Tag: Excuses

Attitude helps us manage temptation

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(photo: This website’s early header… a photo taken from a phone… dream big, get there, and most importantly, stay there)

Attitude helps us manage temptation.

Attitude can also change on a dime when the pressures to stay fit tempt us to cut something out of our schedule.

And exercise seems to be the first thing we can stop when our lives are overloaded with time commitments.

Not exercising when we know it to be a non-negotiable, feels like lying.

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Mediocre wins, it’s a trap

Ants eating dead snake
Ants eating dead snake

 

(photo: the other day on a run… reminder that we get eaten alive one day at a time… so slowly we never notice, if we’re not careful… habits… make us or break us)

Mediocre excuses eat great intentions for breakfast.

Guess who owns this domain name?

www.excusewhisperer.com

In a way, we all do.

It’s just that only one of us actually pays GoDaddy to have it registered.

Our habits confirm or deny our great intentions results.

Today’s physical thought continues with a spiritual thought for the day at the Next Blog

Be these four things when the going gets tough

Texas Interstate overpass graffiti

 

(photo: Be someone who never quits maintaining their health, no matter what)

When we find ourselves in the midst of especially trying times, be creative, be flexible, be forgiving, and most of all be willing to do whatever it takes to not quit altogether.

Walked an hour this morning.

Planned on running five miles.

Preach only what we practice.

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