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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
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?
Did you exercise yesterday?
Did you eat mostly healthy food?
Do you plan on doing it again today?
Excellent.
If you answered no to the questions, today’s another day.
If not you, who? If not today, when?
Are you getting this? Or is it getting old?
If it’s getting old, so are you.
Who is going to motivate you to reach your goals?
We really have to give serious attention to this question.
It’s what’s known as a non-negotiable question.
You must have an answer or you will fail.
Period.
Why must we have an answer?
Because things will get difficult.
And difficulty will happen repeatedly.
Over and over again. Until we die.
The antidote?
Find a million ways.
Haven’t run in five (5) days.
How is that possible?
Mister “you have to find a way” or your doomed, Mr. Internet five-a-day blogger, Mr practice what you preach, Mr. self-appointed wellness expert.
Yeah, tell us why you have “failed” this week.
First of all, who am I to be calling myself such names, with that stern tone?
Ease up already mister.
There is an inherent challenge with an impossible goal.
It is, well, quite literally, impossible.
To think that we could consistently get regular exercise for the rest of our lives is preposterous.
Rubbish.
It can happen. It will happen. It is happening.
Went to the gym for strength and core training last night. And, after a few commitments this morning (I’m Off today), I’ll go for a run.
Dream big. Get started. Never stop.
Let’s shake it up a little bit today. You good with that? Good. Let’s go back to this past summer.
Here’s the scene. Early August, 2009. Sunny, clear, 70 degrees.
Finland.
Master’s Track & Field 2009 World Championships. Men’s 400 meters, 70-74 year old age group.
Enter a German man.
Click here to see the secret this “old man” reveals about getting and staying healthy.
PS. If you are too busy to follow this and invest two more minutes, please go look in the mirror and say something like, “I really do want to get healthy and stay healthy, but I just really don’t want to work very hard at it.”