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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Really, it’s simply too difficult to change.
Sure, I want to be healthy for the rest of my life.
Who doesn’t?
But my gosh, there is so much stuff clamoring for my attention, my time.
Ever feel like this?
Maybe we’re all a bunch of fools to believe we can change.
How much “on-purpose” thinking and acting do you do in your day-to-day routine?
A lot? Some? None?
How would your days look and feel (differently?) if you tried to be more “on-purpose”?
What are the advantages, the disadvantages and what doesn’t even matter?
These are all opportunities to make your life and the lives of others different, better.
When I run and it’s windy, I always run harder into the wind than when it’s at my back.
When I run and there are hills, I run harder up the hill than down it.
When I warm up, before running in a competition, I sweat and breath hard, really hard. You have to be in shape just to warm up.
And when the race is into the wind, because often it is, guess who has an advantage?
We often don’t know why we run, we just do. Not because it is doing us good, but because we love it so much and can not stop ourselves from doing it.
The people at the gym who inspire me the most are in two categories.
People older than 50.
People who look desperate to become active.
Many of the over-50 demographic were once the latter, desperate to get (and stay) well.
In 1999, i was desperate.
My college roommate, Skip Gaskill, offers insight and encouragement. Skip’s challenging you to do the same. Take it away Skip:
Have you ever seen an obese person out jogging or walking in an unquestionable attempt to get control of their health?
If you did what did you do? Did you say anything? Did you smirk or make a fat joke?
Or did you go out of your way to encourage them to keep up the fight?
Next time you see someone like this (hopefully while you are out exercising as well) tell them the following:
Congratulations! You’re doing great! Keep up the good fight and never quit!
You might buy them another quarter mile or uplift their spirit enough to help them finish what they started.
Who knows…you might even feel better about yourself.
Yep. And this is not some ridiculous April Fool’s joke.
For the rest of our lives?
Seriously?
It sure would seem so, wouldn’t it?
The original tag-line I created was:
As you can see instead, it’s:
Final answer?
Yes, for the rest of our lives.
Impossible?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
You know we’re talking about living a healthy, active lifestyle, right?
Here’s what happened yesterday. I wrote a Lane 8 blog post. Been doing that everyday for the past year.
Plus, there was You Tube video to illustrate what a slow and steady approach to diet and exercise can do.
The key to slow and steady is not quitting.
Ever.
One-third who read and watched were inspired.
One-third could really care less one way or the other.
And one-third said to themselves, “Showoff“.
Sad, but true.