Disney Employee Engagement Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
Hang in there if you are struggling. Odds are, you are.
I know I sure am. Ran once last week. Once! How is that possible?
So here we are, another week. Yesterday, I swore there would be time for a run. After delivering four keynote speeches yesterday, each to a different audience, exhaustion took on a whole new meaning. No run.
Today is another day…. for all of us. Good luck. Do not give up!
Did you know that if you don’t know these numbers (below), there are people like me who question your intelligence?
Do you know your:
These are the bare minimum numbers you should know and manage. If you feel uncomfortable with today’s tone, good.
You can wait for your wake up call, or you can anticipate it and manage it before it gets out of control. People who nag you about your health love you.
You knew that right?
Are your 2010 Health and Fitness goals still burning inside you?
Or has the fire of your resolution started to cool?
Or maybe there’s a feeling of being somewhere in the middle – not on fire and not ready to quit, but stuck.
Today, simply by looking around you everywhere, you will see that the hardest thing to do is to be a great example.
Why is that?
“Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough.” — 2006 Fortune Cookie
A Lane 8 reader commented recently that part of her motivation, as she was training for a Marathon, came from a fortune cookie saying.
Had to read it several times.
Each time, it got better. Each time it had more power. Each time it made indomitable will seem more like an antidote than a pain.
Be willing to be uncomfortable.
Be comfortable being uncomfortable.
Hello everyone. Hope you had a healthy week. It’s challenging isn’t it?
Diet and exercise. Sounds so simple.
Then why are we an obese society? An unhealthy society? Why?
Can someone help explain why this is so, and even more compelling, why we as a society, just put our heads in the sand and pretend like it doesn’t exist? Why we pretend like it’ll go away if we ignore it long enough?
It’s a grand wish that our son (9) will get and stay healthy as a lifetime goal. With Inflammatory Bowel Disease, he’s 20 times more likely to develop colon cancer than the average person.
Last time I looked, colon cancer is bad news.
Lane 8 is a metaphor for life. For trying your best to do important things – like lead a healthy life.
And it started over a decade ago, with me running one mailbox a day for a week.
As my health improved, my desire to maintain it became harder to find.