Gym – Page 10 – Disney Employee Engagement Speaker

Gaining Weight

Gaining weight is easy for me. Almost as easy as breathing. This is a scary proposition.

Why?

Because of the ease of putting on pounds, I have to work extra hard to counteract this natural tendency. Most humans do.

Once, two friends who were talking about their current diets, looked at me and said, “You’re lucky, you don’t need to worry about your weight”.

In reply, “I worry about my weight every single day, that’s why I don’t have to worry about it”. Ya with me? Stay focused. Fight a good battle today.

Wrong Is Easier

Doing it wrong is easier than doing it right. You can screw it up by doing it wrong.

And doing it wrong, is as easy as doing nothing.

Ya with me? Let me say that again. Doing it wrong is as easy as doing nothing.

Doing nothing is easy. Maybe that’s why so many do nothing. Doing it right, is hard work.

The people who do work hard are also tempted to do nothing. Most don’t believe this, but it’s true.

Take me for example. Last night I made plans to run five miles this morning. Instead, I’ve made a few rationalizations so I can do nothing instead. Actually, I’m very busy this morning. But not physically.

And so it goes….

Lane 8, Halloween Scared

Lane 8 is about taking care of our physical gifts, namely our physical health. I am reminded daily just how challenging it is.

As responsible adults, if we don’t make conscious choices, and fight the hard battle to get and stay healthy, what are we left with?

The opposite.

The opposite stinks. Not making hard choices leads down a path that scares me.

Halloween is just around the corner. That’s about as scared as I care to get.

2009 World Championships

Lane 8 at 2009 World Championships in Lahti, Finland.

That’s “Jack”, my son’s Teddy Bear. He has three exactly alike. He got them as gifts years ago. The collar is actually inscribed “Jack”.

Our son was born in August 2000. My Dad, Jack Noel, passed on, April 2001.

My Father, and our son, never met. We were two months away from our trip to Pennsylvania when the phone call came, “They’re giving your dad three days”.

So, “Jack” the bear, has traveled extensively. He’s the one with two torn ears. The other “Jacks” are in near perfect condition. Our son was gracious enough to let the “tug-o-war with our yellow Lab” Jack travel.

Find a million ways, gimmicks, tricks – whatever it takes – to stay motivated. Jack is simply one of them.

Small Deeds

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned”. — Peter Marshall

Whatever your health goals are, nothing really matters except that you get started and never quit.

Sow your health seeds. Nourish them. Water them. Watch them grow.

If all you do is walk away from your residence for three minutes and then return, you’ve walked six minutes. That six minutes, by itself, is nothing really.

But what if you did it four or five days in one week? What if each week, you added 30 seconds each way – or one minute roundtrip? In four short weeks, you’d be walking ten minutes per day.

What if you built on this success, slowly, and continued this habit for ten more weeks (now three months total)? You’d be walking 20 minutes per day, four or five days per week.

What if you walked 20 minutes, 4-5 days per week, for a year?

What if? What if doesn’t matter if you don’t get started. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned”.