has never exercised commented last night that she has much more energy after her physical therapy sessions.
Afterwards she has the energy to do four or five errands – something previously unheard of.
For five weeks she’s been going to therapy to strengthen her legs because in five days she is having knee replacement surgery.
The stereotype is that exercise makes us tired.
Guess again.
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Can’t stop thinking about how it is possible for anyone, anywhere, to not stay active.
Is the list of benefits from staying active too long?
Um, sorry, that’s a real question.
And yes, the list of excuses reasons for not staying active is long and diverse.
Yet at the end of the day, the CEO of our life has to make important choices.
The Herd doesn’t care, and in fact, the Herd welcomes our complicity.
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The things we take for granted until we don’t have them – walking, getting in and out of bed, bowel movements.
When you’re bedridden, the extent of exercise consists of getting in and out of bed, especially when you’ve been given a narcotic to mask the pain, it’s decently serious.
Having a daily routine that can not be performed, well, it quickly becomes a major issue. Thank goodness for the second bottle.
Second day of recovery, went for a 200 meter walk (end of street and back). I asked Cheryl, “Have you ever seen me walk this slow”. She smiled and half-laughed, “No!”.
Insight: The hard work of exercise is worth every invisible, non-obvious, taken-for-granted benefit it provides.
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I travel a fair bit, and at 35k feet, you can think a bit differently because you can see things a bit differently – you know, the big picture. The are no close up details when looking down from 6 miles up – only big picture. This is when it hit me. There are no guarantees with exercise, except one. Focus.
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