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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”. – 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?
Not as in running, jogging, sprinting. On the run as in a hurry.
Spent four days in Anchorage, Alaska and did not exercise. Not by choice.
Got back late last night early this morning. There is no exercising this morning either. Five straight days without exercise. I feel the pain of everyone who struggles to make physical wellness a priority.
There is no easy way.
Well, actually, there is an easy way – simply don’t worry about it until the phone rings, “Excuse me, it’s for you. It’s your wake up call”.
Don’t go to the gym.
Had a great hour and a half with our son yesterday after school. We had ice cream, played catch, rode our bikes and blogged.
Could have gone to the gym, but chose differently instead. Ultimately, a balance is required. Working out is challenging. Finding time and energy is hard. Finding excuses is easy.
Having very high health goals makes finding motivation easier. But it is still a challenge to figure out how to achieve those goals.
Because it is so challenging, most people are tempted to give up on their big health goals. Don’t do it.
Lane 8 is happy the left heel pain was minimal yesterday. It’s sort of funny how easy it can be to find joy and happiness. We get so busy in our daily activities that we can rob ourselves of the simplest of joys.
Every morning I check out the window as dawn gives way to sunrise. The sunrise is always beautiful, even when it is “ordinary”.
Two days ago there was a Facebook post on my wall, asking for prayers for a teenage friend who committed suicide. This is a horrific tragedy. One none of us can comprehend.
The basic act of thinking of a Family (one you never met) and the grief that is overwhelming everyone they know, can be a humble joy. Believing that your thoughts and feelings for them may in some way comfort them.
Part of what makes Lane 8 blog posts about health and wellness so much fun to write about is that every once in awhile, if I feel like it, there is editorial license to blog about something else. This also makes Lane 8 happy.