Exercise – Page 29 – Disney Employee Engagement Speaker

Identify and fight the temptations

(photo: Yesterday’s run was one hour. Followed by a 10-minute cool-down walk. Never made it to the gym though.)

At lunch yesterday, the friend said he’s gained 60 pounds.

His life is hard.

(Shhh, don’t want anyone to feel bad, but everyone’s life is hard.)

Try to imagine being asked to permanently carry a 60-pound back pack. Twenty-four seven.

Until we want something as desperately as our next breath, it ain’t gonna happen. Not the impossible stuff anyway.

Figure it out.

This isn’t a cruel statement, it’s truth.

We are the CEO of our life.

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(photo: The lap times where periods of acceleration or recovery. Mixing things up to keep it interesting.)

Who inspires you?

Wouldn’t it be great if it was an inside job?

Everyday. All day.

Experimenting with running three times a week instead of the traditional goal of five times.

Fewer runs, right? So let’s make them longer runs, say, an hour minimum.

Since retiring six weeks ago it’s been steady.

And now, what used to be the longest run, five miles, was the shortest run (yesterday) in the past six weeks, 50 minutes.

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(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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(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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(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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