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What stokes our fire to carry on in spite of the constant cries that it’s too difficult to stay motivated and too mundane to have fun with exercise?
A compelling (and hopefully fun) goal.
So yeah, let’s try another comeback.
Last year’s comeback was stalled by double hernia (hernia occurred June 7) repair surgury in July.
Two days ago moved up to a new age group… M55-59.
Being the youngest is a competitive advantage.
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What is required of us in order to stay at it for our entire lifetime?
Maybe the real goal of staying active actually lies dormant under all the stereotypically superficial stuff.
Maybe the impossible goal is to show others (as the example) that it can be done.
A lifetime of wellness, led with regular exercise, sensible eating, and adequate rest.
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Over and over in my life, what works the best (always) is when I set out to make slow, deliberate, consistent improvements. There is truth to the fable of the tortoise and the hare.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Few have patience for this.
Without patience, I am doomed.
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Blah, blah, blah?
Nope.
Dream Big. Get There. Stay There.
That’s what Lane 8 is about. Staying there.
Ran into a Father of my son’s classmate, at the gym yesterday.
I asked, “What motivates you”?
He replied, with an apparent wisdom, that he has found it more difficult, now that he’s almost 30, to stay in shape and keep his weight ideal.
Please forgive me for thinking this, but all I could think of was, “You really think that you’re going to stay fit and at an ideal weight for the rest of your life”?
“Dude”, I wanted to say, “You have no idea what is ahead of you, but I can predict one thing for sure. If you think it’s hard now, imagine it 10 years from now, or 20 years from now when you’re almost 50”.
How do I know?
Because I turn 50 in three weeks. I’ve got 20 years of “wisdom and mistakes” on him. That’s how I know.
Wisdom comes from experience, and experience comes from making mistakes.
I should be the wisest man on Earth, eh? Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
Thursday night, I asked my son, “Do you think I should still go the World Championships“?
Without hesitating, he said, “Yes“!
“Why”?, I wondered out loud.
“Two reasons”, he said. “Number one, to complete your goal of being the slowest of the fastest“.
I smiled and asked, “And what’s the second reason?”
“So we can be a little famous.”
Smiling again I asked, “Is being famous a good thing?”
He said, “Being a little famous, who wouldn’t want that kind of esteem?”
Kids say the darnedest things. Indeed.
Carpe diem, jeff 🙂
PS. Esteem, or self-confidence is a critical success factor, in my humble opinion. If something were to ever happen to me, maybe he’d remember that his Dad always said, “You have the choice to be positive or negative“.
I’ll explain the “Slowest of the Fastest” metaphor tomorrow.