Disney Employee Engagement Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
How long have you been on your journey to live a healthy, or healthier, lifestyle?
How many times have you tried, but soon found your motivation waning?
How many times – perhaps like now with the Olympics – do you really get serious and really get excited about becoming totally committed?
At some point, we have to come face to face with the truth about our habits.
And only a few will actually transform themselves.
Do you get this concept yet?
Quitting.
Ever struggle with your motivation to exercise or with making smart food choices?
(If you said no, you’re lying)
Yesterday while at Gold’s Gym Orlando, I asked one of the staff, “What is it that makes some people commit to exercise for a lifetime and others quit after a few weeks?”
What do you think? How would you answer it?
I suggested that we can not do it for ourselves, we must do it for someone else. If we fail, we only let ourselves down. But if we do it for someone else and we fail, we let them down.
The other person challenged my rational (which is exciting), and in the speed of the day, neither one of us, in this casual conversation, really had a desire to debate this further at that moment.
Yet on the drive home, what I had been trying to say was revealed. We need to be a role model for great health habits. This is the secret that eludes people.
You must be someone’s role model, for life. This means you can not fail. There is no greater motivation.
If this is flying over your head, you’re at huge risk to miss this simple, but compelling health secret.
What does it take, day after day, to stay motivated?
That’s really the difference between a casual approach and a committed approach.
You knew that, right?
If you don’t dream big (like for the rest of your life), you lose.
Big is not:
Big is only one thing:
Got it?
Good. Enjoy your food and your exercise today.
Yes. If you don’t know what this means, there’s still hope for you.
There are hundreds of ideas here at Lane 8.
But they are of no use if you don’t do something, like read them.
Here’s today’s biscuit.