Tag: Fitness

The mailboxes in our neighborhood are 100 meters apart. Running one mailbox a day for a week and than adding another mailbox each week would take a month to run – without stopping – the equivalent of one lap.

All I wanted to do in those early weeks was simply “wake up all the muscles, ligaments and tendons”. Not too difficult, right?

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The 1999 cholesterol report served as a wake up call. Get healthy or you’re in big trouble. About 25 years prior (1974), a neighbor’s wife started running – to another neighbor’s mailbox and done. She did this daily for a week. The second week she ran to the second neighbor’s mailbox. For a week. It took weeks before she ran the equivalent of 400 meters, or, one lap around a track.

I remember thinking how ridiculous this seemed, since I was a ninth-grade track runner at the time. What I never saw coming is that I would adopt this as my plan of attack too, as those years later.

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Whether or not you’re a fan of The Walt Disney Company, one thing remains undeniable, Disney is an excellent company. Having worked there for nearly three decades, I understand, and can articulate very simply, and apply, the secret recipe for success.

Some things are undeniable.

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Two years ago, at the end of a decade long journey, I represented the United Sates in the Olympics – The Masters Track and Field World Championships.

Sharing not to boast, but validate. Apply uncommon sense to whatever your goal and you’ll achieve uncommon results.

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Another trick question. The initial motivation can never dry up and fade away.

This is one of life’s toughest lessons to learn. Find a million ways to keep it alive, or you become a statistic in the wrong column. You know this.

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