Exercise – Page 29 – Disney Employee Engagement Speaker

Why would now be the second best time to exercise?

(photo: Visited Middle School yesterday at lunch simply to hang out. The adopted (stray) classroom cat is living the dream.)

The three best times to exercise?

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

If you haven’t exercised in a long time the best time to exercise is soon.

The second best is now.

Why would now be second best?

Because odds are overwhelmingly great that exercising now (today) will not happen.

Odds of you convincing yourself and doing it ‘soon’ are still low, but much greater than ‘now’.

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It’s not an option for you

(photo: Walking through Gold’s Gym Orlando parking lot yesterday snapped a photo unintentionally.)

Push yourself.

No one else is gonna do it.

Not for as long as you’ll need to be pushed.

As in all your life.

Anyone other than you will give up quickly.

It’s not an option for you.

You know this, right?

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Not feeling like it is a habit

(photo: Carrying a camera/phone helps make the exercise more interesting because of the continuous photo opps.)

Not feeling like exercising today is a habit.

Eating sensibly is a good idea, but not today, too busy and too much stress – this too is a habit.

Just keep telling yourself that and see how quickly you change.

He thought to himself, that’s ridiculous, you’ll never change thinking like that.

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This doesn’t happen very often or does it?

(photo: Even after fumbling to take the photo, the first mile still clocked in under eight minutes. The warmup mile is never this fast.)

This doesn’t happen very often or does it?

We promised we were going to exercise today. But then the day starts slipping away and it looks impossible. We literally resign ourselves to defeat. Again.

An opportunity, or two, may appear (teasing us) but it’s quickly stolen by something pressing.

And then. And then something happens. We dig in and refuse to be defeated.

And the workout, run, or whatever, is better than we’ve had in months.

A little sore this morning. Cool.

Keep moving forward.

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Try to hate running?

(photo: How did one stray cat become so lucky to have a middle school classroom to call home?)

Baby Boomers must manage their own luck.

Hope you get to the point where you hate running. Because when you do, you’ll know you love it.

If this sounds confusing it’s because it sort of is. Until you understand that it’s not.

What starts out as a groove, say running, eventually becomes a rut. No one likes ruts. And you have to love something in order to climb out of the rut and thrive again.

Like all worthwhile things in life, lifetime motivation to not quit (running in this example) is key.

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