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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
The original tag line for Lane 8 was:
Dream Big. Get There. Stay There.
Take your time but hurry up. The clock is ticking.
And remember to go a little easy on yourself. But not for long though. Coaches push others to their limits. We must learn to do this with ourselves. What do you think?
If you don’t, who will? If not today, or this week, when?
We will fail. It’s inevitable. However, I believe failure is simply a test to see if we were serious or not.
Are you?
Blah, blah, blah….hurts like hell. Still. My foot hurts. A lot.
If you’re new to Lane 8, welcome. Earlier this year, there were quite a few Lane 8 blog posts discussing my foot pain and whether or not I could travel to Finland for the Master’s Track & Field World Championships.
And yesterday, after writing the post, “43rd”, it caused me to do several things:
The last one in particular is the one that seems most important.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
If you’re goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
Carpe diem. It’s completely up to you. You are the CEO of YOU, Inc.
Yep, it’s gonna hurt like hell to reach your big dreams. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. Once you realize that hard work is the way, the way gets easier. It doesn’t become easy, simply easier.
I don’t even know where to begin, sitting in my car here at Gold’s Gym, this morning.
What do you do? When you’re really busy and you desperately want to workout, but your schedule and all your other life commitments are clamoring for your attention. What do you do?
This is one of life’s truth’s – life is hard.
And one more – an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion.
Anyway, none of you will have the guts courage to comment on the question here. But I still love ya.
Seriously, without you, Lane 8 doesn’t matter that much, does it?
Actually, it makes all the difference in the world to my Family. And if they are the only one’s who are helped by Lane 8, that’ll be enough.
PS. Why the stronger tone this morning? Because, sitting here in the car, listening to ZRadio, I’m actually trying to kick my own ass butt.
Great physical health doesn’t happen by wishing. It happens by doing it. Find a million ways to get and stay motivated, or you’re doomed. Carpe diem.
“If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”. – jeff noel
Good luck today with your health goals. Set ’em high. Carpe diem.
Sure felt good to go for a short run and work out at Gold’s Gym yesterday.
Why? Because it’s been nearly a week. Why? Because I’ve been traveling and working hard.
Got home (from Anchorage, Alaska) about 1AM Thursday morning, got a few hours sleep and taught all day Thursday. Then taught all day yesterday (Friday).
But I refused to let another day go by without exercising. Sure, I had to get up at 4AM to run and the run wasn’t even half of my usual distance, due to time constraints. And yes, I was very tired on a Friday afternoon (from travel and a six-day work week). Did I feel like changing clothes and driving to Gold’s Gym? Nope.
So what motivated me to go the extra mile?
Simply this. I’ll be darned if I’m going to give up a decade’s work of life changing health habits because my schedule continues to be challenging. Here’s a no-brainer: our efforts to get healthy do not matter if we don’t fight hard to win the battle to STAY healthy. Ya with me?