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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Today would be a decent day to venture over to jungle jeff’s blog.
Why?
Because today’s message at jungle jeff is very relevant to what Lane 8 is all about.
Setting goals, achieving goals and sustaining those goals. Modifying or changing our lifestyles to a more desirable, healthier state.
Motivation is the key. But many people have false notions about motivation, inspiration and even excitement.
Getting motivated is one thing. Achieving a big goal is another. But staying active for the rest of your life, now there’s an impossible goal.
Motivation is like a meal, several hours later, we are in need of more. Here’s one of my favorite “restaurants”.
Only you can make the choice. No one else. It’s very challenging to stay motivated. Find a million ways or people might look at you as a warning instead of an example.
Did you go for a walk (or exercise) yesterday?
Did you eat sensibly?
Did you read anything that inspired or motivated you?
Did you think about anything that inspired or motivated you?
Did you take some sort of action, different from your usual?
Did you get adequate rest (way under-rated) yesterday?
Did you consider how you’ll stay committed until you die?
Did you have fun yesterday?
Did you do at least one thing that scared you?
Nine yes answers means you lived in the moment. Less than that is, well, less than that.
I only got eight. Adequate rest has been elusive. Which reminds me, nap time.
“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”.
“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul”. — Douglas MacArthur
It’s very difficult, some would even say impossible, to be fit and vibrantly healthy after the days of our youth.
So the big question everyone must ask themselves, “Do I think it’s impossible”?
Got bad news for everyone. Every day we don’t ask, answer and act, is another day that younger folks are looking at us and saying one of two things: